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“This picture shows the parking lot after they tore down the old hotel. Note on right, they were building the Atlantic Bank Building. Look at all the people on the streets, it isn’t like that today.” LS Looking Northbound up Hogan Street at the intersection with Forsyth Street around 1950. The Hotel George Washington stands in […]
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“Here is a group of unhappy blacks in front of the Duval Court House. They carried a black mock casket. I took the picture from my studio window across the street. 1975.” LS A group of police officers stand in front of the Bay Street doors into the Duval County Courthouse keeping an eye on […]
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“Claude Nolan Inc. The Distributer of Cadillacs (cars) in Florida. They sold Pontiacs. This picture was taken on the corner of Main & Orange Streets downtown. They started in 1905 as a Cadillac dealer and have been one ever since that time. In 1975, they moved the dealership to 4700 Southside Blvd.” LS The […]
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“This is the Richardson Building on 35 Hogan Street. The building was the Muntz TV sales and warehouse in the 1950’s.” LS Earl William Muntz was a businessman and engineer who made his money selling cars and home electronics. Muntz simplified televisions by removing as many components as possible from existing models until they no […]
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“In the foreground was the cleared land for the new park. South Main Street leading to the Main Street Bridge, Gibbs Shipyard in the center of picture. Lobster House on left. Mary Street on right. 1955.” LS This photo was taken at a time when the city was starting a building boom with a new […]
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There is no information about what was being filmed but it looks to me like a production shoot, perhaps some type of commercial, late 1940’s or early 1950’s. According to the 1949 Jacksonville City directory the Harry P. Davis Service Station was located at 2045 Hendricks Avenue, just before the San Marco intersection with Atlantic […]
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“This is what the old Jones Business College looked like in 1947. Note the sign on top of the building, rates for the hotel started at $1.50. This is looking North on Hogan St. from Bay Street. The background was the Seminole Hotel.” LS The Hotel Seminole is the largest building in the frame and […]
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“Bus station on the corner of Bay and Hogan Streets. Then the Sears store was built on the same corner.” LS Great art deco lines. Another view of the bus bay can be seen here. This station was located on the property now used as the parking lot for the Omni Hotel across from the […]
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“Here is a section of town that is gone. Davis and Bay Streets. This is torn down now. In fact the overhead (Skyway) is built here, on the way to the Prime Osborn Building. 1951.” LS This intersection of South Davis Street and West Bay Street was in the heart of the La Villa neighborhood’s […]
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The Jacksonville Yacht Storage business, first registered in February of 1932 was located at 17 Riverside Avenue, just to the West of McCoy’s Creek where it feeds into the St. Johns River on land that is now part of the Florida Times-Union property. To the east of this intersection (the left of this image) Riverside […]
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