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“This picture was taken from Bay Street looking North on Hogan Street. The Seminole Hotel on the right, the Furchgotts, Levy’s, Hemming Park the Cohen’s. On the left you can see Lenak Studio, the name spelled backwards was Jack Kanel (a great photographer) who made lots of money taking pictures of service men. The Luggage […]
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One of the numerous incarnations of this particular block of downtown Jacksonville over the years. This was probably for the construction of old Robert Meyer Hotel, the Woolworth and J.C. Penney buildings. The site currently hosts the Federal Courthouse Complex.
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“Aerial photograph showing a portion of the business area of Jacksonville, Fla., on January 10, 1951. In the middle foreground opposite the tall St. Johns Apartment Building will be seen the site of the new Federal Reserve Branch Bank Building of Jacksonville, Florida, then under construction. You can see Hemming Park near the middle of […]
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The Jacksonville skyline with an undeveloped Southbank in the foreground. The Main Street Bridge was only 7 years old when this photo was taken and was one of only two auto bridges across the St. Johns River to downtown. The other bridge was the old Acosta Bridge. “This photo shows what the Southside of Jacksonville […]
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