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Free Backpacks for Kids
Children can get a free backpack from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, July 30, as the fourth annual Walmart Back to School Fest comes to The Jacksonville Landing. The free event includes soda sampling stations, fashion shows, face painting, autographs by the Jacksonville Jaguar Roar cheerleaders and free vision screenings for children by Walmart’s optical staff.
And children who bring a receipt from Walmart or Sam’s Club that includes the purchase of a product from PepsiCo, Frito-Lay or Quaker receive a free backpack while supplies last. Receipts must be dated between June 20 and July 30, and may be photocopied.
Dozens of vendors will give away more than 200,000 additional free school supplies, with live entertainment on the riverfront stage throughout the event.
Azalea Time
They are pink, and they are purple –
Lavender and white abound;
And the texture of each blossom
Is the finest to be found.
Oh, an orchid’s more expensive –
Look on any florist’s bill –
But for mine — I’ll take Azaleas
On the streets of Jacksonville
A poem written by the late Dr. John H. Hanger, former minister of Riverside Methodist Church.
This poem appeared on the cover of the Spring 1966 issue of JACKSONVILLE magazine along with a photo looking out on the St. John’s River from the Cummer Museum of Art.
Jacksonville’s Artis Gilmore elected to Basketball Hall of Fame | jacksonville.com
By Jeff Elliott
The long wait is over for Artis Gilmore.
The 7-foot-2 gentle giant who led Jacksonville University’s basketball team to its greatest days including a berth in the 1970 NCAA Championship game and who went on to illustrious career in both the NBA and ABA, was elected to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
Gilmore will be enshrined with the Hall’s class of 2011. The announcement was made shortly after noon today in Houston, site of tonight’s NCAA Championship game between Butler and Connecticut. The entire class, which has not yet been formally announced, will be inducted into the Hall during the annual enshrinement ceremony on Aug. 11-13 in Springfield, Mass.
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Golden Isles Speedway to close | jacksonville.com
By Mike Morrison
The Golden Isles Speedway, touted as one of the best dirt tracks in the region, has shut its doors and is up for sale or lease.
Owner Frankie Lloyd said the business got to be too demanding.
“I’ve had enough,” he said Wednesday en route to his Jacksonville home. “I’ve just turned 65 and this racetrack will wear you down.”
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Jacksonville’s Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum has the write stuff | jacksonville.com
By Charlie Patton
Located in an architecturally striking former church on First Street at the south edge of Springfield, the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum represents something of a Jacksonville hidden treasure, despite the building’s imposing size.
Even Richard Minor, a lifelong Jacksonville resident who has been the museum’s director for the past six years, admits he never visited the building until he applied for a job there.
Inside the former Christian Science church built in the Greek revival style, rectangular glass cases are filled with documents assembled by David Karpeles, a math professor turned real estate investor who owns more than 1 million manuscripts, the largest private collection in the world.
Currently on display are letters and manuscripts written by Sigmund Freud, the Austrian neurologist considered the father of psychiatry. He is known for his theories on the unconscious mind and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis.
The Freud documents, which will be in Jacksonville through the end of April, span the years from 1883, when he was a young doctor just beginning his career, to 1935, four years before his death.
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Passionate about Pizza? San Marco delivers what you crave! GoLO Jacksonville
We know that Valentine’s Day was yesterday, but there’s plenty of reasons to be passionate about pizza in San Marco any day of the year. Options abound in San Marco when it comes to pizza…all cooked up hot and fresh by restaurateurs who place importance not only in the quality of the food they serve, but in the community in which they serve it.
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Rare! 1964/1965 JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA Magazine BOB HAYES – Jax Collectable of The Week
Rare! 1964/1965 JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA Magazine BOB HAYES
This item is a very rare magazine from the Winter of 1964/1965, titled JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA and published by the Jacksonville Area Chamber of Commerce. The front cover photo is titled “Christmas In Mayport”. This book contains 40 pages of great information and vintage color and black & white photographs. There is even a special article about BOB HAYES, the world’s fastest man at the time, and Olympic champion who later played NFL football for the Dallas Cowboys. This is a terrific piece of history for a Jacksonville collector. The book is in good condition for its age with just minor wear. You will get the exact book pictured below. Please examine the pictures and feel free to contact me with any questions.
