Above is a picture of an old linen postcard of the Main Street Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida. The back of the card says:
The Main Street Baptist Church, organized in 1905, is located at Eigth and Main Streets in the heart of Jacksonville. Noted for its warm friendly spirit, it is one of the most progressive churches in the South.
Check out this cool old postcard of Hemming Park and the Windsor Hotel in Jacksonville. The hotel burned down in the fire of 1901. Here is an interesting article about the hotel on Trails.com.
Here is an old postcard showing St. John’s Episcopal Church (Cathedral).
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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.
1970 ASPECTS OF BLACK EXPERIENCE Duval County Schools
This seems like it might be an interesting item of local history, from 1970 and the Duval County Public School board.
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.
READ MORE via Jacksonville’s Artis Gilmore elected to Basketball Hall of Fame | jacksonville.com.
By Kevin Turner
That colorful small car festooned with gear looking like leftovers from the moon landings bolted to its roof has been back in town on recent days, snapping photographs for Google Maps.
The pictures the car takes allows millions of web browsers to “see” areas on a map with the click of their mouse via Google’s Street View tool in Google Maps.
The car’s roof-mounted camera captures photographic data front, back, left, right, up and down for thousands of minute locations along hundreds of roads in any one city alone. That data is then associated with points on maps on the Google Maps website, said Deanna Yick of Google global communications and public affairs.
READ MORE via Google Maps camera car again shooting pictures in Jacksonville | 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.
READ MORE via Jacksonville’s Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum has the write stuff | jacksonville.com.
UPS is proud to announce that Emmitt “Gene” McCool has been inducted into its Circle of Honor. UPS’s Circle of Honor is the highest safety honor a UPS driver can achieve; each driver must amass at least 25 years without an avoidable accident to qualify for induction.
UPS has long enjoyed an outstanding reputation for safety in the transportation industry. UPS drivers log over two billion miles a year on U.S. roads and average less than one accident per million miles driven thanks to drivers like Gene, who recognize that safety is a way of life.
Gene is a package car driver out of the Jacksonville facility and provides service on Atlantic Avenue. He and his wife, Donna, live in Jacksonville. They have three children: Patrick, who is 35 years old, Keghan, who is 24, and Lyndsey, who is 20.
via Local UPS Driver Gene McCool Honored for Safety | Business | Arlington News.
Palatka, Fla.– A local woman, sold on the black market, is telling her story of searching for her birth mother.
Lisa Floyd has pictures from when she just days old. But the pictures weren’t taken to put in her mother’s scrap book. Lisa calls them her marketing pictures. ?She was purchased from a home for unwed pregnant girls in Gainesville. It’s a home with a history of selling babies on the black market. Action News uncovered articles dating as far back as the 1950′s. Over and over, the articles show pregnant girls who lived there, lived in fear. But at a time when having a baby out of wedlock was unacceptable, young girls had few options.? “Back then you couldn’t just bring a baby home with you,” said Floyd.
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