You didn't actually think I would go somewhere and not scout out the historic neighborhoods, did you? Shame on you! With what little free (alone, without children) time I had, I drove around some of the neighborhoods to see what I could find. (If you don't know why I was in Daytona, click here.)
Those are really pretty! :) Yay for old houses. When are we ditching the boys and moving into one of Ernie's??
ReplyDeleteOMGOMGOMGOMG!!!! THIS IS MY HOMETOWN! I REMEMBER MANY OF THESE ELEGANT OLD HOMES, The McCoy black lion on my fireplace mantle, my mom bought in that very Kress store on S. Beach St.! I spent many a shopping trip on that street with my mom and had more than one burger and coke served up at the Whirly-Q lunchette in that Kress. The little white bldg to the right of Kress was Nelson's Shoe Store owned by the family of the Asst. Principal at my high school (Seabreeze Sr. High, home of the Fighting Sandcrabs!) (I'm not kidding here, look it up) The 50s house looks like one I remember in a neighborhood just South of Silver Beach Ave. I grew up on Madison Ave. west of Ridgewood (US1) which is now kind of a skanky neighborhood but I have so many good memories....Some of those houses are on Grandview and/or Halifax Ave. and others I think are on S. Palmetto Ave. near where my great Aunt Minnie lived on South St. I miss the old Daytona before NASCAR took it over and turned it into the trailer trash capital of the world.....it was like a larger Vero Beach back then to give you a reference point....
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