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05-03-2013, 01:04 PM
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From my years at UF, I recall there being some particular strip joint in the Ocala-ish area which had billboards leading up to it for probably a hundred miles in either direction on I-75. The thing which I recall most is that they tended to advertize things like "Truckers Welcome!" and "Truck Parking!"
Now, I have nothing but respect for most of the OTR drivers I've met over the years, but seeing billboards like that conjures up a certain mental image...
Now, I have nothing but respect for most of the OTR drivers I've met over the years, but seeing billboards like that conjures up a certain mental image...
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05-03-2013, 01:30 PM
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I actually grew up in Port Charlotte, which is pretty much exactly between Tampa and Ft. Myers. I'm not sure which MLK you mean, though (eg: which town?) There are quite a few down there.
It's been close to 20 years since I left- presumably this is a more a recent phenomenon?
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05-03-2013, 01:30 PM
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From my years at UF, I recall there being some particular strip joint in the Ocala-ish area which had billboards leading up to it for probably a hundred miles in either direction on I-75. The thing which I recall most is that they tended to advertize things like "Truckers Welcome!" and "Truck Parking!"
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05-03-2013, 05:02 PM
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Yeah but it's home to The World's Greatest Worst Superhero.
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05-03-2013, 06:04 PM
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On the northwest corner of where US Highway 92 crosses under I-75, there is an old confederate cemetery with a very large flagpole. It is just south of the interchange for I-4 and just north of the interchange for Dr. MLK, Jr. Boulevard (formerly known as Buffalo Boulevard), near Tampa. For several years that pole displayed an extraordinarily large Confederate battle flag but has been flying the third national flag of the Confederacy for about a year now.
There is another large flag hundreds of miles further north alongside I-75 at High Springs, FL, north of I-10 on a commercial property with an abandoned hotel. That flag is not as large as the one at the cemetery.
And yes, the VAST MAJORITY of the weirdo people in Florida showed up here because they couldn't make it somewhere else in America and decided to up and move down here. We get all of the trash out of Michigan, Ohio, Illannoyed, New York, New Jersey, etc., lol. Ask any stripper and I bet she will be not more than one generation removed from somewhere else. Well, some of the younger ones might be two generations since their grandparents moved here 20 years ago.
Real Floridian families that have been here since before the 1950s are mostly country folk, cattle ranchers and such.
There is another large flag hundreds of miles further north alongside I-75 at High Springs, FL, north of I-10 on a commercial property with an abandoned hotel. That flag is not as large as the one at the cemetery.
And yes, the VAST MAJORITY of the weirdo people in Florida showed up here because they couldn't make it somewhere else in America and decided to up and move down here. We get all of the trash out of Michigan, Ohio, Illannoyed, New York, New Jersey, etc., lol. Ask any stripper and I bet she will be not more than one generation removed from somewhere else. Well, some of the younger ones might be two generations since their grandparents moved here 20 years ago.
Real Floridian families that have been here since before the 1950s are mostly country folk, cattle ranchers and such.
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