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When Ideal Trailer Park (and Trailer Parks in General) Were New
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Tagged Alexander Wellington, Andrew Hurley, Ideal Trailer Park, Jacksonville, Jacksonville City Limits, jaxpsychogeo, Plato, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Tim Gilmore, Trail'n Trailer Park, trailer camps, trailer cities, trailer courts, Trailer Park Slums, trailer parks, trailer trash
In Memory of Walter Whetstone
Walter and Dorothy Whetstone, photo by Maura Wolfson-Foster
Last Friday, May 4th, the state of Florida lost a treasure, when Walter Whetstone–sweet, kind, gracious man, and the brilliant creator of the Whetstonian–passed away. He was 81.
With JaxPsychoGeo, please celebrate the life of Walter Whetstone. Below you’ll find 1) a gofundme drive to “Support the Whetstones” and “Save the Whetstonian,” 2) Walter’s obituary, and 3) two JaxPsychoGeo reveries of this great man and his art.
Here’s the gofundme drive: “Support the Whetstones” / “Save the Whetstonian”
“Walter Whetstone, 1937 to 1981: https://www.bivensfuneralhome.com/notices/Walter-Whetstone
the first JaxPsychoGeo story, February, 2012: LaVilla: Whetstonian
the second JaxPsychoGeo story, November, 2016: Whetstonian’s Last Days? / Mural of the Life of Walter Whetstone
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When Jax Declared Its Center a “Slum Heart,” ‘Evil,” and Demanded Exorcism
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The deep baritone drips with condescension, festers with open sarcasm.
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Tagged Alexander Crosby, Bender Cawthon, Black Bottom, Blodgett, Brentwood, Brooklyn, Durkeeville, Eartha White, Federal Housing Authority, Florida Theatre, Hansontown, Jack Spottswood, Jacksonville Housing Authority, jaxpsychogeo, LaVilla, Mollie Chapman, Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church, Nasrallah Building, Negro Advisory Council, One Bad Apple, Slum Heart of Jacksonville, slumlords, Springfield, State Board of Health Building, Tim Gilmore
When Governor Claude Kirk Hopped the Fence and Took the Mic from “Black Power Agitator,” H. Rap Brown
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Tagged Art Hamilton, Ax Handle Saturday, Babe Ruth, Ben Geraghty, Black Panthers, Black Power, Bubbling Small, Buck O'Neil, Charlie Griffin, Claude Kirk, Dale Carson, Durkee Field, Durkeeville, Felix Mantilla, Fred Dickinson, H. Rap Brown, Hank Aaron, Hemming Park, honkies, Horace Garner, Indianapolis Clowns, J.P. Small, Jackie Robinson, Jacksonville Braves, Jacksonville Red Caps, Jacksonville Tars, James Baldwin, James Small, jaxpsychogeo, Joseph Durkee, LaVilla, Lorraine Motel, Manuel Rivera, Manuel's Tap Room, Martin Luther King, Negro Leagues, Negroes with Guns, Robert F. Williams, Sallye B. Mathis, SNCC, Stanton School, Stokely Carmichael, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Sugar Hill, The Fire Next Time, Tim Gilmore, Willie Weston
The Grave of Confederate General Joseph Finegan
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What happened to Finegan’s plantation house during the Civil War was poetic justice.
St. Vincent’s Hospital
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Stories of Pine Forest: Incinerators, Klan Crosses, Family Love and Mulberry Trees
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The Ku Klux Klan burnt a cross in front of her family’s little woodframe house.
Another Lebanese family, the Johns, lived in the three-story rambling house at 5724.
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Tagged Albert John, Chop Suey candy, Clydo Road, Craig Swamp, Donna Delegal, Douglas Anderson, Florida Junior College, Florida Panther, Hazel Tisdale, Jennifer Grey, Jerusalem Cemetery, Ku Klux Klan, Marlen Frazee, Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church, mulberries, Osiris, Philips, Philips Cemetery, Pine Forest, Red Bank Plantation, Sadie Nasif Aborjali, San Diego Campus, Southside Incinerator, St Augustine Road, United States Colored Troops, Vinson Lane
Confederate Park’s “In Memory of our Women of the Southland”
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Lovett’s / Winn & Lovett / Winn-Dixie & my Grandfather
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Tagged A.C. Hopkins, Abner Hopkins, Art Deco, Art Moderne, Avondale, Eddie Keene, Fairfax Manor, George Washington Hotel, Jacksonville, jaxpsychogeo, Lovett's, Mayfair Street, Ortega, psychogeography, Riverside, Silvertown, Southern Gothic, Tim Gilmore, Winn & Lovett's, Winn-Dixie
Florida Junior College, What the Beginning Looks Like, the Chance to Create a New World
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Tagged A College Tells Its Story, Arnold Wood, Betsy Griffey, Charles Smires, Cumberland Campus, Edgar Napier, Erskine Key, Experimental College, FCCJ, FJC, Fred Kent, FSCJ, J. Bruce Wilson, Jennifer Grey, Jewell Haddock Blackburn, Kent Campus, Robert Gentry, SACS, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, UNF, University of North Florida, Vivian Payne
