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This Week’s Story: The Final Flooding of This Particular History–Marjenhoff Park

Posted on November 14, 2019 | Leave a comment

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In five years, this neighborhood will be flooded and returned to swamp. When Hurricane Irma turned Marjenhoff Park and its surrounding houses into a swirl of swill, long after the 25 year history of South Jacksonville as a city, long after those little boys chased an alligator through city pipes, almost a century after South Jax City Councilman and son blurred ages, still: once “haunt” and “home” meant the same thing.

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Tagged A.D. Marjenhoff, Abbott Simmons, Alex Marjenhoff, C.E. Steinhauser, climate change, Debra Webb Rogers, Derrida, Dwight Carpenter, E.O. Painter, Fred Marjenhoff, Harrison Reed, hauntology, Hendricks Plantation, Hurricane Irma, J. Turner Butler, J.F. Jones, J.M. Lorimer, jaxpsychogeo, John Fletcher White, Lenny Curry, Lilla White, Marjenhoff House, Marjenhoff Park, San Marco, South Jacksonville, South Jacksonville City Council, South Jacksonville City Hall, Southampton Park, T.J. Harris, Tim Gilmore, Van Valkenburgh

This Week’s Story: Tip Top Tavern / Randall’s Ranch House Restaurant

Posted on November 8, 2019 | Leave a comment

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Before that night the Ku Klux Klan wore their hoods in for dinner, before somebody assaulted Randall Fleiss and stole his ivory, before Ron Pate initiated his “If you want to fight, you have to fight me” policy, Darryl Swearingen asked his mother if he could take a job washing dishes. The story of the Tip Top Tavern / Randall’s Ranch House Restaurant dates back almost a century.

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Tagged Darryl Swearingen, Donal Godfrey, DuPont School, Ed Canady, Folsom Haven, Helen Fleiss, Helen Wooten, Hines Restaurant, J&L Friendly Tavern, jax psycho geo, John Haven, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Lackawanna Elementary, North Shore, Panama Park, Patrick Foley, Randall Fleiss, Randall's Ranch House Restaurant, Richard Atkinson, Robert Zortea, Ron Pate, Rose Pate, Tallulah, Tally's Lounge, Tim Gilmore, Tip Top Tavern, Urban Meyer, Woody's Place, Your Tavern, Zorty's Ranch House Restaurant

New Story: Dix Ellis Trail

Posted on November 4, 2019 | Leave a comment

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The ghetto’s relocated to the suburbs. The cheap hotel by the interstate interchange is the port city of 500 years ago. Drugs and sex slaves do brisk business. Jacksonville murders black transwomen. I B-my-OB at suburban hotel truck stops and transcribe the “marketplace of ideas.” Get your kicks on Dix Ellis Trail!

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Tagged Antash’a English, Baymeadows, Cathalina Christina James, Celine Walker, Demetrick Jones, Dix Ellis Trail, Enzo Torcoletti, Extended Stay America, Flying J, Intracoastal Waterway, Isle of Palms, J. Turner Butler, Jacksonville transgender murders, jax psycho geo, Majestic Palace Apartments, Pablo Keys, R.C. Dix, Tim Gilmore, TravelCenter of America, Williams and Ellis

Halloween-week story: Spence Auto Sales and Ottis Toole Death Car

Posted on October 30, 2019 | Leave a comment

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It was November 1983, six months since Spence had last seen Ottis Toole, the great fake serial killer. Detectives thought they could pin the Ottis Toole death car and a rusty machete to Spence Auto Sales. Two months later, Spencer Bennett was dead.

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Tagged 708 Day Avenue, Adam Walsh, Becky Powell, Betty Goodyear, Bob Harley, Buddy Terry, Catlin Truck Accessories, Clyde Miller, Drusilla Arzetta, Drusilla Arzetta Toole, Drusilla Toole, Florida Turnpike, Frieda Lorraine Powell, Frieda Powell, Henry Lee Lucas, Historic Springfield Jacksonville, Hollywood Police Department, Jack Hoffman, Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, jaxpsychogeo, Larry Hoisington, Oakwood Street, Ottis Toole, Ottis Toole death car, Panama Gardens, Ron Hickman, Sarah Harley, Spence Auto Sales, Spencer Bennett, Spencer C. Bennett, Spencer Clement Bennett, Springfield Jacksonville, Stalking Ottis Toole, Standard Oil Station, Tim Gilmore, Vero Beach, William Catlin

New Story: Baldwin: Everybody’s Restaurant

Posted on October 19, 2019 | Leave a comment

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The restaurant’s “been here forever,” they say, Minnie Bennett-Lynn “renamed it from Sunshine” and “wasn’t messin’ around.” Mr. Thigpen “supplied fresh horses for the stage and for its passengers he supplied food and shelter.” The town called Thigpen city fathers renamed for Dr. A.S. Baldwin. The fried okra’s better’n the fried squash.

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Tagged Baldwin, Dr. A.S. Baldwin, Duval County, Everybody's Restaurant, Everybody's Restaurant Baldwin, fried okra, fried squash, Jacksonville, jaxpsychogeo, Minnie Bennett-Lynn, Sunshine Cafe, Thigpen, Thigpen Florida, Tim Gilmore, West Beaver Street

Wesconnett: Pucketts and Gunnings

Posted on October 17, 2019 | Leave a comment

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No dogs inhabited the doghouse, just 10,000 fleas. The gazebo welcomed the alligator. Rodney’s memories of his mother and his father are radically different. His mother connected callers at the hospital. His father chased his mother through the Wesconnett house with a machete. He recalls the Gunnings, the hardware store, the bulldogs, the 15 year old girl, his baby, his first truck.

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Tagged Anne Barry Puckett, Basil Gunning, Duval Motors, Fishing Pen Creek, Florida Junior College, Gary Gunning, Gunning Hardware, jaxpsychogeo, Jerry Gunning, Karen Gunning, Kenneth Leroy Puckett, Kenneth Puckett, Kenny Puckett, Rodney Puckett, Tim Gilmore, Timuquana, Transylvania, Wesconnett, Wesconnett Florist, World Cars

New Story: Wesconnett: Turknett/Parnell House

Posted on October 10, 2019 | Leave a comment

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When the community congealed, three families merged their names to rename the village Wesconnett. Old Orange Park Road, sometimes called simply the Clay Road to Orange Park, became Wesconnett and Blanding Boulevards. The Turknett House became the Parnell House became the center of town. You came to its porches to get your mail, hear the news, receive a phone call or listen to weekend music. The town is gone, buried beneath this inner ring of suburbia, but the house at the center of town still stands.

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Tagged Beaver Street, Butcher Creek, Coffin's Barber Shop, Farris and Company, Fishing Pen Creek, Hill’s Wesconnett Drug Store, jaxpsychogeo, Jerry G. Dukes, Laura Silcox, Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Parnell House, Parnell's Grocery, Samuel Allen Turknett, Tim Gilmore, Timucuan Indians, Timuquana Road, Turknett House, Webb-Wesconnett Library, Wesconnett, Wesconnett Boulevard, Wesconnett Elementary

New Story: My Father’s Grave

Posted on October 10, 2019 | Leave a comment

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I never expected my father to move back to the city, but he was contrarian enough that he’d be dead before he did. So here he is. I’ll never forget the sight of my father, 90 years old, trying to lasso a goat. He wouldn’t have minded the Golden Corral in the midst of the cemetery, but I doubt he could eat “the Whole Buffet!” Click below for the story. He’d have liked it.

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Tagged Baker County, CSX, Golden Corral, Les Gilmore, Leslie William Gilmore, Memorial Park Road, Oglethorpe Georgia, Riverside Memorial Park

New Story: First Baptist Church

Posted on October 10, 2019 | Leave a comment

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First Baptist Church has perhaps received more love and more hate than any other entity in Jacksonville. It dates to a ca.-Civil War split with black church members who retained the original name, Bethel Baptist. In 1923, Pastor W.A. Hobson welcomed 200 Klansmen in full regalia into his farewell sermon. In the 1980s, Pastors Homer Lindsay and Jerry Vines ignited a showdown with more “liberal” members of the Southern Baptist Convention. In 2019, what once seemed unthinkable occurs: the church plans to sell 90 percent of its downtown campus.

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Tagged A.C. Shuler, Bethel Baptist Church, Billy Graham, Bob Gray, Calvary Baptist Church, Celebration Church, Christian Alamo, Donald Trump, Eleven22, FBC Watchdog, First Baptist Church, First Baptist Church Watchdog, Fuller Warren, Heath Lambert, Henry John Klutho, Hobson Auditorium, Homer Dome, Homer Lindsay, Homer Lindsay Jr., Human Rights Ordinance, James Fifield, Jerry Falwell, Jerry Vines, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Lester Roloff, Liberty University, Mac Brunson, Martin Luther King, Moral Majority, Prosperity Gospel, Rebekah Home for Girls, Robert Calhoun Gray, Robert Morris, Southern Baptist Convention, Springfield Jacksonville, Tabernacle Baptist Church, Trinity Baptist Church, W.A. Hobson

New Story: Thomas Porter House

Posted on October 10, 2019 | Leave a comment

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Last week’s JaxPsychoGeo story was about a crossroads once the most prestigious in the city. This week’s story centers on the one house that remains. Its future is uncertain. Half a century ago, Bess Porter Keely remembered what it was like, half a century before, to get married in her childhood home.

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Tagged Akel's, Baalbeck, Bess Porter Keely, Duncan Fletcher House, Duncan U. Fletcher, Florida history, Heliopolis, Henry John Klutho, Jacksonville, James Taliaferro House, Jessie-Lynne Kerr, KBJ Architects, Kentucky Home for Roomers, Landrum and Brown, Robert Broward, Sharon Gould, Thomas Porter, Thomas Porter House. T.V. Porter, Tim Gilmore, Virginia King, Walter Porter

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