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Reposting the Story of the Plague Year

Posted on March 27, 2020 | Leave a comment

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Epidemics are not new. Nor the exception, they’re the rule. In 1888, the jaundiced skeleton who walked through Jax an archetype of death and disease, the newspapers called “Yellow Jack.” Political battles ensued. Jacksonville, with Yellow Fever rampant, locked down under “Shotgun Quarantine.” All these years later, this new pandemic, nobody’s firing cannons in the streets. Not yet, at least.

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Tagged A Century of Medicine in Jacksonville and Duval County, Aedes Aegypti, Alligator Florida, Alligator Lake City, Anna Fletcher, Atmospheric Concussion as a Means of Disinfectant, Duncan Fletcher, Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, Experiences in a Stricken City, Fernandina Beach, Florida history, Gateway Mall, George Storck, Harry Houdini, History of Duval County Florida, Houdini Fortune Telling Bill, Jacksonville Auxiliary Sanitation Commission, James Jacquelin Daniel, Jared Keen, jax psycho geo, Judson House, McCoys Creek, McCoys Creek Tunnel, Merritt Webster, Nathan Vaught, Neal Mitchell, Pest House, Pleasant Daniel Gold, Sand Hills Hospital, Sand Hills Yellow Fever Hospital, Shotgun Quarantine, St. Luke's Hospital, Surgeon General John Hamilton, Tim Gilmore writer, Yellow Fever, Yellow Fever Mosquito, Yellow Jack

New Story: St. Mary’s Liquors, Riverside Motel and the Boat Ramp Where They Pulled Nellie from the River

Posted on March 5, 2020 | Leave a comment

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Long abandoned, the Riverside Motel, by the Florida-Georgia state line at the St. Mary’s River, still takes lodgers. St. Mary’s Liquors serves up favors to legend trippers. Whether murder, whether suspicious prior divorce, Nellie and Knud lived most of their 60 year marriage here. Jill watched the car raised up from the river, six years after Nellie drowned. My sister and I find more than a dozen bird’s nests in motel rooms.

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Tagged Callahan Florida, Camden County, Camden County Sheriff's Office, CCSO, Chris Sears, David Bullet, Disney World, Flesh Rippers of Jacksonville, Florida Georgia line, Florida State Hospital, Flowerbomb, Genevieve Olfort, Jacksonville Florida Georgia, jax psycho geo, Jill Helton, Joe Jack, Joe Jack's Place, K.H. Olford, Knud Howard Olfort, Knud Olfort, legend tripping, Leland Kent, Mike Helton, Nam June Paik, Nassau County Florida, Nellie Olfort, Nellie Vanzant, Nellie Vanzant Olfort, psychogeography, Riverside Motel, St. Mary's Georgia, St. Mary's Liquors, St. Mary's River, Sugarbomb, Tim Gilmore, Tribune and Georgian, Urban Exploration, urban legends, UrbEx, Wanda Canaday, Yulee Florida

Jefferson Davis Junior High School

Posted on February 28, 2020 | Leave a comment

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My father and I were the only white people on the basketball court. He was 40 years older, at least, than everybody else. I’m writing this story on his 96^th. He died six months ago tomorrow.

Of what beloved Jacksonville architect Taylor Hardwick thought of designing new schools with the names of Confederate leaders, there’s no record. The only black faces in 1960s Jeff Davis yearbooks are those of the custodial staff. And the school principal, Wilber C. Johnson, standing beside a Confederate flag and wearing blackface.

“We will hang Jeff Davis to a sour apple tree. / We will hang Jeff Davis to a sour apple tree. / We will hang Jeff Davis to a sour apple tree, / As we march along!”

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Tagged Alexander Stephens, Battle Hymn of the Republic, Battle of Yellow Tavern, blackface, Bob Gray, Brown v. Board of Education, Confederate Park, Cornerstone Speech, desegregation, Fort Pillow Massacre, Grand Wizard, In Memory of our Women of the Southland, J.D., J.E.B. Stuart, jax psycho geo, Jay Dee, Jeff Davis, Jefferson Davis, Jefferson Davis Junior High, Jefferson Davis Middle School, Jesse Jackson, Kirby Smith, Lost Cause Movement, Martin Luther King, Morrison's Cafeteria, Natham Bedford Forrest, Nathan Bedford Forrest High School, Robert E. Lee, Robert Gray, Sam Wolfson, segregation, Southernaire, Taylor Hardwick, Tim Gilmore, Trinity Baptist Church, Trinity Christian Academy, Wilmer C. Johnson

New Story: Geodesica

Posted on February 21, 2020 | Leave a comment

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Here, Charles died in Drew’s arms. Here in the rotunda, at the bottom of the ocean, though Santa Monica demolished this amusement park the year I was born, it thrives. Gilbert Spindel drew up his “Roundhouse” blueprints and promoted them in newspapers across the country in 1956. This particular Geodesica served as “exhibit house” three years later. All the rest comes forward like tides, historical patterns, ghosts. “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio…”

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Tagged A Home for All, Bonnie Abbzug, Buckminster Fuller, Buzludsha, Charles Edison Chapman, Chaseville, Chaseville Cemetery, Dallas Wax Museum, Drew Hunter, Edward Abbey, FCDA, Federal Civil Defense Administration, Fibonacci Sequence, Florida history, Fort Caroline Club Estates, Geodesic Dome, Geodesica, Gilbert Spindel, Gina Martinelli, Golden Ratio, Harry Truman, Howalt Drive, Huricane Dora, jax psycho geo, Leaves of Grass, Leon Felhandler, Lonnie Wurn, midcentury modern, Monkey Wrench Gang, Neptune's Kingdom, Nevada Proving Grounds, Newel Hadley, Ocean Park Pier, Octagon House, Orson Squire Fowler, Pacific Ocean Park, Reggie Williams, Round House, Roundhouse, roundhouses, Sally Corporation, Sarah Felhandler, Southern Gothic, Spaceship Earth, Spindel Geodesica, Star Williams, Sunken City of POP, Tim Gilmore, Timucuan Indians, Upshot-Knothole, Walt Whitman

Story #509: Riverdale Inn / Brazile House / Kelly House

Posted on February 7, 2020 | Leave a comment

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Walter Brazile founded B & B Exterminating Co. in his rambling old boarding house. He nurtured the business and nurtured people, including Rufus King, Jr., brother of Virginia, author of that 8,448-page book about Jax. William Kelly, turpentine magnate, built the house 115 years ago. Albert O’Neall, though a Quaker, took a job here building bombing ranges. Now the former HQ of B & B has been restored as a bed-and-breakfast. One of my favorite writers stayed here just last week.

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Tagged Albert Ellis O'Neall, Albert O'Neall, Arden Herrin, B & B Exterminating, Barnett Mansion Springfield, Benvenuto, Bret Burmeister, Charlie Towers, Claude L'Engle, Consolidated Naval Stores, Elizabeth Brazile, Eric Waln, Florida history, Gum Bunch, Haydon Burns Library, Henry John Klutho, Irma O'Neall, J.E.T. Bowden, Jacksonville Florida, jax psycho geo, Jessica Miner-Killian, Jonathan Greeley, Larry James Bana, LaVilla, Malcolm Gladwell Jacksonville, Marjorie Ann O'Neall, Mary Mychael Waln, McCoys Creek, Mellen Greeley, Memorial Park, Napier Apartments, naval stores, Orren McJunkins, Ortega Jacksonville, Palms Boarding House, Palms Hotel, Riverdale Inn, Riverside Avondale, Riverside Hospital, Rocco Morabito, Rogers Towers, Rufus King Jr., Slappey Building, The Mad Atlas of Virginia King, The Row, Tim Gilmore, Tim Gilmore Florida, Tom Gilmore, Virginia King, Walter Brazile, Walter P. Brazile, William Kelly, William O'Neall

El Modelo, Part II

Posted on January 30, 2020 | Leave a comment

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Part Two of the three-part series on El Modelo Cigar Factory features the Dying Declaration of Marie Louise Gato, her possible romantic entanglements with young Cuban revolutionaries, and the “Jacksonville Junta,” who organized both clandestinely and not so secretly for the war in Havana.

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Tagged Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Calixto Garcia, Cuba Libre, Cuban Revolutionary Party, Dauntless, Domingo Herrera, Eddie Pitzer, Edward Pitzer, El Modelo, filibuster, Florida, freebooter, Gabriel Hidalgo Gato, Jacksonville Junta, James Weldon Johnson, jax psycho geo, José Alejandro Huau, José Carbonne, Jose Marti, Marie Louise Gato, Máximo Gómez y Báez, Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, Three Friends, Tim Gilmore

The Adams Building: from the Vice Wars to “Rehumanizing the Broken Man”

Posted on January 18, 2020 | Leave a comment

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The old upstairs hotel has never, in 125 years, closed its doors. Now dedicated to “deinstitutionalizing the human being and rehumanizing the broken man,” the hotel was built in the bloody years of LaVilla’s vice wars. It sheltered refugees from the Great Fire of 1901. Half a century later, it served as a brothel with “peep holes” in the walls.

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Tagged Adams Building, Adams Building Hotel, Bettelini's, Bettelini's Hotel, Blue Bird Bar and Grill, Ed Austin, Florida history, Fox Jewelry and Loan, Great Fire of 1901, Hamilton Jay, Hank Smith, Hotel Moncrief, J.E.T. Bowden, James Inn, jax psycho geo, LaVilla, Lesnick, Pete Lesnick, Pete's Jewelry and Loan, Prospect House, Richard Lesnick, Richard Martin, River City Renaissance, Robert Starrett, Sam Houston, Sam Russ, St. James Recovery Center, T.J. Underhill, The Store, Tim Gilmore

Ellenelle: An Architectural Tribute and Shrine to a Great Writer

Posted on January 15, 2020 | Leave a comment

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The house called Ellenelle is a tribute to the architecture of Henry John Klutho. It’s also a sacred space, a private literary and family temple. Ed had hoped that perhaps in his aunt’s last years, the great writer might come to live here. The bedroom to the side of the library is hers, even if she never inhabited it.

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Tagged Amasa Coleman Lee, Ed Conner, Ellenelle, Frank Lloyd Wright, Great Books Program, Henry John Klutho, Herschel Henry Conner III, Jacksonville architecture, Jacksonville history, Jason Fisher, jax psycho geo, Kentucky State University, Klutho House, Prairie style architecture, Robert Broward, Springfield Jacksonville, Springfield Usonian, Tim Gilmore

New Story: Jacksonville University Apartment District: French Quarter Apartments / University Townhomes

Posted on January 1, 2020 | Leave a comment

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It was an optimistic time. 50 years ago this Christmas. Today Richard Minor stands where he first learned to walk. His father taught astronomy at Jacksonville University, across the street from this then-new apartment district. His mother, a stenographer, played the ukele, read thick novels and made the martinis at 5. The ’60s promised a younger, more prosperous and more educated America.

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Tagged Arlington Manor, Bourbon Alley South, Caroline Village, Cesery Boulevard, Dick Minor, Eagle Pointe Apartments, Fort Caroline Road, French Courtyard, French Quarter Apartments, Hurley Manor Apartments, Jacksonville College of Music, Jacksonville Junior College, Jacksonville University, jax psycho geo, Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, Legends Apartments, Merrill Road, Miramar Apartments, Richard Minor, Shirley Minor, Swisher Auditorium, Swisher Gymnasium, Tim Gilmore, University Boulevard, University Place Apartments, University Townhomes

The 500th Story

Posted on January 1, 2020 | Leave a comment

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The 500th JaxPsychoGeo story. About time. About how my dreams after my father’s death differ from the dreams I had when my mother died. About why I started this bizarre website. About a lynching my friend’s father witnessed. And about the perspective a 1.8 billion year old piece of mountain granite provides.

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Tagged A.P. Goff, ALS, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Blanding Boulevard Baptist Church, Cynthia Goff, David W. Strunk, frederick douglass, jax psycho geo, jaxpsychogeo, Joan Irene Gilmore, Leslie William Gilmore, Life Begins at 40, Lou Gehrig’s Disease, Norman Rockwell, Oglethorpe Georgia, Old Folks at Home, psychogeography, Slim Whitman, Southern Gothic, Stephen Foster, Swanee River, Tameka Bradley Hobbs, Terry Mattison, Tim Gilmore, Willie James Howard

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