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2) Oh by golly, it’s the bar in the supercomputerhouse. That first year, Viking Jeff drank more than 900 pitchers of Bud. A pool cue rests, from behind my back, on my left shoulder. “So Many Waves So Little Time.”
Tim Gilmore Writes Stories of the Southern Gothic and Psychogeography in Jacksonville, Florida.
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- Alley Between Bay Street and Forsyth (Between Nick Dunkenstein and the Newnan Street Sphinx)
- Ambassador Hotel
- Ambassador Hotel, Carrie’s Room
- Andrew Jackson Statue, Downtown
- Archive Room, Downtown
- Berkman II: The Ruins (Or, 23-Story Haunted House), Downtown
- Berney’s Restaurant, Downtown
- Brooklyn: Avon Apartments / Sam’s Grocery
- Brooklyn: Avon Apartments / Sam’s Grocery (After the Fire)
- Brooklyn: Brooklyn Riverside Apartments / Les Paul Garner’s House
- Brooklyn: Buffalo Soldier’s House
- Brooklyn: Chamblin Bookmine, Part 4
- Brooklyn: Chamblin Bookmine, Part 5
- Brooklyn: Fat Round’s Place
- Brooklyn: Mt. Calvary Baptist Church (for Thou Art with Me)
- Brooklyn: Mt. Calvary Baptist Church (The Newman Years)
- Brooklyn: Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, Spruce and Dora Streets
- Brooklyn: Reggie Bridges’s House / WATG Radio / Unofficial Brooklyn Museum
- Burro Bar and London Bridge, Downtown
- Cathedral District: Elena Flats
- Cathedral District: The Bodies in Billy Goat Hill
- Chamblin’s Uptown
- Chamblin’s Uptown: Gus and Company Building
- Chamblin’s Uptown: The Steel Vault Biography Room
- Church of the Immaculate Conception (Oh Sister Mary Ann!)
- De Real Ting, Furchgott’s, Post Office Tower, Downtown
- Duval County Courthouse KKK Standoff
- Duval High School, Downtown: the Last Living Student (2011) of the Last Graduating Class (1927)
- Embers Restaurant, Universal Marion Building, JEA Tower
- Fairfield: Debre Berhan Holy Trinity Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church / Fairfield Methodist Church
- Fairfield: Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant
- Fairfield: James E. Merrill House
- Fairfield: Lafarge Cement Silos / Crooms and Mahmoud Murals
- Fairfield: Mount Olive A.M.E. Church
- Fairfield: Roseland House, Foot of Clarkson Street
- First Baptist Church Lighthouse Replica
- Florida Theatre, Downtown
- Football Stadium, Eastside, Downtown
- Fuller Warren Toll Bridge (Dead Woman in the Back Seat)
- Hansontown / Downtown Campus, Florida State College at Jacksonville
- Hart Tomb Tower
- Haydon Burns Library, Downtown
- Heart of Jacksonville Hotel, Downtown and Springfield
- Hemming Park: Race and Brutality in the Genius Loci
- Hemming Plaza: Exact Center Point
- Hemming Plaza: MOCA Jacksonville and City Hall and Clay Yarborough
- Hogan’s Creek and the Emerald Necklace
- Hogans House, Downtown
- Jacobs Jewelers / Greenleaf and Crosby Clock
- Klutho’s Head and the Prairie Style Tree-of-Life
- LaRose’s, Downtown
- LaVilla: Blind Blake Walking, West Ashley Street
- LaVilla: Clara White Mission (The Moral and Ethical Heart of Jacksonville)
- LaVilla: Eartha White’s Bedroom, Clara White Mission
- LaVilla: Hillman-Pratt & Walton (The Oldest Funeral Home in Florida)
- LaVilla: Pedro and Padrica Mendez House
- LaVilla: Perk and Loretta’s Soul Lounge
- LaVilla: Richmond Hotel
- LaVilla: The Court and the House of Spanish Marie
- LaVilla: Whetstonian
- LaVilla: Whetstonian’s Last Days? / The Mural of Walter Whetstone’s Life
- Main Street Bridge
- Mayflower Hotel, Parking Lot, Green Panels, Downtown
- McCoy’s Creek: The Old Man
- Old City Cemetery: Joseph Finegan’s Grave
- Old City Cemetery: Mother Kofi’s Mausoleum
- Old St. Luke’s Hospital, Historical Archives
- Palms Hotel and Rooming House
- Phoenix / East Jacksonville: School Number 8
- Prudential Plaza One, the Original Prudential Life Insurance Building, the Tallest Building in the City over a Half Century Ago, the Aetna Building, the Wrong Road
- Roosevelt Hotel, The Carling, Downtown
- Seminole Club and Sweet Pete’s All-Natural Confectionary
- Southbank: Friendship Fountain
- Southbank: Jessie Ball DuPont Park & Treaty Oak
- Southbank: Riverplace Tower
- Southbank: The Fire inside the Treaty Oak
- Tallest Building in the City, Every 145 Years
- Talleyrand Wastes (Walt Walks, Performing Depth Soundings)
- Union Terminal Warehouse, Chamblin Bookmine Storage
- Union Terminal Warehouse, East Union Street
- Wacca Pilatka and Ossachite (Imaginary Indian Metropolis)
- Waters beneath the Merrick House, Downtown
- Whipping Post, Downtown
- Worman’s Bakery and Deli, Downtown
- North
- Ace Motel / Capri Motel, Main Street
- Adorkaville
- Babyland
- Black Hammock Island: Buddy’s Fish Camp y Santa Cruz y San Buenaventura de Guadalquini
- Black Rock Beach / Boneyard Beach (Big Talbot Island)
- Brentwood Park Bandstand and Comfort Station and Parthenon
- Bullet Bob’s Grave
- Callahan: 1. Johnson House Bloodstains and Rattlesnakes in the Road
- Callahan: 2. Musslewhite Farm, Black Town and the Klan Rally
- Callahan: 3. Jingles the Dog and the Workers’ Quarters
- Callahan: 4. Pete Wright’s Buried-Alive Bride, Moonshine, and the Rainbow Restaurant
- Car-Ma-Geddon, Heckscher Drive
- Carver Manor: Richardson Road
- Cedar Point Ruins
- Clapboard Creek: White Shell Fish Camp
- Cleveland Heights: Cleveland Road at Lockhart Drive
- Dames Point
- Dinsmore Dairy
- Durkee Field / J.P. (Bubbling) Small Stadium
- Durkeeville: Jax Beer Building
- Evergreen Cemetery: Muslim Burials and the Founder of the City
- Fairview Peninsula at Trout River: Rusted Wrought-Iron Leafwork and Blooms, Harriet Avenue
- Fort George Island
- Fort George Island Crypts
- Fort George Island: Neff House and Betz Sphere
- Fort George Island: Neff House Witch Project
- Fort George Island: Sandollar Restaurant and Marina
- Fred Cotten’s Barbecue
- Gator Hole
- Gonny Gonzales Tabby House Ruins
- Harbor View: What Ever Happened to Beverly June? Part 1
- Lake Forest Peninsula: Empty House Flea Syndrome
- Long Branch (Voodoo at East 27th and the Railroad Tracks)
- Magnolia Gardens / Gardenvale: St. Paul Lutheran Church
- Moncrief Cemetery District
- Moncrief Springs: Three Corinthian Columns
- New Berlin Crab Shack
- New Berlin: Goat Island and Christopher’s Pier
- New Berlin: Grey Hotel
- North Shore: Mulberry Street (“And to Think That I Saw It on”), the Line between Where It’s Raining and Where It’s Not
- North Shore: Rolliston Park
- North Shore: Where the Rain Tree Was
- Norwood: Millennium Specialty Chemicals (Fishing in Pollution)
- Oceanway: Catherine Tourist Court
- Oceanway: Christel and George Bartchlett Folk Art Collection
- Panama Park: Seafarer’s Marina
- Pecan Park Flea Market and Beer Pond
- Potter’s Field (Hillside Cemetery) and Howell’s Morning Glory Chapel
- Pumpkin Hill: Anderson Cemetery (Annette’s and Mylette’s Memorial)
- Pumpkin Hill: Verse Versus at Five Acre Spread
- Riverhills Park: The Pig, the Teardrop Tattoos, the House Trailer, and the Deep Beauty on Third Avenue
- Royal Terrace: Camphor Berries and Embers
- Sawyers Addition / Ritchieville: Marian’s House on Janette Street
- Shantyboat, Trout River (& Lynn Skapyak Harlin)
- Springfield Community Garden, Main Street
- Springfield: Barnett Mansion
- Springfield: Brown Museum of Art
- Springfield: Confederate Park: Monument “In Memory of Our Women of the Southland”
- Springfield: Dancy Terrace (Redell Street)
- Springfield: Drew Mansion
- Springfield: Drew Mansion and the Buried Head
- Springfield: East Fifth Street House Fire
- Springfield: Hubbard Street
- Springfield: Jacobs Flats / Jax Brickhouse
- Springfield: Klutho Apartments
- Springfield: Klutho House
- Springfield: North Laura Street
- Springfield: Ottis Toole House
- Springfield: Shantytown, Sixth and Main
- Springfield: Subway Car No. 983
- Springfield: Tunnels
- Sugar Hill, Blodgett Homes, Proton Therapy
- White Harvest Farms
- Winona Drive by Evergreen Cemetery
- Yellow Bluff Fort, New Berlin Road: Earthworks and Hobo Jungles
- South
- Art Jennette’s Place, Southern Charm
- Avenues Mall (Unidentified Flying Objects, Reportedly Seen Heading Downtown)
- Bayard Antique Village / Horne’s Beautyrest Cabins
- Baymeadows / Bombay Meadows
- Baymeadows 1
- Baymeadows 2
- Baymeadows 3
- Baymeadows 4
- Baymeadows Circle East at Baymeadows Circle West
- Baymeadows: GMAC Mass Shooting Site
- Beluthahatchee
- Black Creek, Eagles’ Nest
- Black South Jacksonville / Philips
- Chopstick Charley’s and The Joe
- Douglas Anderson School of the Arts
- Epping Forest / “The Mansion” / My Mother’s Illness
- Fire Tower, Beach Boulevard, Windy Hill
- Green Cove Springs: All Star Building Materials
- Green Cove Springs: Arctic Discoverer
- Green Cove Springs: Clay County Port
- Green Cove Springs: Gustafson’s Farm
- Green Cove Springs: Lee Field Hovercraft Ruins
- Greenbriar Light Sought from Englewood
- Greenfield Manor: 1960s Tract House, Witches in the Overstory
- Hibiscus 303B
- I AM Sanctuary
- Jerusalem
- Mandarin: Loretto Road Rectory
- Mandarin: Orange Groves, Cypress Knees, Stephen for $450
- Mandarin: St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Old St. Augustine Road
- Mandarin: Two Young Men–1) Haley Road, Pickwick Park 2) Luria’s Fine Jewelry, San Jose Boulevard
- Mandarin: Walden Wood, Cul-de-Sac on Wethersfield Place
- Mount Vernon Motor Lodge
- Oaklawn Cemetery: Balis Tower
- Orange Park / Lakewood: Monkey Farm / Yerkes Laboratories / The Granary
- Oriental Gardens
- Pine Forest
- Saint Nicholas and South Shores
- Saint Nicholas: St. Nick’s Lounge
- San Marco: River Road
- San Marco: San Marco Building / Towne Pump
- San Marco: Swisher (Herbert) / Balis House
- San Marco: Swisher House (John H.) / Villa Alexandria
- Sans Souci: An Old Shed
- Sentinel at Beach and Peach
- Siesta Motor Inn, Philips Highway
- Southside Boulevard near Deerwood
- Spring Park Manor Unit 09
- Villa San Jose: Off La Losa Drive (Overheard Dialogue)
- Waterford-at-Deerwood Apartments, Southside Boulevard
- Windsor Parke Professional Center, Sutton Park Drive South
- East
- Al-Hajj Feriz Delkic Masjid and Islamic Community of Bosniaks
- Arbor Pointe Unit 07: Joeandy Road North
- Arlington and Lillian Roads (Jaywalking without I.D.)
- Arlington Heights Elementary School
- Arlington: Carriage House, Apartment 40
- Arlington: Eagle Film City
- Arlington: Expressway Mall (Where Mary Ran Away)
- Arlingwood Unit 10: Parker School Road
- Atlantic Beach: Aquatic Gardens (The Flood & the Poet)
- Atlantic Beach: Dunehouses and Pyramid
- Atlantic Beach: Treehouse Over Spacecraft
- Beach Octagon House and Sea Urchin Test
- Beer Hole and Horse-Legged Fish
- Clifton: Oak Lynde
- Clifton: Strawberry Mills
- Coquina Gates: 1, Wild Cherry
- Coquina Gates: 2, Chinquapin
- Coquina Gates: 3, Riots of the Fall and Nor’east
- Coquina Gates: 4, Last Chance
- Coquina Gates: 5, The Gates
- Egrets Glade Unit 02: Tropic Egret Drive at Snowy Egret Drive
- Empire Point: Marabanong
- Empire Point: Perley Place and Wine Cellar
- Floral Bluff
- Fort Caroline: Grant Mound 8DU14
- Fort Caroline: Spanish American War Battery
- Fox Chase / Woodland Station
- Gilmore: 1. Gilmore Cemetery, Train Station, and Railbed to Home
- Gilmore: 2. Dead End at Grant Mound
- Harbour Island / Rattlesnake Hill / Teri Youmans Grimm’s Florida
- Hidden Hills Country Club Estates: Shoal Creek Lane North
- Idlewild: Rain Cemetery, Witchistory
- Jacksonville Beach: 13th Avenue South at South Ninth Street
- Jacksonville Beach: American Legion Post 129
- Jacksonville Beach: Bo’s Coral Reef
- Jacksonville Beach: Einstein-a-Go-Go
- Jacksonville Beach: Ginger’s Place
- Jacksonville Beach: South Second Street, Apprehending and Seeing
- Jacksonville Beach: South Second Street, Lonely Man
- Jacksonville Beach: Tumulus in the Bean Field
- Kernan Boulevard Magnolia / Anhedonia
- Kernan Boulevard: “The District” (Privatized Dorms)
- Keystone Bluff: Spite Fence, Wooden Bowling Alley, Octagon Room
- Killarney Drive between Blarney Stone Court and Leprechaun Court, behind the Sign with the Shamrock that Welcomes You to Killarney Shores
- Kona Skatepark
- Lake Lucina: Suicidal Clown House
- Line between the Beach and the Ocean
- Mayport Lifeguard Station, Hannah Park
- Mayport Lighthouse
- Mayport: Shrimp Boat through the Jetties
- Mayport: Singleton’s Seafood Shack
- Merrill Hills: Overstory in the Forested Seep, 25 Million Years
- Neptune Beach: Lemon Street
- Neptune Beach: Pete’s Bar
- Oakhaven: Halliday Lane and Campbell Avenue Chiasmus (Morning Glories)
- Oakhaven: Harbor Point House
- Ponte Vedra Beach: Sawgrass Marriott Hotel
- Ponte Vedra Beach: Tournament Players Championship, Post-Apocalyptic Parking Lot
- Queen’s Harbour Yacht and Country Club: Admiral’s Bend Drive
- Regency: Humphreys Gold Mine Ghost Town
- Silversmith Creek: Swamp Rose
- Spring Glen: The Sublime in the Thrashing Trees
- UNF Drive
- University of North Florida: Boathouse, Blueberry Trail, Library of Babel, and Her Whole Life in Front of Her
- University of North Florida: Organic Garden
- Willie Brown Trail, Shell Peninsula, Dredge Spoil Island
- Woodmere
- West
- Beaver Street Baptist Church / Jacksonville Baptist Temple / Cathedral of Faith (Woodstock Park)
- Blanding Boulevard Baptist Church: The Resurrection
- Branan Field Octagon and Oakleaf
- Chair Tree and the Pretty Monster: Where It Is
- Chamblin Bookmine, Part One of Seven
- Confederate Crossing: Grayson Court Diluted Fascism
- Cracker Swamp and Whitehouse
- Eco Relics (North Riverside or Mixon Town)
- Far West Woods: Christmas Peanuts
- Farris and Company Slaughterhouse
- Fireside Place: Patch of Woods that No Longer Exists
- Florida State College at Jacksonville / Florida Junior College, Cumberland Campus
- Greybeard’s Tavern (Woodstock)
- Highway 90 West: Old Spanish Trail Way Station
- Honeymoon / Rural Home
- Island Bar
- Jacksonville Heights: Connie Jean Mobile Home Park
- Jug (Lynyrd Skynyrd “Cuttin’ the Rug”)
- Kayaking the Ortega River through the Republic of East Florida toward Confederate Point
- King’s Road and Timucuan Trail: Salvage Yard and Deer Head
- Lackawanna Buddhist Bungalow
- Lackawanna Elementary School
- Lackawanna: DJ’s Record Store
- Lackawanna: Trinity Baptist Church
- Lake Shore: The Great Camphor on Sunderland Road
- Lakeshore Gateway Arches and the Swastika
- Marietta: Doublewide Trailer, Thomas Jefferson Elementary, National Hotline for the NAAWP
- Marietta: Gray’s Grave
- Marietta: The Devil in the Christian School
- Mixon Studios
- Murray Hill Heights: KKK Bombing Site: Donal Godfrey’s House
- Murray Hill Heights: Summers’ Day (Terrianne Summers / Day Avenue)
- Murray Hill Theater
- Murray Hill: Dreamette / Creamette
- Murray Hill: Edgewood Coin Shop
- Murray Hill: The A Tavern
- Museum of Southern History
- Naval Air Station Cecil Field, Ghost Base
- Naval Air Station Cecil Field, Ghost Signs and Poison
- Normandy Village: Dogs with Guns
- Oak Hill Unit 11
- Ortega Baptist Church, Roosevelt Boulevard, Ortega: Two Signs
- Ortega Yacht Club Condominiums (High above Chamblin Bookmine)
- Patriot Mania—the American Flag Aisle
- Playtime Drive-In Movie Theater and Christ Church Anglican
- Roosevelt Mall, Roosevelt Boulevard 1
- Roosevelt Mall, Roosevelt Boulevard 2
- Sanctuary at Mt. Calvary / Abyssinia Missionary Baptist Church (Grant Park)
- Small House with the City Inside
- Small Red Shack at the City Limit Sign, U.S. 301
- Sprint Towing Storage Yard
- Transylvania
- Wesconnett, Dead End Transylvania
- Westbrook Park
- Westside Adolescence (Early 1990s)
- Westside: Apartment Complex, 103rd Street
- Westside: Drury Cat Farm
- Westside: Proxima Road: Angel Dog & Soupbone Sky
- Westside: Royal Court
- Westside: Scuppernongs and Quonset Hut
- Yukon: Ghost ZIP Code
- West (Riverside Avondale)
- Aeolian Harp Street
- Anna Fletcher’s Final Home
- Annie Lytle Public School Number Four, Gilmore Street
- Annie Lytle Public School Number Four, Gilmore Street, Addendum: “Tim Gilmore is Still Here”
- Bell Bell
- Big Flood on Little Fishweir Creek
- Blackburn House
- Bold City Brewery and Intuition Ale Works: Growlers of Pale Ale in Old Warehouses by the Railroad Tracks, Feedback Loop Tomb, Shadows and Patterns down King Street and into North Riverside
- Chimney Swifts at Riverside Christian Church
- Cool Moose, Park and King
- CoRK Arts District: Crystal Floyd’s Cabinet of Curiosities
- CoRK Arts District: Dolf James’s Studio
- CoRK Arts District: Evervess Art Studio
- CoRK Arts District: MetaCusp
- CoRK Arts District: Olivier Flaire’s Studio
- CoRK Arts District: Open Studios
- Cumberland Campus, Florida Junior College / Kent Campus, Florida State College at Jacksonville
- Edge City
- End of the Streetcar Line, Patterns in the Brick Pavement, Aberdeen Street
- Ernest Street to Willow Branch Park (Simultagnosia)
- Fire Department Drill Tower
- Fishweir Creek and Leah Mary Cox
- Five Points Theatre / Riverside Theater (Sun-Ray Cinema)
- Five Points: Fans & Stoves
- Five Points: Peterson’s Five and Dime Building
- Five Points: Post and Goodwin Streets
- Frank G. Slaughter, Medical Thrillers, and the Cleary-Dickert House
- Frogmore
- Garden of Colors / Andy Ward King
- JASMYN (Jacksonville Area Sexual Minority Youth Network) House
- JaxbyJax Signs on Telephone Poles (An Homage to Paul Bremer and Dennis Steele)
- Lancaster Terrace
- Leon Cheek Castle
- Martha Washington Hotel
- Memorial Park Drum Circle
- Memorial Park, Ouija Board
- Native Park
- Orange-State-Oil-Company-European-Street-Café, Park and King
- Park Street Coin Laundry
- Park View Court, Herschel Street
- Purple Petunia Filling Station and Antique Bottle Collection
- Richmond Street to the River
- Riverside Avenue and Heather M. Peters
- Riverside Park Camellia Garden
- Spaz House
- St. Vincent’s Hospital
- Trump Campaign Office
- Trump Campaign Office Update #1
- Trump Campaign Office Update #2
- Trump Campaign Office Update #3
- Trump Campaign Office Update #4: The End
- Trump Campaign Office Update #5: The End Again (or, The Real End)
- Wayne Wood / Lucius Smith House
- Wayne Wood’s Tipi
- All Over Town
- 874.3 Square Mile Tent
- Architectural Milk Houses
- Cavafy’s City
- Charles Dickens for Mayor
- Dillon Somewhere
- Epitaph
- Georgia Savory and Air Potato, Cheryl after John Muir
- Ginsberg Somewhere in Some Slum
- J.B. Stoner and the KKK
- Jax Klux Klan Politix
- JaxPsychoGeo
- Ku Klux Klan in Jacksonville
- Linemen After the Hurricane
- Lovett’s Grocery / Winn-Lovett’s / Winn-Dixie & My Grandfather
- Military Jacksonville in 800 Words
- Murder in Jacksonville
- Poor Penny Carson and Sweet Pea Johnson at Beach and Hodges Boulevards, Blanding Boulevard and 103rd Street, University Boulevard and Matthews Bridge / Arlington Expressway
- Seminole Hotel Heads
- Skulls in the Woods
- Trailer Parks
- Underground
- What Ever Happened to Beverly June? Part 2
- What Ever Happened to Beverly June? Part 3–Emmett Spencer and Mary Catherine Hampton
- What Ever Happened to Beverly June? Part 4–The Un-End
- Ottis Toole
- Stalking Ottis Toole, chapter 53: Ottis Talks by Phone with Henry Lee Lucas
- Stalking Ottis Toole, chapter 59: Buddy Terry, Coerced Confessions, Retractions
- Stalking Ottis Toole, chapter 109: Framing Ottis Toole–Joe Matthews, Bad Police Work and Desperate Dishonesty
- Stalking Ottis Toole, chapter 114: The True Story–Regina Hersey
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