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The Last Days of the Jacksonville Landing

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The Jacksonville Landing is coming down. Zoltar never predicted it. The toy store kept frogs in a tank. A waitress calls Hooters “the soul of the Landing.” So long, Whack-a-gator! So long, taxiderm’d lion! So long, Jägermeister! Was it ever not inevitable? Just what exactly did the Landing have to do with Downtown? 

World Beach…Where Burger King and McDonald’s Debuted

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Mirza calls this stretch of Beach Boulevard, where Burger King and Jax’s first McDonald’s opened for business in the 1950s, “World Beach.”

World Beach contains no beach, but its storefronts represent at least two dozen nationalities and ethniticities, immigrants and refugees who’ve washed up here from around the world.