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You Know this City if You’ve Crossed its Central Divisions: Myrtle Avenue Underpass / Subway / Tunnel

Posted on June 27, 2018 | Leave a comment

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For well more than a century, the crossroads sunken into the Myrtle Avenue Underpass has taken lives, defined neighborhoods, separated beneficiaries from the poor the city’s more harshly judged.

Streetcars crossed the sump betwixt downtown and urban black Jax and an innocent electrician died liked a serial killer.

The crossroads flooded and the crossroads flooded and the crossroads flooded and the crossroads flooded.

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Two New Stories: Eco Relics and Honeymoon

Posted on May 15, 2016 | Leave a comment

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Eco Relics is an architectural salvage wonderland housed in the 1927 Baker and Holmes Building. It’s the perfect shrine to the strange compost of history in the streets that surround it.

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