Archive for the ‘Cool Signs’
Cool Signs: JJ’s Motel
Here’s a sign that’s still around! Kinda beat up - but it’s there! This is on State Road 60 in Indian Lakes Estates, which is a ’70s subdivision of homes in a remote area pf East Polk County. It’s west of Dave Siegel’s Westgate Ranch Resort. I don’t know more about it and the property. If you do, please leave a comment!
Cool Signs: Kwik Save - Now Gone.
I took this photo back in August 2007 which is on County Road 490, Homosassa Trail, just a couple miles east of Homosassa Springs and US 19. Just drove by February 17th and the rest of the sign is gone. The metal armature is still there though.
Swampy - I Dream of Jeannie!
Swampy heads over to Lori Wilson Park on A1A in Cocoa Beach to visit a marker of Florida history. Here the entrance street is named ‘I Dream of Jeannie’. The NBC television series from 1965 to 1970 was based in Brevard County. Character Captain Tony Nelson, played by Larry Hagman, lived in Cocoa Beach and, though filmed in California, most of the series took place here. The series involved an astronaut whose wayward spacecraft delivers him to a desserted island. The astronaut, Captain Nelson, finds a bottle. Upon rubbing the bottle Captain Nelson finds himself with a genie for the next five years on television.
Connections Trivia: The series title, ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ is a swipe of the song ‘ I Dream of Jeannie (With the Light Brown Hair)’ by Stephen Foster, who wrote Florida’s state song, ‘Old Folks at Home’.