Not a blog more like another pier banyan tree, a place to come & sit for a little while & wait for something fun to happen. A place for all the greezers, candyasses, Halloween egg throwers, former Publix bagboys & dirt bike riders to kill a little time until Halloween. Just like the good old days, wait around for a couple hours until you could find some geezer to buy you beer...
I could be way off here (getting older y’know), but around 1965/66 when I was still in high school (NHS was still the only one), I remember driving out of the high school parking lot the back way, going over the railroad tracks, and hanging a right on to Goodlette Road. You could drive south as far as 14th Ave. N. right behind Lake Park School, and beyond that you pretty much ran out of pavement... I guess that means my memory tells me that Goodlette Road, which was designated state road something or other (831?), did not (at that time, go all the way through to the Tamiami Trail @ Tin City. 'Course Tin City didn't exist then either, it was Naples Marine & The Gordon River Corp. I hope someone else remembers it this way.
I guess the point here is that I remember (I think) when there was no road in front of where this picture was taken, 1200 Goodlette Road.
If I’m completely wrong that’s Ok and you can enlighten me . . . or, if I am wrong, you can just “humor the old guy”. . . Either way I’m good with it!
Wasn't this built in the mid to late 70's? I wasn't driving then so I was at the mercy of my Mom for getting around town, and we lived in the north end. My hubby who didn't come to town until 1980 says he thinks it was the late 70's because he remembers it being pretty new when he got here.
From the best of my recollection the Goodlette Rd post office was built mid 70's. I know it was open by 1976 for sure. I always wondered why they would want to build that post office there so far from downtown...LOL.
I could be way off here (getting older y’know), but around 1965/66 when I was still in high school (NHS was still the only one), I remember driving out of the high school parking lot the back way, going over the railroad tracks, and hanging a right on to Goodlette Road. You could drive south as far as 14th Ave. N. right behind Lake Park School, and beyond that you pretty much ran out of pavement... I guess that means my memory tells me that Goodlette Road, which was designated state road something or other (831?), did not (at that time, go all the way through to the Tamiami Trail @ Tin City. 'Course Tin City didn't exist then either, it was Naples Marine & The Gordon River Corp. I hope someone else remembers it this way.
ReplyDeleteI guess the point here is that I remember (I think) when there was no road in front of where this picture was taken, 1200 Goodlette Road.
If I’m completely wrong that’s Ok and you can enlighten me . . . or, if I am wrong, you can just “humor the old guy”. . . Either way I’m good with it!
Seagate Homeboy
NHS Class of ’67
6:10 p.m. PDT
Wasn't this built in the mid to late 70's? I wasn't driving then so I was at the mercy of my Mom for getting around town, and we lived in the north end. My hubby who didn't come to town until 1980 says he thinks it was the late 70's because he remembers it being pretty new when he got here.
ReplyDeleteFrom the best of my recollection the Goodlette Rd post office was built mid 70's. I know it was open by 1976 for sure. I always wondered why they would want to build that post office there so far from downtown...LOL.
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