1980s Downtown Jacksonville

[Metro Jacksonville]

1980s Downtown Jacksonville



A glimpse of Downtown Jacksonville during the 1980s.

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[Keith-N-Jax]

City still has a lot of improvement needed, but it's definitely come along way since then.

[jcjohnpaint]

What was the building/s in front of the Haskel building? 

[vicupstate]

What was the building/s in front of the Haskel building? 

I believe those buildings are to the side of Haskell, not directly in front.  The farthest one from Haskell is the YMCA.

[vicupstate]

City still has a lot of improvement needed, but it's definitely come along way since then.

Based strictly on the pictures, I don't see any improvement, just the opposite. A house that in all likelihood could have been beautifully restored (#7) has been demolished. The great looking building in #18 could be lofts or just about anything, but I assume it has been demolished too.   I can't discern the exact location of #18, but I sure don't recognize it.

[Keith-N-Jax]

Somethings have improved, Acosta bridge, riverwalk to name a few. The could haves are just that could haves.

[thelakelander]

City still has a lot of improvement needed, but it's definitely come along way since then.

Based strictly on the pictures, I don't see any improvement, just the opposite. A house that in all likelihood could have been beautifully restored (#7) has been demolished. The great looking building in #18 could be lofts or just about anything, but I assume it has been demolished too.   I can't discern the exact location of #18, but I sure don't recognize it.

#7 - East Jacksonville. The block that house sat on, and a few more, became the Veterans Memorial Arena in the early 2000s.

#18 - NE corner of Forsyth and Newnan. Demolished for a new wing at the tax collectors office.

[thelakelander]

What was the building/s in front of the Haskel building? 

By the 1980s, it was the Professional Insurance Building. It was designed by HJ Klutho in 1912 for the Germania Club.


http://www.prairieschooltraveler.com/html/fl/lost/Lost-Treasures.html



It was torn down in the late 1990s. Just about everything on that stretch of Riverside Avenue was torn down a few years later when FDOT widened the narrow road into a modern 6-lane highway.

[Wacca Pilatka]

Based strictly on the pictures, I don't see any improvement, just the opposite. A house that in all likelihood could have been beautifully restored (#7) has been demolished.

Isn't #7 the Merrill House, which was relocated and restored from its old spot on Lafayette St.?

[thelakelander]

^Yes. I wasn't aware that this structure was relocated. You learn something new every day.

[Jason]

I am loving these photo series for decades past!

WELL DONE!

[David]

These pictures confirm my memories of downtown in the 80s when I was a kid. We would go downtown to pick our cousin up from the greyhound station and since I didn't go downtown very often, i'd always marvel at how many old buildings there were surrounding it.  I definitely remember their being a lot more older, low to midrise buildings than what you see today. The  Rhodes furniture building in particular sticks out in my memory.

[coredumped]

I never heard of 666 cold medicine, looks like you can still get it:
http://www.amazon.com/Electronic-World-Plus-Cold-Medicine/dp/B000RRTDOK#
Just hard to find. Was this a Jax company?

[jcjohnpaint]

Germania Club building.. what a loss. 

[thelakelander]

I never heard of 666 cold medicine, looks like you can still get it:
http://www.amazon.com/Electronic-World-Plus-Cold-Medicine/dp/B000RRTDOK#
Just hard to find. Was this a Jax company?

Yes.

http://www.monticellodrug.com/