Wildcat Bay - Westside Jax

[urbanlibertarian]

Remember Pritchett's Kitchen?  AYCE fried shrimp $.99 back in the 60s.

[RMHoward]

Wow, remember almost all of these places growning up in the Jacksonville Heights area.  Remember:
-going to pic n save at 103rd and Blanding.  always wanted to go to toy section while my dad wanted to go into
  the hardware section and check tv tubes in the tube tester.
-remember going in the hardware store on timuquana and 103rd for various things.
-remember the fish n chips, slot car track shop, and movie theatre in Cedar hills shopping center.  Also remember
  as a kid getting in trouble running up the escalator the wrong way at JC pennys in the Cedar Hills shopping center.
-remember getting my first GIJoe at Kmart on Blanding BLVD.
-remember getting milk and ice cream at skinners dairy on Ricker Road.
-remember my dad giving each of us kids 5 dollars each when he got back from vietnam, to spend as we saw fit at pic n save.
-etc etc etc

[cayohueso]

The Red Barn was on the lot on Wesconnett now occupied by Florida Pest Control. Growing up in Cedar Hills we ate there quite a bit. Lum's was also really good, in the Cedar Hills Mall parking lot. Some other lost places nearby: Arty's Pizza, S&S (of course), Sir Goony Golf, Ayer's, Gunning's Hardware, Mrs. Winner's (for like...a year), Godfather's Pizza...aw crap...I'm old.

[Ocklawaha]

Remember Pritchett's Kitchen?  AYCE fried shrimp $.99 back in the 60s.

Oh my yes! Some of the best food in the citys history. They had jaw dropping house salad dressings, their 1,000 Islands was legend. I think it finally burned down, one of the many times I was wandering around the freaking Amazon, or Colombia, or Sao Paulo, or Rio, or Panama, or oh hell, I don't remember. But the TV river monster guy is right, YOU CAN wade across streams where the Parana are everywhere, rather like most gators here, they don't give a damn.

That restaurant brings to mind several... TROUTS, on US 17 South of Timuquana. TADS, on Park Street in Brooklyn by Forest. PAT AND MIKES, on Lane Avenue out in the truck stops of the day.

Another cool place that came up and went down in maybe 10 years time, I think is was called KEYS FISH CAMP, and it was on that first lot north of Timuquana, on that tiny creek a few blocks east of Wesconnett. I always thought an upstream fish camp, small boat marina, store etc... was a great idea. I'd love to duplicate that old place somewhere. There's a small creek like that in Orange Park between Doctors Lake and Kingsley, depending on ownership, it might even be able to front on 17...
Hey, at least dreams are cheap. Maybe down here in St. Johns County on Trout Creek or 6 Mile??


OCKLAWAHA

[stjr]

Ock, Tads is back as "One Door Down" I think.  Literally, its name describes its current location from where the original Tads was at Forest and Park (?).  Ate there a while back and it was good as ever.  Same crowd following Norman including lot's of politicos like his cousin (?), Tommy Hazouri.

[civil42806]

Ock, Tads is back as "One Door Down" I think.  Literally, its name describes its current location from where the original Tads was at Forest and Park (?).  Ate there a while back and it was good as ever.  Same crowd following Norman including lot's of politicos like his cousin (?), Tommy Hazouri.

Tads still exists, though its on lane ave near San juan.  Different owners, but still basically the same menu

[mtraininjax]

Sad to see what Cedar Hills has become. Pawn shops, cash advance, adult novelty stores etc.

Hardly, it has turned into what we in real estate call, renter heaven. The great flight to outside the perimeter left us with what we have now.

[north miami]

Great point about the outward bound sprawl............

Recall the 1970's era announcement by Gulfstream Land Development of ambitious plans for their project along the Clay/Duval border. (This is why the Brannon/Chaffee road proposal came in to being....not,as commomly believed,for Blanding "alleviation")

The development lagged,foreclosures.Some of the lands along the then dirt road Brannon/Chaffee ended up as Trust For Public Lands option-about 1900 acres. The state of Florida Fish & Game Commission Brannon/Chaffee Mitigation Park stalled at 600 acres,the Trust released it's grasp on lands that could have been future conservation/recreation (great,under reported story!) and the rest of the story is under the heading "Oakleaf" and the "Outer Beltway".I had a work associate who moved to Oakleaf and put a for sale sign back up before they even finished moving in.

A classic example of sprawl- and a cause for the "shift" of 103rd street et al.