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Living in Jacksonville => Dining => Topic started by: The Compound on March 03, 2010, 03:45:35 PM

Title: Welcome to Cooter Island!
Post by: The Compound on March 03, 2010, 03:45:35 PM
I can only imagine this is one clASSy place:

http://www.jacksonvilleconfidential.com/2010/03/cooter-island.html
Title: Re: Welcome to Cooter Island!
Post by: reednavy on March 03, 2010, 04:05:34 PM
omfg
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Post by: Shwaz on March 03, 2010, 04:17:00 PM
Sweet air brushed sign and jumbled letters  :P
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Post by: Cliffs_Daughter on March 03, 2010, 04:22:34 PM
Yeahhhhhhhh.  :-X
I'll have a great laugh on the work commute now.
It makes sense since it's an island in the middle of traffic, but seriously? Cooter Island?
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Post by: second_pancake on March 03, 2010, 04:23:35 PM
Seriously.  Seriously??  Wow.  Welcome to Jacksonville.
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Post by: second_pancake on March 03, 2010, 04:24:14 PM
I think there is a turtle called the Florida Cooter.  I'm sure that's what they were talking about ~snickers~.
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Post by: Sportmotor on March 03, 2010, 04:24:33 PM
Awsome
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Post by: Cliffs_Daughter on March 03, 2010, 04:26:18 PM
Quote from: Shwaz on March 03, 2010, 04:17:00 PM
Sweet air brushed sign and jumbled letters  :P
OMG I just looked at that photo again. Wow, way to recycle there.  ;)
Title: Re: Welcome to Cooter Island!
Post by: heights unknown on March 03, 2010, 06:59:31 PM
A cooter is a turtle yes, but I know y'all know what the other definition of "cooter" is; if you don't, you're not a real southerner!

"HU"
Title: Welcome to Cooter Island!
Post by: Miss Fixit on March 04, 2010, 09:40:27 AM
Maybe some vagazzling going on there?
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Post by: billy on March 04, 2010, 09:45:32 AM
Perhaps we are seeing the birth of a future national branding concept,
a la Hooters.
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Post by: Jason on March 04, 2010, 10:29:25 AM
^ so will they be sport large and ample "Cooters" instead of Hooters?

sounds like a strip club to me.
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Post by: Captain Zissou on March 04, 2010, 10:37:56 AM
This place does more business than you'd think, so I'm curious as to why they felt they needed 're-branding'.
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Post by: Overstreet on March 04, 2010, 10:56:59 AM
Any fans of the TV show  "Dukes of Hazard" would know who Cooter is?

http://www.cootersplace.com/
Title: Re: Welcome to Cooter Island!
Post by: Wacca Pilatka on March 04, 2010, 12:36:47 PM
I guess this is as good a time as any to take a shot in the dark at solving a Jacksonville mystery.  Some years ago, late 90s I think, I was passing through Jacksonville and one of the local country stations played a song called Cooter Brown from a local band.  That's the only time I've heard it and it's stuck in my head periodically ever since.  No clue who the band was and research has been futile.  Anyone know anything about this?
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Post by: Traveller on March 04, 2010, 01:20:00 PM
I just drove by this place 30 minutes ago.  I don't know what the north side of the sign says, but the side facing south just says "OOTI", as the rest of the letters have either faded, fallen off, or been painted over.  Something tells me this "rebranding" is simply an act of vandalism of either the real or the cyber variety.
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Post by: Captain Zissou on March 04, 2010, 01:29:46 PM
Cooter Brown's is a bar in NOLA.
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Post by: Dog Walker on March 04, 2010, 01:55:17 PM
Tootie Green's closed a while back.
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Post by: billy on March 04, 2010, 02:57:16 PM
What sort of establishment is Cooter Island supposed to be? 
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Post by: second_pancake on March 04, 2010, 03:10:13 PM
Quote from: Jason on March 04, 2010, 10:29:25 AM
^ so will they be sport large and ample "Cooters" instead of Hooters?

sounds like a strip club to me.

Oh....maw....gawd.  The visual...can't....get...out...of my head.  One can only wonder what kind of food they will serve.
Title: Re: Welcome to Cooter Island!
Post by: Jason on March 04, 2010, 03:37:14 PM
^ I vomited in my mouth as I typed that response.
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Post by: Sportmotor on March 04, 2010, 05:00:45 PM
Quote from: second_pancake on March 04, 2010, 03:10:13 PM
Quote from: Jason on March 04, 2010, 10:29:25 AM
^ so will they be sport large and ample "Cooters" instead of Hooters?

sounds like a strip club to me.

Oh....maw....gawd.  The visual...can't....get...out...of my head.  One can only wonder what kind of food they will serve.

Fish of course!


...it being an island and all
Title: Re: Welcome to Cooter Island!
Post by: Dog Walker on March 04, 2010, 05:48:11 PM
But its a traffic island.  LOL!
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Post by: billy on March 04, 2010, 06:00:05 PM
Why don't we rename Exchange Club Island (is that the correct name?)
under the Matthews Bridge Cooter Island?