Metro Jacksonville Wins Historic Preservation Award
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Metro Jacksonville has won a Heritage Education and Publication award by the Jacksonville Historic Preservation Commission. This award is based on Metro Jacksonville's continued coverage of local history and urban neighborhoods.
Full Article
http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2010-may-metro-jacksonville-wins-historic-preservation-award
Congratulations guys!
CONGRATS!
Kudos! Historical literacy probably was not what this site was founded on but you recognized it's importance in how we develop. So you embraced our history and as a reader I thank you.
:yeah that: ^^^
Congratulations - a well deserved honor! I look forward to learning more about the history of Jacksonville on your forum....
Congratulations and well deserved. You continue to make more of our citizens into history buffs and preservation partisans
Too cool! You guys do a great job and this is a well-deserved honor.
Hope I'm back in town on Thursday to turn out.
Well deserved, and hope you continue to be the thorn in the side of all of those who do not see the need in saving Jacksonville's physical and cultural history.
You guys just keep on going, and growing, minding your own business not knowing how tremendous your contributions are to the local Jax area and the State of Florida; in essence, you keep humming along, doing your job, and doing it well! Congratulations, keep doing what you are doing without sticking your chest out, and most of all, be humble!
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Congrats!
Very much well deserved.
+1, and them some.
Congratulations!!!
Yay! Congrats. You guys earned it. So exciting!
Kudos to everyone who makes this site what it is.
Congratulations, and well deserved!
Yea Team...............good work kids!
Congratulations to those involved
Well deserved. Congrats.
Next year maybe you will win an award for issuing a book compendium of all the history presented on this site. ;D
Congratulations Metrojax. :) , Well deserved ! :)
Excellent work. Congratulations.
Here are a few photos from the awards ceremony that just ended.
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Left to Right:
Historic Preservation Commissioner (help guys... What was his name)
Ocklawaha - Bob Mann, Iconoclastic Lightning Slinging Monster of Mobility
Stephendare - Stephen, Literary Lightning Rod and Pundit of the Printed Page
Lunican - Dan, King of the Camera and All Things Web
Thelakelander - Ennis Davis, Urban Planning Wizard and Don of the Drawing Board
Steve - Steve, Cerebral Celebrity and Star of Center Stage
Historic Preservation Commissioner dude (Name?)
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And honoring Lisa Neary started the meeting...
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Honoring Bob Broward for a lifetime of preservation work...
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Great ceremony and well-deserved recognition for a resource that adds SO much to our community. Congratulations.
For those of us who don't personally know the MJ crew, who is who in the picture?
P.S. Nice of the MJ gang to get dolled up for this prestigious honor ;D Living up to being web geeks. :D
Lunican..... I recognize Stephen and Ock, and Lake ( I think thats him ) ... May I ask who the others are in the pictures?
AWESOME pictures as always... Great job, Metrojacksonville! When it comes to our History, I think you all know where I stand :)
Wow . cool... Seriously. I am PROUD OF ALL OF YOU! Great job!
All of you look younger than I imagined. I am feeling old. :-[
Im 40 something myself. Im pretty scary upside you guys ;)
I think it's actually 27, 45, 32, 55, 28 for an average age of 37.4!
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Quote from: stjr on May 07, 2010, 12:04:48 AM
All of you look younger than I imagined. I am feeling old. :-[
25, 45, 32, 28, 55
Ock, is 28?! And Dan is 55? Could have fooled me again. :DQuote from: Lunican on May 07, 2010, 12:09:29 AM
I think it's actually 27, 45, 32, 55, 28 for an average age of 37.4!
Looks like Dan/Lunican couldn't wait to set the record straight. ;)
Hehe ... well....in any event , all of you are obviously accomplished and Positive-minded people. I thank god for each of you! Our Historic Fabric , as all of you know, needs all the help it can get.
I hope to devote more of my time to these efforts.. I am having a good feeling for Annie Lytle at this particular stage in the game.. I think for the first time in ages , a concerted effort to market the building , coupled with a much needed cleanup inside and out is forthcoming.
It is nice to finally put faces and names together. I have met some of you. I would like to meet ALL of you . :)
I was thinking, given Ock's posts, that he was well north of 100! Just kidding, but if he was as active as he says in the 1960's, I would put him in at least his 60's (although he LOOKS much younger!). Ock, I hope you are "listening".::)
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Hehe ... well....in any event , all of you are obviously accomplished and Positive-minded people. I thank god for each of you! Our Historic Fabric , as all of you know, needs all the help it can get...
...It is nice to finally put faces and names together. I have met some of you. I would like to meet ALL of you . :)
It really gets scary when you read this as I just did, and found that I consider MYSELF as some of the "Historic Fabric" of our community!
Stephendare... you nailed it 56... going on 105
Powered by REBEL YELL, SOUTHERN COMFORT and endless beautiful little POPPY'S. hee hee!OCKLAWAHA
ROLLING ON THE FLOOR , LAUGHING MY A$$ off !!!
Only you , Ock!! :) Only you ! lol
Quote from: stjr on May 07, 2010, 12:23:22 AM
I was thinking, given Ock's posts, that he was well north of 100! Just kidding, but if he was as active as he says in the 1960's, I would put him in at least his 60's (although he LOOKS much younger!). Ock, I hope you are "listening".::)
Normally you would be correct, however my father suffered a serious accident when I was in my early teens and he could no longer work. My sister nearly 10 years older then I was already into the Hippie Culture, so at the tender age of 14, I was emancipated and packed off with sis to the Left Coast about 1968. We lived in a commune in Dunlap, CA for awhile, then Fresno, Paramount, Long Beach, Lemoore (where my parents moved to about 1972) and thus we were reunited but not as a live in situation... On the road too long to go back!
SEE? IT WAS A TRIP!OCKLAWAHA
I was really happy to see that picture on Facebook last night - you guys ROCK!!!
Quote• In recognition of National Preservation Month, the Jacksonville Historic Preservation Commission honored 17 projects and services Thursday evening. Among the winners: the rehabilitation of the Haverty’s Building/Jake M. Godbold City Hall Annex; MetroJacksonville.com for coverage of local history and urban neighborhoods; a video on the History of Riverside Avondale; a historic marker program for Arlington and Durkeeville; Bill Cesery for 3rd and Main in Springfield; a World War II Oral History Project by the Jacksonville Historical Society and West Rotary of Jacksonville; and overall preservation service awards for historian Edward A. Mueller and architect Robert Broward. Council members Michael Corrigan and Warren Jones were recognized for contributions toward the preservation of the Lake Shore Subdivision Gates.
http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/citynotes.php?id=530938
That was Ock? I thought it was John Galt!
Galt. I always get a laugh everytime I logon.
regarding Lake Shore, LAPS was also presented the Great Save award for the stabilization, restoration, repainting and protection of the remaining structures on Bayview, in the heart of their neighborhood.
Truly a "can-do" crowd, they raised funds for years and successfully fought demolition!
Photos from that evening are quite special to those folks most deeply involved.
Kudos!Cheers! and Congrats!