Why I love Springfield

[danno]

I was roobed at gunpoint a couple of years ago on Silver Street in front of my house and had my car stolen.  I don't hold it against the neighborhood.

[zoo]

Back on topic?

- Running into neighbors, AND friends from other parts of Jax, in all our local businesses.

[Omarvelous09]

Back on topic?

- Running into neighbors, AND friends from other parts of Jax, in all our local businesses.

Right, back on topic.
Love that my neighbors are concerned and well informed ;-)

[untarded]

The random(?) payphone on east 6th. What's that about? lol.

[fsu813]

i've thought about taking a pair of wire cutters to that thing......

[cindi]

Shuffling Jimmy. Dictates seasonal fashion trends and allows us the chance to evaluate the ability of JSO to truly evaluate a "danger" or not. If you see 3 cruisers around Jimmy, we just got a bunch of new recruits.

[untarded]

Shuffling Jimmy. Dictates seasonal fashion trends and allows us the chance to evaluate the ability of JSO to truly evaluate a "danger" or not. If you see 3 cruisers around Jimmy, we just got a bunch of new recruits.

I haven't been acquainted with Shuffling Jimmy yet

[sheclown]

I'm sure you have seen him.  He is the rather pathetic soul who often crawls down the sidewalk.  There is quite a bit of urban legend about him.

[fsujax]

I use to live right next door to that pay phone. The guy who lives in that house, that is his business. He owns and operates pay phones all over the city. You dont know how many times I wanted to destroy that thing.

The random(?) payphone on east 6th. What's that about? lol.

[samiam]

Seeing the neighborhood coming back to life as more people decorate there houses for holidays. when i first started to renovate my house very few decorated. but as the years went on halloween display got better, 4Th of July is good and Christmas are getting huge. maybe one day we will be know for that and it will draw people to the neighborhood. when I lived in Mobile there was an older subdivision that every house was deck out to the max and drew people in for miles. I even decorated for Mardi gras last year

[untarded]

Seeing the neighborhood coming back to life as more people decorate there houses for holidays. when i first started to renovate my house very few decorated. but as the years went on halloween display got better, 4Th of July is good and Christmas are getting huge. maybe one day we will be know for that and it will draw people to the neighborhood. when I lived in Mobile there was an older subdivision that every house was deck out to the max and drew people in for miles. I even decorated for Mardi gras last year

I moved in right before the holidays last year and didn't have time for decorating.  But I did go out and buy 6000 lights right after Christmas. 

I'll be requesting donations for my Dec JEA bill this year

[Omarvelous09]

Shuffles is fun sometimes, he always asks me for cigarettes...then curses me out after i give him one. Gave him shoes one time, but he never wears them...guess he didnt like them. 

[Sigma]

I saw someone give him a coffee one morning.  He took a sip then threw it at their feet!

Omar - did you give him a pair of adidas?

[Dan B]

When I was spending a lot of time up and 9th and Main, he had this little ploy where he would come up, and lay down in front of the door and loudly curse until someone gave him a cigarette. He is a sly little bastard!

[sandyshoes]

I don't live in Springfield, so my fond memories are limited to the neighborhood preservation tours when the Archibald Inn was still in business, in the early 1990's.  What struck me the most was how you could see the houses in the process or just before the process began, of being restored.  That gave me a real taste of history I didn't find on the Riv/Av tour where you only got to see the houses after the decorator left.  It was a very nice difference.  For me, Springfield felt like it had a more authentic vibe.  It wasn't just something pretty put on a shelf to admire, so to speak.  From what I've read so far from the people who live there and are investing their lives and their dollars to bring it back, maybe they feel the same vibe.  It can only get better and better.  I'm sorry to hear of some less than favorable experiences and conditions, but that happens almost everywhere, now.  Best of luck to those who need to find a safer quadrant...