Welcome to Cooter Island!

[The Compound]

I can only imagine this is one clASSy place:

http://www.jacksonvilleconfidential.com/2010/03/cooter-island.html

[reednavy]

omfg

[Shwaz]

Sweet air brushed sign and jumbled letters 

[Cliffs_Daughter]

Yeahhhhhhhh. 
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?

[second_pancake]

Seriously.  Seriously??  Wow.  Welcome to Jacksonville.

[second_pancake]

I think there is a turtle called the Florida Cooter.  I'm sure that's what they were talking about ~snickers~.

[Sportmotor]

Awsome

[Cliffs_Daughter]

Sweet air brushed sign and jumbled letters 

OMG I just looked at that photo again. Wow, way to recycle there. 

[heights unknown]

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"

[Miss Fixit]

Maybe some vagazzling going on there?

[billy]

Perhaps we are seeing the birth of a future national branding concept,
a la Hooters.

[Jason]

^ so will they be sport large and ample "Cooters" instead of Hooters?

sounds like a strip club to me.

[Captain Zissou]

This place does more business than you'd think, so I'm curious as to why they felt they needed 're-branding'.

[Overstreet]

Any fans of the TV show  "Dukes of Hazard" would know who Cooter is?

http://www.cootersplace.com/

[Wacca Pilatka]

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?