Aerials From An Era Gone By

[leahfu]

I loved seeing all the sand where Regency is now. Brings back memories of the last of my youth in my dad's SUV in the few remaining sand dunes in that area then.

[Lunican]

Look at the parking lot for the Gator Bowl. I guess you could forget about leaving early.

[Jason]

Could they have packed them in any tighter?

[Ocklawaha]

The ancient one speaks:

Don't recall how they did the "Get to your cars" part, but the flow was simple and worked very well. I was a tot and they would pull off the layers row after row JPD took care of it and IT WORKED!

BTW back in the day it would look about the same for Jackson and Lee or Forrest and Lee etc...

OCKLAWAHA

[Timkin]

Was the Normandy Drive-in , later called the Fox drive-in?  If so , I do remember that.  Great collection of Photos from days gone by.  Well recognize the I-95 Viaduct under construction in the one photo. pretty cool.

[oldschool]

Where do you get these old overhead pictures of Jacksonville? I would love to see some of Normandy Blvd out towards the Military base.

[copperfiend]

Look at the parking lot for the Gator Bowl. I guess you could forget about leaving early.

Good god. Hopefully it was a close game.

[duvaldude08]

Look at the parking lot for the Gator Bowl. I guess you could forget about leaving early.

Good god. Hopefully it was a close game.

Cars look like a bunch of soda cans neatly aligned. Why was the parking so tight?

[Timkin]

My guess would be , because there was no shuttle service running to the gator bowl.  I am sure it was mass chaos trying to leave. 

[Tacachale]

^Back then it was more about "going downtown for a big game" as the end-all be-all of your day, rather than "I'm entitled to drive where I want and then drive back to the suburbs when I want, if there's some sort of football game en route, that's an added bonus."

Unfortunately that mindset has totally prevailed, and now all modern football stadiums are designed to get people, mostly drivers, in and out again as fast as possible. It's sad, it used to be a great draw to get people to come downtown.

[simms3]

^^^It actually looks more like they were getting drivers in and out then than now.  At least now there is room for tailgating!!!

[Timkin]

^^^It actually looks more like they were getting drivers in and out then than now.  At least now there is room for tailgating!!!

^ point