Naming Metro Jacksonville's First Book

[thelakelander]

I don't plan on the Annie Lytle going anywhere.

Is this the final vote or are you going to pair it down to the contenders?

I'm going to see where the numbers stand on Friday but I'm contemplating possibly combining the top two or three in a manner where there is a title and a subtitle.

[Kirstie]

Jacksonville: In The Shadows
For ever, for everyone.

[billy]

Town Without Pity

[Debbie Thompson]

Jacksonville Lost and Found has an intriguing title.  It doesn't give away too much about what the book is about, so people who would not normally pick up a book with "landmarks" in the title may pick it up to read the blurb or cover, and you have a chance to interest them.  Anything with crumbling in the title is a downer, IMO.  If historic preservation is the aim, I wouldn't think crumbling is how you want to characterize the buildings. :-)

[Timkin]

Jacksonville Lost and Found has an intriguing title.  It doesn't give away too much about what the book is about, so people who would not normally pick up a book with "landmarks" in the title may pick it up to read the blurb or cover, and you have a chance to interest them.  Anything with crumbling in the title is a downer, IMO.  If historic preservation is the aim, I wouldn't think crumbling is how you want to characterize the buildings. :-)

Agree Debbie... Wish we could get our City Management to get it as well and stop demolishing everything.

I keep hearing some say "we can't save them all. "    We by no means have.  Not even close.  We have razed most of them.

I used crumbling in my suggestion ,because that is the way I see it.  These structures are crumbling from neglect, abandonment, vandalism, arson, the list goes on.

YET.......... Strip malls and Urban sprawl continue out of control.  In our downtown ,we are now graced with a monstrosity of a Courthouse  (what style would you call it,,,,Glass Palace Concrete revival?  )   At a stunning price tag , NONE of us alive will ever live to see paid off.    But we cannot spare these few remaining landmarks.

Millions will be spent , eventually razing our current Courthouse and replacing it with something.. While the Laura Trio continues to crumble.

Genovar's and the 3 shot gun houses.... wow I'm surprised they are even there still.

Brewster Hospital.. Mostly refurbed....and standing empty. Just brilliant.

And Annie Lytle.    The only hope that place has is if the community brainstorms and happens to be lucky enough to identify a use and a source to make sparing it possible..

THIS is why I used 'Crumbling'  as my suggestion in the title.  It is completely true, whether or not it is chosen.  We can use any title we want ,but IMO the only way any or all of these landmarks will be spared is if the community finds a way.  City management for decades, has found the means to destroy , not preserve.. it is not in their dictionary.  They do not know the meaning.