Gainesville, Florida

Photos © by Will T Rogers

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A very nice airport

 

City gives photographer a courtesy flight from airport to his hotel downtown

 

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Photographer arrives at downtown accomodations

 

Motel has a pool

 

Seagle Building across the street

 

Outdoor tower accomodations at rear of motel? :)

 

Footbridge to the University of Florida at Gainesville

 

Also at UF, where pretty girls go

 

UF welcomes famous photographer

 

Near where Main Street meets University Avenue

 

On Main Street

 

That night near intersection, a tribute to famous guitarist with rectangular guitar from 1950s

 

The following are random photos of the streets of Gainesville

 

Fancy enough to be an opera house

 

 

Water treatment facility?

 

 

 

Man in the moon?

 

Arby's again (I needed a horizontal image)

 

Horse drawn funeral carriage frozen in time

 

The following photos are a random selection of Gainesville houses and a few lawns

Roofers at work

 

 

Near the university?

 

U.S. National Register of Historic Places: Gainesville Masonic Lodge No. 41

 

Apartment house backyard

 

Probably costs a good amount of money

 

You might get this one for a good price

 

Some palm trees are little works of art

 

 

 

 

Now we'll go down to Newman's Lake

You can launch small boats from the land to the lake here

 

As it happened a bird was waiting for my arrival

 

Now to the historic Gainesville train staton

Gainesville train station was once part of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (a reference to route efficiency, not planes).

The Seaboard Air Line ran from April 14, 1900, until July 1, 1967, when it merged with longtime rival Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. The main line ran from Richmond Virginia to Miami. One of its many stations was at Gainseville

 

 

 

 

The barrels seem to collect rainwater from the roof

 

Looking toward railroad station through outdoor mirror that shows adjacent bus station that provides no passengers for the now gone long distance trains

 

Anonymous web image

Some famous Seabord trains

Orange Blossom Special
Florida and Metropolitan Limited
Atlanta Special
Suwanee River Special
New Orleans–Florida Limited
Southern States Special

Streamliners

The following trains constituted SAL's "Silver Fleet" of streamliners, with lightweight fluted-side stainless steel cars pulled by colorful EMD diesel locomotives:

Silver Meteor
Silver Comet
Silver Star
Gulf Wind

 

Back to the airport

 

 

Bye-bye Gainesville

 

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