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Events
2008 Birthday Blast on the Suncruz Casino
We celebrate my friend Dan's birthday in 2008 on the SunCruz Casino, in style! ABOVE: Emma, Brian, and the birthday boy - Dan on SunCruz Casino cruise from Port Canaveral. Read more about SunCruz Casinos. WATCH SunCruz 30 second television commercia...
Events
Central Florida Fair
When I was growing up in Marion County, the 4-H Club would bring us down to Orlando on a bus to attend the Central Florida Fair. At the time (in the middle 1950's) the Fair was held where the Amway...
Events
Halloween 2006 - House Party
We had a small Halloween party at my house off Econlockatchee Trail. I know we are too old for trick or treating, but we did it anyway! John Lennon Paul Bunyan The Invisible Man and Scarlett Cultist. Raiden god of Thunder John Lennon, ...
Places
Remembering downtown Orlando
In the early to mid-1960's, my mom and I would walk a few miles from Orlo Vista to the Pine Hills Shopping Center.  From there, we would catch a bus to downtown where we would always shop at McCory's and...
Places
Remembering Pine Hills
Enjoying the day with my mom in the early 1960's as we walked several miles to the Pine Hills Shopping Center, and a few more miles to McDonalds. As told by L. O'Connor, age 55, Orlando Before my teen years, in the...
Organizations
Civil Air Patrol
ABOVE: Members of the Civil Air Patrol, from the Florida Wing and the Orlando Cadet Squadron, visit the Kennedy Space Center. There have been several Civil Air Patrol units in the Orlando area over the years including the McCoy Cadet Squadron,...