Good Morning, Oppo

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 07/24/2019 at 08:15 • Filed to: good morning oppo

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Anybody need any auto parts?

Starke, FL, 1940

Because Florida had a warm climate and a lot of vacant land available, it was ideal for the building of military bases and training soldiers. In the 1930s, there was a tremendous growth of military estab-lishments throughout Florida. Florida soon had 172 military installations, ranging from both extremely large to relatively small camps. Two of the larger complexes were !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , established near Starke, and the Jacksonville Naval Air Station. ( !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! )

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > ttyymmnn 07/24/2019 at 08:20

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Good morning mate

I need a whole cars worth of parts

Unless I can smuggle one of the little trucks here on the plane home

Nibby > ttyymmnn 07/24/2019 at 08:45

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do you think they carry parts for my 2016 mercedes E350?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Nibby 07/24/2019 at 09:05

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All parts are suitable for all cars, given a big enough machining and welding budget.

fintail > ttyymmnn 07/24/2019 at 09:40

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I suspect the car at left is a ~38 Buick, and a 33-34 Ford behind the bicycles.

ttyymmnn > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 07/24/2019 at 10:00

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Put a luggage tag on it and see what happens.

ttyymmnn > fintail 07/24/2019 at 10:00

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Nice. But can you ID the bicycles?

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > ttyymmnn 07/24/2019 at 10:01

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Excellent plan

fintail > ttyymmnn 07/24/2019 at 10:04

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Given the Western Auto Store, I bet there’s a Western Flyer in the mix, probably a Schwinn in there to o.

facw > ttyymmnn 07/24/2019 at 11:38

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Hmm, so I think the building on the right might be the Post Office (pre-addition):

That would make this location the site of the current Florida Theatre:

There are a couple problems with that though. One is that the Art Deco theater  seems likely to be pre-1940, the other is that the theater is number 101 rather than 100 (and would be 101 even if it was listed on the other street), so who knows. Maybe there’s another building in the same style as the post office around, but I didn’t see one.

facw > ttyymmnn 07/24/2019 at 13:54

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Also note:

Definitely not the same location though.

ttyymmnn > facw 07/24/2019 at 14:38

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I didn’t even try for this one.

ttyymmnn > facw 07/24/2019 at 14:39

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I was surprised to see that WA went that far back in history.

MattHurting > ttyymmnn 07/24/2019 at 14:41

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Weird, my mother grew up in Starke, FL in the 50's and 60's. She remembers being in high school when integration came about. She said recently that the road she grew up on is still a sand road.

ttyymmnn > MattHurting 07/24/2019 at 14:51

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Camp Blanding is still a very large and active Florida NG base and national training center.