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Archive - May 2011

Riverside Motel | Photo © 2015 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Riverside Motel

Riverside Motel & St. Mary’s Liquors The Riverside Motel and St. Mary’s Liquors were located near the Florida/Georgia border but to start, a bit of context before we delve into the...

S.H. Kress and Co. Building | Photo © 2011 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

S.H. Kress and Co. Building

S. H. Kress & Co. was a chain of “five and dime” department stores in various parts of the United States, which began operations in 1896. Five and dime stores were the original dollar...

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Old Union Depot Hotel

  The Depot Union Hotel was for sale for years but never attracted any buyers to try and restore it, 2008. Photo by Bill Rogers The Union Hotel and Cafe, better known as the Old Union Depot Hotel...

Nike Missile IFC Site HM-40, B Battery | Photo © 2014 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Nike Missile IFC Site HM-40, B Battery

  On August 30, 1961, Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev announced the end of a three-year moratorium on nuclear testing and Soviet tests recommenced on September 1st, initiating a series of tests...

Dixie Walesbilt Hotel | Photo © 2016 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Dixie Walesbilt Hotel

Dixie Walesbilt Hotel The Dixie Walesbilt Hotel is one of many skyscrapers built in the 1920s that still stand today. Since its construction, it has gone under several renovations and name changes...

Port Bougainville | Photo © 2011 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Port Bougainville

Dredging and filling was rampant in the Keys in the early-1970s. In order to control the local government’s lack of ability or desire to control development, on April 15, 1975, the Florida Keys...

Parkway West Regional Medical Center | Photo © 2014 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Parkway West Regional Medical Center

Parkway West Regional Medical Center The killing of Dr. Christina G. Smith Built in 1972, Parkway West Regional Medical Center officially opened in 1974 with 11 stories, 127 rooms, and enough beds to...

Splendid China | Photo © 2015 Robin Hanson

Splendid China

The idea for Splendid China here in Florida was that of Josephine Chen, a Taiwanese-American school teacher and real estate developer. The thought was the park would be a great means for cultural...

Osowaw Junction | Photo © 2011 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Osowaw Junction

A roadside fruit stand along US 441 In 1914, a train station was established at this location, north of Fort Drum along the Kissimmee Valley Extension of the Florida East Coast Railroad and several...

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