Month: April 2017
Places
Panera Bread Restaurant, Downtown Orlando
The downtown Panera Bread restaurant closed their doors on Tuesday, April 24, 2017 at 5 P.M.
I have great memories of lunches there with coworkers, friends, and family. The place seemed to always be popular; service was great; the staff were...
Events
Pine Castle Woman's Club Fifth Grade Essay Contest 2017
Students participating in the Pine Castle Woman's Club Fifth Grade Essay Contest for 2017 wrote on the theme: When I grow up I will be a good citizen by....
Randolph Russell, a world class musician, played America the Beautiful on his...
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Grand Avenue Elementary School Principal's Album 2006-2007
School Principal, Lino Rodriguez, is pictured first row, far right with faculty.
Mrs. Orduna pictured with her students.
Mrs. Scoma and her Pre-Kindergarten Class.
Ms. Synder pictured with her Pr...
People
Belvin Perry, Jr.
Featured image above: Belvin Perry, Jr., Chief Judge of the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court in Florida, presiding over a hearing involving the Casey Anthony case, 2010-2011.
My name is Belvin Perry, Jr. I was born October 11, 1949 in Orlando, Florida...
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Mary Jocoy
Longtime Ocoee resident Mary Griffin Jocoy talks about growing up in central Florida in the 1950s at the West Oaks Library in Ocoee on February 8, 2017.
https://youtu.be/ypDnSVqgswk
People
Betsy VanderLey Oral History Interview
My name is Kay VanderLey, I was born in Travers City, Michigan. And my name is Betsy VanderLey, I was also born in Travers City, MI.
Oral history with Orange County Commissioner Betsy VanderLey and her mother, Kay VanderLey, at the...
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Oral History Interview with Betty Robinson
Oral history interview with Orlando native Elizabeth Thornton Robinson, (Betty Robinson), at her home on Lake Conway, September 9, 2016.
My name is Betty Robinson, at least that's what I've been called all my life. I was christened Marie Elizabeth Thornton....
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Oral History Interview with Dr. Robert Byrd
My name is Robert Byrd and I was born in Orlando, actually at my grandmother's house on Cottage Hill Road which was a little rock road off of what we then called the Old Winter Garden Highway... It was just...
