Welcome to my humble website, I'm Pokey. I take a lot of photos and sometimes write articles about various topics including history, architecture, old tech, the paranormal, and more.
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While strolling through a downtown or other urban center, you're naturally looking up, towards the thousands of dollars of flashy signage fighting for your attention. The ground is for welcome mats, trash, and cracks in the pavement, and most people direct their eyes elsewhere. However,…
Continue reading...Welcome to the next installment of Monthly Junk, a series which really really needs a better, less crass sounding name. But with the looming election, my mind isn't cracked up for any stress-inducing tasks like name generation, so Monthly Junk it remains. We got a big one this month-…
Continue reading...Jacksonville's Regency Square Mall answers an important question in the modern retail leasing landscape: just how long can you puppet around the husk of a once successful center, as the walls literally fall down around you? Jacksonville, having long embraced suburban sprawl, is awash with…
Continue reading...Published October 8th, 2024 In my previous installment, we cruised along E Colonial in North Orlando. The latter half of that trip took me north, towards the ailing Seminole Towne Center in the suburb of Sanford. While that mall also has enough photos to warrant…
Continue reading...Mentioned I wanted to do this over on the BlueSky, so now I'm actually gonna write this. This post is a roundup of all the random stuff I saw and went to this month. All stuff that isn't enough for a full blog post and…
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