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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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…
Continue reading...So far on this blog, I've published mostly traditional architecture content. While I've grown to love the humble downtown brick box and all it's bretheren, I also have a love for the humble field of suburban architecture. As suburban sprawl fans out across innumerable acres…
Continue reading...*drops a slide projector[1] on the table with an audible thunk* lets begin! so I picked up film photography recently, mostly on the back of finding and purchasing a Weird Little Guy This brick of a camera is a Ricoh Mirai[2] 105, a successor? product…
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