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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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Monthly Junk - October 2024

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-…

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Regency Square Mall - Jacksonville, FL

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…

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 Suburban Archaeology in North Orlando

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…

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