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Post subject: Re: Bass Amp: if not a Fender, what do you use?
Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2019 10:22 pm
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I've seen Mt. Dora mentioned in the classified ad section in "Vintage Guitar" magazine. They have some sort of guitar shows and swap meets there. You might get into some GAS trouble, then. :P What's the story with this place, then?

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Post subject: Re: Bass Amp: if not a Fender, what do you use?
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2019 5:53 pm
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I've seen Mt. Dora mentioned in the classified ad section in "Vintage Guitar" magazine. They have some sort of guitar shows and swap meets there. You might get into some GAS trouble, then. :P What's the story with this place, then?


My wife pointed it out to me as the more relaxed old Florida area we both miss from growing up in south Florida. Plus it's further north, so it doesn't take a year, and a day to get out of the state of Hurricane Alley, where we live in now. It's about four hours north of here. We don't need to be living close to a beach any more. The area she has an interest in has some nice communities, with a community pool, club house, and things like that. I'm getting tired of doing up keep on a backyard pool at our house too. It's just one more thing to have to mess with. What can I say, I ain't no kid anymore. It happens. Image

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Post subject: Re: Bass Amp: if not a Fender, what do you use?
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2019 9:57 pm
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Hey, whatever works for you. That doesn't sound like a bad place, especially if it has the old school Florida vibe, which is probably gone from most places. I know it was in St. Pete, even back into the 80's. I remember when I first moved down there as a little kid in 1978, and it still had it going on.

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Post subject: Re: Bass Amp: if not a Fender, what do you use?
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2019 11:12 am
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Hey, whatever works for you. That doesn't sound like a bad place, especially if it has the old school Florida vibe, which is probably gone from most places. I know it was in St. Pete, even back into the 80's. I remember when I first moved down there as a little kid in 1978, and it still had it going on.


Some places are like frozen in time. I'm somewhat getting to like that again, like when I was first here a bunch of years ago.

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Post subject: Re: Bass Amp: if not a Fender, what do you use?
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2019 1:05 pm
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I remember the beaches before all of the condos went up around them. They used to even have pine trees there, besides palm.

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Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2019 5:29 pm
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I remember the beaches before all of the condos went up around them. They used to even have pine trees there, besides palm.


Yep. And mangrove sea grape hedges along the roadsides to the beaches.

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Post subject: Re: Bass Amp: if not a Fender, what do you use?
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2019 9:05 pm
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Oh yeah, I remember those. Also, those old school houses, with those Jalousie windows, and the terrazzo tile floors.

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Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2019 5:23 am
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Oh yeah, I remember those. Also, those old school houses, with those Jalousie windows, and the terrazzo tile floors.


A lot of the houses we lived in back then had those Jalousie windows, and the terrazzo tile floors. The terrazzo floors helped cool the place down a bit. especially before window unit A/C's were getting used. And At that, the bedrooms had those first before the rest of the house was cooled down.

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Post subject: Re: Bass Amp: if not a Fender, what do you use?
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2019 12:10 pm
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My grandparents, who lived in Florida several years before I moved down there (they died back in the early 80's,) had a house like that. I practically lived there the first year we moved, since they didn't get the house yet, and all of that. They also had all sorts of citrus trees in the yard, as well.

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Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2019 1:31 pm
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My grandparents, who lived in Florida several years before I moved down there (they died back in the early 80's,) had a house like that. I practically lived there the first year we moved, since they didn't get the house yet, and all of that. They also had all sorts of citrus trees in the yard, as well.


My grandparents were the same way. And, my folks , did the same thing until they found a house for us to move into. That was in 1959, in Miramar, FL. West of the FL Turnpike. On our side of the Turnpike, there was a Paks, and a laundry mat. Paks was a convince store like 7-11. On the East side of the turnpike, there was a Winn-Dixie store they had just finished building around then.

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Post subject: Re: Bass Amp: if not a Fender, what do you use?
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2019 9:43 pm
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I remember when my grandparents lived down there in St. Pete, there was a huge Russian community around (I think the Russian Orthodox my grandmother went to is still there,) that they were all friends with, and used to get together and play pinochle, and other card games. All of those people are long gone now. Hell, they were pretty old when I was a kid. I'm talking like WW1 generation there, although some of them were younger than that. I guess you had a lot of that in different cities and towns, with different neighborhoods with a lot of the same ethnicity, which they've immigrated to back then. I don't know what's even left of that anymore, although that church still exists, so maybe there might be some descendants from them still around.

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Post subject: Re: Bass Amp: if not a Fender, what do you use?
Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2019 8:10 am
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Tampa, and the St. Pete area, are a pretty old area of Florida as a whole.

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Post subject: Re: Bass Amp: if not a Fender, what do you use?
Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2019 9:42 am
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That's true. There were some pretty old houses around there. When I went back there in 2011, a lot did change, especially down town.

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Post subject: Re: Bass Amp: if not a Fender, what do you use?
Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2019 10:08 am
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That's true. There were some pretty old houses around there. When I went back there in 2011, a lot did change, especially down town.


The Malls in most places have pretty much killed off the old style downtown areas. I kinda' liked the old downtown areas. I remember Fort Lauderdale's downtown. Off of Andrews Ave., the main street of downtown, was Los Olas Blvd., that was a stylish way to the beach. In the first block off of Andrews Ave. was Fort Lauderdale Music. Yep,....... you guessed it. The certified Marshall Dealer in the area. If there was a business on Los Olas Blvd., it was expensive.

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Post subject: Re: Bass Amp: if not a Fender, what do you use?
Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2019 6:33 pm
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Hell, even a lot of those malls are gone now, especially with online business. I guess it depends. There isn't any sort of mall in Newport (just a few shopping plazas, and a couple of those are technically in Middletown, which is the next place over,) but there's two main drags that have a lot of the local businesses, with shops, clubs, bars, and restaurants. Those are really packed up in the summer time, with a lot of foot traffic. Some of those little shops do come and go, as well. It depends if they can survive the off season. In the winter, there isn't much going on around here.

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