Author: philipsura
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White Stones and Buildings
We live in Midtown Tallahassee and an easy way, avoiding traffic, to ride your bicycle towards downtown is to take Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard south. That way, you can stay clear of busier streets like Thomasville Road and Monroe Street. Initially, you ride for about a mile or two through the quiet Levy Park…
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Swimming Pools
I already mentioned that we started our nightly bike rides when all public swimming pools in Tallahassee closed in March 2020 as Covid started to rear its ugly head. The city pools were closed for about two months and the Florida State University (FSU) outdoor pool, the Morcom Aquatics Center where the FSU swimming and…
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Smokey Hollow
If you go to the location below Apalachee Parkway where the photo of the New Capitol in the introduction was taken, you are at the location of the now lost Smokey Hollow neighborhood, an African-American community in downtown Tallahassee that was destroyed in the early 1960s to make place for the new elevated highway. The…
