Sunday, December 21, 2014

A quaint old rodeo town with antique shops and an old fashioned luncheonette...Arcadia Florida.

If you drive down some roads in Desota County it may feel as if you have been transported in time to a pre-historic time frame with all those lush trees dynamically dripping  Spanish moss eerily.But alas this is not the entree to Arcadia, sadly and significantly the road to Arcadia is splattered with homes that seem to be throw backs from the Grapes of Wrath era of a severe time during the first great depression. Poverty is still all to evident in this time travel town that has made many valiant effort to return from the same Hurricane Charley of 8-13-04  a Friday, notoriety of disrepute that I have mentioned too many times to count... their recovery has been slower, much, much slower; although from the pics I am displaying here tonight you can see it has retained that all important feel of its heritage...it may be slower due to not getting their Federal Fair share after all was said and done, one of the shop owners complained to me. But I must admit from the last time we were there perhaps four or five years ago it has cleaned up very nicely.
The shops do not have that ghostly aroma left by our mutual devastating hurricane of mildew and mold, refreshing actually and nicer. Their inventories are well stocked with all types of this and thats one could ever think of in all sorts of decors...maybe yours too?

Even though we were forty-five minutes from our home we met people on the street that also were from Port Charlotte, and due to their doggy pals or discussing home decor style trends we had a very pleasant day!

The luncheonette that sadly its pics came out way too blurry, except for the front entrance with their sign, relevant very relevant.. Again we were transported backwards in time to perhaps the nineteen fifties of Mayberry RFD in North Carolina but old south of Florida with Opie-like male child sitting outside with Aunt Bea and he being oh so fascinated with jumping off of the highest stoop via a rope, playing Spider-man, as this child was with this time warped luncheonette right out of the back lot of a fifties TV show set as his backdrop.

People were warm and friendly and willing to help but knew their boundaries and gave you the room to browse with a nod, if you needed them just ask, oh so totally luxuriously quaint, a fine example of the Old Florida I recall from my childhood visits Florida's by-gone era...







On this note of much hope for this sweet little flash back of a simpler era of a town, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and you all kindly to count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too! 

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

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