Archive for the ‘8th Street’ tag
Burger King, 1940 8th Street (Fernandina Beach): January 2024 no comments
Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce... And everything else now too.
This Burger King is on 8th Street in Fernandina, which is the main road coming onto the island from the mainland. That makes it a high traffic location, and the store was in a decent area (there aren't any really bad spots on 8th), so I'm not sure what happened here.
Well, OK, apparently the place was just bad: The google reviews are sprinkled with one-star reports, including the classic
I recommend taco bell or starve.
and the Yelp reviews are worse. The question is how does that happen? I get that the franchaise system means local ownership, but at some level corporate has to take care of the brand.
Anyway, as I said it's a decent location, so I would expect something else before too long.
Island Treasures, 1104 S. 8th Street (Fernandina Beach): June 2024 no comments
During my most recent trip to Fernandina, I noticed that this eclectic antique, book & decor shop on 8th Street had closed.
Over the past seveal years, I got a number of Christmas and other gifts there, in particular some interesting cookbooks, neat umbrellas and blown glass decorations. It was a fascinating place to walk through, though it was a bit out of the way in relation to the main shopping areas of the town. That may have had something to do with the closing, as I never found that many people inside while I made my visits. That's just speculation, the closing could be a retirement or any other reason, I can't seem to find anything about it in the local media. The google reviews point to a closing date sometime around early June.
In the meantime, the shop's Instagram remains up, with some nice pictures, and this is their archived web page from February 2023.
A1A Gas Mart, 816 South 8th Street (Fernandina Beach): January 2016 5 comments
On my recent trip to Fernandina, I noticed that this convenience store on 8th Street (the main connector from off of the island to downtown) was closed. It's a store I've had my eye on for years as I really like the canted glass front. I believe the building has been there for my entire life (which does not make it old by Fernandina standards!), and it has to my eye a distinctive "50s" flair.
The front door sign says they are closed for remodeling: I hope this does not include razing the building and putting up something more current and less distinctive.
Cayce School / Lexington District Two Learning Center, Lexington Avenue Cayce: 1990s(?) 25 comments
I don't really know anything about Cayce School. I'm guessing that given the name, it was the school in Cayce at one time. The (Guignard?) brick architecture could easily go back to the 1940s I suppose. The pictures don't really make it clear, but as this aerial view from google maps shows, the school is really just one building with several different wings:
Of course it's a building that takes up a block of its own, being bounded by 3rd Avenue, Lexington Avenue (on which it fronts), Poplar Street and 8th Street.
At some point it appears that it stopped being a "school" as such and was taken over by Lexington District Two as a "Learning Center". (I have to say that the picture with the sign indicating such would make a good funny email to forward around Mississippi education circles..).
The building has obviously been out of use for a good while, and I think only the fact that it is in the middle of a residential area has kept it from being vandalized and tagged to a fare-thee-well. Certainly it is decrepit, which can be seen in the google view (which can be zoomed) as well as my pictures. Signs around the school indicate that the lot is to become luxury townhomes in a gated community, so I suppose the building will be demolished at some point, though with the current real-estate market, I doubt the developers will be in a big hurry.
(Hat tip to commenter tonkatoy)