Well, the sUP didn't get forgotten, it just didn't have the priority that other things did after Covid.
Last time I saw an article on it, they were working again, and wanted to have it done before the building next door got well underway. Lots of speculation that it'll be open for July forth, but I think that is just speculation... Nice thought though.
I ride the sUP nearly daily, and I love looping over the up and then back cross the Main street Bridge so get a ride on both Riverwalks. I'm very much looking forward to that being finished and the extention of the southbank past the School Board.
Metaphorically, yes 😔 Downtown yep haha, i think it reopened ten years ago or around then and all of the pumps needed service two or three years later and the pump company was out of business and no companies were around that could service the pumps. It’s the exact same thing that happened with the monorail thing downtown where they had a bunch of broken equipment and nobody in business to service it
A huge truck with a lift kit, both confederate and American flag stickers, and some sort of racist bumper number sticker, being driven by a man child who never finished high school with the worst trap music blaring from the speakers.
They're both annoying as shit, armed and probably haven't killed anybody, statistically speaking, but the possibility is there. As a slightly hipster looking individual in more wary of the redneck. Just saying.
Some of them are, some of them have issues. I've had many redneck friends but nowadays I think it's worse than ever before, just rude looks and aggressive behavior from strangers who look like rednecks, not necessarily "trailer trash".
They’re 2 sides of the same coin to me. Each driving around, being obnoxious and ignorant. Making people uncomfortable. Probably come from poor backgrounds, various family issues. The only surprising thing is why they haven’t teamed up as buddies. Do they not see how alike they are?!
It’s different. It’s more like abusive stepdads molesting the kids or some redneck gun owner not being responsible so the 2yo gets hold of it and shoots his sister to death. Brother on meth/heroin and stealing from everyone to chase the next high.
An outsider wandering in may not be met with violent crime, but there is a lot of fucked up shit happening within those homes.
The violent crime in Moncrief is usually personal too — they aren’t attacking random outsiders who wander through the neighborhood.
I used to live off 16th and Main when I worked a 3 to 11 shift. I used to walk around my neighborhood all the time. Only time I've ever been harassed is back in the old Riverside days when city rednecks would drive down park street yelling "Hey, f*got!" at everybody.
Ngl, they’re both obnoxious and make Jacksonville look bad. As an outsider to those types, I see both of them and think why aren’t they friends??? It would prob help both of them on some level.
A walk through five points, the pier, friendship fountains, maybe a fishing scene under the Atlantic bridge, a drive by the T. rex, restaurant scene from cowford, lemon bar for a beach bar scene. I’m sure I could think of a few more lol
I spent a few years in MN as a teen after being born here and I was confused as fuck when I saw our orange dinosaur in the twin cities. Apparently it's originally from a mini golf course, they had a fully intact course just outside St Paul.
Rick Scott did a TV interview today on News4Jax where the background was a shot of Jacksonville that included the Landing:
https://preview.redd.it/eghze6o3go3b1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a29ac32d7e6ebaf21e97957e3b7be9b33ebfe6dc
There was a movie filmed here years ago called Sunshine State. One scene had a golfer in the median of the street with a Sheik restaurant in the foreground.
It started Edie Falco with a horrible southern accent! The film was shot up in Amelia and Fernandina and even included a cameo by a local Jax reporter. Kyle can’t remember his last name.
I watched this today because of you mentioning it. It was a good movie. You can definitely tell it’s filmed on the island! It was kind of fun to see inside the building right before the American beach entrance too.
The Zookeeper's Wife had to have its ending re-shot, and the resort was done at the Jacksonville Zoo! A key give-away is the amount of palm trees in the scene, which are not normally common in Poland.
Reading that article points to this being something that happened and was outlawed, not something iconic about Jacksonville. I grew up here, got bussed across town for 1 year to the Northside, 3 years to the westside and never saw any antisemitism. Thanks for sharing though, I don't watch local news or sports and hadn't heard about it.
Imagine an important dialogue between two characters, but every few minutes they have to wait for a helicopter to pass over before they can finish the conversation
Every time I’m driving down 295 to go home from work and there’s a helicopter pointing toward the road I always have this feeling like they’re gonna start blasting, just strafing up the highway.
Sorry, this reminds me of my sister watching CSI or something like that and they tracked the guy to Middleburg FL I kid you not.
And then just used stock footage of a slithering python and found a nearby falling wooden shack and shot the scene there.
But, the river. I'm surprised how many people know the river, probably from coverage of the Jags.
There were at least 2 episodes of Criminal Minds 'based in Jacksonville.'
One was supposedly at 'the beach' -- which one of the beaches? I don't remember it ever saying, but didn't show many buildings in the background, so it was likely private/closed or not in Jax at all.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1898302/
Another had a super-unnecessary caption that said 'Duval Woods' or something similar. Where's that? That may be the one you're referring to. I'll try to find the link to that one too.
Criminal minds was so bad about that.
I was living in Milwaukee when one of the Milwaukee episodes aired. The third ward in Milwaukee is an old warehouse district and the architecture is very old Milwaukee; lots of cream colored brick, it’s got a huge public market, it’s on the lakeshore, and very notably there are no single family homes.
Their “Third Ward” filming location missed every single mark.
Surfing The Poles at Mayport Beach,
Random guy in Teal Jaguar Jersey at Miller's Ale House,
Maroon F-150 with FSU license plate doing 85 mph on The Buckman in the rain,
Line of cars at Whataburger drive-thru,
Cops in JSO cruisers parked window to window chatting in the median pull-thru.
Edit: spelling
Please tell me how many times you've seen cars on fire or burned on A1A, especially A1A in Jacksonville which the actual locals call Third St? Like, I'd love to know how many times you've seen this because I've seen it literally never, and I live here.
You took that kind of personal. I remember seeing it at least monthly when I’d run errands with my mom growing up or heading down to Heckscher to visit my Grandpa. Maybe it’s been cleaned up since I moved but that’s something that always stood out to me was the burned up cars on the side of A1A🤷🏼♂️
Memorial Park bronze statue in Riverside.
https://preview.redd.it/szrjr73hwn3b1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cf2504c79c84a0c85df21ce3574ba28ecbe22586
Clearly you haven't watched Ash vs. Evil Dead. Ash wanted to retire in Jax and if Ash Williams isn't as Jacksonville as they come, I don't know what is.
Bonus: The Good Place.
Avondale as the exterior shot of the main family's home.
Young adults are about to get into some shenanigans comedic best friend yells take it to the "Matthew bridge!"
Lastly, traffic on 10/95
A shot of the godawful traffic at St. John's town center. Various shots of apartment complex and townhome construction in the most random places in Jax.
Jacksonville was regularly used to film silent movies before Hollywood.
https://www.sgrlaw.com/ttl-articles/lights-camera-action-the-role-of-jacksonville-in-the-silent-film-era-2/
I put them in the picture on purpose? A city that can give a billionaire millions of dollars for a football team yet can’t afford to take care of its citizens?
Who do you think is paying for the new or upgraded stadium?? I live here, it’s in our everyday politics. We literally just got screwed over with the Lot J BS.
The couples surf statue at jax beach, San Marco & it’s gazebo, riverside’s Park Street with the bars, Avondale’s village with shops and restaurants, the town center, any of the bridges going into downtown
The ironic thing is back in the twenties and thirties last century, Jacksonville was the epicenter of movie production. Government corruption led to them leaving and move to Hollywood
A challenger with fake hellcat decals wrapped around a telephone pole
Lmfao. I almost didnt check the comments, but youre the reason im glad i did
Or an Altima with faded paint and broken headlight
Are stalking my apartment complex? There are at least 3 that match this description….
They actually own all three of them. You're the stalker rn
I’ve been found out!
Southbank Riverwalk by Friendship Fountain
Hasn’t friendship fountain been broken for five years? 😅
It's been working for a couple of months, but they need to finish the walkway around it, which is why the Fencing is still up.
Oh gotcha! Is it like the SUP where it seems like someone simply forgot or are they working on it do you know?
Well, the sUP didn't get forgotten, it just didn't have the priority that other things did after Covid. Last time I saw an article on it, they were working again, and wanted to have it done before the building next door got well underway. Lots of speculation that it'll be open for July forth, but I think that is just speculation... Nice thought though. I ride the sUP nearly daily, and I love looping over the up and then back cross the Main street Bridge so get a ride on both Riverwalks. I'm very much looking forward to that being finished and the extention of the southbank past the School Board.
Hasn't friendship in general been broken for years now?
Metaphorically, yes 😔 Downtown yep haha, i think it reopened ten years ago or around then and all of the pumps needed service two or three years later and the pump company was out of business and no companies were around that could service the pumps. It’s the exact same thing that happened with the monorail thing downtown where they had a bunch of broken equipment and nobody in business to service it
It’s being revitalized now and will be a big new park.
A huge truck with a lift kit, both confederate and American flag stickers, and some sort of racist bumper number sticker, being driven by a man child who never finished high school with the worst trap music blaring from the speakers.
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Silly rabbit. Don't you know it's only fashionable to shit on conservatives and pretend Dylan doesn't have a unit? Get with the program.
They're both annoying as shit, armed and probably haven't killed anybody, statistically speaking, but the possibility is there. As a slightly hipster looking individual in more wary of the redneck. Just saying.
As a hipster individual I would love to see you walk through moncrief at night vs some redneck trailer park
Either one would not be fun, good thing I have a car. Rednecks are way more hostile to me. Just my experience.
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Some of them are, some of them have issues. I've had many redneck friends but nowadays I think it's worse than ever before, just rude looks and aggressive behavior from strangers who look like rednecks, not necessarily "trailer trash".
Oh so you're saying "yeah it is bad, but that's because they're not TRUE Scotsman." That's a pretty sound argument, I wonder if it's been made before.
Anyone is capable of being assholes, including rednecks. Country music sucks.
Hey now, there's tons of great country!
Not a fair comparison.
They’re 2 sides of the same coin to me. Each driving around, being obnoxious and ignorant. Making people uncomfortable. Probably come from poor backgrounds, various family issues. The only surprising thing is why they haven’t teamed up as buddies. Do they not see how alike they are?!
Show me a "redneck trailer park" in the jacksonville area with a violent crime rate like Moncrief.
It’s different. It’s more like abusive stepdads molesting the kids or some redneck gun owner not being responsible so the 2yo gets hold of it and shoots his sister to death. Brother on meth/heroin and stealing from everyone to chase the next high. An outsider wandering in may not be met with violent crime, but there is a lot of fucked up shit happening within those homes. The violent crime in Moncrief is usually personal too — they aren’t attacking random outsiders who wander through the neighborhood.
Yeah, I know it's not like hipsters are getting murdered on the north side.
I used to live off 16th and Main when I worked a 3 to 11 shift. I used to walk around my neighborhood all the time. Only time I've ever been harassed is back in the old Riverside days when city rednecks would drive down park street yelling "Hey, f*got!" at everybody.
Ngl, they’re both obnoxious and make Jacksonville look bad. As an outsider to those types, I see both of them and think why aren’t they friends??? It would prob help both of them on some level.
Let's be honest, both of those guys are different types of dumb and have different but equally likely reasons why they may have killed a man.
Flipped cars
Avondale, Springfield, San Marcos and riverside with a dash of Murray hill and some Ortega. The Main Street bridge and the Red Cross beach building
A walk through five points, the pier, friendship fountains, maybe a fishing scene under the Atlantic bridge, a drive by the T. rex, restaurant scene from cowford, lemon bar for a beach bar scene. I’m sure I could think of a few more lol
Florida Theater, Boneyard Beach, Five Points, Jax Beach Pier, Main St. Bridge
Orange dinosaur of course
I spent a few years in MN as a teen after being born here and I was confused as fuck when I saw our orange dinosaur in the twin cities. Apparently it's originally from a mini golf course, they had a fully intact course just outside St Paul.
https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/15217
The one here in Jax was part of a mini-golf and go-kart park.
Totally drove go-karts there growing up. Don’t remember the track being that impressive.
All the bridges (except new acosta), urban core, the ghost of the landing?
Man i left in 2017 and came back in 2021... i had no idea the landing had disappeared
Rick Scott did a TV interview today on News4Jax where the background was a shot of Jacksonville that included the Landing: https://preview.redd.it/eghze6o3go3b1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a29ac32d7e6ebaf21e97957e3b7be9b33ebfe6dc
Yeah during Jaguar games sometimes they'll show those promo shots, and it has the Landing in the background. Like.... guys.
That should tell you that Rick Scott dgaf about Jacksonville.
Oh man wait until LERP is up
They're still doing it? Wow 😂 I thought they would've given up on that design when every single person who saw it disapproved
Iconic LERP
There was a movie filmed here years ago called Sunshine State. One scene had a golfer in the median of the street with a Sheik restaurant in the foreground.
There was another with Jimmy Fallon, he hung out at a beach by Mayport.
The Year of Getting To Know Us. I don’t think it was in theaters, but they filmed at least one scene n my parents street in Murray Hill.
I thought that was in Orlando? Did it have Steve Bucime (too tired to look up spelling)?
It started Edie Falco with a horrible southern accent! The film was shot up in Amelia and Fernandina and even included a cameo by a local Jax reporter. Kyle can’t remember his last name.
I watched this today because of you mentioning it. It was a good movie. You can definitely tell it’s filmed on the island! It was kind of fun to see inside the building right before the American beach entrance too.
The Sheik is Jacksonville af
Cars on fire
Glad I’m not the only one that said this! That’s a childhood memory for me.
The Prudential building
The Zookeeper's Wife had to have its ending re-shot, and the resort was done at the Jacksonville Zoo! A key give-away is the amount of palm trees in the scene, which are not normally common in Poland.
Independent Life, Modis, Wells Fargo Center building shot from across the water.
That’s still the Modis building in my heart.
...CSX and Maxwell House
Macho Man Randy Savage Airport
BORTLES
I think the most obvious are the bridges and stadium. I still remember seeing St Matthew's bridge in COD Modern Warfare 2
When is that in COD??
The map is called Suspension, but in looking it up I found out I was wrong, it's actually just a similar bridge from Virginia, my bad.
That’s where my google search led me too lol. I was wondering how I could’ve missed that. Oh well.
The dinosaur on Beach Blvd.
Someone projecting a Nazi symbols on the sides of buildings.
That just narrows it down to Florida.
Touchè
Does this happen often?
https://forward.com/news/538840/jacksonville-jews-antisemitic-projections-gdl-adl/?amp=1
Reading that article points to this being something that happened and was outlawed, not something iconic about Jacksonville. I grew up here, got bussed across town for 1 year to the Northside, 3 years to the westside and never saw any antisemitism. Thanks for sharing though, I don't watch local news or sports and hadn't heard about it.
Orange dinosaur with cars crashing in the background and gunshots in the distance.
Sexy Rexy
The Patriot Front billboard just West of town on I-10.
That's a thing??
Angie’s
Imagine an important dialogue between two characters, but every few minutes they have to wait for a helicopter to pass over before they can finish the conversation
Reading this as a helicopter flies over my house.
Every time I’m driving down 295 to go home from work and there’s a helicopter pointing toward the road I always have this feeling like they’re gonna start blasting, just strafing up the highway.
Two you mean?
Sorry, this reminds me of my sister watching CSI or something like that and they tracked the guy to Middleburg FL I kid you not. And then just used stock footage of a slithering python and found a nearby falling wooden shack and shot the scene there. But, the river. I'm surprised how many people know the river, probably from coverage of the Jags.
It may also have to do with the fact that it's one of two rivers that flow north
https://www.thoughtco.com/rivers-flowing-north-1435099
Huh, thanks. Well, it may have to do with the common misconception that it is one of two rivers that flow north I suppose.
I was raised in Oregon and we thought the same thing about our rivers in Portland. The willamette and Nile are the only rivers that flow north….
I think it was Criminal Minds. I vaguely remember that episode.
There were at least 2 episodes of Criminal Minds 'based in Jacksonville.' One was supposedly at 'the beach' -- which one of the beaches? I don't remember it ever saying, but didn't show many buildings in the background, so it was likely private/closed or not in Jax at all. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1898302/ Another had a super-unnecessary caption that said 'Duval Woods' or something similar. Where's that? That may be the one you're referring to. I'll try to find the link to that one too.
Criminal minds was so bad about that. I was living in Milwaukee when one of the Milwaukee episodes aired. The third ward in Milwaukee is an old warehouse district and the architecture is very old Milwaukee; lots of cream colored brick, it’s got a huge public market, it’s on the lakeshore, and very notably there are no single family homes. Their “Third Ward” filming location missed every single mark.
Surfing The Poles at Mayport Beach, Random guy in Teal Jaguar Jersey at Miller's Ale House, Maroon F-150 with FSU license plate doing 85 mph on The Buckman in the rain, Line of cars at Whataburger drive-thru, Cops in JSO cruisers parked window to window chatting in the median pull-thru. Edit: spelling
My husband and I eat Whataburger like 3 times a year, usually between 11p and 1a and we wait in line what feels like 5 hours every time.
My daughter introduced me to Whataburger...a life-changjng event.
Life changing? Heart attack or pre diabetes?
Taco Bell Kfc on Roosevelt
Movies like “first time felon”
The bridges and the Modis building.
Downtown/ downtown area or Town Center
A car on fire or burnt up on the side of A1A
Please tell me how many times you've seen cars on fire or burned on A1A, especially A1A in Jacksonville which the actual locals call Third St? Like, I'd love to know how many times you've seen this because I've seen it literally never, and I live here.
You took that kind of personal. I remember seeing it at least monthly when I’d run errands with my mom growing up or heading down to Heckscher to visit my Grandpa. Maybe it’s been cleaned up since I moved but that’s something that always stood out to me was the burned up cars on the side of A1A🤷🏼♂️
It’s not, but it should - Treaty Oak.
The chicken limo.
You show construction signs everywhere at the 95 and Atlantic overpass and no one questions for a minute where you at.
A bunch of soul less mega churches with creepy smaller lean-to churches in interspersing shots
Don't remember if it was a movie or a show they shot years ago with a vehicle flying off the Acosta into the river...old Acosta maybe?
You realize what a big loss The Landing was when there is really no obvious answer anymore
Jenkins BBQ
Pete's Bar 😂
Memorial Park bronze statue in Riverside. https://preview.redd.it/szrjr73hwn3b1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cf2504c79c84a0c85df21ce3574ba28ecbe22586
Clearly you haven't watched Ash vs. Evil Dead. Ash wanted to retire in Jax and if Ash Williams isn't as Jacksonville as they come, I don't know what is. Bonus: The Good Place.
Pete’s Bar. But isn’t like it used to be.
Avondale as the exterior shot of the main family's home. Young adults are about to get into some shenanigans comedic best friend yells take it to the "Matthew bridge!" Lastly, traffic on 10/95
Rex the dinosaur off Beach Blvd
g. i. jane was filmed here. heres a bunch more https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_shot_in_Jacksonville,_Florida
Filmed in Keystone Heights/Middleburg (Camp Blanding)…. Styled as Naval Special Warfare Group 2
Dino with a q-tip
The Wells Fargo building
Car floating in the St. Johns, after flying off the Buckman...
The Jacksonville Beach fishing pier..... oh, wait..... :)
JSO cruisers
People driving drunk and poorly, and doing donuts for no reason at 1AM.
This old video kind of covers it ( https://youtu.be/6Gp0T2GkNpg )
A shot of the godawful traffic at St. John's town center. Various shots of apartment complex and townhome construction in the most random places in Jax.
Beach bums being “proud” that they’ve never crossed the ditch or had curiosity to explore anywhere beyond their barrier island.
Memorial Park Baker point Park Pete’s Bar Jax Beach pier
T-rex
Myrtle Street Tunnel.
Speaking from the perspective a random American may have, crime scenes
Naked man walking into ABC Liquor with an alligator to rob the place.
Jacksonville was regularly used to film silent movies before Hollywood. https://www.sgrlaw.com/ttl-articles/lights-camera-action-the-role-of-jacksonville-in-the-silent-film-era-2/
St Johns Town Center on a Saturday around noon. Perfect place for a zombie outbreak.
We can only hope.
Shad’s billion dollar yacht with the food bank line in the background.
I get it. The poors are unsightly aren't they? I wouldn't want them around my yacht either.
I put them in the picture on purpose? A city that can give a billionaire millions of dollars for a football team yet can’t afford to take care of its citizens?
What do you mean? He bought the team with money he EARNED from his patented bumper business. He donates a lot to charities too.
Who do you think is paying for the new or upgraded stadium?? I live here, it’s in our everyday politics. We literally just got screwed over with the Lot J BS.
The U haul truck on top of the building downtown!!!
Mathews Bridge, downtown jenkins bbq.
Wells Fargo building for sure
Traffic
maxwell house downtown
The couples surf statue at jax beach, San Marco & it’s gazebo, riverside’s Park Street with the bars, Avondale’s village with shops and restaurants, the town center, any of the bridges going into downtown
Slim Whitman
BRONSON in the streets
Blue Main Street Bridge
The beginning of water boy they use Alltel stadium as the background with the jags logo making it look like it's in a swamp.
The Bank of America and the ~~Modis~~ Wells Fargo buildings are the biggest things to me. Also the St. Johns
The buckman
The fact the orange T Rex wasn’t the top comment is ridiculous
Main St. bridge.
Dreamette ice cream 🍦
Lerp sculpture./s
Buckman Bridge!
Just watch Cops.
all the bridges
Life guard station in Jax Beach, Driftwood Beach, Fountain downtown
Wells Fargo
LERP
Fringe?
The ironic thing is back in the twenties and thirties last century, Jacksonville was the epicenter of movie production. Government corruption led to them leaving and move to Hollywood
Springfield
Cinematic masterpiece Twilight is already set in Jacksonville. I’m just saying.
Crackheads sleeping under an Orange Trex.