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The Way of All Florida Hotels

I was out on my bike this afternoon (105 degrees!) and decided to snap this picture of a beachside hotel at 251 South Atlantic Avenue in Ormond Beach. It's looked this way for several years, and it's one of several such hotels along the beachside. Some have been torn down to make the sand dunes of my youth, only now the dunes are surrounded by low concrete walls, chain-link fences, and no-trespassing signs. Once these hotels were very busy.

I read in the news today that Walmart is delaying its construction of 24 acres (at Nova Road and Mason Avenue in Daytona Beach) which used to be Father Lopez High School. Slower economy and tighter credit, they say.

I took this photo with my Helio Drift cellphone and its 2-megapixel camera and then resized and optimized it with Xatio Image Optimizer v5.1.