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Natalie's Orchid Island Juice Company produces the best orange juice I have ever tasted! They were also a sponsor at a Skeet Shoot and BBQ fundraiser for our County's SWAT Team recently.
So it's reeeeeeeaaaaaaalllllyyyy late (like 3 AM)....and I wanted to light-write! So I started thinking, "What is the first word that comes to my head?"....
.....I guess I was tired....
"Worry not when you encounter problems, because as the waves crash the shore and the rain pounds the beach, the marks in the sand are eventually washed away."
A winter sunset over Indian River, seen from the shore of Hutchinson Island.
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Orange Blossom Mall opened circa 1984. It was anchored by Sears and Belk-Lindsey. There really isn't much information about the place, but it seems to have begun its decline in the mid-90s and closed by about the end of that decade, more or less. Today, the former Sears anchor is home to the St. Lucie County School District offices, the Belk-Lindsey seems to be some sort of school, and a telemarketing firm occupies some of the inside. The mall's corridor is pretty much intact, down to generic mall benches and that bland type of artificial foliage you find in older malls.
It's definitely a little unnerving walking around the mall corridor. It's not totally void of people, as the sunken center court seems to be a lunch area for the telemarketer employees and a bunch of ladies dressed in scrubs.
What's interesting about this place is that it really didn't have any nearby competitor to drive it out of business. This was the only real mall in Fort Pierce, a city that doesn't have a lot of big box retailers and the like. Fort Pierce is a somewhat economically-depressed city and its demographics are vastly different from other cities along the Treasure Coast. I suppose that might've had something to do with the demise of the Orange Blossom Mall.
Okeechobee Road at Hartman, Fort Pierce.
Local call number: PR00824
Title: Florida East Coast Railway station: Fort Pierce
Date: 19__
Physical descrip: 1 photoprint; b&w; 8 x 10 in.
Series Title: Print collections
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us
Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/798
One of the old mall entrances.
Orange Blossom Mall opened circa 1984. It was anchored by Sears and Belk-Lindsey. There really isn't much information about the place, but it seems to have begun its decline in the mid-90s and closed by about the end of that decade, more or less. Today, the former Sears anchor is home to the St. Lucie County School District offices, the Belk-Lindsey seems to be some sort of school, and a telemarketing firm occupies some of the inside. The mall's corridor is pretty much intact, down to generic mall benches and that bland type of artificial foliage you find in older malls.
It's definitely a little unnerving walking around the mall corridor. It's not totally void of people, as the sunken center court seems to be a lunch area for the telemarketer employees and a bunch of ladies dressed in scrubs.
What's interesting about this place is that it really didn't have any nearby competitor to drive it out of business. This was the only real mall in Fort Pierce, a city that doesn't have a lot of big box retailers and the like. Fort Pierce is a somewhat economically-depressed city and its demographics are vastly different from other cities along the Treasure Coast. I suppose that might've had something to do with the demise of the Orange Blossom Mall.
Okeechobee Road at Hartman, Fort Pierce.
I'm not promoting smoking.I just liked all the interesting old timey things in the window when I passed by the other night.