ONLY IN orlando

ONLY IN ORLANDO

1) That weird 6' replica of the Statue of Liberty off of I-4 downtown. - Ben

2) The Holy Land theme park! (Nothing says Orlando like a Noah's Arc inspired wild and crazy rapids ride)! - Chris

3) Of course the best thing in Orlando would have to be Thornton Threads in Thornton Park, the best shopping in the world, across from Planet Smoothie and Dexter's. It's my fav spot in O town.
-Kimberely & Miette.

4) The quintessential Orlando landmark is obviously the Booby Trap (now Club Harem) - on Lee Rd. I seriously can't believe you said anything else, Ben! -- Alicia

5) Ok, since Alicia took the Booby Trap, I have to go with the crazy Asian pagoda on Lake Eola. We have sister cities! Yeah! -- Shannon

6) near the Booby Trap would be: Skycraft Surplus! (that's what it was called, right? the crazy place with the UFO on it?) -- Greg

7) really?? no Beefy King yet???? --kat

8) Xanadu - Those weird rounded white ultra space age buildings on Hwy 192 in Kissimmee that used to be a cheesy 'Home of the Future' attraction back in the '70s. My parents used to take us there on Sunday afternoons. Last time I saw 'em they were empty and gray and lonely - a sad fate for something I once thought was the coolest thing in the world. - Kali

9) Galaxie and d.i.y. records being right next door on Mills Ave! Kali could smell my vege-burgers cookin' and I had a place to go shopping right next door! - Jodi :)

10) parliamant house!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- from jeff whose actually never been there

11) Lake Ebola (and I actually climbed up the Booby Trap many years ago)--Derf

12) KONG- The largest skate boarding ditch located behind Sea World Antibilly Mike

13) The Edge aka 8 seconds
Perm

14 SKINNYS Orange and Washington st. Home of the BIG Beer
Antibilly Mike

15) Yab Yum coffeehouse, now the yuppie haven known as Slingapours... sniff- Rockabella

16) VISAGE! How could nobody have named this yet???
-2341 N. O.B.T. 407-298-2341

17)"The best in retro and current progressive music-Alternative Static"...
XL106.7 did this show for a few years in the 90's.

18) Walley's!!! "Anyone for a seady pub crawl?" - Eric

19) Harold and Maude's - Kellin

20) The Kit Kat Klub....my fave!!!! I miss that rank hole. ~Teresa

21) ALL the Crack HOZ on OBT....I go there where I'm lonely. ~ Trini

22) The 10 foot tall Black and White Great Dane statue that was out in front of a trucking company on N. OBT until one of the fucking hurricanes took him down! (and cheers to the person who mentioned Beefy King! Long live BEEFY KING!!) ashley

23) Cocoa Beach @ Coconut's - where every weekend %83.5 of the people there are from Orlando. -jimmy

24) will's on mills. please visit before it's a parking lot. - larry (ps: where the fuck is the 6' tall statue of liberty? i've been looking since i read this a few days ago)

25) Olde Dixie Fried Chicken on Orange - Brandi

26) athena's greek cafe on maitland ave-goodf food and cheap!-patty

27)Balet on Mills in the Viet. District... you can get the yummiest chicken sandwiches for 2.50, and they make every dessert you can think of and they're all like 3.50, AND they also have tons of cheap/good Vietnamese food. Good god, I love that place! - Jamie

28)The Red Fox lounge. Holla. - BiL

29) the hidden camera in the photobooth at eye-spy. - Patrick

30) the smell of fresh bread on I-4. - Leia

31) no one knows when "The East-West" became "The 408" - rick (BTW good one, Leia... what other city has a GOOD highway smell?

32) Azalea Park. How many other towns would turn a ditch into a terrific park? (And bravo to Leia for the bread/I4 and Ashley for the Great Dane-- I LOVED that dog!)
- Katie B.

33) The vegan hotdog guy downtown, or whoever is running atm. Love those cheap healthy snacks while Im drunk.

34) club nowhere! sunday afternoon hardcore--greening! those WERE the days.

35) Sunday School at Firestone. back when there where no stupid laws - Pedro

36) the 2 best bars in the world. the go lounge (r.i.p.) & wallys on mills (home of the strongest drink, the oldest bar tenders & silver naked lady wallpaper) - peter von

37) my old favorite hang out in college, YAB YUM, where you could sit and drink chocolatey coffee, smoke cloves (just to be cool and smelly) and listen to bad poetry. I also hung out with a few homeless kids in Wall Street Plaza, until they stole a baby Jesus and stuck a lit candle on his belly and brought it inside. That pissed a few people off and so I thought it best not to associate myself with their shenanigans.- michelle

38)Those phenomally gorgeous Rollins girls. (Whoever said Club

39) This actually is in Kissimmee, but close enough. The Big BamBoo Lounge on US 192.--Helen. (PS--Xanadu, it is now gone...some time share condo tourist hives are to be put there) ---Helen

40) The World's Largest Single-Planed Board (Guinness Book running record), which was until recently displayed out in front of that lumber place by Will's Pub. You can take the board outta Orlando, commish, but we'll still be bored! -Hannah (damn where did that thing go anyway? Anybody know?)

41) I Could Name Several ... Both Past And Present ... Currently
And For 23 Years Running : Park Avenue CDs (Has Always Had The Best Selection Of New And Used CDs ...) And As Far As Tacky ... Mark And Lorna Performing Almost Nightly At The Red Fox Lounge In Lovely Winter Park ... They Are An Orlando Treasure ... For Sure. I'd Be Cheating Myself It I Didn't Give A Mention To Days Gone By ... MURMUR Records In College Park ... I'd Say A Lot Of Old Orlando Folks Practically Grew Up There ... And Even Met The Ramones There ! Sniff Sniff ... I Miss Those Days. And Don't Ever Forget The Glorious Langford Hotel ... It's A Damn Shame That The "Historical Society" Couldn't Help Save That Place ! I Think Orlando's Secret Motto Must Be : "If It's Old And Cool And Has Any Cultural Or Historical Significance ... We'd Better Bulldoze It And Put Up Something New And Generic !"

42) The little pink car sticking up out of the dirt under the I-4 overpass at Anderson St.

43) The Spotted Zebra (from waaaaay back)

44)Mystery Fun House- and WHAT!....Scara

45) Electric Avenue downtown then it became Visage off OBT now it's a church there!...also JJ Whispers(Cloud 9)...and Cyberzone(also Infinity)......and the legendary Aahz at the beacham theater!!! sorry i had to add more than one!!!
Def Jeff...

46) Jeff, you missed the Abyss! That place was way cool with the crazy face painted on the dancefloor, the secret passage, the small room upstairs in the back that you could view out of, the wacky art in the back courtyard, the cheesy smart drinks, and cheesy pseudo-futuristic decor... and those beat up couches... Parties that would start on a friday night and end monday morning... yeah, that was freaking fun.

47) Ultra Violet . . . both of them. The first UV located downtown and then the UV after that which was located in that shady area on SR 50. Next to 7-11. That was my stompin' ground. Oh yeah, and what about the HOOCHIE HOUSE? hehehe ~ Miss Tamara

48) Daaammnnn, Tamara, good one... How about the two other locations of Ultraviolet - it's inagural location out on East Aloma ave... and for about 6 weeks it was downtown above Ichiban before it moved to be in what would later become the Kit Kat club. The Ichiban location was sooo cool, yet so shortlived, but was probably my favorite one. ~Gabriel

49) And speaking of, how about Kit Kat club, and Go Lounge. How cool were those places? I miss them. The Kit Kat has all the painting of naked fat people - my theory was they were there to promote beer goggles for those singles in the club. They weirded me out a little bit though. And Go had all the style in the universe.

50)the fact that Orlando was and still is the only "city of light".. named by Bush senior, and that is the reason for the "crazy" big apsaragus statue sitting on the corner in front of city hall.. ( small fact. Xanudu is gone.. leveled, the bunny statue has about 2000 of it's own kind on the internet, the minature statue of liberty once had a smiley face mask put on it... (by David Jordon.. old school art guru). Frankie /APARTMENT E

51)... those damn “blue” boxes downtown that they wanted the homeless to stay in to beg.. what an embarrassment... Frankie

52) Yay for the vegan hotdog stand...good times! What's up with calling a street "Red Bug Lake Road" ? Is it an insect...a body of water...or a street? I mean it seems like someone put off making a fairly simple decision here.... -Andrea

53) Foam parties/techno nights at Firestone. Slippery creepy fun for all!!!!-Jen

54) the foam parties rocked!!! except for the itching afterward...
while other cities may have cows or horses, orlando is home to all those painted "lizzy" lizard statues.

55)Ybor's Downtown BEST MARTINIS IN O-TOWN!!! ~Alyssa

56) First a shoutout to the warm bread smell on I-4 and the vegan hotdog guy downtown. But for my O-Town memory, I'm going to have to go with Wed. nights at Chillers and rooftop drinks at Latitudes...did anyone EVER drink at Big Belly Brewery? I could never understand why they had that floor... ~Georgie

57) How about Terror on Church Street, way back in the day

58) When 80's night used to be at Cairo on sunday, Beat Collectors, When working at Auntie Anne's pretzels in Fashion Square was cooler than working at Whole Foods. - Saldutti: who pretty much hates this town.

59) Oh yeah when there was no I-Bar and 97% of Orlando wasn't Indie Rock. By the way Red Bug Lake is behind Red Bug Park, which is off of Red Bug lake Road........ Saldutti

60) Club alpha and the bean scene. ~Katie

61) Peaches record store on 50 (Colonial) and the flower shop next door called Silk Silk Silk where someone got shot, Colonial Mall (anyone? anyone?), "Tires ain't pretty", "Come on down to Tropic Traveller Vans. Of course, yours comes with a roof.", Y.K. Kim's Karate, parties on Judge Rd. off Conway, the month when the World Cup came to Orlando, "Nightmare on Pine Street" (many years prior to Nightmare on Church Street), and the gigantic plank of wood that's been propped up on the front of the lumber yard at the intersection of Mills and Virginia near Will's Pub and the Orlando Science Center. Seriously, that thing's been propped up against the wall for at least twenty years now. - John

62) (Kudos to mentioning 'Terror on Church Street'--loved that place). The FX convention every January or February. Art in the Park at Lake Eola the first weekend in Novemeber. Petting zoo (among other things) at Disney's Ft. Wilderness (one of the few Disney places you can go for free). Celebration, the creepy Twilight Zone-esque town that Disney built. Splendid China--didn't last too long. Stardust Video & Coffee in Winter Park. The Time Machine (chain of arcades with classic stuff)--not around anymore, unfortunately.

63) I dont know if anyone mentioned "Natura" or Movies on PArk Ave. or the Enzian but if someone did then I must say Thanks to the Citgo on University and GoldenRod. run by Arabs that sells liquor not only past 2AM but to underage drinkers!!! Thank yoU!!!!

64) When QZAR was downtown, or existed in general! DZ - Discovery Zone and I can't believe no one mentioned SHE 100.3 The best radio station in history!

65) Let's see...anyone remember Splendid China...lmao....ummmm Waterford Lakes Town Center...The Rainbow Store on Mills...Leu Gardens...all the UCF bars...Colonial Promenade...Appliance Direct.....Save Dollars at Hollers...
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Gosh Orlando is so boring!!!

66) Starbucks (not the coffee shop) on curry ford that use to be the coolest place to have a birthday party. lol Like DZ Discovery Zone. & Hot n' now fast food place. there hamburgers were like 49 cents and they were good.

67) Allright, so I haven't lived in orlando for a while, but im back this weekend and frankly, I'm dissapointed....y'all talk about the boobie trap(which 100% deserves to be on the list) but what about Club Juana? Orlando's only nude playhouse? i mean come on people! or the 8pm fireworks from disney if you live in south orlando....and high five for beefy king AND the bread smell...i love driving on I-4 for just that!!!

68) ZUMA BEACH... now Tabu, and when the social was the saphire supper club. and SPLENDED CHINA!!!
-Lauren.

69) ROCKY'S REPLAY BITCHES!

70) The Drop Shop! Mr Toyota that poor little dog from those stupid car commercials. The free parking lots downtown, WPRK Rollins College Radio, Old School Church Street. Park Ave CD's.

72) Below Zero... the club and the Monday Art Gallery.. "pop Goes the easel"...Glenn

74).. All the navy people in their whites cruising the Fashion Square mall..

75) When Dexters and Thornton Park went through the Change... (Hang in there Burtons)

*Dj Mick Dolenz and Rock 100 WDIZ. One of the best stations in the U.S.- Rolling Stone.

*Radio Station ZETA 7

*Rock Super Bowls at the Tangerine Bowl (T-Bowl)

*Orlando in the Hot issue of Rolling Stone for the Electronica Scene.

*Punk Rockers at the bus stop on Park Ave. when it was a teenage cruising strip.

*Punk Rock warehouse parties on Philadelphia Ave.

*Cosmic Concerts at the original planetarium.

*Midnight movies (the Wall) at Orlando Fashion Square.

*The original Infinite Mushroom location.

let's make an ORLANDO SCRAPBOOK... DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY PICTURES OF THESE THINGS? ....