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- Altamonte Springs, Florida - Litter Felon, aka Annoying Neighbor, slapped with three years in prison
The Altamonte Springs, Florida man, dubbed Seminole County's "Annoying Neighbor," has been sentenced to spend three years in jail for his junk cluttered yard and violation of probation from an earlier junk felony conviction. Alan Davis's yard on Alpine Street -- where he'd accumulated more than a decade's worth of trash, scrap parts and old cars -- might have been declared a folk art treasure elsewhere in America.... [01/31/2005] Complete News Story - Altamonte Springs, Florida - Court orders butt cleaned by county's "Annoying Neighbor"
An Altamonte Springs, Florida man, dubbed Seminole County's "Annoying Neighbor," was released from jail by a judge hoping he'd clean up his ratty profusion of yard junk and trash. His name is Alan Davis, and we haven't heard any college professor dub him Outsider Artist or Garbage Yardist yet.... [10/05/2003] Complete News Story - Apalachicola, Florida - Gorrie Ice Museum For Florida panhandle vacationers, a visit to the Gorrie Ice Museum in Apalachicola is in order. Signs point the way down a side street off the main drag near the White Rabbit grocery store. Several cases depict antebellum life in the area, the history of the cotton trade, even actual cotton bales!!
It must have cost a relative fortune, but the museum proudly exhibits a flashing, lighted mock-up display showing the scientific principles of Gorrie's ice maker. He used the machine to produce cold air for the inmates of a local TB sanitarium.
The small building also has a lovely walled garden so you can rest after viewing the displays. [Steve Campbell, 01/10/1999]
[RA: Florida owes John Gorrie a lot. An old postcard of a diorama at the museum reads: "Dr. John Gorrie points to the first air conditioner suspended from ceiling of sick room. A convection current of air piped from above passing over an ice filled vessel was cooled by the melting ice. Then he invented the ice making machine."]Museum to the Man who Invented Air Conditioning:
Address: 46 6th St., Apalachicola, FL [Show Map]
Directions: John Gorrie Museum. On 6th St./Broad St. at the corner of Ave. C/Columbus St. Only a couple of blocks west of the US 98 bridge across East Bay.
Admission: State Park Fee $1, under 6 free.
Hours: Th-M 9-5, except Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Day. (Call to verify)
Phone: 850-653-9347 - Apopka, Florida - Splendid China Miniatures An establishment called Deco Gallery of AAA Imports located north of Apopka, Florida on US 441 has purchased several of the miniature structure models from Splendid China and has them on display in the parking lot in front of the warehouse building. [D. Cremer, 04/23/2009]Splendid China Miniatures:
Address: 2640 West Orange Blossom Trail, Apopka, FL [Show Map]
Directions: Deco Gallery of AAA Imports, on US Hwy 441 north of Apopka. Miniatures in the parking lot.
Admission: Free.
Hours: Daylight hours. - Arcadia, Florida - Muffler Man Sun Country Services at 3534 NE Corral Drive in Arcadia has M-man holding a shovel. They do driveways, site prep, and land clearing. "Serving all of DeSoto and Hardee County." [Joan McHale, 09/19/2006]Muffler Man - Indian - Gone:
Address: 2998 NW Highway 70, Arcadia, FL
Hours: Reported gone after Hurricane Charlie.
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