![]() Jacksonville Tars and the Negro League’s Jacksonville Red Cap’s throwback jerseys, would be available at any given local sporting goods store. It would have a string of successful cafes all over town. People would be patriotic about Maxwell House. People would know who Zora Neale Hurston was. ![]() And even white people would know that Zora Neale Hurston lived here. Mandarin would have a trolley tour of the famous writers who lived there over the past century. When the Jacksonville Film Festival opened every year, Josh Skierski and Chad Hendricks would be the emcees and Rita Manyette would be the Gala Hostess. People would know who Raymond Mason was, and have no flipping clue who the latest scheming developer was. Ray Mason would have an Institute where international finance and Arabic trade principles were taught, studied and debated. There would be standing lines for tours of Sally Corporation.īlaire Woolverton would cohost her own cable show with Shawana Brooks and Jake Godbold would have a cookbook. Local businesses Peterbrooke, The Loop Pizza and the Burrito Gallery would all have gigantic headquarters in the center of town that rivaled the Preston Haskell building on Riverside Avenue. There would be another museum of Black Film commemorating the achievements of black filmmakers here in Jacksonville. There would be a statue to Don Estridge, the father of the modern PC, the Bishop Kenny graduate whose work transformed, literally the entire planet, and whose ideas of open source coding are still revolutionary Molly Hatchet, Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Allman Brothers would have exhibits there and all the music aficionados would know a history of the Southern music and the Jacksonville music scene.Ī statue of Ray Charles would stand in the perfectly preserved and popular bar where he first played soul piano and blues in the South. The Southern Music Hall of Fame would be open and full to capacity somewhere in downtown. Here are a few things that possibly would have happened in New York, Rome, London Paris, Seattle, or San Francisco if the leaders that made them into Great Cities had been given our city and history. What would it be like if Jacksonville were a city that didn’t hate itself… led by people who acknowledged its achievements? Some say Jacksonville is a diamond that wants to remain coal.
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