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a florida (photo) journalist. THE WAY I “SEE” IT.
photograph b/ dave. hogerty (originalnoise.org)
September 29, 1988 — The launch of the space shuttle Discovery, was the first manned mission since the Challenger explosion and death of its crew two years earlier. This view is from the north end of the River Road on the Cocoa side of SR520. looking across the Indian River toward Merritt Island, Mosquito Lagoon, the Vehicle (Vertical) Assembly Building (VAB), and Pad 39A. Seconds earlier the shuttle sat quietly, atop the same spot from where men and women have embarked on a most extreme journey … a voyage that has seen the outer limits of our solar system, and a man’s footprint on the Moon. Seconds ago, Discovery left that spot, and is rising quickly into a partly cloudy, pale blue, Florida sky … away from The Cape, and on its way to the International Space Station. The deteriorating, corrugated metal building in the foreground is what’s left of Hub’s Inn, since its opening in 1923, serving the finest in local seafood and once “prohibited” entertainment. (originalnoise.org)
A Day In The Life — Ten minutes on Florida’s Space Coast, including watching, with a young family, seeing its first manned launch (the space shuttle Discovery), its fiery launch and rapid ascent, streaking across the mostly clear blue, Florida sky, away from the Cape, on its way to the International Space Station, orbiting 300 miles above, outside the atmosphere of Earth.
A reminder of my mother (who is present this day), fifty years earlier, taking me, my sister, and my brother into our front yard in Cocoa, to see Alan Shepard become the first American to reach outer space.
On this launch day, you’ll hear Grandma Rose shriek excitedly, before frantically calling out to her young grandson,
“Look at the ball of fire, Josh. Look at the ball of fire.”
The Park
Silver Pines
2806 Shepard Drive
Mosquito Control Aerobatics
Bright Yellow Planes … low, fast, loud, spraying … and a steep rise and 180 for another pass.
Kites against a red sky glowing orange and red above a raging swamp fire.
Air Boats St. Johns
HWY50 — “The American Highway Through Florida Space & Time”
Daytona Beach (The World’s Most Famous)
THE 500
NASCAR (Beach-A1A/Super Speedway
Port Orange
New Smyrna Beach
New Smyrna Beach (HWY44)
HWY50 — WEEKI WACHEE/VAB SPRING HILL, Sinclair Dinosaur, inland Florida swimming hole, as compared to the Venetian Pool in Coral Gables.
Turpentine, Pines, Plywood and stinky pulp
PAD 39A/39B — LAST STEPPING STONE (TO THE MOON)
FLORIDA’S SPACE COAST
The Cape
Cape Canaveral
Canaveral National Seashore
Kennedy Space Center
Playalinda
Apollo (Nude) Beach
Titusville
Cocoa Beach
Merritt Island
Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge
Mosquito Lagoon
SR3 — First Drawbridge / Shuttle on Barge
The Dragon
Indian River
Citrus
Harvey’s Grove
“Oranges”
(1966) by John McPhee
“Description of gantries on the horizon, while crossing on the 528 causeway. Shrimping after midnight (1972)
Strange light on Barton
Duda & Sons — Brahma cattle, watermelon, St. Augustine sod (grass)
Nuclear Submarine, sunrise, small jetties at Port Canaveral, sleeping shrimp boats
Trident, Shuttle on Merritt Island canals (Cape Canaveral Backroads)
VAB
PAD 39A/B
Concrete & Steel
RINKER MATERIALS
Concrete (Cement / Water / Sand)
Launch Pads (Concrete / Reinforcing Steel)
Block Houses (launch [explosion] viewing structures)
RESIDENTIAL REBAR
Florida Ranch-Style (Cinder Block / Poured Corners)
Polished Concrete is slippery when wet
walkways, carports, patios
TERAZZO
Tennis Courts (Concrete [Not Cement] vs. [yellow or green] Clay)
Early Florida (Concrete) Highways
US1
Ft. Pierce
THE HIGHWAYMEN
Cattle
Citrus
Indian River
Hale Groves
Coast Guard Station
Oceanographic Research Center
S.E.A.L. Museum
SURFING
Sebastian Inlet
Melbourne Beach
Indialantic
Indian Harbour Beach
PAFB
Officers Club
2nd Light
Picnic Tables
Thunderbirds
A-10s
A1A-Pineda shortcut
U2 Take Off
PINEDA CSWY EAST
Over Banana River
Merritt Island
South Tropical Trail
COCOA BEACH
Taco City
Natural Art Surf
Al Neuharth
Hurricane David
Manual Typewriter by Candlelight
AP-Style — Don’t call a storm “she,” and don’t use sexist language when describing a storm.
Neuharth Insisted
“Fickle David, Kissed and Teased the Space Coast”
Bill Johnson
“Get out of my car”
Pineda Causeway, on bridge over the Banana River.
Pumpkin Center
Rockledge, Florida
The River Road
Indian River
Harvey’s Grove (Roadside)
Taylor Park
Harvey’s
Boat Houses
Coquina Crypt
Glass Coffin
River Road
Valencia / Gate
St. Mary’s
Van Winkle Motel
Dixie Motel
The North (Cocoa) Side
Oleander / Brevard Hotel
St. Mark’s
THE VILLAGE
Historic House
Travis Hardware
THE STATE THEATER
Whitley’s Marina
The Crossing
River Queen — Continued North
EXPEDITION
TITUSVILLE
Canaveral National Seashore
Playalinda Beach
Apollo Beach
Nude Beach
Mosquito Lagoon
Banana River
Mangrove Lochs
Port Canaveral
THE CAPE
Kennedy Space Center
NASA (1959)
Cape Canaveral
Merritt Island
South Tropical Trail (Mangoes, Avocados, Royal Poincianas)
Mather’s Bridge — Early Draw
Dragon Point (South Tip of Merritt Ilsand)
Opposite of the sprawling lagoon/mangroves of the north end of the island
Mosquito Lagoon
Port Canaveral — Nuclear Submarines at Dawn, Disney Cruise Ships Today.
Cape Canaveral — sand roads small, concrete block homes, had been built by the navy to house the WWII soldiers who were training in Florida. After the war, such dwellings were sold off to the public. On the Space Coast, demand was high … with many of those boot camp soldiers, having liked what they had seen, moving back to stay in Florida. That was in general, and because NASA had chosen Cape Canaveral as it’s launch location (Jules Verne), the vacated military quarters all along A1A were perfectly suited to the young crowd moving to Brevard County on their way to the Moon.
“Countdown”
A1A
Cape Canaveral — Presidents’ names
PAFB (Patrick Air Force Base) 2nd Light, Officers’ Club, Picnic Tables.
U2s (Night Ride to the Falklands)
Secrets among the Palmetto — Wild Boar and camouflaged M-16s
Barton Blvd. Mystery — UFOs & Duda’s Ranch (Rockledge’s Area #51)
Sod, cattle, and who knows what lurks beyond the Mormon gate.
Sandy Tucker.
192 — INDIALANTIC BEACH to KISSIMMEE
SURF SHOPS / SADDLE SHOPS
Melbourne on the Mainland
Downtown
I95 Exchange / Suburban Development
ST. JOHNS RIVER
Alligator/Airboat camp
Cattle
Serpentarium (old school, roadside attraction)
Local Fruit, Orange Blossom Honey, and Gator Jerky.
“Not a Clue” — Hotel for the homeless.
A Church (And Pawn Shop) on Every Corner
MOUNT PEACE — International Plane Overhead
St. Cloud — Old around the edges (Catfish, Barbeque, and Bowling)
Suburban on the inside.
After St. Cloud, KISSIMMEE.
Once only Silver Spurs Rodeo, held in a small, open air stadium, it wasn’t one of the largest on the professional cowboy circuit, but a favorite, being in Florida, one of the homes of roadside entertainment.
AND THEN CAME DISNEY — I95/I75/Florida Turnpike
Silver Spurs Rodeo
Gift Shop, Cheap Ticket Gauntlet, Strip Mall Development
International Airport (proximity to Disney/Epcot)
ORANGE WORLD
MACHINE GUN AMERICA
International Food Truck Arcade
ANIMAL KINGDOM — Disney/Epcot (West end of 192)
All A Warm-Up for Animal Kingdom
ANIMAL KINGDOM
Living Colour
August 24, 1992 — For decades, travelers driving south on I95 were greeted as the entered Miami by the legendary Coppertone Girl, whose bathing suits bottoms were being tugged down by a cute, little dog, exposing her un-tanned bottom. The day after Hurricane Andrew had ripped through South Miami, the little girl was missing. OriginalNoise.Org
WHERE THE BOYS ARE 1960
SPRING BREAK
Fort Lauderdale
The Crusader (reverend Danzinger)
The Christian Nymph
Little Black Book
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100 Years Of Miami Beach
100 Years Of Miami Beach
100 Years Of Miami Beach
100 Years Of Miami Beach
100 Years Of Miami Beach
100 Years Of Miami Beach
100 Years Of Miami Beach
SOBE POP
GOLDFINGER
EDEN ROC
AVA GARDNER
DOROTHY DANDRIDGE
ELLA FITZGERALD
NAT KING COLE
AFTER HOURS
OVERTOWN
MIAMI RECORDS
MURPH THE SURF
MARIEL CUBA
COCAINE COWBOYS
“SCARFACE”
Steven Bauer
Miami Light Project/
Lincoln Road/
Century Theater/
Spalding Gray
Diamanda Galas
B-Boy Breakdancers / “FLASHDANCE”
Ocean Drive Magazine
The Krylon Wars
Power Studio “Good” Graffiti Writers
vs. The Miami Light Project
Marlon Pacheco
One of the “Bad” Graffiti Writers, well known in Miami’s “underground” community.
Dragon Tattoo Shooting (Miami New Times Illustration)
Steven Bauer
MARIEL, CUBA
Fidel Castro empties his prisons, and exiles the most violent of Cuban criminals, forcing them onto overcrowded boats, rafts, and other pieces of debris, called a vessel, for their ability to float.
COCAINE
CUBA vs. COLUMBIA
[1983] — Building Bridges with Cocaine / Cuba vs. Columbia
“SCARFACE”
COCAINE CLASSIC
“Say hello to my little friend.”
Al Pachino
Steven Bauer (Miami’s finest)
Miami Light Project (Karen Rabino)
Starfish Residential Restaurant (after show dining)
Pennsylvania Ave.
MIAMI VICE
Miami Beach Renaissance #1
Out of old age and poverty, and into Pastel Pop Mania.
White Linen Jackets, soft colored shirts, alligator shoes, and no socks.
Wearing a three-day stubble, smoking filterless Camels, and shooting off excessive amounts of ammo,
MAKING MIAMI LOOK COOL.
b/ Dave Barry
“PARADISE LOST”
[ 1990 ] — SOUTH BEACH RENAISSANCE
VERSACE
MADONNA “SEX”
PRINCE
CANE
MAXIMUM BOB
WEEKI WACHEE
TOBACCO ROAD
TOWERS THAT COOL, FPL, A1A, FORT PIERCE
[ 1959 ] — NASA: The Original 7 and the Lure Of The Moon.
MAY 5, 1961 — Watched Alan Shepard become the first American astronaut to reach Outer Space.
[ 1969 ] — ONE SMALL STEP TO THE MOON
Cocoa TODAY (Sports Stringer/Writer) 1974
Cocoa TODAY (“Inquiring Photographer”) 1975
Cocoa TODAY (Staff Photographer) 1976-1979
University of Florida (Student) 1979-1983
INDEPENDENT FLORIDA ALLIGATOR (WRITER/PHOTOGRAPHER/EDITOR) 1979-1983
[ 1979 ] — THE HURRICANE DAVID TRANSITION
[ 1980 ] — John Lennon, Tom Petty, Borg and McEnroe, Green Grass of a different kind, The Allman Brothers, Pat Benatar, Frank Zappa, The Cars, The Eagles, Elvis Costello, Andy Kauffman, Gator Football, UF/FSU, Rodney Dangerfield at the Homecoming Ball, and Olympic Miracles On Ice.
Time Magazine (Picture Dept. Intern) Summer 1982
Palm Beach Post (Staff Photographer) 1984
THE MIAMI HERALD (Staff Photographer) 1985-1987
University of Florida (College of Journalism Faculty) 1987-1989
Palm Beach (CBS) w/Mo Rocca
Henry Morrison Flagler
Addison Mizner w/Johnny Brown “The Human Monkey”
Mar A Lago
Marjorie Merriweather Post
EF Hutton
Rudolph Valentino
Whitehall — Flagler’s Sea to Ocean Estate
“WINTERING”
John D. Rockerfeller
Henry Ford
Harvey S. Firestone
Thomas A. Edison
The Breakers Hotel
Worth Avenue
The Villa Mizner
JFK
TED & WILLY’s EXCELENT ADVENTURE
Reef Road
Palm Beach Inlet
Pump House
Roxanne: The Most Titillating Pulitzer.
Hunter Thompson
Rolling Stone
Playboy
All eyes were on Roxanne Pulitzer.
• “THE PRIZED PULITZER” (LIFETIME MOVIE)
• ROXANNE: AFTER PETER
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner?
Mollie Wilmot, the Jackie-O sunglasses-wearing, Palm Beach neighbor of Ted Kennedy was surprised the morning after Thanksgiving (1984), waking to a rusty, 180-foot, Venezuelan Freighter had crashed ashore between her poolside cabanas.
Christ, Lies, and Videotape
July 31, 1991
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The city’s vice-mayor, a conservative crusader against wild spring breakers, topless bars and adult bookstores, has resigned after his name surfaced in a sex scandal.
Doug Danziger (THE CRUSADER) issued a terse letter of resignation Tuesday after his name was linked in news reports to the wife of a Broward County deputy who surrendered Tuesday on four counts of prostitution.
Danziger said in his letter that he was leaving ″with deep emotion and dedication to a job not yet complete … with the support of my family and for personal reasons.″
Danziger’s name was included on a detailed list of Kathy Willets’ (THE CHRISTIAN NYMPH’s) alleged clients, that was meticulously kept by her husband, Deputy Jeffrey Willets (THE PRODUCER) “PORN UNDER A BAD SIGN.”
Willets, the Broward County deputy sheriff who hid quietly in the closet of his and Kathy’s comfortable master bedroom, in their 4,000-Square Foot, well maintained, 4000 square foot, Plantation home. From his dark and silent lair, Jeffrey took notes while he videotaped a long list of Broward County’s most powerful and righteous preachers, leaders, and theives.
I his four-line resignation, Danziger, 50, made no mention of his having made good use of THE MRS. WILLETS SEX MACHINE.
″I know there’s speculation,″ he told WSVN-TV Tuesday night. ″My family knows what happened, and I know what happened.″ [FUCKING HAPPENS]
Ellis Rubin, who is representing the Willetses, said Tuesday he had no comment on the rumors that Danziger was involved with Mrs. Willets.
Jeffrey Willets, 41, was suspended with pay last week after being charged with the felony of LIVING OFF THE EARNINGS OF A PROSTITUE (WHORE).
He faces a $5,000 fine and five years in prison, and since Tuesday, is now free on $1,000 bond.
His 33-year-old wife faces four second-degree misdemeanor charges of prostitution, each punishable by up to 60 days in jail and fines of up to $500. She was released on $2,000 bond.
Investigators said no charges were contemplated against Mrs. Willets’ alleged customers.
Rubin said Mrs. Willets was suffering from nymphomania, and that having sex with different men, which he called sex surrogacy, is an acceptable form of treatment for the disorder.
Danziger, who owns an insurance company, was appointed to the commission in 1987 and then won his 1988 election. He ran unopposed in March, and the new commission chose him as vice mayor.
Danziger’s main campaign theme was creation of a wholesome, family-oriented tourist market. He was instrumental in driving spring breakers out of the city, banning liquor in nude bars and fighting pornographic bookstores.
[ 1992 ] — A DEADLY WIND, NAMED ANDREW
Palm Beach Daily News (Sunday Editor/Art Director) 1990-1992
Miami Herald (Feature Page Designer) 1992-1996
Miami New Times (Art Director) 1997
XS (Art Director / Fort Lauderdale “alternative” weekly) 1998-1999
CityLink’98 (Alt. Weekly for the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel) 1998
[ 2000 ] — 911 AND THE POST APOCALYPTIC AGE.
Jazziz/Music.Com (Art / Creative Director) 2000-2005
OriginalNoise.Org … after making a number of musician friends and aquaintences, while at JAZZIZ. NOW, what can I do for you? … or better yet, what might we do together?
— dave.
dave.
b/ NOVEMBER 17, 1956
Life-long florida (photo) journalist
PHOTOGRAPHER
Miami Herald (newspaper) 1985-1986
Palm Beach Post (newspaper) 1983-1984
Cocoa TODAY
Independent Florida Alligator (newspaper) 1974-1979
ART DIRECTOR
JAZZIZ (magazine) 2000-2005
MUSIC.COM (magazine)
XS (Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel’s “alternative” weekly) 1999-2000
Miami New Times (news weekly) 1997-1999
The Palm Beach Daily News / The “Shiny” Sheet (daily newspaper) 1990-1992
Miami Herald (feature page designer) 1992-1997
Diversions (Miami Herald “Best Of” weekly) 1992-1994
FACULTY
University of Florida
College of Journalism and Communications
(1987-1989)
“Photojournalism”
“Graphics of Journalism”
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
OriginaLNoise.Org
MEDIA …
— “THE BRIDGE” (Educational Music Program)
w/Allan Harris and Doug Wimbish
— LIVING COLOUR (Rock N Roll Band)
w/Vernon Reid, Corey Glover, Will Calhoun, Doug Wimbish
— TACK>>HEAD (Industrial, Trip-Hop, Funk Band)
w/Skip McDonald, Bernard Fowler, Keith Leblanc, Adrian Sherwood, Doug Wimbish
— NOVASOUND (music recording/production/performance)
w/Doug Wimbish
— WIM>>BASH (Music Festival Production/Musicians Collective)
w/Doug Wimbish
— ART DECO WEEKEND (Music Festival Production)
w/Doug Wimbish, Allan Harris, Suénalo
[ 2016 ] — THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD
[ 2020 ] — CHANGE IS NOT ALWAYS FOR THE BETTER
HOME IS WHERE THE SOULS ARE MISSING —You know, all too well, that you’re talking about my home town, Pam … A place you know well, after you launched your career in journalism at (Cocoa) TODAY, Florida’s “Spaceage” Newspaper, the one taken to the moon. I think you’d agree now, especially looking back, It was an exciting PLACE TO BE, in a more honest, ambitious, and hopeful time. You understand better how it might feel, having grown up in a place where AMERICAN ASTRONAUTS embarked on journeys, away from The Cape, on their way to The Moon. AND TODAY, many of Brevard County’s most immoral, soulless, and embarrassing representatives, THE MASKLESS TRUMP SUCKERS of which you speak, are childhood friends, with whom I played Little League baseball, shot birds, gigged frogs and caught gators on the St. Johns River. Fished and netted Blue Crab and shrimp off the 528 CAUSEWAY, hanging a lantern in the channel, usually after midnight, on the Banana River, under the bridge that crossed onto CAPE CANAVERAL, near the entrance to the port, a small channel between residential Cape Canaveral and THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER. Just inside the jetties flanking the port’s entrance, wooden shrimp boats (nets up) waited for sunrise, to go out fishing, off Florida’s Central East Coast, beyond the nicely small, eminently rideable surf COCOA BEACH (Kelly Slater) is known for. Of course we Space Coast Mainlanders had our spot on the beach, Rockledge High’s was through the soft sand dunes at 7th Street, just off A1A where you enter Cocoa Beach from the south, north of PATRICK AIR FORCE BASE and another 20 blocks past TACO CITY. Like all, we mainlanders (Cocoa/Rockledge) spent more of our “leisure” time on the Space Coast’s more western recreational activities. We, of course, appreciated (and enjoyed) the BEACH, but more often we were riding airboats, dirt bikes, and horses through the vast, undeveloped wetlands, pine woods, palmetto scrub, and orange groves that stretched west into the Florida jungle, between TROPICAL MERRITT ISLAND, with its dolphins, manatees, mangoes, avocados, bananas, coconuts, and palms, and the ST JOHNS RIVER JUNGLE, a maze of saw grass-lined, alligator-filled channels, running through grazing cattle, wild boar, panthers, turtles, otters, deer, black bears, bald eagles, otters, turtles, rattlesnakes, frogs, mosquitoes, and a variety of fresh-water fish (soft sand and clay bottom lakes, sprung when contsruction crews, digging for fill, tapped the aquifer, creating fast-flowing artesian wells that fed many of us “westerners'” favorite, most fun, and birds & bees educational, local swimming holes. HOW SAD IS IT TODAY, that my home, the place I so often describe as PARADISE, has become a These of my high school friends, who had stayed home and made government careers with NASA, and America’s truest greatness, a commitment to science and fact, and honestly and hopefully looking into the future. “friends” have lost their souls. They wallow in a right-wing, christian misery. Standing at intersections, loudly waving large AMERICAN flags, flying among the even bigger, brighter, and of course better “TRUMP TRAIN,” “QANON,” “LOCK HER UP,” and don’t forget my favorite, the screaming, hand-painted “OBAMA IS A FAGGOT” sign, made by one of the many “WOMEN FOR TRUMP,” with their WHITE hair and arrogantly announced WHITE supremacist attitude.
There Goes The Fucking Neighborhood
Cocoa TODAY (Florida’s Spaceage Newspaper)
(photographer)
INDEPENDENT FLORIDA ALLIGATOR
(photographer/writer)
PALM BEACH POST
(photographer/feature page designer)
PALM BEACH DAILY NEWS
(sunday editor/art director)
MIAMI HERALD
(photographer/feature page designer)
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
(college of journalism faculty)
MIAMI NEW TIMES
(art director)
JAZZIZ MAGAZINE
(creative director)
MUSIC.COM MAGAZINE
(creative director)
NOVA SOUND STUDIOS
(art/editorial director)
ORIGINAL NOISE (.org)
photography. writing. design.
Recognized by:
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Society of Newspaper Design
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Northern Merritt Island was first developed around 1890 when a few wealthy Harvard University graduates purchased 18,000 acres and constructed a three-story mahogany clubhouse, very nearly on the site of Pad 39A. During the 1920s, Peter E. Studebaker Jr., son of the automobile magnate, built a small casino at De Soto Beach eight miles north of the Canaveral Lighthouse.
In 1948, the Navy transferred the former Banana River Naval Air Station, located south of Cape Canaveral, to the Air Force for use in testing captured German V-2 rockets. The site’s location on the East Florida coast was ideal for this purpose, in that launches would be over the ocean, away from populated areas. This site became the Joint Long Range Proving Ground in 1949 and was renamed Patrick Air Force Base in 1950. The Air Force annexed part of Cape Canaveral, to the north, in 1951, forming the Air Force Missile Test Center, the future Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS). Missile and rocketry testing and development would take place here through the 1950s.
After the creation of NASA in 1958, the CCAFS launch pads were used for NASA’s civilian uncrewed and crewed launches, including those of Project Mercury and Project Gemini.[15]
Apollo and Skylab
In 1961, President Kennedy proposed to Congress the goal of landing a man on the Moon by the end of the decade. Congressional approval led to the launch of the Apollo program, which required a massive expansion of NASA operations, including an expansion of launch operations from the Cape to adjacent Merritt Island to the north and west. NASA began acquisition of land in 1962, taking title to 131 square miles (340 km2) by outright purchase and negotiating with the state of Florida for an additional 87 square miles (230 km2). On July 1, 1962, the site was named the Launch Operations Center.