just curious how many florida people we have here on this site...
please post if your from florida..
thanks.
leonard, from hollywood..
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just curious how many florida people we have here on this site...
please post if your from florida..
thanks.
leonard, from hollywood..
Not sure how many of us, but probably more from Florida than any other single state...
I'm in the Tampa Bay area.
Mike
I'm in Ft. Myers, but I thought someone had moved the State this morning when I woke up to 32 degree weather and had to scrape ice off of my windshield. :eek:
Don
a better question might be, how many are florida natives and how many are Yankee transplants...
opps...i am joking of course...:)
You become a native after a few years...:3dSMILE:http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...27/Snowman.jpg
now thats funny...i don't care who your are...:LOL:
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Originally Posted by cnile64
LOL. good one..
i am a native of florida. only lived in 3 different houses in 45 years, and one was for only a year.
leonard
New Englander, but five yers as a Florida resident.
No, I would not go back!
Any time it wants to warm up will be fine.:D
Not a native ,but not a yankee!!! I came from california. I moved here in 89 so i consider fla home.
Welcome to Club HotRod Leonard. Yup, there's a bunch of us from Florida but I'm not one of them. :( Never even been there but was close back in the mid '60s when I was stationed on the East Coast for a few months.:)
Larry M.
Don't live there, but got family in Dade City and Tampa. Will be full resident in about 4 years, but until then I'll have to deal with the snow and make those quarterly I 95 commutes.:CRY:
As of this moment, your not missing anything here. It's been down into the 20's here in central fl.
Space coast, Cocoa since 74
I've been down here for a whole two weeks now, and am loving it. Got stationed in Panama City Beach for the next 7 months to go throught dive school for the army, and let me say the weather is alot better here than in Fort LeonardWood, Missouri.
Ratrodking;
Ingram motors 593 - 6700 I don't know the area code but found this info on the video I have. Remember it's in Alabama Kurt.
I vacation there every summer, and stay in Plant City. I have family that lives in Tampa. The wife wants to move there when the kids grow up, so I have about 13 years before I get there...LOL!
Youther, do you go to the Plant City Cruise-In on the 3rd Saturday of every month when you're down here?Quote:
Originally Posted by youther
Mike
No I haven't. Where do they have it at? I'd like to go if we hit it on the right weekend. Of course our days are busy and we usually don't get back til late by the time we drive back from Orlando, but we take a day off once in a while. That might be a good day to take the break...LOL!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike52
been coming down since 84 been living here 4 years, now i need a winter hat when it gets down under 50.. but still you can run the hotrod or golf everyday of the year...what a paradise...... ill go back to michigan in 11 days to go 800 miles on the snowmobile, what a rush 0-90 in the blink of an eye ...will be ready to get back to 75 and sunny... car shows and cruizins all the time.......great for the 68 camaro...
Trade that snowmobile for a jet-ski and you won't have to go tolerate the cold...:LOL::LOL::LOL:
Been here for almost 29 years; best decision the wife & I ever made. People ask,"Don't you miss the change of seasons?" My answer,"Not just no, but hell no!":p Besides, we have seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, Still Summer, & Christmas.:D Florida is home now; Indiana (where I was raised) has become a strange and unfriendly place.:p
Got a picture of that Camaro?? I've probably seen it at Fisherman's village or one of the many other Cruises/shows around here...Quote:
Originally Posted by yenkoss396
South Florida here. Pompano Beach which is just north of Ft. Lauderdale.
I'm an Air Force brat, and my dad was stationed at Mcoy AFB for the last couple of years before it was closed down (or given to the Navy :cool:) that ought to make some of the old timers think. Then I was stationed at NAS Jax from 77 - 80, then moved to Melbourne. So I pretty much consider my self a Floridian, melanoma and all :toocool: But the wife is a born, and raised Floridian cracker.
Mike
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Originally Posted by eticket
guys, im curious, and although i am a true floridian never knew the answer to this question...how did the term "FLORIDA CRACKER " originate ?
thanks..leonard
According to the tour guides in St.Augustine, the term "cracker" came from the early settlers who were cattle farmers. They used a lightweight sort of bullwhip to drive the cattle by making it "crack" in the air behind the cattle. They didn't actually whip the cows, just used the noise as a controlling and driving device. The term "cracker", of course, referred to the cattle drivers who "cracked" the whips. The term has evolved to mean someone who was born & raised here.:HMMM:
Don't know if that's 100% correct, but that's what they told us...:rolleyes::D
From Wikipedia:
Cracker Cowboys
The Florida "cowhunter" or "cracker cowboy" of the 19th and early 20th centuries was distinct from the Spanish vaquero and the Western cowboy. Florida cowboys did not use lassos to herd or capture cattle. Their primary tools were bullwhips and dogs. Florida cattle and horses were small. The "cracker cow", also known as the "native cow", or "scrub cow" averaged about 600 pounds, had large horns and large feet.
Modern usage
The term is used as a proud or jocular self-description. Since the huge influx of new residents into Florida from the northern parts of the United States, and Latin America, in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, "Florida Cracker" is used informally by some Floridians to indicate that their family has lived there for many generations; and/or that they were born and raised in the state of Florida. It is considered a source of pride to be descended from "frontier people who did not just live but flourished in a time before air conditioning, mosquito repellent, and screens."[]
Ok class dismissed :LOL:
thanks for the explanation guys on 'FLORIDA CRACKER."
i have heard that term for many years...
leonard
I'm also debating on coming down at the end of Feb for the Strawberry Festival. Do they have any car shows during that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike52
Just checking in. Moved from New York STATE almost 24 years ago, still in Gainesville. About the only thing I miss about the Northeast is skating on a frozen pond under a full moon at night (just something about the skates cutting the ice), and trout fishing in the rivers and streams. They can keep the snow and the liberals.
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Originally Posted by youther
You might check out Oldtown, near Disney. I've lived in Fl since 82 and never been there, but intend on going this year. I guess it is every Saturday night(?) and at the end of the show cars get to drive down the street which is lined with people. My Son Don has been there, I'm pretty sure.
Don
Spent the last 20 years in the Sunshine State myself.
But as a member of the RED SOX NATION, I would never accept the label of being a yankee!:whacked:
I'm up in Jacksonville,Quote:
Originally Posted by youther
The National Nostalgic Nova, Chevy II/ Nova Mini Nationals are at Old Town Feb 27th-28th and I think the 1st as well, I plan to have the Chevy II down there.
Been living in Florida for 5 years and before that visited in the winter months for 4 years. Took our motorhome to Key West for those 4 winters (now sold it) but there's no way that we could afford to purchase a home there! Settled in Weeki Wachee, above Tampa and it's a pretty neat place, lots of rods. Not too far from Plant City, Dade City, Orlando and a 2 1/2 - 3 hour drive to Daytona for Bike Week and the Turkey Run. About an hour to Garlit's place and not too much longer to Gainesville for the drags. No good beaches here though. Still trying to get used to the hot summers, we came from the Buffalo, NY area.
Been living in Florida for 5 years and before that visited in the winter months for 4 years. Took our motorhome to Key West for those 4 winters (now sold it) but there's no way that we could afford to purchase a home there! Settled in Weeki Wachee, above Tampa and it's a pretty neat place, lots of rods. Not too far from Plant City, Dade City, Orlando and a 2 1/2 - 3 hour drive to Daytona for Bike Week and the Turkey Run. About an hour to Garlit's place and not too much longer to Gaineville for the drags. No good beaches here though. Still trying to get used to the hot summers, we came from the Buffalo, NY area. Oh, one thing I miss is playing hockey 3-4 nights a week and drinking beer/eating chicken wings after the games with alot of good buddies!!
hey NSRA905, you brought back childhood memories.... weeki wachee. went there a few times when we were kids. they had a huge tank with hot chicks dressed and murmaids swimming in the tank. a large glass walled tank. i remember once the ladies went tot he top and splashed some water on me and my brothers.Quote:
Originally Posted by NSRA905
man, i would have great dreams about those murmaids. LOL.
take care..
leonard
Weeki Wachee Springs. Yeah, not far from our house. I purchase a season's pass so I can drink beer at the beach bar and watch the hot mamas that bring there kids to swim!:eek::3dSMILE:Quote:
Originally Posted by RATRODKING
man, way cool. if i lived that close, i would drink beer there too and watch the murmaids. LOL.Quote:
Originally Posted by NSRA905
thanks for bringing up those fond memories.
leonard
i just looked on their website... hot murmaids for sure.
http://weekiwachee.com/main/index.ph...d=44&Itemid=11
but there are a few guys that swim also.... cant they just leave the murmaid thing to the girls ? LOL.
leonard
Guys
Being coming to Florida since 93 usually every couple of years,always worth the Jet Lag..Try and do one of the runs either Turkey or the NSRA one in October,have being to the Goodguys one`s before, but they don`t seen to be on at the moment anyone know why..?
Hoping to be back this year if we can get cheap flights.
Ta
Dave
NSRA UK:cool: