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07 BS Ag/Bio Engineering. Loved going to school there, wasn’t a huge fan of the city. Went back last year for a bball game for the first time in a 7 or 8 years - amazing how much that place has changed!
Class of '73. First in my family to go to college. My mom's brother came home from the war and went to Florida (Ag major) and my oldest cousin (mom's age) got his BS and MS in Mech Eng there. My uncle was a Letterman Club member. The first toy he brought me was a Florida football; I was 6 days old. My younger brother marched in the band and graduated 12 years after me. His son graduated with a BS in ME and ASE last year. OBTW-there is an endowed chair at the Ag College (I know they changed the name) in my uncles name-my inheritance is in Gville:).Class of '73; both parents worked at and retired from UF, wife born in Gainesville, her mother raised in Gainesville and youngest brother went to UF & UF Medical School; our daughter graduated from UF in 2002 and works there now, as does her husband. Anyone have a deeper pedigree than this?
How about since 65. The interstate runs out there now. Gville shopping center was where you went. (still no Gville Mall)You think it's changed since '07? How about the changes since '91? Archer Road/Butler Plaza area and everything west of 75 is unrecognizable to me when I go back. Hard to believe hardly anything existed out that way once upon a time.
I’m sure it has but I don’t really have that as a point of reference... That new shopping area west of 75 is crazy to me.You think it's changed since '07? How about the changes since '91? Archer Road/Butler Plaza area and everything west of 75 is unrecognizable to me when I go back. Hard to believe hardly anything existed out that way once upon a time.
I’m sure it has but I don’t really have that as a point of reference... That new shopping area west of 75 is crazy to me.
I’m sure it has but I don’t really have that as a point of reference... That new shopping area west of 75 is crazy to me.
We stayed at the Holiday Inn Express (also new) on 13th while I was there. Had to drive by the medical area to get there... ho...li...sheet... That whole Shands complex has exploded. And that pedestrian bridge is pretty cool.Archer Road/Butler Plaza area is unrecognizable just in the past 3 years! Drury Inn hotel just popped up out of nowhere, and there’s a huge Aloft hotel behind the Hilton on 34th, and a huge apartment complex.