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#101465 - 05/16/12 02:18 PM Re: Museum **** [Re: Captain Chris Stanaback]
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Thanks Captain, but I'm still confused. What are we seeing at the beginning of this video?
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#101467 - 05/16/12 03:08 PM Re: Museum [Re: TAH]
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Looking south on Highway 441. Taking a left onto the Randall property, going east approx. 1/4 mile. The driveway you see on the bottom photo at the bottom right of the picture is the driveway you are coming up. The shop is the first building you will come to in that lower photo. It will be on your right. In the picture above that you can see this drive coming from the left. Go past the shop, the driveway curves towards the museum. The drive then curves around past the museum and continues out to where you would then exit onto Holden Ave. If you do a view of Google Earth Highway 441 & Holden Ave. you might get an idea of the layout better.


Edited by Michael_Mason (05/16/12 03:16 PM)
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#101468 - 05/16/12 03:16 PM Re: Museum [Re: TAH]
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Lets see if I can help with these shots. There is the public drive to the Randall Shop off of Orange Blossom Trail. Thirty years ago this was country, not so much now. Only about 7 miles from down town Orlando. Orange Blossom Trail is a very busy high way with with traffic counts above 50,000 cars per day. Look both ways before pulling out into that street. Hope this helps some.


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Description: Orange Bloss Trail entrance

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Description: Ground shot of long drive to Shop

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Description: Holden Ave entrance

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Description: HoldenAve and Orange Blossom Trail




Edited by Abby (05/16/12 03:22 PM)
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#101473 - 05/16/12 03:51 PM Re: Museum [Re: Abby]
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Thanks Michael and Abby. Now I understand.
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#101475 - 05/16/12 04:11 PM Re: Museum [Re: TAH]
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As Mike indicated, the last photo in Abby's post show the shop, when heading directly from West to East. When I say downtown Orlando...it didn't "used" to be...but Orlando extends for miles and miles in all directions from the Randall shop nowadays.
Also: If you're visiting the shop from now on there is "no" legal access to this long driveway, when traveling south on #441 (Orange Blossom Trail). The highway dept. has screwed that up...BIG TIME!! You have to:
A) Turn 30 yards "short" and the entrance and 45 degree yourself across 4 lanes of oncoming traffic!

B) Drive 1/4 mile past the entrance, figure out some non-suicidal way of u-turning and make a right-hand turn into the drive.

C) Turn west off of OBT at the traffic light at Holden and drive east...You can then turn right (south) into Randall's property via Bo's old private drive.

Now....Ya'll are "really" confused!
Glad I could help, Capt. Chris
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#101480 - 05/16/12 04:50 PM Re: Museum [Re: Captain Chris Stanaback]
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Two more shots to help you see the light. Captain loved the A B C's of driving in Orlando.


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Description: Capt.'s turn from Hell

------LakeRuth.jpg

Description: Fly over shot from Lake Ruth looking down long drive to OBT


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#101481 - 05/16/12 04:53 PM Re: Museum [Re: Abby]
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By the Way a question on Photo file size. Has the file size been lowered from 500k back down to 100k. I ran in to trouble with file size during my photo up loads. May be I missed the memo on this change.
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#101485 - 05/16/12 07:07 PM Re: Museum [Re: Abby]
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Morris,
I have never known the size to be 500Kb...Rather more like 360kb...or so.
Also: The aerial photo of OBT is quite antiquated. There is absolutely "NO" double turn lane in the center anymore. Totally partitioned except for a few select cutouts!
Good luck ya'll! Capt. Chris
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