Talk:Dade City, Florida

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There actually used to be a bowling alley in Dade City, although it closed more than 30 years ago. It was located in the area that is currently bordered by the new Hugh Embry Library on the West, the National Guard Armory on the North, and the St. Pete Times (the old Town Hall building) on the East. I've heard there is currently a coffe e shop there on the corner. I don't know if the building is the original building or if the bowling alley was torn down and rebuilt as office space. Accordingly, I would like to remove the part of this article about there not being a bowling alley in Dade City. Please let me know if there are any objections. Additionally, it might be an interesting piece to add to the article. I believe I know who the bowling alley owner was, although I would need to confirm with some other locals.

Other topics that might add to this article are:

1. The Lykes Pasco plant, which used to be the largest orange juice processing plant in the world at one time (probably until the freeze in the 1980's - I'd have to do some research). This was a very important source of jobs for the area for a long time. There is also a Lykes Fertilizer plant, but it is not as large an employer as the orange juice plant was.

2. There used to be a Coca-Cola bottling plant downtown on 7th, directly across from where Ivy Cottage Antiques is now. They made those little glass bottles of Coca-Cola that have the city name imprinted on the bottom, so there are some out there that say 'Dade City' on the bottom. I think I have some around somewhere, so I can provide a picture. The plant closed down a long time ago - I'd say in the early 70s at the latest.

3. At the Southwest corner of Church Street and 7th, there used to be a movie theatre in the Deco style (or something, I'm not really up on these things). Anyway, it was a period piece, and really gave the area some character. In the late 90s, a bank bought the property and tore the movie theater down. There were some protests locally, which is very unusual for the area. There was another theater (and they may not have torn it down yet) a few streets back from seventh and to the south of where the other theater was. It was called the Crescent Theater. There was a failed attempt to raise money to restore this theater in the 2000s, and the building may or may not exist anymore.

4. Famous athletes from Dade City: Jim Courier, Catfish Hunter, Gene Nelson, and others. Not my area, but if someone wanted to take this on it would balance out the page.

5. Authors: Frank Laumer - local historian, widely recognized as the pre-dominant expert on the Dade Battlefield Massacre. I know there are other authors from Dade City, but can't think of any at the moment.

6. Some more detail about the Edward Scissorhands movie. I think it was filmed largely in an area constructed for that purpose just North of Pasco-Hernando Community College. There is a house plainly visible on the West side of the road that looks a little bit like a castle. I think the neighborhood is just behind there, but I could be wrong.

7. Hugh Embry - not sure what he did, but they named a library after him. Probably worth looking into.

Jwgloverii (talk) 00:51, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Brockville?
I saw an earlier edit requesting a citation for the nickname of 'Brockville'. Has anyone ever heard of this name before? I do know of some Brocks in Dade City, but I haven't heard it called Brockville. There is a city called Brooksville somewhat nearby, but not close enough for anyone local to confuse the two.

I'm wondering if perhaps there might be a small section of town that was referred to as Brockville at one point? There are a couple of other parts that have old nicknames that I have only heard long-time residents use (infrequently) - 'Tommytown', 'Masaryktown', and a couple of others that I can't recall at the moment.

Jwgloverii (talk) 03:12, 18 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Tommytown is one section of Dade City. Masaryktown is nowhere near Dade City. In fact it's not even in Pasco County. It's along US 41 in the south end of Hernando County. DanTD (talk) 14:31, 9 March 2009 (UTC)


 * dade city is not a suburb of tampa..tampa is about an hour north — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.111.72.232 (talk • contribs)

Eunice Penix
Penix was found non-notable. Simply copying and pasting the entire deleted article into here with a redirect isn't the way to go and it's a blatant attempt to circumvent the AfD process. It's promotional and undue weight. She is no more notable than anyone else on the council, but we get a 3 paragraph bio of her and her positions. I'm contesting the inclusion and would like someone to explain why she merits 3 paragraphs of article space while nobody else gets any. Niteshift36 (talk) 18:48, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Mayor pro tem is not the highest position in Dade City government, the Mayor is. Ms. Penix and the newest commissioner are the only ones of the current five not to have ever been the Mayor, making her less notable than three of the other four commissioners. However, even being the Mayor is not that big a deal, the mayor is also a commissioner, they get the same vote as the other commissioners, the difference is that the Mayor runs the meeting. The Mayor pro tem runs the meetings whenever the Mayor is absent. I don’t think Ms. Penix ever actually ran a commission meeting, making her Mayor pro tem position essentially an honorary one. Tupelo the typo fixer (talk) 17:08, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

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