LEARN MORE: ABC Action News talks with Gregory Fancelli, who is driving the save-the-mural effort.
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Polk Theatre Tenting: It’s All Wrapped Up
Source: Facebook: David Dickey Jr., Good-exposure
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Scenes: Polk Theatre Gets a Really Big Tent
Black and silver tarps are being draped over the Polk Theatre today as the 90-year-old structure is being readied for fumigation. The panels will stay up through Monday, according to a Polk Theatre Facebook post, and programming resumes next Friday, when “Love, Gilda,” a documentary about Gilda Radner opens | View a larger version of the photo
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Scene: Grove Park Publix Demolition Begins
OLD PUBLIX, NEW PUBLIX: Demolition has started at the 1960-vintage Publix Super Market (store No. 11) at Grove Park. In its place will rise a modern 46,000-square-foot replacement Publix with a pharmacy and adjoining liquor store. We hear that the store’s mural is bring preserved.
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Scene: Timely Sign on Lake Morton
ONLY IN SWAN CITY: In the last week, we’ve posted photos of “Drive Like Your Kids Live Here” signs and written about distracted driving killing swans on Lake Morton. But we didn’t think the two would come together so soon in one sign. “Drive Like Your Swans Live Here” signs were created and posted by […]
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Video: Nike Ad Highlights FSC Architecture
Hat tip to LALtoday for unearthing this 2017 video for their article about Florida Southern College’s Frank Lloyd Wright architecture.
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Gallery: Tribute to Lineman Sculpture Unveiled
A sculpture honoring electric linemen as first responders was unveiled today on a lawn between Lake Mirror and the Lakeland Electric headquarters. It was designed by three Lakeland High School students who won a competition sponsored by Platform Art. Check after the jump for a photo gallery from the event:
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Photos: Tracking the ‘Ivan’ Movie Shoots
Photographer Jeff Lakeland caught images of actor Bryan Cranston and other scenes involved with the filming of Walt Disney Pictures’ “The One and Only Ivan” in Lakeland this week: Source: Facebook: Jeff Lakeland
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Scene: Fireworks Over Marchant
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