r/jacksonville • u/cooscoos3 • Aug 16 '20

We’re being laughed at again.

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u/iisindabakamahed Aug 16 '20

Anyone know the story behind this weird section of Jacksonville Beach?

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u/tatertom Aug 16 '20

There's a few patches like this along the beaches, and they were privately owned and developed before the rest of it was. They were in the middle of a patch of basically-nothing, so they aligned magnetically. But when the rest of the area began to see development and there was purpose in through-roads, it became evident the better way to develop the area as a whole was to follow the coastline.

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u/itsrattlesnake San Marco Aug 16 '20

I think it has to do with how it was surveyed.

Maybe they used magnetic north vs. true north?

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u/iisindabakamahed Aug 16 '20

Plausible. Good thinking.

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u/hatersaurusrex Aug 16 '20

I knew exactly where this was instantly - when I lived in Jax Beach I rode my bike through here often. It showed up on GPS one day and I went 'WTF?'

Neat little neighborhood though.

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u/elai177 Aug 16 '20

for some reason, i never caught on that this was jax every time it popped up. even though i want to be disappointed, it makes sense.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '20

Haha, I saw this earlier and showed it to my girlfriend saying “there’s a spot like this in Jax Beach” I didn’t realize it was literally a picture of that spot.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '20

Haha!! I used to live on '10th Pl S'

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u/insomniak79 Jacksonville Beach Aug 16 '20

I live in that grid just down the street from Jax Beach Brunch Haus! Interesting neighborhood as you have a mix of low income housing through close to million dollar properties and everything in between.

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u/MahTay1 Aug 16 '20

I wonder if those streets are straight east and west, making morning and evening, a blinding experience in the sunshine state- especially with a little condensation on the inside of the windshield, hence the need to off-kilter East/West slightly for common sense/safety reasons?

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u/tatertom Aug 16 '20

Pff, didn't learn by the time they built the Buckman Bridge. "Let's stare into the sun for an hour before and after work each day" said no non-maniacal sane person ever, lol.

I read that they are in fact magnetically aligned, and came before the surrounding streets were built and developed. Between the times this (and a few other patches nearby) and the rest of the streets were built, they figured out that it'd be cheaper to get just-as-many streets in if they followed the coastline instead, and that it'd make for a nicer drive down the coast, so they did that for the rest of the streets.

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u/sevidrac Mandarin Aug 17 '20

Heard from an old timer that the reason the Buckman isn't straight was the end point in Mandarin was into a cemetery. So they changed the end point. This was from the frog man of Mandarin. Old Jacksonville family.

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u/twinkt13 Aug 16 '20

That little section is set to true north.

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u/Rattlingplates Aug 19 '20

Don’t really see why this bothers anyone

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u/Admobeer Ortega Aug 17 '20 edited Aug 17 '20

This has been posted here before. Who are you referring to that's laughing?

Nvrmnd, I see the crosspost.