Oddball Florida: A Guide to Some Really Strange Places

by Jerome Pohlen

Book Overview

This entertaining guide directs travelers to the off-the-wall and offbeat destinations in Florida, home of gator wrestlers, school bus demolition derbies, Hemingway wannabes, the Fountain of Youth,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556525036
• ISBN13: 9781556525032
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

I'm Odd So This Is Something I Can Get Into

Odd, yes! Cheesy, yes! As someone who should have been kickin' around in the '30's and '40's when Florida was a veritable rat trap of tourist attractions, this book is about as good as it gets. I live in FL part time and when I am here I will go way out of my way to check out anything that might be called weird, oddball, or tacky. Give me a ice cream cone stand that looks like a jumbo soft serve cone, a faux pirate ship that used to have bingo nights, or the world's largest orange and I am happy. It's all in this crazy, fun guide. The joys of cruisin' the Tamiami Trail for the ultimate oddities or hitting the Irlo Bronson Hwy in Kissimee for too much strangeness for a couple miles or Wikiwatchee----the home of the live mermaids. You can use this fun guide to immerse yourself in oddball stuff as you crisscross the state. Great for the real deal traveler or the armchair variety tourista.

Oddball Florida

We as snowbirds travel to florida each winter, this books is full of info of places we visited that now after reading it, we must revisit some of those places. "Great Book full of info" DWS

If you like off the beaten track, this is for you!

I live in Florida, so was very curious about this book. I found it to be very good. If you are the type of traveler to get off the Interstate and Turnpike because it all looks the same to you, then you need this book!