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Pastor Pearl’ by Stephen Kindland Ious Boards of Directors and Acting As a Liaison Tends the Methodist Church on Park Avenue SPORTS We Insure FOCUS HOMES Jane DiLoreto Agency T-Minus 25 days: 215-2121 High School football begins! 3701193-01 SPORTS THURSDAY, JULY 12, 2012 WWW.CLAYTODAYONLINE.COM VOLUME 42, NO. 28 75¢75 COUPON SAVINGS American Two projects may $AVE Pie parade change landscape $ of Green Cove Sp. By Pete Geiger Correspondent WITH60 COUPONS GREEN COVE SPRINGS – Two construction proj- INSIDE THIS ISSUE ects should alter the landscape of downtown Green Cove Springs by mid-2013. They are the $5.24 million new police headquar- ters to be built at the southwest corner of Idlewild and NEWS Melrose avenues and a new Clay County Supervisor of Elections headquarters to be fashioned from a remod- FOCUS eled auto dealership at the northeast corner of Park Street and North Orange Avenue. City Council on Tuesday, July 3 cleared the way for both projects. The police station, anticipated for several years, will be nanced with $600,000 in surtax reserves, $812,000 in grants, a $2,900,000 loan and $925,000 in other money. The council re-zoned two city-owned lots just west STAFF PHOTO BY STEPHEN KINDLAND of the CSX railroad crossing for the police building A motorcycle rider shows his patriotism as he makes from “institutional” to “commercial” use. his way down River Road in Orange Park during this Meanwhile, the former Fred Davis Chevrolet HERE’S THE QUESTION year’s American Pie Fourth of July celebration. See Want some money related photos inside from Clay County’s 4th of July. saving ideas? Pg. 4 SEE GCS, 8 Friends know good deeds of ‘Pastor Pearl’ By Stephen Kindland ious boards of directors and acting as a liaison tends the Methodist church on Park Avenue. Staff writer for the Salvation Army and Catholic Charities. “And that’s after she’s been to three funerals.” But there are just as many who know that Less than a week after Orange Park Town ORANGE PARK – Many people know Pas- Pearl Boles is more than an administrator. Mayor Gary Meeks read a proclamation honor- TRUCK DAMAGED tor Pearl as a woman who spent the past three A lot more. ing Pastor Pearl for 30 years of sel ess Man accused of decades overseeing ministries at Orange Park “She goes out in the woods and feeds home- stealing public works United Methodist Church while serving on var- less people,” said Leslie Thompson, who at- SEE PEARL, 10 truck. Pg. 13 INSERTS USA WEEKEND NEWS AMERICA COUPONS HOME DEPOT Enter to win: GEICO Restaurant Gift Certificates | Show Tickets | Zoo Passes APPLEBEES facebook.com/ClayTodayFL A great place to connect to Clay County 2 CLAY TODAY • July 12, 2012 COMMUNITY CLAYTODAYONLINE.COM by Clay County Mary Jo [email protected] Memories [email protected] Moving picture shows came to all areas of Clay County In the early years of the 1900s every- thing changed when motion pictures came on the scene. All over the county people were piling into their Tin Lizzies or horse drawn wagons to travel miles and watch the “ ickers” In Green Cove Springs fans had it the best with an actual theater – the Palace Opera House and Motion Picture Show on Walnut St. They lined up in the street to watch the lovely Pearl White in The Perils of Pauline. A cionados in other parts of the county had to make do. Local farmer, William Maierfeldt, rent- ed movies, a projector and space in the Hand School’s Presbyterian Church at the southeast corner of Kingsley and Smith Sts. For a nickel a head, theater-goers shouted the brief dialog frames aloud and shook the building with their stomping feet as the train bore down on Pauline. In the 1940s, usherettes at the Clay Theater were some of Green Cove Springs’ loveliest young ladies. Left to right: Juanita Brooker (King), Olivia Green Cove Springs continued to lead Brook (Sabotta), Nancy Harris, former GCS mayor Jerry Knight (Williams), Charlotte Knowles and Kathleen Shedd. the way when in 1936, R.C. Wilson moved his Palace Theater to the northeast corner ater and to their seats with ashlights WPA cannery was also used as a theater For a brief time, The Airbase Drive-in of Hwy. 17 and Walnut and a year later re- The rest of the county continued to im- when it wasn’t being used for roller-skat- did have some near-by competition when named it the Clay Theater. It was posh and provise. In Orange Park, Jimmie Wylie, ing. one of the Baxleys out on 220 made his de- a rst class motion picture theater. who was a former circus trapeze artist and In the 1950s, Green Cove Springs lost but in show business with the opening of A lighted marquee announced current stunt man in early motion pictures lmed its status as the only community in the the Rideout Drive-in. He strung up a sheet and coming attractions and the concession in Jacksonville, showed movies in the town county with a permanent theater when the between two pine trees, set up his 16 mm stand in the lobby offered an assortment hall on Kingsley Ave. Airbase Drive-In came to Orange Park and projector and ran an extension cord from of treats. Local girls, attired in tailored Frank Jenkins, Middleburg black en- Keystone Stone Heights got a drive-in too. the house. Today, the professionals are in jackets and stylish trousers made popular trepreneur, combined a picture show with County seat citizens technically were the charge with their mind blowing special ef- by Greta Garbo and Katherine Hepburn, dancing to follow for ten cents a head and only ones to have a theater with a roof. fects and sophisticated video techniques escorted customers into the darkened the- children, a nickel. The town’s abandoned But drive-ins were all the rage. and foot stomping is rarely required. 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