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Entry: Middleburg, Florida, USA - A7811741
Author: MJ [finding his thermals] - U168592

This is a Flea Market Rescue.

Original Entry here: A4619676 and Peer Review comments can be found here: F2249994?thread=718683

Hope it is okay

MJ

Have done a little more research and added more to the Entry. Think it's pretty good now

MJ

Updated with more links and tidied up some terrible grammar. There was much more to Middleburg than thought!

Thought I'd bounce this up now that bearly everyone is back at work after their hols...some comment would be grand

MJ

Sorry, I've meant to comment on this every time but time keep running away

>Middleburg, possibly the second oldest town in Florida, - er, is it or isn't it? Perhaps 'one of the oldest towns in Florida' if this can't be verified?

>Irish and German immigrant's - immigrants

>For nearly fifty years the U.S Army - US

>While they appear to be not much else other than - to be little more than

>The wide aisle down the center of the - centre

>(footnote 3) a total of only 1 fatal motor - only one

Great rescue, MJ!

Oh! Skrich! I've fixed up those bits and bobs so it reads better now.

MJ

Nice entry.

But to my UK-limited brain - what is a strip mall?

It's a series of shops that's all in a line, unlike a normal mall that's all in one building. The shops are usually connected and have the same parking lot. Sometimes euphemistically known as a 'shopping centre', a strip mall is different from a normal series of shops in that it's often situated some distance from other shops, i.e. not in a town centre where you'd expect to find them. Sometimes strip malls have a reputation for being somewhat grungy, but in places (like California) where there are a lot of them you can find some nice ones. A lot of the time there will be one big chain store (here it might be Wal-Mart or Target or a supermarket like Vons) and some smaller stores on either side.

Think I might footnote that info emr

MJ

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