FLORIDA MEMORIES FROM A FLORIDA NATIVE BY TOM ROUTZONG - How I Remember Cocoa Village As A Kid
I’m going back a few years and sharing some things I remember about Cocoa Village and surrounding areas.
Every Saturday morning I went with my dad to Farmers Supply Store. It was located between the east and west streets of 520 on Florida Avenue.
I always got lots of attention from Bob Brannin and Pete as they had something special to share with me. Every Easter they sold colored baby chicks and they let me pick out the ones I wanted. Since I loved chickens this was a great time for me.
We always bought our farm animal food from there. I can still smell the citrus pulp that we got for our cows. It was dried citrus ground up.
I’m going back a few years and sharing some things I remember about Cocoa Village and surrounding areas.
Every Saturday morning I went with my dad to Farmers Supply Store. It was located between the east and west streets of 520 on Florida Avenue.
I always got lots of attention from Bob Brannin and Pete as they had something special to share with me. Every Easter they sold colored baby chicks and they let me pick out the ones I wanted. Since I loved chickens this was a great time for me.
We always bought our farm animal food from there. I can still smell the citrus pulp that we got for our cows. It was dried citrus ground up.
Next to the feed store was a business where you could rent a freezer space for your meat. We would butcher a hog and take it to them and they would cut it up and wrap it for us and put it in our freezer space. Whenever we needed any of our meat all you had to do was tell them and they would go to your freezer and get it for you.
Going to the Cocoa Post Office was always an exciting time for me. I remember thinking how high up it was and I had to climb all those steps to get to the front door. I look now and there are only about four or five steps. I still remember exactly where box 973 was and I was able to get the mail while my mother was visiting with Mr. Townsend who worked there.
Going to the Cocoa Post Office was always an exciting time for me. I remember thinking how high up it was and I had to climb all those steps to get to the front door. I look now and there are only about four or five steps. I still remember exactly where box 973 was and I was able to get the mail while my mother was visiting with Mr. Townsend who worked there.
Down the street from the post office was a 5 and 10 cent store and it had the big ceiling fans in the halls and I thought that was really neat and much cooler than most stores and for sure our house.
Going to Travis Hardware was a Saturday outing too. I remember Mr. Fred Travis and how he would always ask me about my ducks and were they still swimming through the house? He had come to our house with Bing Miller one day after a hurricane and we had water coming in the front door and out the back. He kidded me that my ducks were swimming in and out of the house.
I also remember Mr. Roy Wall, the bookkeeper, having his office in the middle of the store on a raised platform surrounded by a rail. He was always very serious.
Going to Travis Hardware was a Saturday outing too. I remember Mr. Fred Travis and how he would always ask me about my ducks and were they still swimming through the house? He had come to our house with Bing Miller one day after a hurricane and we had water coming in the front door and out the back. He kidded me that my ducks were swimming in and out of the house.
I also remember Mr. Roy Wall, the bookkeeper, having his office in the middle of the store on a raised platform surrounded by a rail. He was always very serious.
Cocoa always had a Halloween parade and I remember being in it once. I was a hobo with a fishing pole. My mother had fished all day in the ditch by our house trying to catch a brim for me to have on my hook.
Cocoa always had a huge parade every year called the Orange Jubilee Parade. Our local schools even had floats decorated and there was a Orange Jubilee Queen. The high school band was always featured. Many of the local business owners would decorate a float or car and it was always an event that everyone looked forward to.
Cocoa always had a huge parade every year called the Orange Jubilee Parade. Our local schools even had floats decorated and there was a Orange Jubilee Queen. The high school band was always featured. Many of the local business owners would decorate a float or car and it was always an event that everyone looked forward to.
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