The VA hospital is close to Shands, across Archer Road from the U of Florida dental school adjoining Shands. Set back from Archer Road and with road access on SW 16th Ave., the VA Hospital is easy to overlook.
In 1978, Ted Bundy killed two girls at the Chi Omega sorority house in Tallahassee, badly beating three more girls. At the time, Bundy was living at a rooming house on College Avenue, between the front of the FSU campus and the Florida State Capitol building. I lived in Tallahasse for almost thirty years and know both locations well.
Gotcha on both points.
I’ve only been to FSU once, and needless to say, sobriety was a tad of an issue that evening.
UF v FSU game.
I graduated HS in 78, and Bundy terrified me. There was no way in H-E-double-toothpicks that I was going to FSU, but as Mr. Petty sang to us,
“Well, she was an American girl
Raised on promises
She couldn’t help thinkin’
That there was a little more to life somewhere else
After all it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to
And if she had to die tryin’
She had one little promise she was gonna keep…”
This American girl had to move on from the place she grew up. Atlanta seemed like a nice place to try. I wouldn’t ever go back, but it worked for me then.