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Old Dixie Changed To President Barack Obama Highway In Riviera Beach
cbs12 ^ | december 17, 2015 | thomas forester

Posted on 12/17/2015 3:27:45 PM PST by lowbridge

Old Dixie Highway is now officially President Barack Obama Highway within the city limits of Riviera Beach.

For the residents of Riviera Beach, it has been a long time coming.

Mary Brabham has been a resident of Riviera Beach for years. She says the change is welcome.

"It's time to let the past be the past. We are moving forward and do things not for one, but for all."

According to Riviera Beach Mayor Thomas Masters, Old Dixie Highway served as a reminder that this city was once heavily segregated.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbs12.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: barackobamahighway; florida; obama; olddixiehighway; rivierabeach; segregation
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To: lowbridge

HAHAHAHAHHAhahhahahha ha ha ha!

They spelled his name with a zero! The signs are President Barack 0bama Highway, not President Barack Obama Highway.

0 not O in 0bama...

Freakin’ love it!


61 posted on 12/17/2015 4:11:44 PM PST by Southack (The one thing preppers need from the 1st World? http://tinyurl.com/ktfwljc .)
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To: lowbridge

gag


62 posted on 12/17/2015 4:13:27 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: lowbridge

Riviera Beach is mostly an appalling slum so Barack Obama highway is a good fit.


63 posted on 12/17/2015 4:14:42 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: hkinsey3

You know, that gives me an idea. From here on out, I’m going to name everything I own which requires a name, either “Dixie” or “General Lee”. Every last thing which requires a name or title, and maybe some which don’t. I already have the flag on my license plate (state flag, MS, and Confederate flag, SoCV plate), and I’m going to find a way to incorporate Dixie and the Old South into everything I can.


64 posted on 12/17/2015 4:25:29 PM PST by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: lowbridge

Obama Akbar!!


65 posted on 12/17/2015 4:26:49 PM PST by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: lowbridge

Should have named it Dead End.


66 posted on 12/17/2015 4:36:56 PM PST by Gator113 (Cruz or Trump ’“No”’€â€â„)
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To: lowbridge

If you ever seen Riviera beach you would not want your name attached to it.


67 posted on 12/17/2015 4:41:39 PM PST by italianquaker
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Trump Turnpike? Donald Trump Way? DJT Highway?


68 posted on 12/17/2015 4:45:06 PM PST by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject")
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To: lowbridge

Need anyone ask the color of the city’s mayor?


69 posted on 12/17/2015 4:49:39 PM PST by CdMGuy
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To: dinodino

You wouldn’t want to live there. Name sounds lovely but it’s a dump and across the bridge from Palm Beach.


70 posted on 12/17/2015 4:52:24 PM PST by surrey
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To: ripnbang

The Cruz Cruiseway.


71 posted on 12/17/2015 4:53:03 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You were a little late...I had to fill the opening :_). Good luck to him. Cheers.


72 posted on 12/17/2015 4:54:17 PM PST by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject")
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To: lowbridge

Riviera Beach has always been known as a craphole. Utterly appropriate.


73 posted on 12/17/2015 5:02:23 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: harwood

If you know the area at all you know that the government there has been a collection of sleezeballs since (at least) the ‘60’s. Some of you might remember Tugboat Anne of late and pernicious fame in Riviera Beach.


74 posted on 12/17/2015 5:14:00 PM PST by wjr123
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To: lowbridge

Oh dear, another part of my past gone. I lived just off Old Dixie back in the 60s.


75 posted on 12/17/2015 5:21:56 PM PST by WVNan (qu)
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To: lowbridge

That road goes for hundreds of miles and is known everywhere as Dixie Hwy or Old Dixie Hwy.


76 posted on 12/17/2015 5:39:17 PM PST by Ray76 (Huckabee (Dec 15, 2015): Our priority is to protect Americans, not protect the reputation of Islam.)
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To: hkinsey3

Dixie is a mangling of the French word dix, meaning ten and referring to the 10 southern states. The Land of Dixie is nothing more than the land of the ten southern states, rather like New England.


77 posted on 12/17/2015 5:48:01 PM PST by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

I live in Riviera Beach.
In a beautiful ocean front condo.
Not my choice, but it could be worse.
The stories I could tell. They ran Alan West out of here on a rail.
Today was the first day we saw the “President Barack Obama Highway” signs hanging over the railroad tracks.

Looking forward to retirement.


78 posted on 12/17/2015 6:29:42 PM PST by jean michael
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To: lowbridge

Riviera Beach is an interesting black majority enclave of Palm Beach county.
Along the beach barrier island is high rise condos and expensive homes on canals.
On the mainland side is majority poor blacks. And along Dixie Highway there is poor bars and great places to get killed.


79 posted on 12/18/2015 3:28:52 AM PST by Joe Boucher (the only good mooselimb is a dead mooselimb)
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To: surrey

Been there. Bought a yacht there and the broker staged it inRiviera Beach. It was not a nice neighborhood, but close to the sea.


80 posted on 12/18/2015 3:49:46 AM PST by dinodino
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