Comments on: Mount Dora: Someplace Special https://www.floridianamagazine.com/mount-dora-someplace-special/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mount-dora-someplace-special History. Heritage. Home. Mon, 05 May 2025 20:32:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: doriskeeler@gmail.com https://www.floridianamagazine.com/mount-dora-someplace-special/#comment-1227 Mon, 24 Jun 2019 12:55:17 +0000 https://www.floridianamagazine.com/?p=2356#comment-1227 In reply to Tracy Stephens.

Great memories! Thank you for sharing!

]]> By: Tracy Stephens https://www.floridianamagazine.com/mount-dora-someplace-special/#comment-1226 Mon, 24 Jun 2019 12:52:36 +0000 https://www.floridianamagazine.com/?p=2356#comment-1226 My home town. The Stephens family owned Stephens Cleaners & Laundry on Donnelly and the large home right next door on the corner. Chief Buddy Hewitt was the police chief and a gentleman named Carroll Griggs? Or similar worked there at the time. This was in the 60s. I roamed the streets of Mount Dora every day on my bike. Fished Lake Dora with my grandfather, Oscar Stephens and did not realize at the time what would become of MD. The dime store was a favorite as was the drugstore. We had several hardware stores as I recall. Gizmo’s was our favorite lunch spot.

So we have many memories of Mount Dora and try to visit often.

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