My favorite place in Orlando has to be downtown, a place that by day is bustling with business people and politicians and by night is packed with drunk club-goers. It's also probably Orlando's most walkable neighborhood. You really don't even need a car if you live on this end of town. You can walk to the bars, the supermarket, a movie theater, the courthouse, your job, and all the awesome restaurants and my favorite place downtown, Lake Eola Park
This first shot is along East Colonial near the Fashion Sq Mall. East Colonial Drive is like the All-American commercial strip of Big Box Stores, several shopping malls, fast food as well as full service restaurants, cell phone stores, among other various types of shops you can think of. You'll find them on East Colonial between Bumby Ave and Bennett Street
This is Colonial Drive looking east from the intersection at Mills Avenue. The Mills/50 area reminds me a lot of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. The narrow 5 lane avenues, the street lights, the old buildings built right up against the road, as well as the heavy traffic that is a regular occurrence here. Mills/50 is Orlando's Vietnam town. There are lots of Vietnamese shops and restaurants serving Pho in this area
This place here is Wally's Mills Avenue Liquors. In business since 1954, it is Orlando's oldest bar in continuity. I went inside and the place is real divey, reeked of cigarette smoke and seemed like a place old drunks would hang out. The bar opens at 7:30 in the morning and is open till 2 am 7 days a week
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