{"id":432828,"date":"2026-10-20T08:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T08:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/432828\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T08:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T08:10:10","slug":"walking-down-memory-lane-the-community-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/432828\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking down memory lane &#8211; The Community Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 1980s were a heyday for Church Street Station, and founder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourcommunitypaper.com\/events\/united-states\/florida\/orlando-1\/adult-events\/from-railroads-to-rosies-the-evolution-of-the-church-street-block\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Snow<\/a> capitalized on the destination\u2019s popularity. While visiting the attraction, visitors could buy a commemorative brick to be installed in and around the entryways to the Exchange Building, Bumby Arcade, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourcommunitypaper.com\/articles\/the-way-we-were-cheyenne-saloon-hits-the-small-screen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cheyenne Saloon &amp; Opera House<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61673\" class=\"size-large wp-image-61673\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261013_122224-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"Several engraved bricks that are part of a sidewalk.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-61673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Church Street Station bricks commemorated a number of celebrations \u2014 or just stated the obvious. (NICK GEORGOUDIOU)<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of the bricks were purchased, celebrating people, birthdays, vacations, recent marriages, holidays and much more. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourcommunitypaper.com\/articles\/church-street-renovations-begin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Construction on Church Street started in July<\/a>, converting the block with the Church Street Station buildings to a festival street. With that change, the bricks are being removed, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlando.gov\/Events\/Chance-to-Take-a-Commentative-Church-Street-Brick-Home\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">City of Orlando set up a program to help people identify and claim their bricks<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>After scouting out her own brick over the weekend, local resident and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourcommunitypaper.com\/author\/allison-steedle\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">former Community Paper columnist Allison Steedle<\/a> arrived at noon on Oct. 13 to reserve three bricks \u2014 hers, her brother\u2019s and a cousin\u2019s who now lives up north.\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61669\" class=\"size-large wp-image-61669\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Allison-Steedle-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Woman holding a paper certificate \" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-61669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allison Steedle brought the commemorative certificate her family received when they bought her Church Street brick in 1985. (NICK GEORGOUDIOU)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t think about my brick very often, but I\u2019ve always been weirdly proud of it,\u201d wrote Steedle. \u201cI\u2019ve come and gone and come back again to Orlando, and it\u2019s been fun to think about how it\u2019s just been in that place for over 40 years now. It\u2019s sad that they are being removed, but so cool to be able to get back a piece of the city and my history!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orlandofamilystage.com\/show\/the-best-halloween-ever\/?utm_source=communitypaper&amp;utm_medium=display\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792483810_688_3.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Steedle met with members of the Downtown Orlando Ambassador Team who were on hand over the week to mark off the claimed bricks. The mementos would be available later once they could be removed safely.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to a city release, unclaimed bricks will go into storage and be repurposed for other projects.\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 1980s were a heyday for Church Street Station, and founder Bob Snow capitalized on the destination\u2019s popularity.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-432828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}