THE NET index·Region:The Panhandle — old-school Florida·Gulf Coast Watchers:New Orleans·Miami·Houston

🎣 Highway 98 OriginJimbo's · 18+The roots were real before the trees grew toward each other.

◻ Old-school Florida · the serious root

The Panhandle — where the body became the first machine.

"Pine, billboard, and the long flat patience of a place most people only drive through."

Highway 27 · US-98 · Carrabelle → Panama City · a Gulf Coast Watcher

The serious root under the medical college — bodies that couldn't move, and the people who spent their lives arguing with that fact. Magical Mobile Movers ran the most sophisticated custom seating in the state out of a trailer on US-98: B.J. made them better, Sid made them comfortable, Jody made them move — a lineage that runs all the way up to powered limbs and brain-links. And off Orange Ave, in the largest magnet lab in North America, Shamika Williams first heard the Earth keeping time. A Gulf Coast Watcher, sitting on the Arsenal Corridor to Tullahoma.

1982 the first PT cohortUS-27 · US-98 the corridorthe roots were real before the trees

I · The Serious Root

Highway 98 — the clinical corridor where rehabilitation technology, and the whole medical college, actually began.

Highway 98 — The Panhandle Origin

Magical Mobile Movers (M³) — B.J., Sid & Jody, custom seating out of a trailer, up through Wytmyer Biomechanix, Herron's limbs and Donahew's brain-links. The clinical root of the whole medical college.

Dr. Shamika Williams — the Mag Lab

Twenty years at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory off Orange Ave — where she first heard the bedrock keeping time and mapped the Electromagnetic Triangle from Tallahassee. The Panhandle's own, and a Gulf Coast Watcher's ear to the ground.

II · North Florida

Up the line from the serious south — the looser, older, wilder door. Adult NET.

Jimbo's Booby Bigelow

The north-Florida country up the highway — the Panhandle's other, looser door. Red-tailed and rowdy; the wild edge of old Florida.18+

Still coming up out of the pine — the B.J. Medical Center (College VII), Wytmyer Biomechanix, Deep Sea Steve's backyard aquatic therapy, and Herron & Donahew's prosthetics-and-brain-link labs are written and on their way in. The Panhandle is a corner of the Gulf Coast Watchers — see the New Orleans room for the map. New rooms slot in as cards; the front door never has to change.