I'm Still Here!

Blog followers I've taken off for a while & am trying to get it back
in gear. I started messing around with the Les Whitaker color photo's
in Photoshop & have gotten major improvement in the color. I'm
thinking of reposting them little by little mostly because they're so
good & you don't come across good color photo's from that period (at
least I don't). So here's 2 of the same photo let me know in the
comments if you think it's worth the time? Top is the enhanced photo
bottom is the original. Light up those comments!

Parkshore Area February 3rd 1971

East 41 & Davis Blvd @ Sandpiper Street

Hands down one of my favorite photo's! The East Naples Shopping Plaza (or Clumsky Building) at 41 & Sandpiper housed the Italian Kitchen & Barker Drugs. (In reality the American gas station was at that corner not the shopping plaza). The Clumsky building really never ever was completed it sat that way for years. Hands down the coolest picture of a mosquito plane (cough,cough) no telling how many people moved to an early permanent residence in Naples Park (111th Ave graveyard) from breathing this stuff. I always said everyone is dying to live in Naples Park. Anytime I hear a stupid statement from an old timer I always figure they must of followed too close to the mosquito fogger truck on their bicycle and who didn't. Boat Haven without pavement Chrisse Morse told me Phil her dad (Boat Haven's owner) never liked asphalt pavement. Who in this town doesn't have a Boat Haven related story?

US 41 In Front Of The Driving Range

Wonderful photo, Danny.

That is the exact section of US 41 shut down by a pair of nefarious characters on Earth Day, 1970. They poured a quart of outboard motor oil into the carburator of a 1965 Corvair, and the resulting white smoke not only covered all four lanes of the Trail, but gassed the pure-minded NHS students who were riding their bikes to school that day in order to save the planet.

What twisted minds those fellows must have had. I'm glad that Al Gore wasn't there that day.

Ziegfield Troy/Blue Carribean Driving Range

This photo was shot from WT Grants ( where Office Depot sits today) looking east over Naples High School & looking down Golden Gate Parkway. I remember when Grants opened, in a Naples frame of mind you were thinking there must be a golf cart or shuttle bus to take you down to automotive, it was one HUGE store. The town was so small ( I never really got the sleepy fishing village thing) everything was large or too far outta town. Until you went to high school (and Naples High was the only one) you never got out that far. Unless you were going to Ft Myers to eat at McDonalds & take in the mall but why not drive on in to Tampa if you were up that way?

FYI:TGI Fridays & Panera Bread sit on this driving range now.

60's Era Naples Police Boat

Officer Ed Jones on boat patrol on Naples Bay. Bay Terrace Condo in the backround 1325 7th Street South. Shotgun boat passenger unknown (probably AWAYland Security) pre Homeland Security. :):):)

The Bindlestiff

The Bindlestiff was a small bar built out of an converted old house. It was owned by 3 partners John Noonan, Les Crown & Bill "Willard" Woodward. It sat on the north trail (where Midwest/Stewart Title sits now) & shared the property line with the adjacent property another bar called the Open Hearth (formerly the Port Hole & sat where KFC sits today). The Stiff was designed to resemble an old rail train station & on Friday & Saturday nights they would play 8mm B&W Laurel & Hardy & Abbott & Costello movies. It was only in business from sometime in 1972 to possibly 1976 & was a very popular place for young people to hang out. I remember the floor always being covered in peanut shells casings & believe peanuts were always free. On good nights there were 3 bartenders, 2 floor walkers & 2 sheriff patrol cars that sat in the Ford dealership parking lot across the street. I guess it was a good revenue source bars by night, dirtbikes by day.......
Bindlestiff Wikipedia explaination link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bindle

1960 Swamp Buggy Badge

I'll have to do my homework on these dates but the Parade was real close in date to Hurricane Donna. So being, this would have probably survived Donna if there was a parade. For those followers that weren't here you had to grow a beard during Swamp Buggy Days. During the parade if you didn't have a beard you HAD TO fork over a dollar for a badge or Swamp Buggy Buck. If you were caught watching the parade without either you were physically manhandled & drug out of your seat & thrown into the mobile jail! It was no tip toe through the tulips, ferry cross the mersey, walk in the park, politically correct event! It was quite a sight to see if you were a kid on a bicycle I don't recall anyone that actually deserved such a fate ever getting their just desert. I still have a list of folks that could use one of these....and I don't mean a badge either.

Don Glancy

Mr. Glancy was a wonderful teacher who challenged us to think about things from all points of view.

He was a also a very good friend.

He was always ready with a quip and an opinion, and I am a much better person for having known him.

He was also a Member Emeritus of the Loyal Order of Boogerettes, and our faculty advisor for the group.

We were so lucky at NHS to have so many exceptional teachers.

--Jim

Brookside Homeboys Former Digs

Ah yeah, the trusty old 4 Walls sign! It created many years of teenage embarrassment, my dad was the City Of Naples traffic engineer & had it made from an old KEEP RIGHT (on the back side it said KEEP RIGHT) street sign. Anytime anyone would offer me a ride home I would always plea for them to drop me off at the end of the street! No one would go for it & I would be stuck with the 4thwall nickname for a week or two. These days the only thing that comes close is forgetting my senior discount card at the shuffleboard courts...

Dig those 1974-75 Brookside home prices! At least we were LOVELY CLEAN & WELL MAINTAINED!

Gordon Drive (or 2nd Street South) @ 13th Ave South

The old motel is there (in the picture) & still was up to around 1966 when most of it was tore down. You can see The Beach Store & Naples Theatre in the distance.

Former NHS Teacher Don Glancy Passed Away

Nobel Laureate John Stein­beck once commented, “I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great a r t i s t and tha t there are as few as there are any other great artists.

Teaching might even be the great­est of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.” Over the last few months, countless letters, e-mails, In­ternet postings, and calls of thanks and support poured in from the former students of one such teacher, Donald Charles Glancy, as he battled cancer. On June 28, 2009, Don­ald passed away, but his legacy of intellectual and artistic ex­ploration lives on in the minds and spirits of his students and family.

Tenth of thirteen children of, Joseph Boyd Glancy and Millie Wagner Glancy, Donald was born in Liggett, Harlan County, KY on October 4, 1935. He attended Harlan County schools but moved with the family in 1951 to Michigan where he attended Romulus High School. He left to join the United States Marine Corps in 1953, trained in San Diego, and served with the Third Battal­ion, Platoon 292, in the Korean Conflict. Honorably dis­charged from the Marine Corps in August, 1956, Donald re­turned to attend theUniversity of Michigan, where he majored in English language and litera­ture, minored in Italian, and graduated with a BA in 1960. He continued graduate studies at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University to earn a Master's degree in Eng­lish. He taught initially at Roseville High School and later at Grosse Point High School in Michigan. Several inspired stu­dents from those days and many since remained in con­tact with him until his death.

Married to Karen Jannes Hoagland in 1956, Don, Karen, and their four children, Katy, Tom, Jenifer, and John, moved to Naples FL, in 1968. Donald began teaching English at Naples High School, intro­duced Advanced Placement English Literature into the cur­riculum, sponsored many clubs and organizations over the years, coached baseball, and served as department chair­man.

During summers he worked as a free-lance writer and edit­or and, among other endeavors, helped edit The PGA, Herb Graffis's Official History of the Professional Golfers' Associa­tion of America published in 1975. Herb wrote, “To Don Glancy, whose brains, eyes, and heart sure helped me get this book into print. Many thanks.” Through the years, Don maintained his interest and love of the game.

In 1982, Don married Janet Claire Bagg Freisenbruch, who still teaches at Naples High School; helped raise her son Christopher and their son, Joseph, born in 1984; and fos­tered loving bonds among all his children. Don retired in 1988 after a long career in edu­cation, including twenty years at Naples High School, and be­came a realtor with Coldwell Banker McFadden Sprowls, where he worked for fourteen years before retiring a second time. Later, finding retirement boring but vowing never to work inside again, he moved to his “dream job” at Wilderness Country Club where he en­joyed working with the pros and members, playing golf, and studying the flora and fauna that abound in the club's natu­rally preserved areas.

Donald retired a third time when his heroic battle with cancer escalated.

He was preceded in death by his parents; brothers, Arley, Robert Lynn, Joseph Boyd Jr., Ernest, Franklin, and Carl; and sisters, Dorothy, Loui se, Lavonia, and Doris.

He is survived by his youn­ger brothers, Ronald and George; numerous in-laws, cousins, nieces and nephews; Karen Glancy and her compan­ion John O'Donnell of Gaines­ville; children, Kathryn Mirjam of Stark, FL, Thomas Patrick and his wife Deborah of River­view, FL, John Clifford and his wife Tracy of Greenville, SC, Jenifer Louise Madson and her husband Leslie of Erie, CO, Christopher Hugh Freisen­bruch and his wife Ruth of Vir­ginia Beach, VA, and Joseph Boyd Glancy III of Naples, FL; six grandchildren, Callum Mi­chael and Aiden Charles Glan­cy, Erin Taylor and Logan Hunter Bishop, Evan James and Lauren Elizabeth Freisenbruch; and Janet his devoted, loving wife of twenty-six years.

The Beachwood Society planned the interment, but no services will be held at this time.

A memorial celebration of Donald's life is planned for this winter when family and friends will be able to gather from around the country and abroad to share memories of his sharp wit, humor, love of music, com­passion, and intellectual ener­gy.

The family is grateful for countless gifts of kindness, flowers, e-mails, letters, and calls received, and to Avow Hospice for their compassion­ate care.

In lieu of flowers, friends who wish to make a donation in Donald's memory may do so to Avow Hospice of Naples, the Education Foundation of Collier County, or the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Tam­pa.

Doctors Pass Area & Mooringline Drive

Wind Across The Everglades

This film was shot in the Naples area in 1958. Link to Wikipedia http://tinyurl.com/mv2xof

The Old Library

The building is still there @ 3rd & Broad & there have been a few more libraries so I've been told. I remember this building as the cheese shop building in the 60's. Me & my friends sat many an hour on the steps to kill time & watch people go in & out of the theatre. Decades later, not long ago I stood there & watched the rock band Cheap Trick play at that intersection. I thought just like Beaver Cleaver & said to myself "Who woulda thunk"? Dream Police indeed.........