The City Dock

No story here, but it's a cool picture. The city dock was off the beaten path. If you walked anywhere off 5th Avenue or 41 as I did, that's all you would do is WALK! You had to stay on the main drag to catch a ride.

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" . . . every picture tells a story don't it . . ."

Might be slow here for a little while I had to run my beer can mom to the hospital last night so hang in there folks!

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"Crayton Cove", looks like the mid-50s.

Imagine that the "Cove Inn" complex was a sand lot with no seawalls, just the bay water lapping on the mud shore.

There was the "Sportspot Marina" on the left as you walk off the dock. On the right was a mud bar, and a little cinder-block building to the right that would become Schryver and Associates in the mid-60s, only to yield to "The Dock Restaurant" in the mid-70s. The long, low building seen beyond the end of the dock is the "Old Cove" restaurant which was a local gathering spot/watering hole for decades.

There was a "day cruise" aboard an old 40 foot wooden powerboat named "Helvetia II". She was operated from the dock by "Skipper and Missy Pond". Here's a picture from my personal stash dated 1958.

The day cruise went into "The 10,000 Islands" and did a stop at the island home of Roy Ozmer, "Hermit of The Everglades".

It was very cool for a 9 year old.

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