Not a blog more like another pier banyan tree, a place to come & sit for a little while & wait for something fun to happen. A place for all the greezers, candyasses, Halloween egg throwers, former Publix bagboys & dirt bike riders to kill a little time until Halloween. Just like the good old days, wait around for a couple hours until you could find some geezer to buy you beer...
Sunday, December 6, 2009
3rd Street South @ 13th Avenue South
Fun stuff going on in this photo EVEN Cook's Laundromat!
sure would love to print that photo in the daily news. would the owner pls contact me? better yet, email me some caption info re: year, who made it, etc? jeff lytle jlytle@naplesnews.com 263-4773 ps: anyone else who sees this and has something to share can call too! thanks.
I rented places "in town" in the early 70s (2br. for $160/mo.)and had no washer/dryer, and while laundry may seem like a drudge (it was), "Cook's Coin Laundry", set back in the foliage on the NE corner of 3rd St. and Broad Ave. S. was a great place. You could hang out on the porch, walk to the Pier, or cross the street to the "Beach Store". Mr. Cook (Chris's dad Andy)was always good for an astute opinion.
Picture looks to be around 1963 (based on the vehicles of course).
The "Old St. Ann Church" is obvious at the corner of 10th & 3rd (I served 6 a.m. mass every Sunday for about 5 years). The Saraceno's lived right across the street.
I wonder how many folks reading this know that the "quonset hut" (curved roof) pictured at middle right of the picture was Naples only indoor movie theater and that there was a big script "N" and "T" visible on or in front of the drape high above the movie screen?
Harold has left a new comment on your post "3rd Street South @ 13th Avenue South":
My dad operated the crane that demolished the Beach Store and theater. I think he was working for Socfield Marine Construction at the time. It was in the early 70's. At the same time we were pouring a cement patio in our backyard. My dad came home from the job with a big cement step in his truck. If you hung out around the Beach Store, you went down the alley next to the theater. There was a door back there with a cement step. You can kind of see it in the picture. I used to sit on it and eat my lunch , when I worked a construction job near there. Anyway, that is the step he brought home and is now part of a patio at our old house on 10th Street, in Lake Park.
Also, does anyone remember the Seminole Market or Grocery? If I remember correctly, it was the building across the alley from the theater. It's in the picture and seems to be one of the older buildings. It's now some fancy restaruant.
When he was a little boy, longtime resident Andy McLenon was at the theater with his father one night... Andy asked his dad what the N T meant... his dad (the incomparable Al McLenon) answered, "Nutty Town"... Man, did he have that right!
I seem to remember a newspaper clipping posted on a column in the old Seminole Market that said that Jimmy Stewart's dad was once the manager of the place WAY WAY back in the olden days!
sure would love to print that photo in the daily news.
ReplyDeletewould the owner pls contact me? better yet, email me some caption info re: year, who made it, etc?
jeff lytle
jlytle@naplesnews.com
263-4773
ps: anyone else who sees this and has something to share can call too!
thanks.
I rented places "in town" in the early 70s (2br. for $160/mo.)and had no washer/dryer, and while laundry may seem like a drudge (it was), "Cook's Coin Laundry", set back in the foliage on the NE corner of 3rd St. and Broad Ave. S. was a great place. You could hang out on the porch, walk to the Pier, or cross the street to the "Beach Store". Mr. Cook (Chris's dad Andy)was always good for an astute opinion.
ReplyDeletePicture looks to be around 1963 (based on the vehicles of course).
The "Old St. Ann Church" is obvious at the corner of 10th & 3rd (I served 6 a.m. mass every Sunday for about 5 years). The Saraceno's lived right across the street.
I wonder how many folks reading this know that the "quonset hut" (curved roof) pictured at middle right of the picture was Naples only indoor movie theater and that there was a big script "N" and "T" visible on or in front of the drape high above the movie screen?
Seagate Homeboy
NHS Class of '67
7:58 AM PST
Harold has left a new comment on your post "3rd Street South @ 13th Avenue South":
ReplyDeleteMy dad operated the crane that demolished the Beach Store and theater. I think he was working for Socfield Marine Construction at the time. It was in the early 70's. At the same time we were pouring a cement patio in our backyard. My dad came home from the job with a big cement step in his truck. If you hung out around the Beach Store, you went down the alley next to the theater. There was a door back there with a cement step. You can kind of see it in the picture. I used to sit on it and eat my lunch , when I worked a construction job near there. Anyway, that is the step he brought home and is now part of a patio at our old house on 10th Street, in Lake Park.
Also, does anyone remember the Seminole Market or Grocery? If I remember correctly, it was the building across the alley from the theater. It's in the picture and seems to be one of the older buildings. It's now some fancy restaruant.
When he was a little boy, longtime resident Andy McLenon was at the theater with his father one night... Andy asked his dad what the N T meant... his dad (the incomparable Al McLenon) answered, "Nutty Town"... Man, did he have that right!
ReplyDeleteI seem to remember a newspaper clipping posted on a column in the old Seminole Market that said that Jimmy Stewart's dad was once the manager of the place WAY WAY back in the olden days!
ReplyDelete--Jim
Thanks, Danno!
--Jim