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...
I used to take my 12' skiff and run down Naples bay after school, and wait for the Capt Elwood Starn coming in from his afternoon charter so I could jump the huge wake. Back then, there wasn't any "NO Wake" zones in Naples Bay until you got near the "City Dock"
Needless to say, it was 2 or 3 miles of wake jumping bliss for a 12yro kid from Brookside. I can still smell Kellys Fish House from here...
Billy Winans (Original East Naples Middle School Class and Estey Avenue resident) used to work part-time at Kelly's dock. On hot days on my walk into town he would let me sit in the ice house for a few minutes to cool down.
The lower of the tin-roofs (just aft of Capt. Starn's upper deck), was formerly occupied by a "sail maker" and canvas repair shop.
Just before it became "Tin City", a friend of mine had rented that space, and was making cast-lead sinkers, jigs, buck-tails, fishing lures, etc.
We used to sit on the low dock and drink beer and wine.
The little cabin cruiser is an "Owens 28", I remember the boat . . . .
Back in the day (early 1960s), there was a business on the "Tin City" property that produced some of the earliest Styrofoam cups--ever. (Was that the Gordon River Corporation?)
Naples Marine Electronics also had a repair shop just to the right of the Capt. Starn.
Hansen Chris-Craft is the high striped roof in the background.
Johnny Morgan had a boat-building business in one of those buildings just before they closed it. I had the honor of helping take out the old seawall and replacing it when I worked for Scofield Marine. Nothing like standing in waist deep water and jetting out creosote boards. Made for a real hot night at the end of the day. We found a lot of old Coke bottles that had been thrown behind the old seawall, I guess for backfill...
Speaking of Coke bottles, me and my brothers would walk up from Brookside collecting coke bottles to cash in. Must of been 67 or 68 time frame. Distincly remember pulling coke bottles out of the mud under Gordon River bridge, 2 cents for regular size and a nickle for the larger Orange Crush bottles. Cash those nasty bottles in for lunch money at I think Winn Dixie. Walk across to I think Dog and Suds and split a soda and hamburger.
I used to take my 12' skiff and run down Naples bay after school, and wait for the Capt Elwood Starn coming in from his afternoon charter so I could jump the huge wake. Back then, there wasn't any "NO Wake" zones in Naples Bay until you got near the "City Dock"
ReplyDeleteNeedless to say, it was 2 or 3 miles of wake jumping bliss for a 12yro kid from Brookside. I can still smell Kellys Fish House from here...
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Billy Winans (Original East Naples Middle School Class and Estey Avenue resident) used to work part-time at Kelly's dock. On hot days on my walk into town he would let me sit in the ice house for a few minutes to cool down.
ReplyDeleteThe lower of the tin-roofs (just aft of Capt. Starn's upper deck), was formerly occupied by a "sail maker" and canvas repair shop.
ReplyDeleteJust before it became "Tin City", a friend of mine had rented that space, and was making cast-lead sinkers, jigs, buck-tails, fishing lures, etc.
We used to sit on the low dock and drink beer and wine.
The little cabin cruiser is an "Owens 28", I remember the boat . . . .
Back in the day (early 1960s), there was a business on the "Tin City" property that produced some of the earliest Styrofoam cups--ever. (Was that the Gordon River Corporation?)
Naples Marine Electronics also had a repair shop just to the right of the Capt. Starn.
Hansen Chris-Craft is the high striped roof in the background.
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Johnny Morgan had a boat-building business in one of those buildings just before they closed it. I had the honor of helping take out the old seawall and replacing it when I worked for Scofield Marine. Nothing like standing in waist deep water and jetting out creosote boards. Made for a real hot night at the end of the day. We found a lot of old Coke bottles that had been thrown behind the old seawall, I guess for backfill...
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of Coke bottles, me and my brothers would walk up from Brookside collecting coke bottles to cash in. Must of been 67 or 68 time frame. Distincly remember pulling coke bottles out of the mud under Gordon River bridge, 2 cents for regular size and a nickle for the larger Orange Crush bottles. Cash those nasty bottles in for lunch money at I think Winn Dixie. Walk across to I think Dog and Suds and split a soda and hamburger.
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