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 believe this was the tallest building on the West Coast below Fort Myers for a few years. I think it was built shortly before/after Hurricane Donna (1960). I know it’s only 8 stories, but name me one that was taller back in the day.
There weren’t even any medium/high rises out on Marco yet. Heck, there wasn’t even a bridge to Marco yet. (The only way to get to Marco by land was to drive to Royal Palm Hammock and take 92 past Goodland).
The first 8 story buildings built on Gulf Shore Blvd. North were Beacon House Tower 1 and Kingsport Club at the original Moorings Bridge (certificate of occupancy early 1968). I know because I lived there after Seagate (does that make me Kingsport Homeboy too?).
I think the next at 8 stories was Lion’s Gate out on the North Moorings beachfront when there was nothin’ out there except sand. Then there was a huge uproar about the construction of “Horizon House” which I believe topped out at 16/18 stories in 1972.
Didn't the owner of Outboard Marine Coperation dock his 115' yacht there at times when he was in town? I remember seeing it with two dingys on top with all the Evinrude engines lined up in a row. So if he wanted to just to idle a bit down the bay he could use his 5hp and if he was feeling on the wild side he could put on the 115hp.
I remember when I was just a little guy, (around 1958 or so), seeing the Evinrude yacht "Chanticleer" moored at the end of the old "City Dock" (or it coulda been across the cove a bit at "The Yacht Club").
The picture in my mind that makes it stand out so much, is not that it was a hundred-or-so-feet long, it's that (in my memory) it was black/ebony with lots of perfect "bright-work").
You guys know about my memory and the "fuzzy brain cells" so, some of the above could be a flashback, but I could be right on . . .
There is a web site for the Chanticleer.It should bring back some memories. The boat has quite a history. It certainly would be the boat to take to the Bahamas. However the 7500 gallon fuel tanks would sure do me in. I have never seen a private boat with such a web site. Chanticleer-yacht.com
Is this near the Bindle Stiff?
ReplyDeleteI guess that depends on how many drinks you slapped back?
ReplyDeleteThe brilliance appears to be contagious.
ReplyDeleteI believe this was the tallest building on the West Coast below Fort Myers for a few years. I think it was built shortly before/after Hurricane Donna (1960). I know it’s only 8 stories, but name me one that was taller back in the day.
ReplyDeleteThere weren’t even any medium/high rises out on Marco yet. Heck, there wasn’t even a bridge to Marco yet. (The only way to get to Marco by land was to drive to Royal Palm Hammock and take 92 past Goodland).
The first 8 story buildings built on Gulf Shore Blvd. North were Beacon House Tower 1 and Kingsport Club at the original Moorings Bridge (certificate of occupancy early 1968). I know because I lived there after Seagate (does that make me Kingsport Homeboy too?).
I think the next at 8 stories was Lion’s Gate out on the North Moorings beachfront when there was nothin’ out there except sand. Then there was a huge uproar about the construction of “Horizon House” which I believe topped out at 16/18 stories in 1972.
Seagate Homeboy
NHS Class of '67
7:27 p.m. PST
Didn't the owner of Outboard Marine Coperation dock his 115' yacht there at times when he was in town? I remember seeing it with two dingys on top with all the Evinrude engines lined up in a row. So if he wanted to just to idle a bit down the bay he could use his 5hp and if he was feeling on the wild side he could put on the 115hp.
ReplyDeleteI remember when I was just a little guy, (around 1958 or so), seeing the Evinrude yacht "Chanticleer" moored at the end of the old "City Dock" (or it coulda been across the cove a bit at "The Yacht Club").
ReplyDeleteThe picture in my mind that makes it stand out so much, is not that it was a hundred-or-so-feet long, it's that (in my memory) it was black/ebony with lots of perfect "bright-work").
You guys know about my memory and the "fuzzy brain cells" so, some of the above could be a flashback, but I could be right on . . .
Seagate Homeboy
NHS Class of '67
12:19 p.m. PST
Seagate Homeboy, I think your are right on! That is what I recall. But it is a task to get all three braincells going in the right direction!
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There is a web site for the Chanticleer.It should bring back some memories. The boat has quite a history. It certainly would be the boat to take to the Bahamas. However the 7500 gallon fuel tanks would sure do me in. I have never seen a private boat with such a web site.
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