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| Anonymous | I Miss Stricklands | 2 | Nov 6 2009, 10:44 PM EST by Anonymous | ||||
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Thread started: Jun 28 2009, 12:16 PM EDT
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There has neveer been any restaurant ever to match up to Stricklands at Mayport Florida since. How I wish it would come back...
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| Fletcher/Fluke54 | FINE DINING AT STRICKLAND'S SEAFOOD RESTAURANT | 2 | Feb 25 2008, 8:15 AM EST by donmabry | ||||
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Thread started: Feb 14 2007, 11:46 PM EST
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I took Sylvia Pohland (Fletcher class of 1956) to the Mayport Strickland's restaurant for an all-you-can-eat shrimp dinner for 1 dollar - piled high on a large oval serving plate. Now, 50 years later and living in the Grand Isle/Houma, Louisiana area, we know shrimp boat captains who give us free shrimp - but not often. Several Fletcher classmates had families who ran shrimp boats out of Mayport, & always seemed to have interesting seafaring stories to tell.
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| Anonymous | Mayport in the 1950s | 2 | Jan 13 2008, 9:05 AM EST by Anonymous | ||||
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Thread started: Feb 16 2007, 6:46 PM EST
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I grew-up in Mayport in the 1950s. It was a very different place back then. There must have been 400-500 hundred people in Mayport at that time. There were five small Mom & Pop stores there including the one my parents owned. They had just found huge amounts of shrimp in the Dry Tortugas and The Bay of Campeche. Anyone who owned or worked on a shrimp boat made good money. Life was good. Families had almost anything they wanted and lots of money to spend. Over the years the shrimping industry has had its ups and downs. We now import 80% of our seafood and that hurts. But they say big changes are comming to Mayport. Today I sat along Ocean St.(AIA) in Mayport and watched as they demolished Atlantic Seafood and the old Parnells Resturant which later on became Parsons. They say Condos are comming to Mayport I wouldn't have belived it in a million years. CONDOS IN MAYPORT NO WAY.
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| Anonymous | First Job As A Busboy | 1 | Aug 22 2007, 6:06 PM EDT by Anonymous | ||||
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Thread started: Feb 15 2007, 7:32 PM EST
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It was 1949. I was raised in Mayport. My first job was in Stricklands as a busboy. There were not many places around here to get good seafood so everyone came to Mayport. The seafood was local, it was fresh, and very good. I worked there three summers. The Stricklands were good people. I will never forget my days working at Stricklands.
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| Anonymous | THE DURAND FAMILY | 2 | Jul 24 2007, 1:51 PM EDT by jimx | ||||
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Thread started: Jul 23 2007, 12:37 AM EDT
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When I was 14 years old one of my best friends at the time was Walter (Junior) Durand. His father worked on the ferry at the time and they lived in the big house across from the ferry. Which was the twin to the old king house .. Supposedly the one that's haunted. His mother was Sarah Durand and two sisters Jane and Ann nicknamed (cookie). I spent many nights there with the family and I have to tell you that that is probably one of the most decent families I never knew. Every one of them was a kindhearted gentle person. Junior and I would cross on the ferry for free because that was one of the perks for his dad working there. We and if would walk out of the Kingsley plantation and explore the woods around and other days we would catch ground rattlers in the sand dunes on the beach near that old juke joint and restaurant called the hideaway. We drank a lot of sulfur water which when you're thirsty doesn't faze a young growing boy. The last time I talked to junior he was married into the Pack family and Junior had his own shrimp boat, but that was many years ago. I suppose I'll take a drive out there someday and see what's become of him..... An old friend Jim Hayes
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