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| marylwalk | Jax Beach Business District | 3 | Mar 23 2008, 5:51 PM EDT by Fletcher/Fluke54 | ||||
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Thread started: Feb 16 2007, 10:29 AM EST
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During my junior & senior years I worked at Floyd's Five & Ten. If was on First Street, next to Bennet's Drug Store. This was my first experience in the workplace, and I learned a lot about life. My brother, Jim, worked at the Beach Theater during that time. Joyce and Philip Rowe also worked at Floyd's. We worked every day after school and on week-ends. I think we were paid something like $.50 an hour, but of course, money went a lot further then (1954, 55), and we had a lot of fun. The store always smelled like suntan oil. one of our biggest sellers. You could hear the music from the Merry-Go-Round and the bumping of the "Dodgem" cars. I still remember the smell of car grease. I also remember "Cigar" Brown, who worked on the rides.
Lucy (Turner) Walker
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| Fletcher/Fluke54 | WILLIAMS "OCEANGOING" COTTAGES & TWIN WATERSPOUTS | 1 | Jul 29 2007, 3:14 PM EDT by Anonymous | ||||
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Thread started: Feb 14 2007, 8:21 AM EST
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Williams Beachfront Cottages were located about 12th Avenue North, until a storms strong wave action broke through the seawall there. If I recall correctly, Fletcher 1954 classmates Fred Williams, Bill Evenden and I watched the waves eat away the earth - slowly creeping up to the small cottages. Eventually, a cottage would be unearthed and slide into the sea, to float out a ways & eventually collapse.
Some time during the 1960's, my wife was driving from east on Beach Blvd. from Center Park, to her Beaches doctor. She quickly returned home, half scared, as she had just witnessed 2 large "twin water spouts" just offshore - right in front of her. I believe that Life magazine had an article and photos of it.
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