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[Tyler]

[ironmanstan]

Tyler you are so right my mom did wear pedal pushers with the sleeveless
blouse, my folks drank Falstaff and Shlitz beer, suds they called it. Growing up in Harlingen we would go to south Padre through Los Fresnos, and on to Laguna Vista. Sometimes they would take the back way through Rio Hondo, and through Bayview. I remember potted meat sandwiches, or egg salad. Shasta sodas 10 for a dollar, bare feet and very hot sand running fast as a sandcrab to the water.
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I LIKE MINE FRIED.

[pennspin]

Great memories and a great story. No matter where you fish you always remember the great times from summer vacations with parents and relatives. Thanks for the post!

[Capt Mike Singleterry]

OK...that did it I'm ready for a Nehi grape soda (in the bottle) a MoonPie and a Slopoke
Well better back off on the Slopoke...it might pull my teeth out

Mike

[kweber]

and at family getogethers,they'd always make you go give your aunt a kiss, yall remember, the old gal with smeary red lipstick who drank whiskeywith Coke and smoked Pall Mall cigarettes!
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the creepy uncle that scares the kids....

[floorguru]

We must be related! I had that same Aunt! Good to see ya' again Cousin Weber!

Tyler, you know of any way I could get a copy of the Moon newsletter with that story in it? Would be nice to have for the family. Just let me know.

Thanks!

[Drake]

My aunt drank the same stuff, lots of it, but she dipped garrett sweet snuff and had a mustache, sweet lady......

[Tyler]

[galvbay]

What a great walk down memory lane! I grew up in Kville and we would fish the ICW. Dad had a 18hp Evinrude and we would rent a boat from Ace Kimbrel at the Red Dot Bait Stand. Those old swing bridges were scary to a young kid...especially when a big mud truck or 18 wheeler would stop the traffic and drive down the middle of the bridge/barge. There was a guy that had a old ratty house boat on the other side of the road from the Red Dot. I think his name was Art Mostello or something like that. Dad knew him and called his houseboat Art's Ark..lol. One cold winter night we went over to his houseboat and he fixed us the best bowl of oyster stew I've ever eaten. We would fish the drum run and I can remember hundreds of drum fish heads on the spoil banks just north of the bridge. We would always finish the trip by stopping by the Dairy Queen at the 'Bluff. It was across the street from that tackle store that had all of the big bamboo rods out in the front. There was also a mean parrot at that place. At one time....the causeway had a toll booth right at the same area.....Great memories! Any of you guys that went through high school in the Bluff in the 80's remember a Mr. Zepeda or Mr. Burks??
galvbay

[Bluffer]

[Tyler]

[ironmanstan]

hey Tyler , a few more pages on this post and you will have a good history book going.
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I LIKE MINE FRIED.

[chuck]

not a history book but a "coffee table book"

[landlocked beachbum]

I remember fresh bait shrimp was 49 cents a pound in the mid 60's. Heck, if the fishing was lousy we would take the bait home and cook it up! Speaking of eatin', anybody remember the "Shep's Chicken Shack's"? Man, they made some good fried chicken!!!!!! The first time in my life that I ever hooked anything that never slowed down was in Packery pass on an outgoing tide with a gold Johnson Sprite spoon. Man, that sucker took off for Cuba! I was afraid of getting spooled so like the young and dumb person that I was I put my thumb on the spool and applied just a tad more pressure. CRACK!!!
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Dave


"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits". Albert Einstein

[MJW]