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Films and/or Photos from old Casa Ybel (and new too) |
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Carl J Appelberg |
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Apr 7, 08 - 4:02 PM |
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James@Casaybel.com |
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Last week during spring break I brought out some old movies from the 8 mm days for the grand kids to see, and also the, now, parents, to View.
I found a rather lengthy movie with the old shelling huts, named after shells, surrounded by cars and small private planes, visits to the beach, which had free chairs for use, and the many wooden pilings going out from the beach close together.
These pilings collected large mounds of shells from the Gulf stream.
The shell collection on the beach was so plentyfull and very different from now, and I had a scene of my wife carrying a foot and a half long Horseconque (live, with a red “animal” inside) she found while wading around off the beach.
I was chosen to bring it out to deeper waters!
It was from 1968 or 69. Perhaps others have some movies or photos, let me know, we should put these together with a story from Casa Ybel.
I have movies from the tiny kitchen with the rusty refrigerator showing the simplicity of life in the Casa Ybel cabins then.
One night one of the cabins cought fire, it just burned down, and my aunt (Kate Otley) visiting from Philadelphia carried her cardboard beer crates filled with her shell collections outside our cabin for safety.
I asked her about her jewelry and clothes, her answer was, if the fire spreads I can always buy new things, but my shell collection can't be replaced.
The movies were converted to tape some years ago and did not match the present days sharpness, but still they have a story to tell.
Any one interested.
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