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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Oct 14, 2011
Description:
We flew to Marathon on the way back from Key West..this is the 7 mile bridge from the west end...
Date Taken:
Oct 14, 2011
Place Taken:
Keys
Owner:
wayne nagy
File Name:
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Category:
34, Florida Flying
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Dave Lima - Oct 14,2011
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Yes, I have been on that bridge many times, nice pictures of the Keys.
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Troy iRMT Heavy Maint. Enriquez - Oct 15,2011
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I've been on that and the old one many times.<br />look at that searAy in the water lower right. 
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Dan Nickens - Oct 18,2011
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When I was 10 my dad and I camped out on the north end of the bridge for six months and lived off lobsters we caught on its crumbling piers. Thanks for the reminder and a great picture, Wayne.
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Eric Batterman - Oct 18,2011
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I feel a story brewing.....
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Dave Lima - Oct 18,2011
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Yeah, living off lobsters??? And camping is a weekend, 6 months is a full fledged Atlas Van Lines move! However with Dan you never know it just might be true.
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Don Maxwell - Oct 18,2011
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They sold the lobsters to tourists and drogados and ate steak with the proceeds.
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Wayne Nagy - Oct 18,2011
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Dan...this is a story I would like to hear!
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Dan Nickens - Oct 18,2011
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Unlike most of my stories, Wayne, this one has a thoroughly factual basis. My dad took a job teaching in Marathon while my mom was finishing up her studies at FSU. Since we couldn't afford two houses, the two oldest males went camping.....for six months, on Knight's Key at the base of the bridge.<br /><br />My dad's teaching salary was supplemented by catching lobsters. I was an experienced diver by that time (started at age 6), so I was pressed into service holding the bag. (Must have been before the child labor laws.) What we didn't sell, we had for dinner. To this date I do not enjoy eating lobster and I hate fishing.<br /><br />Fortunately we got into a heated house before winter set in. Back in the days before global warming, when temperatures dropped into the 50's the schools closed. It was really nice not to be in a tent on those days.<br /><br />(It's hard for me to believe even now, but you just can't make this stuff up.)
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Wayne Nagy - Oct 20,2011
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Do you remember the year, Dan? My first teaching job was in January of 1973 and I lived in a camper on the back of a pickup truck for a while in West Palm Beach. I took the job there because it was big money.... $ 7,400 a year!
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Dan Nickens - Oct 20,2011
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You gotta go further back than that, Wayne. I'm talking mid-60's here. And I didn't know you could even drive a pickup truck with a camper on it in WPB! I bet you got some looks.
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