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On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:29:16 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:45:12 -0400, "mmc" wrote:

I've lived in several different apartments in and around Cocoa Beach, back
in
the '60s, when the place was cool and you could drive on the beach.

I would have liked to have seen it back then.
My first visit was during the Challenger recovery and while it was quieter
than it is now, it was still pretty busy. Moved to the area in 1988 and
bought an old house on the Indian River for 90k. Times have changed...

Good investment though. Are you south of Titusville? We spent a lot
of time over there last summer trying to catch a shuttle launch.
Finally got to see the night launch from the Titusville dock.

We would drive out to the office, US Coast and Geodetic Survey headquarters, and
climb up on the roof to watch the launchings. Lots of fun until I got my draft
notice!
--

I hope your day is simply *SPECTACULAR* !!

John H

On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:14:20 -0700 (PDT), Jack wrote:

On Jul 13, 5:01*pm, Harry ? wrote:
On 7/13/10 4:50 PM, John H wrote:

...delivered boats to a beach with a jeep... *Right!

Why are you commenting? You don't know anything about boats. You're the
asshole who wanted to winterize his outboard with WD-40, and wanted to
know which two cycle oil to mix in the gas for your four cycle outboard.

That right there is exactly why you get no respect... you are a liar.
John never said either one of those things, that's just what you and
donny twisted his words around to say. Repeating it endlessly does
not make it true.

You are the ultimate in low-life, lying trash krause. You prove it
here everyday.

cya

Well said.
--

I hope your day is simply *SPECTACULAR* !!

John H

On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:19:16 -0400, Harry ?
wrote:

Here's the beach...some of the area looks the same as it did 50 years
ago. The old hotel is still there, it seems, and so is the pass-through.
That's amazing.

http://tinyurl.com/2bnre3z

Looks like your "pass-through" is right next to the Milford American
Legion hall, a bastion of conservative thought if there ever was one.

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.22...z=17&t=h&hl=en

"Harry ï£¿" wrote in message
m...
On 7/13/10 3:52 PM, Jack wrote:
On Jul 13, 3:24 pm, Harry wrote:
On 7/13/10 3:18 PM, YukonBound wrote:

"Harry wrote in message
m...
On 7/13/10 2:54 PM, Jack wrote:
On Jul 13, 11:32 am, John wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:56:10 -0400, wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:25:34 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:14:25 -0400, John
wrote:

I've lived in several different apartments in and around Cocoa
Beach, back in
the '60s, when the place was cool and you could drive on the
beach.

You can still do that a little further north in Daytona Beach.

It is not really like the old days tho. It is not, "drive out there
and have a picnic" It is more like the tourist parade.

Things were pretty loose and easy in Cocoa Beach back then. I did
get stopped
once for having glass packs that were a little loud, but the cop let
me off with
a warning to 'take it easy'.

Probably 15 years ago we were vacationing at a beach in SC (where it
is illegal to drive on the beach) and we got up early one morning for
a walk. About a mile down the beach there was a car that made it
about half way from the dunes to the firm sand, sitting there, back
tires spun down so that the frame was sitting on the sand. Some dude
was behind the wheel, and his wife/girlfriend was in the passenger
seat, both trying to sink down and blend in to the car. :-)

I'm sure his wallet was much lighter when that was over.

I'm sure he appreciated your offer to help.

JackOff couldn't wait to turn the guy in.

Probably, but a decent guy would have offered to call a tow truck or
something...15 years ago, cell phones weren't that common.

Between the the police car sitting back up in the parking lot, and the
tow truck that would have already been called, he had more "help" than
he could wish for. D'oh.

In the 1950s, my dad's employees would deliver boat rigs to a popular
beach where there was pass-through between two old hotels direct to the
water. Once in a while, the jeep they used would bury its wheels up to
the hubs in the sand. When that happened, plenty of guys would come over
to help out.

So your dad delivered rental boats or new boats to a beach to be
launched into the surf, without a boat ramp, in the soft sand? Rental
boaters or new boaters doing surf launches? I smell B.S.

Rental boats? Say what? No...they weren't rental boats. He had a few
customers with summer cottages at that beach, and they kept their boats
moored a few hundred yards off the beach, beyond the low-tide sandbars.
The crews would deliver new boats and pick up customer boats that needed
repair. These were 14-17 foot outboard boats with 25-35-40 hp Evinrudes.

The beach was not that deep. The crews would drive out onto the sandbar
to launch the boat. No boat ramp there. Once in a while they got "caught."

Surf? Hehe. Not often. Long Island Sound in a nice cove on the north side,
on the Connecticut shore.

Here's the beach...some of the area looks the same as it did 50 years ago.
The old hotel is still there, it seems, and so is the pass-through. That's
amazing.

http://tinyurl.com/2bnre3z

If you smell b.s., you should change your shorts.

Or his mouthwash!

"Jack" wrote in message
...
On Jul 13, 5:01 pm, Harry ï£¿ wrote:
On 7/13/10 4:50 PM, John H wrote:

...delivered boats to a beach with a jeep... Right!

Why are you commenting? You don't know anything about boats. You're the
asshole who wanted to winterize his outboard with WD-40, and wanted to
know which two cycle oil to mix in the gas for your four cycle outboard.

That right there is exactly why you get no respect... you are a liar.
John never said either one of those things, that's just what you and
donny twisted his words around to say. Repeating it endlessly does
not make it true.

You are the ultimate in low-life, lying trash krause. You prove it
here everyday.

cya

Liar!

On 7/13/10 5:14 PM, Jack wrote:
On Jul 13, 5:01 pm, Harry wrote:
On 7/13/10 4:50 PM, John H wrote:

...delivered boats to a beach with a jeep... Right!

Why are you commenting? You don't know anything about boats. You're the
asshole who wanted to winterize his outboard with WD-40, and wanted to
know which two cycle oil to mix in the gas for your four cycle outboard.

That right there is exactly why you get no respect... you are a liar.
John never said either one of those things, that's just what you and
donny twisted his words around to say. Repeating it endlessly does
not make it true.

You are the ultimate in low-life, lying trash krause. You prove it
here everyday.

cya

thank you, jackoff. Being insulted by right-wing trash means I'm doing
the right thing, eh.

On 7/13/10 6:10 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:19:16 -0400, Harry
wrote:

Here's the beach...some of the area looks the same as it did 50 years
ago. The old hotel is still there, it seems, and so is the pass-through.
That's amazing.

http://tinyurl.com/2bnre3z

Looks like your "pass-through" is right next to the Milford American
Legion hall, a bastion of conservative thought if there ever was one.

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.22...z=17&t=h&hl=en

My time on those beaches was 50 years ago. A number of the beachfront
properties, though, are the ones I remember.

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:45:12 -0400, "mmc" wrote:

I've lived in several different apartments in and around Cocoa Beach,
back
in
the '60s, when the place was cool and you could drive on the beach.

I would have liked to have seen it back then.
My first visit was during the Challenger recovery and while it was quieter
than it is now, it was still pretty busy. Moved to the area in 1988 and
bought an old house on the Indian River for 90k. Times have changed...

Good investment though. Are you south of Titusville? We spent a lot
of time over there last summer trying to catch a shuttle launch.
Finally got to see the night launch from the Titusville dock.

Yeah, that house was just North of Cocoa in Sharpes, FL.
With the migratory job market for people in my field I ended up selling it.
We have a canal house in Satellite Beach now.
Night launches on the water are the very best Wayne!

Harry ï£¿ wrote:
On 7/13/10 3:18 PM, YukonBound wrote:

"Harry ï£¿" wrote in message
m...
On 7/13/10 2:54 PM, Jack wrote:
On Jul 13, 11:32 am, John wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:56:10 -0400, wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:25:34 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:14:25 -0400, John
wrote:

I've lived in several different apartments in and around Cocoa
Beach, back in
the '60s, when the place was cool and you could drive on the
beach.

You can still do that a little further north in Daytona Beach.

It is not really like the old days tho. It is not, "drive out there
and have a picnic" It is more like the tourist parade.

Things were pretty loose and easy in Cocoa Beach back then. I did
get stopped
once for having glass packs that were a little loud, but the cop let
me off with
a warning to 'take it easy'.

Probably 15 years ago we were vacationing at a beach in SC (where it
is illegal to drive on the beach) and we got up early one morning for
a walk. About a mile down the beach there was a car that made it
about half way from the dunes to the firm sand, sitting there, back
tires spun down so that the frame was sitting on the sand. Some dude
was behind the wheel, and his wife/girlfriend was in the passenger
seat, both trying to sink down and blend in to the car. :-)

I'm sure his wallet was much lighter when that was over.

I'm sure he appreciated your offer to help.

JackOff couldn't wait to turn the guy in.

Probably, but a decent guy would have offered to call a tow truck or
something...15 years ago, cell phones weren't that common.

In the 1950s, my dad's employees would deliver boat rigs to a popular
beach where there was pass-through between two old hotels direct to
the water. Once in a while, the jeep they used would bury its wheels
up to the hubs in the sand. When that happened, plenty of guys would
come over to help out.

Obviously, these volunteers weren't "jackgoffs."

Another lovely "my Dad" story!