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Bobcat
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50 years ago.
Ten women of the Canadian Navy were students at the Fleet Sonar School. They resided at the Blue Marlin Motel.
A Navy chief petty officer sued the city for injuries suffered after being shot by an off-duty police officer who claimed it was accidental.:huh:
Ten women of the Canadian Navy were students at the Fleet Sonar School. They resided at the Blue Marlin Motel.
A Navy chief petty officer sued the city for injuries suffered after being shot by an off-duty police officer who claimed it was accidental.:huh:
h2oMag
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50 ears ago.
• Police attention was called to the dangerous practice of children running behind the mosquito fogging truck through the hazardous fumes.
Back in the day didn't they use a DC-3 plane to spray the Keys around Marathon for mosquitoes in the morning several times a week & did it really help??
Bobcat
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50 YEARS AGO:
The Boca Chica Bar, Arthur Bernard owner, was located on Highway 1 on Stock Island. (Notorious 24 hour Bar)
Plans for the second Miami to Key West ocean powerboat race were announced. The race, planned for Nov. 6, was expected to add a $100,000 to the local economy.
The Boca Chica Bar, Arthur Bernard owner, was located on Highway 1 on Stock Island. (Notorious 24 hour Bar)
Plans for the second Miami to Key West ocean powerboat race were announced. The race, planned for Nov. 6, was expected to add a $100,000 to the local economy.
fund razor
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Don't forget your ball marks too, you mooks.
Ratickle
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Yep, the second one was 1964. Tough to find out much about it.
Miami to Key West
In 1963 the newly formed OffShore Power Boat Racing Association ran its first 140-mile Miami to Key West event. Twenty-two started and 11 finished in very rough water. Capt. Jack Manson’s Allied GX averaged nearly 40 m.p.h. to win, the event. The following year Manson, in KamiKaze, topped a 29-boat fleet and averaged 42.25 m.p.h.
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Manson Takes Powerboat Race To Key West in a Record Time
NOV. 7, 1964
KEY. WEST, Fla., Nov. 6 (UPI) — Jack Manson, the de*fender, won his second Miami*‐to‐Key West power‐boat race in record time today, regaining the lead after a 10‐minute stop for the rescue of an injured crewman.
Another Miamian, Jim Wynne, finished second, and still won the Sam Griffith Memorial Cup for the world boat driving championship based on points won in six races here and abroad.
Third was Jim Breuil Jr. of Miami, in a 36‐foot diesel built by his own firm. Three of the first four finishers were die*sels.
Manson, 51, driving a 36‐foot twin diesel Allied Marine boat with a General Motors power plant, took the lead about a half‐hour along the 158‐mile course offshore from the Flor*ida Keys, where seas today were rough and winds brisk.
Manson went out in front after George Strahle, driving the Bertram boat that won the Miami‐to‐Nassau race, broke down. But Manson had to stop when one of his crewmen, Jack Seville, Boating Magazine managing editor, was banged
Answering a “May Day” call from the boat, a Coast Guard helicopter removed Seville, who was treated at a hospital for bruised ribs and released, and Manson was on his way again after the 10‐minute delay.
Manson regained the lead from Wynne, who stopped for 15 minutes with aminor mechani‐ cal failure. The winner of the first annual race last year, Man*son roared into Key West 3 hours 19 minutes 26 seconds after the start from southof the Ricken*backer causeway in Biscayne Bay. In 1963, his‐winning time was 4 hours 4 minutes 56 sec*onds.
Finishing second, Wynne was driving a 28‐foot Donzi powered by twin Interceptor engines. Breuil was at the throttle of a craft powered by a twin General Motors diesel.
Twenty‐eight boats in all started the race. Another in*jury was that of Jerry Bell, operator of the Miami Marine Stadium. He was carried from the finishing line in an ambu*lance, apparently with injured ribs. He was riding in a 23‐foot Formula boat driven by George Peroni.
http://www.nytimes.com/1964/11/07/manson-takes-powerboat-race-to-key-west-in-a-record-time.html?_r=0
NOV. 7, 1964
KEY. WEST, Fla., Nov. 6 (UPI) — Jack Manson, the de*fender, won his second Miami*‐to‐Key West power‐boat race in record time today, regaining the lead after a 10‐minute stop for the rescue of an injured crewman.
Another Miamian, Jim Wynne, finished second, and still won the Sam Griffith Memorial Cup for the world boat driving championship based on points won in six races here and abroad.
Third was Jim Breuil Jr. of Miami, in a 36‐foot diesel built by his own firm. Three of the first four finishers were die*sels.
Manson, 51, driving a 36‐foot twin diesel Allied Marine boat with a General Motors power plant, took the lead about a half‐hour along the 158‐mile course offshore from the Flor*ida Keys, where seas today were rough and winds brisk.
Manson went out in front after George Strahle, driving the Bertram boat that won the Miami‐to‐Nassau race, broke down. But Manson had to stop when one of his crewmen, Jack Seville, Boating Magazine managing editor, was banged
Answering a “May Day” call from the boat, a Coast Guard helicopter removed Seville, who was treated at a hospital for bruised ribs and released, and Manson was on his way again after the 10‐minute delay.
Manson regained the lead from Wynne, who stopped for 15 minutes with aminor mechani‐ cal failure. The winner of the first annual race last year, Man*son roared into Key West 3 hours 19 minutes 26 seconds after the start from southof the Ricken*backer causeway in Biscayne Bay. In 1963, his‐winning time was 4 hours 4 minutes 56 sec*onds.
Finishing second, Wynne was driving a 28‐foot Donzi powered by twin Interceptor engines. Breuil was at the throttle of a craft powered by a twin General Motors diesel.
Twenty‐eight boats in all started the race. Another in*jury was that of Jerry Bell, operator of the Miami Marine Stadium. He was carried from the finishing line in an ambu*lance, apparently with injured ribs. He was riding in a 23‐foot Formula boat driven by George Peroni.
http://www.nytimes.com/1964/11/07/manson-takes-powerboat-race-to-key-west-in-a-record-time.html?_r=0
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The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane was the strongest and most intense hurricane to make landfall in the United States and the Atlantic Basin in recorded history. The second tropical cyclone, second hurricane, and second major hurricane of the 1935 Atlantic hurricane season, the Labor Day Hurricane was the first of three Category 5 hurricanes at landfall that the United States endured during the 20th Century (the other two being 1969's Hurricane Camille and 1992's Hurricane Andrew). After forming as a weak tropical storm east of the Bahamas on August 29, it slowly proceeded westward and became a hurricane on September 1. As Labor Day approached, hurricane warnings went up over the Keys. A train was dispatched from Miami to evacuate the Works Progress Administration (WPA) construction workers, consisting almost entirely of Bonus Army veterans and their families, from the ramshackle camps they were living in Windley Key and Lower Matecumbe Key. The train was almost entirely swept away before reaching the camps late on September 2. When it finally arrived in Upper Metecumbe Key only the engine survived the winds and wall of water that swept through the area. [1] The hurricane struck the Upper Keys on Labor Day, Monday, September 2. The storm continued northwest along the Florida west coast, weakening before its second landfall near Cedar Key, Florida on September 4.
The compact and intense hurricane caused extreme damage in the upper Florida Keys, as a storm surge of approximately 18 to 20 feet (5.5-6 meters) swept over the low-lying islands. The hurricane's strong winds and the surge destroyed most of the buildings in the Islamorada area, and more than 200 World War I veterans housed in work camps were killed[2] by the storm surge and flying debris. Portions of the Key West Extension of the Florida East Coast Railway were severely damaged or destroyed. The hurricane also caused additional damage in northwest Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas. The hurricane killed more than 400 people, nearly all in the Florida Keys.
The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane was the strongest and most intense hurricane to make landfall in the United States and the Atlantic Basin in recorded history. The second tropical cyclone, second hurricane, and second major hurricane of the 1935 Atlantic hurricane season, the Labor Day Hurricane was the first of three Category 5 hurricanes at landfall that the United States endured during the 20th Century (the other two being 1969's Hurricane Camille and 1992's Hurricane Andrew). After forming as a weak tropical storm east of the Bahamas on August 29, it slowly proceeded westward and became a hurricane on September 1. As Labor Day approached, hurricane warnings went up over the Keys. A train was dispatched from Miami to evacuate the Works Progress Administration (WPA) construction workers, consisting almost entirely of Bonus Army veterans and their families, from the ramshackle camps they were living in Windley Key and Lower Matecumbe Key. The train was almost entirely swept away before reaching the camps late on September 2. When it finally arrived in Upper Metecumbe Key only the engine survived the winds and wall of water that swept through the area. [1] The hurricane struck the Upper Keys on Labor Day, Monday, September 2. The storm continued northwest along the Florida west coast, weakening before its second landfall near Cedar Key, Florida on September 4.
The compact and intense hurricane caused extreme damage in the upper Florida Keys, as a storm surge of approximately 18 to 20 feet (5.5-6 meters) swept over the low-lying islands. The hurricane's strong winds and the surge destroyed most of the buildings in the Islamorada area, and more than 200 World War I veterans housed in work camps were killed[2] by the storm surge and flying debris. Portions of the Key West Extension of the Florida East Coast Railway were severely damaged or destroyed. The hurricane also caused additional damage in northwest Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas. The hurricane killed more than 400 people, nearly all in the Florida Keys.
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