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Posted: 04 Sep 2010

Taken: 01 Jan 1953

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Fish camp

Fish camp
Pictures from childhood.

My attempt at fishing, with my mother looking on, at a fairly rundown fish camp run by my grandfather on what was then Girvin road. At the time, the area was swamplands and oak woods, with very few houses of people who wanted to get away from everything. From the satellite photos I can see that all of that history has been wiped out and replaced with modern suburban ranch homes (see map).

Scans of older pictures, best viewed from left to right, as part of Jacksonville set.

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 Clint
Clint
The over-development and ever-expanding sprawl seems so much worse in Florida than in other places. My family always took Florida vacations when I was a kid, and one of my earliest memories is of riding in the car along vast stretches of empty beach along the panhandle coast. We just picked some spot at random, tromped through the sea grass, and had a picnic on an empty beach. That spot now is nothing but private condo buildings and parking lots.
10 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to Clint
It would be hard to say what state is worse since many do it, but Florida (like Arizona and Nevada) had shady development schemes ("an acre and a cottage [in a swamp] for $595") going back into the 1950's. The almost complete lack of environmental consciousness for decades meant many stretches of land being paved over, and then the racism meant a constant and ever-expanding fleeing of any area that began to look less than pristine 'white'. When I was a teen, there was about 10 miles between Jacksonville and the beaches that consisted of just sporadic cabins and small rural homes. All of that now is dense developments.

Oh, and.... 'yes', there used to be a time when most of the beaches were publicly accessible. No more. The beaches themselves are still legally public, but the fences, gated communities, and private patrols have made those once 'public' beaches to now be essentially private.
10 years ago.

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