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• skyway ande Senior Member St. petePosts: 3,807 Captain

  December 2018 #2

  They are being farm raised in Panacea Florida.

  God, save the South!

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• stc1993 Senior Member Posts: 10,420 AG

  December 2018 edited December 2018 #3

  I don't care for the farm raised oysters.  They grow them too big.  Even the extra small are bigger than what use to be selects. I sure would love a sack of App oysters.  Back when I 1st started going to Carrabelle a 60 lb sack was $18 at the seafood market.
  
  I have an old ledger from 1861 to 1865 from Louisville Kentucky.  A 2 1/2 gal jug of whisky was 37 cent.  A cord of wood was $2.  That's the ones I can remember.

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• Saltygatorvet Senior Member TallahasseePosts: 5,807 Admiral

  December 2018 #4

  Old Dog said:

  
  
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  And there can't be many oysters left in the bay. I spent a lot of time there recently and didn't see any tongers. Sad.
  
  

  That’s very cool, I’d love to pay $0.65 for a qt of oysters. I grew up in Dothan ( 1979-1992), but never knew of the Dothan cafe. Know the Salibas, but not the restaurant. Do you remember when it closed OD?

  You should have been here yesterday

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• stc1993 Senior Member Posts: 10,420 AG

  December 2018 #5

  They were still around in 1935.  Sunday dinner was 40 cent.  Oysters had went up a dime.

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• swampwalker Senior Member Zone BPosts: 2,359 Captain

  December 2018 #6

  The good old days may be the great old days after all.... Mostly only the great strides in medical tratment are the great things today.

  The original - "Renaissance Redneck"

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• stc1993 Senior Member Posts: 10,420 AG

  December 2018 #7

  Yep 1917 was the yr of the bad flu & diptheria epidemics.  Millions died world wide.

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• ferris1248 Moderator Posts: 25,081 Moderator

  December 2018 #8

  The good old days often look better in hindsight.
  

  
  

  "That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole of the law. The rest is commentary."
  
  Rabbi Hillel (c20 BCE)

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• woodsrunner Senior Member Posts: 2,235 Captain

  December 2018 #9

  The Good Old Days??

  Walking up the side of the road looking for the rare Coca Cola bottle someone threw out the car window----

  Find three bottles and you had a Coke and a piece of bubblegum! Cokes were a nickel apiece and the bottle required a .02c deposit unless you had an empty bottle to leave, and bubblegum was a penny!---that was back in the late '40s! Country stores that knew you would give you 2 pennies a bottle credit if you traded for a coke, and you didn't leave the store 'till you drank the coke and left the bottle! Usually a piece of bubblegum was also in the trade!  
  

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• brotherinlaw Senior Member Sylvester GAPosts: 3,912 Captain

  December 2018 #10

  Bout the same in the late 60's-early 70's except I think they gave us a nickel per bottle. Used to sell them to Mr. Earl at the old Sing station in Sylvester.
  

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• illinoisfisherman Senior Member Posts: 5,572 Admiral

  December 2018 #11

  I think we all must have scoured the roads for deposit bottles in our youth. That was the only way a seven year old could come up with a few pennies.
  

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• stc1993 Senior Member Posts: 10,420 AG

  December 2018 edited December 2018 #12

  I did my share.  A cane pole & a ready made rig was 75 cent.  A box of .22 shorts was .50 cent.  Believe it or not us brothers shared a single shot .22 it only cost $18.
  
  We would go to the orange groves and shoot rabbits.  Get a dollar for a cleaned rabbit.

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• skyway ande Senior Member St. petePosts: 3,807 Captain

  December 2018 #13

  Cool stc1993!

  God, save the South!

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• fishinbug Senior Member Posts: 810 Officer

  December 2018 edited December 2018 #14

  Our go to spot as kids growing up in the Redlands on Bauer Dr. was what is now called Pioneer Guild Hall.  It was Anderson's to us and that was the place to cash in the $.02 bottles and the occasional treasure of a $.05 quart bottle.  Creaky wooden floors and dark coolness inside in the summer without such a thing called AC.  Our mango and avocado grove was a couple hundred yards away and we could see the store.  Crossing Redland Rd. was the biggest hazard back then. 
  

  https://www.miamidade.gov/filmiami/gallery/Redlands9941FE.asp

  
  

  We took square dance lessons at the Fruit and Spice Park.  My Mom and Grandmother both taught ceramics at the Park and my sisters and brothers and I had free run of the fruit.  Neighbors' Dad worked at the Ag Experimental Station and he had all kinds of exotic plants that he taught me to tend.  That led to one day finding Thomas Edison's teeth.  
  

  
  

  Nostalgia is a powerful drug as one ages.  Thanks for the memories.
  

  
  
  

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• skyway ande Senior Member St. petePosts: 3,807 Captain

  December 2018 #15

  https://www.floridarambler.com/historic-florida-getaways/the-redland-rural-area-near-miami/
  
  fishinbug,
        Thanks for sharing your past experience in Redlands.
  I have a friend here in St Petersburg who raves about “Coral Castle”.
  I haven’t seen it yet. 
  I have been to visit “Robert is Here”.
  Quite a funny name.

  God, save the South!

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• fishinbug Senior Member Posts: 810 Officer

  December 2018 #16

  @skyway ande . I went to high school with Robert.  He was rich before he ever got to South Dade High.

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• swampwalker Senior Member Zone BPosts: 2,359 Captain

  December 2018 #17

  As we age we often "spend more time looking back on life than looking forward"....Good post & memories! Got me remembering for sure.

  The original - "Renaissance Redneck"

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• skyway ande Senior Member St. petePosts: 3,807 Captain

  December 2018 #18

  ^^ well said ^^

  God, save the South!

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• ferris1248 Moderator Posts: 25,081 Moderator

  December 2018 #19

  As I get older, I keep looking forward, not backwards. That's not to say I do not think about the past and the things I enjoyed but I work on thinking about things to look forward to.
  

  
  

  "That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole of the law. The rest is commentary."
  
  Rabbi Hillel (c20 BCE)

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