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Post by mackeralsnatcher on Aug 10, 2024 18:31:51 GMT -5
Tru dat
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Post by whitebacon on Aug 11, 2024 9:39:05 GMT -5
Albany is a great place, didn't know you lived there. Some of the best bird hunting around, with incredible people. Dad worked the rest of his career there from 1970-1980, we lived in Putney (still spent summers/holidays here in Fl.) near Plant Mitchell, I grauated from Doughtery High, played little league with Lionel James and family. I worked at Firestone plant from june 78 to june 83 and again from May 84 - july 86 when they closed . Lot of birds back then , I could walk the power lines around our home and find coveys without a dog, but there were also a lot of birds here at our house in Ozello back in those days so... It was a good time to be a quail hunter Wow. Great stuff. I married a girl from Thomasville. Her mother, and all her family worked on plantations. Still do. All bird hunters. It is a lost art, no pun intended. I think a lot of us got spoiled by that part of God's country.
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Post by Crkr 23 on Aug 11, 2024 9:53:09 GMT -5
Margaret last name would be better.. Did you know Steve Terry, he accidently shot himself with a .22 on the run while rambling around the run Her last name was Finley, I think her dad had something to do with the country club at Radium Springs. Her younger siblings, probably closer to your age , were Ellen, Chucky and I think Cindy.
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Post by cyclist on Aug 11, 2024 10:14:49 GMT -5
Anyone remember the feds radar ballon at the end of the dead end road maybe just south of steinhatchee? Can't believe it wasn't ever shot down.
I bet Anumber1 has stories about it.
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Post by mackeralsnatcher on Aug 11, 2024 10:16:07 GMT -5
I remember "fat albert' down in Cudjo key. Still there i believe.
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Post by wildman on Aug 11, 2024 12:42:13 GMT -5
Anyone remember the feds radar ballon at the end of the dead end road maybe just south of steinhatchee? Can't believe it wasn't ever shot down. I bet Anumber1 has stories about it. The "Road to Nowhere" is the one just south of Steinhatchee that dead ends in the middle of the tidal marsh. Was a lot of drugs brought in there via plane and boat in the day. There were county government officials implicated as well. Many say the county built that road in the middle of nowhere and purposely built the bridges across the tidal creeks to allow airplane wings to pass over them just for drug running.
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Post by walkerdog on Aug 11, 2024 12:50:19 GMT -5
Don’t know if they were built as they were with that in mind or if it was an after the fact realization by someone.
There were bridges on rural roads all over the state that were built the same way.
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Post by anumber1 on Aug 11, 2024 14:48:43 GMT -5
Her last name was Finley, I think her dad had something to do with the country club at Radium Springs. Her younger siblings, probably closer to your age , were Ellen, Chucky and I think Cindy. Mr Finley owned the Texaco station in Radium Springs. Rooster (Lucious) was his mechanic. Chucky was one or two years younger than me(he died several years back). Finley's opened a restaurant down from the casino called "Han's" around 1980. It did good until that flood in the early 90's when the dam broke at Blackshear
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Post by anumber1 on Aug 11, 2024 14:49:48 GMT -5
I remember "fat albert' down in Cudjo key. Still there i believe. i do too..lol
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Post by conchydong on Aug 11, 2024 16:10:17 GMT -5
Fat Albert has been around a long time. At first it was monitoring possible missiles being fired from Cuba and then it was sending Radio Marti into Cuba long before it was used to look for drug smuggling. I don’t know if it is still there but it was located about two miles from our house on Sugarloaf key.
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Post by conchydong on Aug 11, 2024 16:13:35 GMT -5
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Post by Crkr 23 on Aug 11, 2024 16:19:35 GMT -5
Her last name was Finley, I think her dad had something to do with the country club at Radium Springs. Her younger siblings, probably closer to your age , were Ellen, Chucky and I think Cindy. Mr Finley owned the Texaco station in Radium Springs. Rooster (Lucious) was his mechanic. Chucky was one or two years younger than me(he died several years back). Finley's opened a restaurant down from the casino called "Han's" around 1980. It did good until that flood in the early 90's when the dam broke at Blackshear Heinz was the name of Mr Finley's oldest son. Hans was his wife's name. He sure had some pretty daughters.
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6thgen
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Post by 6thgen on Aug 12, 2024 10:07:52 GMT -5
The road to nowhere in Dixie County goes by Rocky Creek. Had a camp there 20 years ago at my cousins. There used to be stripped out airplanes on the west side of the road out in the trees. It is still a wild country but I can only imagine what it was like back when them planes were running. I have also seen a number of them out in the everglades. We used to walk to the indian burial mounds out in Fakahatychee Strand. I remember a C-47 that was out there my cousin said was a drug plane. We never went over to it because he thought it might be booby trapped.
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Clint
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Post by Clint on Aug 12, 2024 10:50:54 GMT -5
I remember reading in the G'ville Sun, an article back in the early 70's, where DCSO found 2 bodies chained around their waists to pine trees - +/- 20' tethers. They'd been chained there long enough to try and shinny up the small pines to slip the chain loop over the tops so they could get lose - they'd been there long enough to dig holes and gather rainwater. DCSO must've gotten to them right before the hogs....timing's everything - they obviously pissed off the wrong guys.
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Post by stc1993 on Aug 12, 2024 11:35:13 GMT -5
Her last name was Finley, I think her dad had something to do with the country club at Radium Springs. Her younger siblings, probably closer to your age , were Ellen, Chucky and I think Cindy. I knew the Finley's went to school with them. Their dad owned the casino when it burned down. Truth be known I think he done it or had it done. They lived on Skywater.
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