yet more gulf coast pictures ~ last set

hello there yet again from the mississippi gulf coast yet again and alas for the last time.

first up we have the white house, yes the white house. i remember passing this land mark all the time but to be honest, i am not sure we ever stopped at or went to this beautiful building. dad must have not liked the shrimp here as much.

 

i thought i had posted pictures of us at beauvior before, but appears that i have not. i know i have some and i will post as soon as i run across them. here are two postcards of the beautiful home of jefferson davis. this is where he came to live out his days after the civil war.

i remember the old furniture, the kitchen implements, even the bedrooms. just really a wonderful place and the view was amazing. the beach would have been just off to the left in these views. remembering the ‘times’; there was no divider or anything to separate you from any of the items. just simple signs which reminded you not to touch. the sad part of this, the home was damaged by hurricane camille in in 1969 and hurricane katrina in 2005. this is truly a wonderful piece of history and is currently being rebuilt/repaired.

 

when i was in the 8th grade, i had a letterman’s sweater with my basketball letter’s etc. on it. yes, from pascagoula jr. high school. one weekend we were passing through biloxi for some unremembered reason. on this trip, we stopped at the ‘shoo fly’. it is cool to walk around this thing with the really exciting part being when large trucks would pass and you would get blasted by the passing wind. you can see from the photo, how close the highway is. always trying to get the truck driver to blow his horn. any way. for some reason i took off my sweater. i was so proud of that thing. you got it. i placed my sweater on the railing probably trying to get the attention of a passing truck.

fast forward to the point i remembered and dad could get us back; sad to say, my sweater was gone. hope they choke on it to this day! here is that damn ‘shoo fly’.

 

last today and for this series is the old sea wall. short story for these things. spend time in the water and playing on the beach. sun is in the sky beaming down on the beach. sea wall on the beach and under the sun. you go back to the car with out shoes. OUCH! my memory of these steps is that they got very, very hot. again, i know i have pictures of the sea wall and i’ll look for them.

this post card shows when the wall was new. sandy beach was added by the time i was there. item of note, the sand beach along this part of the coast is the longest man made sand beach in the world. this fact is dated to the 60’s when we lived there. not sure if this is still true.

nostalgia, for my grand kids

the whole reason i started this was for my grandkids, so it’s time i got back to it. i have dug out some old post cards i have collected over the years of the mississippi gulf coast mostly (where i grew up) and i am sharing my memories of some.

this first card is somewhat interesting in that we came through this intersection every time we went to jackson to visit my uncle.what was cool; was during season, you would find young kids along side the road selling ‘boiled peanuts’. you would get a bag full for a dime. ummm good stuff, hot and fresh.

 

 

next up is  marine land on the beach in gulfport. what was cool, was i would often spend the day (well, a few hours alone) when we came over, while my mom and dad went shopping.  gulfport had something new called a mall that they went to. this park was a big influence on me wanting to become a marine biologist. i would spend hours watching the fish in the large tanks. the shows were fairly good but after so many times seeing them, became old stuff. remember, being alone was no big deal in the 60’s and admission was something like 75 cents.

 

final picture today is of the edgewater gulf hotel in its hay-day. would later be re-named the broadwater, which i posted a picture of a few days ago i found of what it looks like currently, which is sad. a victim of time and hurricanes. this was a big big landmark when traveling along the coast and offered several good restaurants as well. we would sometimes stop for fresh seafood and the view was just amazing. can you believe the price of $2.50 per person. i think it may have been like $7.50 per person at the time we were there. to be honest, we never spent the night there, just ate there as my dad liked their shrimp.

(more memories of a life growing up on the sand next time)

Broadwater Beach, Biloxi

Broadwater Beach, Biloxi
Originally uploaded by tombarnes20008

i just ran across this.

when i lived in pascagoula, we would go by the broadwater going through biloxi. yet another part of the coast going away.

a sad thing to me.

old lighthouse on the coast

this is something you wouldn't see, even if you went down to the coast. this is the old lighthouse in gulfport. it was destroyed in hurricane camille in 1969. i remember taking this picture. we had just stopped at a mall and i had gotten a new doc savage book and we were headed back home after a visit. dad wanted to check something real quick with the car, i took this shoot and we were on our way. note the large house in the background. every one of the big, beautiful coast homes were wiped out by that storm.

update and correction to this post: i thought the light house had been destroyed in the storm; however i was mistaken in my memory. seems the Biloxi lighthouse stands tall through the years. my mistake!