Both. My Dad was an executive vice president for the commercial lending division of General Motors until the summer of 1969. “Yellow Motors Credit” as it was known then. And later an executive VP of commercial lending at Merchant’s Bank in Indianapolis.
Sanibel was a bit of a hole back then, sort of shabby. The locals didn’t want anyone on the island, and they kept people off by charging (at the time) exorbitant tolls to cross the bridge from Ft. Myers. Sort of like what Key West was at the time, too. Locals who didn’t want the touristas around, somewhat shabby, nothing of any real interest or attractiveness that would draw them, either. About the only thing Sanibel was known for at the time was being a great place for shelling. Gene Shepard lived there. We used to run into him at the general store on Captiva, but I didn’t know the guy from Adam at the time. My folks told me who it was some years later, but I remember the guy. It wasn’t until I was a teenager that I read any of his books, and this predated the Christmas Story movie by decades. It was a very low key sort of place at the time. -D > On Sep 27, 2022, at 8:28 PM, mitch--- via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > Were your parents more wealthy than I thought, or was Sanibel a lot cheaper > back then? > The guy I quoted has a nice if virtually unused house there, occasionally > parks his 87' boat at the dock and I don't think it's the biggest dock in the > neighborhood. > > > On 2022-09-27 18:23, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: >> Having spent a fair amount of time at my parent’s former house on >> Sanibel, if Ian goes over Sanibel and Captiva there won’t be much left >> when it’s gone. My folks owned a place on Sanibel from the late 1960s >> until the early 80s. They bailed because it was getting too >> commercialized - in other words, they were letting too many people >> over the bridge. > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
