Just checked with our EOC and saw that eye wall winds of around 155 mph (CAT4) are hitting Sanibel and Captiva. There will be some serious devastation there.
-D > On Sep 27, 2022, at 8:37 PM, dan penoff.com <d...@penoff.com> wrote: > > 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
