So I guess your vast southern estate will not get blown away? Sent from my iPhone
> On Sep 28, 2022, at 10:16 AM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________ 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
