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Post by conchydong on Jun 21, 2024 7:33:36 GMT -5
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Jun 21, 2024 8:00:29 GMT -5
Wow. I never saw that. What year?
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Post by olmucky on Jun 21, 2024 8:10:16 GMT -5
Wow. I never saw that. What year? The video says 9/75
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Post by johngalt on Jun 21, 2024 8:14:46 GMT -5
Back when the Keys were enjoyable. 😉
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Jun 21, 2024 8:17:30 GMT -5
I was there with my ex and my son in June’76. Rained every morning but it sure was beautiful!
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Post by madm002 on Jun 21, 2024 8:59:43 GMT -5
There was alot of that going on back then. Helped build Miami.
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Post by nickhoog on Jun 21, 2024 12:35:36 GMT -5
Yum, Key lime pie and some lines...
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Post by nuevowavo on Jun 21, 2024 13:18:02 GMT -5
Bum Farto!
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Post by conchydong on Jun 21, 2024 13:43:40 GMT -5
Bum was a family friend and quite a character. He would often volunteer to drive the hearse for us at our Funeral Home. Red suits and patent leather white shoes and belts were his trademark. No one really knows what happened to him but it was rumored that he went to Costa Rica.
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Post by jmarkb on Jun 21, 2024 14:44:18 GMT -5
At the same time the Feds busted about 2/3 of the town of Everglades City and surrounding area, More folks up near Homosassa and Ozello, plus another batch in Steinhatchee.
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Post by ferris1248 on Jun 21, 2024 15:34:07 GMT -5
"His name was Bum Farto." And it’s a name that will live in infamy." "Born Joseph Farto—yep, that’s his real last name—in Key West on July 3, 1919, Bum earned his nickname from the employees at the fire station across the street from his house where he would try to ‘bum” things from the firefighters. “He used to hang around the old No. 1 Fire Department on Greene Street all the time and the firemen started calling him ‘the little bum,’” an unidentified friend told "The Miami Herald in 1976. “He was always bumming things—asking for favors, like little kids do.” "Despite this childish annoyance, Bum was allowed to hang around the station, was given the occasional odd job, and tolerated by the men that worked there. Away from the fire station, Bum eventually took work as a driver for a funeral home and even got married to a woman named Esther in 1955. But Bum’s true love was the fire station. He loved it there and hung around there long enough that he eventually got a job operating fire hoses. Bum did well and rose up the ranks to become fire chief in 1964." fieldethos.com/the-legend-of-bum-farto/
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Post by ferris1248 on Jun 21, 2024 15:43:01 GMT -5
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Post by Captj on Jun 22, 2024 5:41:14 GMT -5
The Keys were a very different place back in the 60's - 70's. Lots of "characters" (we called them ends of the earth people). Big fun socially.
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Post by ferris1248 on Jun 22, 2024 9:57:38 GMT -5
I had more fun in Key West in the 70s and 80s than anyplace I think I've ever been. We'd visit 3 or 4 times a year.
Everybody mined their own business and if you minded yours, you were treated well.
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Post by swampdog on Jun 23, 2024 13:05:24 GMT -5
One of the city’s two bail bondsmen was out of state and the second was part of the group arrested, so no one could bond out. That’s awesome.
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