Clint
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Post by Clint on Aug 2, 2024 9:14:23 GMT -5
Do many of you from SE FL remember Andytown? I worked in Palm Bch County, Broward and Dade in the mid-70s early 80s - there was a great little beer juke where 441/SR 87 (Alligator Alley) intersected. I guess they pushed it down when they paved over 87 for I-75. There was another great beer stop on the way to Homestead, I believe the name was Jones Fish Camp - Friday night was all you could eat fried catfish. I was Google Earthing some of the tanks I build down there & it looks like highways, houses and strip malls have all been planted in the former swamps. We were working on Ft. Lauderdale Bch when Andrew blew through, changed the whole landscape of a very cool piece of Florida.
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Post by TRTerror on Aug 2, 2024 10:38:02 GMT -5
If you take what use to be Rt. 84 and is now some kind of Expressway that runs to the toll booth on the alley ..on the left side of that last bridge before the Tollbooth there is a little sign engraved into the bridge that says AndyTown and the dates. I remember it well...Good Times!
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Post by conchydong on Aug 2, 2024 10:43:40 GMT -5
Growing up whever we went on road trips from Key West, we would pick up Krome Ave in Homestead to 27 and take it to SR84 in Broward. My dad always stopped in Andytown for a cold one.
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Post by One Man Gang on Aug 2, 2024 11:46:23 GMT -5
I remember it well. NOTHING is even remotely the same out there.
My dad always stopped there for a beer as well. Think I opted for a grape Nehi and a bag of cheetos at the time.
Back then SR 84 was the only way to travel east and west, until you hit alligator alley. Two dangerous lanes with miles of Australian pines on the north edge next to the canal. Woods and pastures to the south. Now, none of the above.
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Clint
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Post by Clint on Aug 2, 2024 12:23:25 GMT -5
27 up to South Bay was an adventure too back then. I built 2 Clarifiers & a Digester on the south end of Lake Okeechobee - South Bay was nothing but cane cutters. I can still remember the smell of burning cane & seeing the side of the roads lined with cane-cutters w/sticks whacking rabbits.
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Post by TRTerror on Aug 2, 2024 14:09:13 GMT -5
I saw a Vid. on Belle Glade poor folks going to the burning fields and killing rabbits with sticks. Pretty cool but them folks sure were poor. BelleGlade...The Muck as they called it. How about that place on the west side of the lake. Cypress Knee museum. Guy also made Turkey Calls...I still got one
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Post by One Man Gang on Aug 2, 2024 14:12:50 GMT -5
A man used to be able to pull off Alligator alley anywhere he wanted just to fish, camp, or hunt. Nothing but a couple empty, unlit rest stops and no fences.
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Post by One Man Gang on Aug 2, 2024 14:13:31 GMT -5
I saw a Vid. on Belle Glade poor folks going to the burning fields and killing rabbits with sticks. Pretty cool but them folks sure were poor. BelleGlade...The Muck as they called it. How about that place on the west side of the lake. Cypress Knee museum. Guy also made Turkey Calls...I still got one Tom Gaskins. Got one too.
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Post by cracker4112 on Aug 2, 2024 14:20:32 GMT -5
I got a couple of Tom’s calls. I met him a couple times when I was a kid. He hunted barefoot, was the damnedest thing I’d ever seen. We loaded up to sit in some deer stands one morning and he’s got no shoes, and it wasn’t warm that morning.
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Andytown
Aug 2, 2024 14:22:32 GMT -5
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Post by stc1993 on Aug 2, 2024 14:22:32 GMT -5
Zellwood Fl used to have the muck farms too. I was very young. They would let the locals go over the fields after they went over them with the mechanical corn pickers.
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Post by conchydong on Aug 2, 2024 14:27:19 GMT -5
A man used to be able to pull off Alligator alley anywhere he wanted just to fish, camp, or hunt. Nothing but a couple empty, unlit rest stops and no fences. With all of the red tape rules, regulations and lack of public spaces to hunt and fish it is no wonder why the younger generations don’t bother with it anymore except for a few that follow in their parents footsteps.
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Andytown
Aug 2, 2024 14:30:10 GMT -5
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Post by tonyroma on Aug 2, 2024 14:30:10 GMT -5
I saw a Vid. on Belle Glade poor folks going to the burning fields and killing rabbits with sticks. Pretty cool but them folks sure were poor. BelleGlade...The Muck as they called it. How about that place on the west side of the lake. Cypress Knee museum. Guy also made Turkey Calls...I still got one Think that movie is called “The Rabbit Hunt” it was posted in the old forum. First time I ever heard of a thump hunt.
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Andytown
Aug 2, 2024 14:33:21 GMT -5
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Post by stc1993 on Aug 2, 2024 14:33:21 GMT -5
I can remember those days. Now they have no parking signs. Highway 50 to Orlando you could park and fish. Not anymore.
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Clint
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Aug 2, 2024 15:29:05 GMT -5
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Post by Clint on Aug 2, 2024 15:29:05 GMT -5
A man used to be able to pull off Alligator alley anywhere he wanted just to fish, camp, or hunt. Nothing but a couple empty, unlit rest stops and no fences. I had a 15' Aquasport w/85hp Javelin. We'd drop in one of the ramps on the north side of the alley & flip double hook silver Rapala minnows against the bank while we drifted down the middle of the ditch & catch yearling bass just about every cast, seldom saw a gator but the ones we did see were worthy of being called bull Gators- they paid us no mind. We were working in Cape Coral off Sample Road, it was a dairy farm at the time being developed into a city park.
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Aug 2, 2024 15:54:00 GMT -5
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Post by stc1993 on Aug 2, 2024 15:54:00 GMT -5
There wasn't many gators in the old days. Now there everywhere. I grew up in west Orange Co. never saw a gator a in the wild 15 years.
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