I remember it was very scary. I was pretty young and only heard stories!
Ol' Timers' & Natives Sowal Spring Memories
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I remember it but never actually went inside. I was a young mother trying to be a good influence!:shock:Here's one for you..........
How about "Ricks Run Aground" in the brick yard?
I spent a few times in "Rick's" and it was pretty scary at times. Remember the cypress tree top tables and we would peel the table tops off. Good tiimes and they would serve anybody. I believe it lasted about 1 - 1 1/2 years. Of course the only place parents would go would be the "Green Giant" where the Walgreens is now located in Destin. Very scary times there!
My Grayton memories don't go back as far as most of yours, but I loved Patrones, Big Ole Sweet Tea, and the zoo. I remember when I read Sunday Wife when the wife goes to Grayton for spiritual healing and gets ice cream from Patrones, it made me cry for the old days. Grayton will always provide the spiritual healing even amongst change.
Steele Mama, loved reading your brother's story. I had read it before, but you and liquorqueen have given even more life to it! I thought I had read it somewhere else?
I had my spring break in Panama City Beach in 1976! It was 6 girls, I was the oldest. We stayed at a Christian owned motel (the only way our parents let us go was because one of the mom's knew a church member) anyhow, we (I, since I was newly 18) bought Blue Nun and Annie Green Springs/Boone MTN in the jug. I remember going to the amusement park, thinking it was huge, meeting guys from Sanford University. I think we were pretty mild, just the 6 of us drinking in our motel room but couldn't be that loud because we didn't want the manager to tell the church member! I hadn't been back here until 1996, when my daughter was 2. The motel is still in PCB and the amusement park closed last year? I wish I could have driven to Grayton in 1976! I wonder if I would have made it here any sooner!
Steele Mama, loved reading your brother's story. I had read it before, but you and liquorqueen have given even more life to it! I thought I had read it somewhere else?
I had my spring break in Panama City Beach in 1976! It was 6 girls, I was the oldest. We stayed at a Christian owned motel (the only way our parents let us go was because one of the mom's knew a church member) anyhow, we (I, since I was newly 18) bought Blue Nun and Annie Green Springs/Boone MTN in the jug. I remember going to the amusement park, thinking it was huge, meeting guys from Sanford University. I think we were pretty mild, just the 6 of us drinking in our motel room but couldn't be that loud because we didn't want the manager to tell the church member! I hadn't been back here until 1996, when my daughter was 2. The motel is still in PCB and the amusement park closed last year? I wish I could have driven to Grayton in 1976! I wonder if I would have made it here any sooner!
Wow! I'm sure you saw lots of changes in those 20 years! The 70's were great at the beach. It was always a big deal to drive to PC! Once we drove all the way to inlet beach on the beach. My parents never knew where we were! :shock:
Steele Mama, you drove in your car from Grayton to Inlet on the beach?
Yea a Scout from Hartford AL! I didn't drive, I just rode.
Yea a Scout from Hartford AL! I didn't drive, I just rode.
Just think if you would have had a video camera and filmed the landscape. I can only imagine...!
One thing I remember clearly, Jaws had just been released the summer before I think, and we were deathly afraid of going into the gulf at night and there were a lot of kids swimming in the gulf at night!
It was definitley dark when we made that drive and many more around Grayton Beach. It's a miracle any of us survived! Jumping the tops of dunes in an open dune buggy.
Yea, swimming at night.:roll: I can almost hear ya'll screamin' and laughin' now! How funn. What grayt memories! Next time I'm on the beach I'm sure to think of all ya'll flyin' around with the whole place to yourselves.
Were Rick's and Puzzles clubs? Was that like the rock to disco era? That was kinda scary. :shock: Or was it another kinda scary? 
Did ya'll swim in the lakes too? Were there many gators? Can't wild boars kill a person?
Lived several places in Florida but never saw dune lakes until my 1st visit to Seagrove in 1990. Someone told me they are very rare. How awesomely breathtaking ...
BTW, those books are at the library and Eden Gardens gift shop too.
Ya'lls' first hand stories are wonderful. Keep 'em comin'.
liquorqueen!
Were Rick's and Puzzles clubs? Was that like the rock to disco era? That was kinda scary. :shock: Or was it another kinda scary? Did ya'll swim in the lakes too? Were there many gators? Can't wild boars kill a person?
Lived several places in Florida but never saw dune lakes until my 1st visit to Seagrove in 1990. Someone told me they are very rare. How awesomely breathtaking ...
BTW, those books are at the library and Eden Gardens gift shop too.
Ya'lls' first hand stories are wonderful. Keep 'em comin'.
liquorqueen!