[Regia-NA] PC Beach-RE: Was sprang BILOXI

[Sudden Service #5]

    You mean the Red Neck Riviera?  I haven't been in a while, but it was
built up & traffic was murder all the way back when I was young.  I went
there after High School Graduation & on Boot leave back in the '72/3.  It is
the place where all the Southern kids went for fun-much cheaper than Ft
Lauderdale where all the rich Yankees went.  Last time I went there was in
2001& it took 2 hours to drive the Miracle Mile.
    The Lifeguards weren't trying to keep you from drowning they were trying
to get you to go back to the stores & buy more-especially from Mushroom
Tees-the tee shirt shop my daughter & her SO own.  One of my employees just
got back from a training session at the home office in Tallahassee, I
arranged for my daughter to pick her up from work & have a day at the beach.
They had a good time except when they went swimming they ran into "a 2' long
UGLY fish who's mouth looked like a saw" (maybe a 'cuda?)
    If you want to see quaint & beautiful unspoiled & take a step back in
time go visit Chipley or Apalachicola.  A drive along the cost from the Big
Bend to PC is wonderful & very scenic.
Pax,
Olaf
----- Original Message ----- 

>     Sounds just like Panama City Beach in Florida just down 98. I never
> got to see it before my in-laws moved there in the mid 90's. By my
> tastes it was probably beautiful once but now it's like 42nd street NYC
> on the beach. I've noticed just in the last 5 years that the
> trash-to-sand ratio has gotten way out of hand. Also cannot believe how
> much people drink and how seldom they go in the water(probably a good
> thing). Every time I go for swim in Florida the lifeguards chase me
> down with the jet ski's and ask me if I'm drowning. As much as I
> despise Martha's Vinyard for being "snobbish", they have done the right
> thing and kept the shore wild, the roads largely unpaved, neon lights
> to a barely existant minimum and prohibited any structure higher than a
> stout 2 story victorian or 9 window colonial at about 45feet. Privelege
> of wealth I guess.