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| All spear fisherman have great stories of the fish they got
and the ones that got away but Joe Van Ogtrop backs up his stories with a photo.
This is a 450 pound Jewfish he and Tres Dunlap speared off of Colorado Point in
1962. To see what the water is like off of
Colorado Point
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The Boat Dock, same dock, at a later date, that Joe is standing
on with the Jewfish. Photo sent in by Susanne Wirth (Gravendijk)
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| Photo of the tug boat, Capt.
Rodgers, that washed up on BA Beach because a rope got
caught in its prop as it was trying to help a tanker that was on fire. Several attempts were
made to pull the tug free but they all failed and the tug rusted away in this location.
Today, 2004, it is show as a spear fishing site on what is left of the hull and
engine. Other photos of the Capt. Rogers. |
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The NA-99. The Church, Miss
Allen's house and her beauty shop, below the church, and the Mingus house to
left.
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| Christmas came to Aruba, with out snow, but we did have real
Christmas Trees. This is from a newspaper with a photo of the trees being
unloaded off of a tanker. |
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The e-mail below to
Reg Kennerty explains the photo below. Below the photo
of the boat is the blow-up of the Klim can in the boat photo.
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Hi Reg:
It's not the Klim can that
makes that picture, but the historic "Green Shack" that Art
Veldt and my Uncle, Frank Reynolds (of Seybolt) had in the early
1940s. Veldt also had the NA 99.
His son, Art jr. was still living in Aruba when I was last
there about five years ago.
Not long ago, Don Gray and
others were hunting for a good picture of the "Green Shack" and
there was quite a discussion about where it was. The photo was
taken from the extreme west side of the Esso Club property. In
later years a cement boat ramp was placed about where that
sailboat is in the picture. I put my boat in off that ramp one
day in June, 1954 when I went with Dave Barnes, and Stan and
Warren Norcom out to Indian Head light to get four small iron
cannons from the remains of a 1790s wreck that Tommy Tucker had
found.
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Klim, a dry milk product from Borden is Milk spelled backwards. It was the
source of milk for all children growing up in Lago Colony. In the early
'50's frozen milk was introduced in quart wax paper cartons. The freezing
seemed to break the wax off the carton and there were little pieces of wax in
the milk. I for one preferred the Klim to the fresh frozen milk.
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LEARN MORE ABOUT THE HOUSE ON STILTS IN THE BACKGROUND, CLICK HERE. |
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The photo above, showing the Klim Can, was cropped
from the photo above that, the one with the boat and the house on stilts. |
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