Originally Posted by Jim in Idaho
West Palm Beach, FL in 1910. I grew up about 30 miles south of where this picture was taken (and about 50 years later!). I cannot imagine hanging out in the heat there wearing those clothes.

However, in 1910, if you went straight east from there about 2-3 miles you would be into some of the best marlin, sailfish and deep sea fishing in the world at that time.

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This picture does nothing to show the heat and humidity present, not to mention the mosquitoes and chiggers.

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One summer when I was little my mother and I spent a weekend at a church retreat in Boca Raton at an old resort hotel from the 1920's - no air conditioning. That first night the heat and mosquitoes were horrible, neither of us got any sleep. The next morning my mother drove all the way back home just to get an electric fan which made things at least tolerable but did nothing to keep the mosquitoes away.


Well actually thats still the way you see me around the water, long pants, long sleeve shirts, big cap/hat, something on the neck. Really should have something on my hands but mostly I don't.... Sun tears me up somtehing bad. And I can't stand the heat of it on my skin or the stickyness of sunscreen. Though I have to put sunscreen on my face and hands or pay the price.

We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....