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    Daily Pic

    OK - maybe the construction shots are too boring. How about a NASCAR shot? Here are the drivers in their uniforms getting some words from the boss on the beach at Daytona.

    jeff
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails ECK-Nascar Drivers KRC4-110 1956.jpg  

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    Hey, Jeff, since the collection includes a lot of stuff away from the lake, why not start its own thread? You could call it something like "Pics from the Merc Archives" or something like that.

    To me, even the construction photos are interesting!

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    Quote Originally Posted by digital_jeff View Post
    Good Morning,
    This week i'll post some construction shots. Some may be a bit challenging to figure out the orientation - which direction the image is facing.

    jeff
    Jeff - It took me minute to figure orientation....But...This shot is looking into entrance of original slip. Motel would be to the left just out of picture. You can see the canopy over monorail behind forklift driver (Wayne Meyer?) - Steve Sirois

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    Quote Originally Posted by digital_jeff View Post
    OK - maybe the construction shots are too boring. How about a NASCAR shot? Here are the drivers in their uniforms getting some words from the boss on the beach at Daytona.

    jeff
    Jeff - Stock car days pic is going to take me awhile and some research to name the drivers....perhaps you have that info.

    ALSO - This thread has LIFE and READERS. As much as I respect Sam (and it is huge), I hope you stay on this thread. - Steve

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    OH, and by the way, I too like the construction shots - Steve

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    Hi Steve,
    I see it now. Did they leave an earthen dam at the entrance so the water could be pumped out to pour the cement wall?

    Hi Mark75H,
    I'll just go back to posting Lake X related stuff.

    jeff

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    I never meant for Jeff to stop putting pictures on this thread, I meant to also do another thread, if possible. I think both ideas deserve life of their own. As the Stock car picture shows, there is a lot of stuff in the archives outside the gates, too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by digital_jeff View Post
    Hi Steve,
    I see it now. Did they leave an earthen dam at the entrance so the water could be pumped out to pour the cement wall?

    Hi Mark75H,
    I'll just go back to posting Lake X related stuff.

    jeff
    Sam - I concur. - Steve

    Jeff - I was not there until 3 years after that 1959 photo was taken. If you look closely, you can see a twin outboard (white motors) in the background. That leads me to believe that the slip was still navigable. Also, it looks like some sort of raft with a tube float directly behind the guys standing in the mud. I am thinking that it was only the small area where they are standing that was above water and you could still get in and out of the slip. The shop with canopied monorail was already there and the boat is in the water. It is likely that the boat was in the water because you could get out of the slip and into the lake. Also, as I remember it, the old slip only had a concrete seawall along the side that was adjacent to the shop. The rest of the seawall was vertical wooden planks with interspersed vertical wooden posts. Several posts ago, someone asked about the electric power house just behond the fuel dock. There may have been an electic room in that building, but it also was a laundry and mail room. The maids (Rachel) that took care of the trailers also operated out of that building - Steve

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    This photo taken at the fish camp just outside of the Siesta Key Test Station. My test to see if I can post larger pics - Steve Sirois

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    Hey! It works. Sam - Thanks for the help. Now I can post BIG pictures! All I have to do now is to find worthy pics - Steve

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldskier View Post
    "I am the keeper of most of the photographic history of the lake (and the company)."

    Whoa boy...

    I feel another wave of this coming on! BRING IT ON!!!!

    I STILL think if this thread were compiled by somebody with some literary talent it would make a great book. ILLUSTRATED!
    Just picked back up on this thread. Spent probably 8-10 hours reading it about 8-10 months ago before I even posted. KEEP IT COMING!!!!!!
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    A legend from the past...My one and only Brother with my 2 daughters..Mid 80's - Steve


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    Who's Who in Boat Racing and Lake X History? Here are some pics I took at June Legends Reunion in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com</st1:PlaceName>Sunny <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Isles</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Beach</st1:PlaceType>. I will let you guess. Don't lie, because I know the answers. Have Fun - Steve

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    Getting tired. More tomorrow - Steve

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    Quote Originally Posted by seeroy View Post


    Who's Who in Boat Racing and Lake X History? Here are some pics I took at June Legends Reunion in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com</st1:PlaceName>Sunny <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Isles</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Beach</st1:PlaceType>. I will let you guess. Don't lie, because I know the answers. Have Fun - Steve
    I know the answer so I won't divulge........ But a hint....he's one of my heros...and there ain't many of those. I will say that your brother is also on that list.

    I have said many times that the two greatest boat racers in my lifetime share the same initials......and first names........

    Billy

    Sirois

    and

    Seebold
    20 Foot Switzer Wing 2 X S3000 (Dust'n the Wind II)
    !6 foot Wood Eltro Vee (2X Merc 1500's) (Dust'n the Wind IV)
    15 foot Powercat 15C (2 X Merc 1500) (Dust'n the Wind III)
    (Single engine boats are lacking something)
    15’ Wooden Switzer Shooting Star...
    16 foot Lee Craft Merc S 3000-(Gold Dust II)
    (The exception proves the rule)
    Obsolete and Proud of it

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