OTHER PHOTOS OF INTEREST
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 click on link.

The Boat Dock, same dock, at a later date, that Joe is standing on with the Jewfish.  Photo sent in by Susanne Wirth (Gravendijk)

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.

 

The NA-99.  The Church, Miss Allen's house and her beauty shop, below the church, and the Mingus house to left.

 

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.

 

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.
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.

 

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.

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE HOUSE ON STILTS IN THE BACKGROUND, CLICK HERE.

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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