Re: Holiday Food, now Apalach

I guess the last time I was in Appalach was about 1950.  My grandmother used 
to drive through there when she was visiting friends in Panama City and point 
out the houses her father had built in the 1890s.  She used to tell about the 
time that the person who developed ice-making (I can't recall the name, but 
you probably know it) made a demonstration there to some businessmen - trying to 
get financing.  My grandfather thought it was a bit far-fetched and didn't 
invest.  Story of our family's history.  My grandfather once owned a large 
stretch of beach-front property just west of Panama City, but let it go for taxes 
in the Depression.  A neighbor, doctor's widow with money, bought it and 
developed it - sold it for $100. a front foot in the late 30s.  Hate to think what 
it would bring now. 
It's interesting to hear that things in that part of the state haven't been 
totally paved over or "Disneyfied" by now. 
 Auralie

In a message dated 12/29/2003 4:54:27 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
jsinger@igc.org writes:

> It still looks a lot like a frontier town, Auralie. I was stationed 
> there [Cape San Blas lighthouse] in 1952-53 and my wife and daughter 
> had a small apartment in Apalach. The town hasn't changed much since 
> then, except the shrimp boats seem to have moved on--only oyster boat 
> at the dock as near as I could tell--and the Jitney Jungle has gone 
> away. When I offered the observation to a maid at hotel that the town 
> was pretty much the way it was when I lived there, she said "Oh, no. We 
> growed up a lot since then." Kinda sad to see the disrepair and neglect 
> that has befallen the lighthouse. Guess that's what happens when you 
> turn lighthouses over to the Air Force.

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