Local artist, known as the Driftwood Messiah, dies at 67
I never met Johnny Rice, but he sounded like a character:
Johnny claimed to have fished as a child with Ernest Hemingway, said he once saw a live mermaid and told a tale about falling into a marsh while drunk and waking up next to a large, cranky alligator that spoke to him.
He also told of falling off of a gambling ship 30 miles off Key West and making his way back to shore by riding the Gulf Stream for many hours.
“They’d reported me as dead in the newspapers,” he said in January. “It was God who saved me. I never would have been able to swim all that distance by myself.”
Grover said telling “embellished” tales was something all three brothers did.
“We loved to tell stories, especially Johnny and I,” Grover said. “But then, our sister would show up and tell the truth about what happened, and totally ruin our stories. We learned not to tell them when she was around.”
Florida woman scratches crude image onto stranger’s car
Armed with a key, Natasha Myers scratched a rendering of male genitalia onto the hood of the silver Kia. She then went to the customer service desk inside the supermarket and asked for a Post-it note. Security cameras captured her writing something on the paper and then returning to the parking lot.
Myers left the following note on the windshield:
“Hey I keyed your car. You didn’t stop for pedestrians as is law. Since no cop to enforce a ticket, this should cover the cost of your fine. Have a good day. P.S. Don’t be a d—-.”
HOW CAN I CONTRIBUTE TO THIS WOMAN’S DEFENSE FUND?
Florida fiction by Timothy Brace, 1939.
(Broward County Library Sun, Sand & Suspense Collection)
The sisters that take aim together, stay together.
Stop for lunch in Miami.
(via What Makes The Pie Shops Tick? on Flickr)
UCF has an emergency contact option for unborn child. Like if I get in a car accident they can call up my unborn child and say “hey your dad is hurt come to the hospital”. That’s helpful.
Teen Age Hall clothing store taken on January 29, 1947 in Tampa.
The Atomic Tunnel decal (1950s)
St. Augustine, FL, 1983: Women at an all-male revue. Apparently there were only two hairstyles allowed by law at the time.
