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Old 01-03-2010, 10:50 AM
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Hard to believe 95 stopped at PGA. Five lanes now and 441 looks like Orlando. 6th ave so. gets featured on "Cops" now.
Did your L.W. house have two Banyan trees in the front yard?

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Stopped at PGA? I remember when it didn't exist at all!! Then it ran from Southern to PB Lakes, and from Blue Heron to PGA with nothing in between. We used to drag race from PB Lakes to Okeechobee blvd before the highway was opened

The house I grew up in was at 307 Dartmouth Dr., (now called Worthmore Rd.) All the giant trees we had are gone now. My aunt across the street at 300 Dartmouth had two huge banyan trees and a huge mango. Her house was rebuilt in '29 after the 'cane. My family owned most of the property on both sides of the street for both blocks between Dixie and Federal when I was a kid. My grandfather was the developer for the whole "College Park" neighborhood in Lake Worth, from 19th Av N, north to the LW Canal, and from Dixie east to the Intracoastal. He used to keep his 43' Rybovich at the old Lake Worth Yacht Basin, right at Dixie Hwy and the canal, before the big locks were put in. The marina ran all the way from Dixie to Federal on the south side of the canal. I grew up running around on and fishing those docks and swimming with the manatees in the canal. I was there when Jacques Cousteau came and shot video of us kids riding the manatees for his TV special. TV star at 8 yrs old.
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