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The Last Days of Last Island
Posted on 3/24/16 at 12:41 pm
Posted on 3/24/16 at 12:41 pm
Anyone ever read this book? About to spend a week at the beach and thought this looked like an interesting book to read.
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Posted on 3/24/16 at 12:45 pm to SouthboundTiger
great read
Posted on 3/24/16 at 12:55 pm to SouthboundTiger
Fascinating and a great read. I remember hearing about last island for the first time on here about a year ago and started researching it. Really interesting piece of LA history and when you think of the expectations people had for the place including the big hotel they were going to build.
Posted on 3/24/16 at 1:07 pm to jamboybarry
I can't imagine what the Island looked like when they had the hotel in the 1800's
Now it is nothing more than a couple hundred yard wide strip that will soon be a sand bar.
Now it is nothing more than a couple hundred yard wide strip that will soon be a sand bar.
Posted on 3/24/16 at 1:15 pm to bayoudude
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I can't imagine what the Island looked like when they had the hotel in the 1800's
There was a small hotel there before the hurricane. There was a larger hotel, the Tradewinds that was being planned to be built. Hard to imagine something like this being built out there but I guess it was that lively of a place
Posted on 3/24/16 at 1:29 pm to jamboybarry
This is the only picture i have ever been able to find. I believe it was posted on an old pictures thread on TD a while back.
Posted on 3/24/16 at 1:46 pm to bayoudude
They never built the big hotel..................
I liked reading bout the journey it took to get there.
Trains, ferrys, boats, steamships.
Now we run there in 30 mins
I liked reading bout the journey it took to get there.
Trains, ferrys, boats, steamships.
Now we run there in 30 mins
Posted on 3/24/16 at 1:52 pm to bayoudude
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This is the only picture i have ever been able to find. I believe it was posted on an old pictures thread on TD a while back.
That's the old smaller hotel
Posted on 3/24/16 at 1:52 pm to Drop4Loss
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Trains, ferrys, boats, steamships.
Now we run there in 30 mins
yeah but they actually had navigable, defined bayous back then. Lots more land. Can you imagine riding the ferry through the Oak bayous?
Posted on 3/24/16 at 1:59 pm to Motorboat
last Isle when the statue was there circa 2012
Posted on 3/24/16 at 2:10 pm to Motorboat
When i was a kid they still had rodeos at that wharf and had a few bayous still inside the island with land camps and houseboats. My dad's generation remembers the sand dunes and taking jeeps to get to the surf. Amazing how much it has changed in the last 50 or so years.
Posted on 3/24/16 at 2:15 pm to Motorboat
Crazy I've never noticed that creepy thing.
Posted on 3/24/16 at 2:18 pm to PapaPogey
They moved it to across from the ice house by the harbor light near the end of bayou Petit Caillou. They even had a mass on the beach back in the day when it was brought out there in the 50's or early 60's. It was originally on the edge of whiskey pass then it was moved to California canal later. And finally to where it is now a few years ago.
This post was edited on 3/24/16 at 2:19 pm
Posted on 3/24/16 at 2:33 pm to PapaPogey
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Crazy I've never noticed that creepy thing.
T-top got in the way
Posted on 3/24/16 at 2:35 pm to Motorboat
Nah, probably just too busy ripping lips that I haven't had time to check it out.
Posted on 3/24/16 at 2:38 pm to bayoudude
Saw this one the other day and it claims to be Last Isle.
Posted on 3/24/16 at 2:51 pm to 34venture
You know that's last Isle. You called me over to fish right there one day.
Posted on 3/24/16 at 2:54 pm to 34venture
Last Isle no doubt
Posted on 3/24/16 at 3:03 pm to SouthboundTiger
Good book, but you don't want to read it while on the beach during Hurricane Season
Posted on 3/24/16 at 3:05 pm to warlock1974
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Good book, but you don't want to read it while on the beach during Hurricane Season
Why? Its not like a hurricane is going to come out of nowhere and catch you off guard.
I think our hurricane prediction methods are just a litttttle bit better now than the 1800's
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