Bayview Park …
This photo above of Bayview Park must have been made in the early 1900’s, maybe around 1910 or so. My father obviously did not make this photo, but he had a negative of the image. Someone must have brought the photo into the studio and had a copy print made. I have not seen very photos of the old Bayview Park and I thought that it looked interesting. Notice the old Model A’s in the parking lot on the left hand side. I can remember my father talking about going swimming there at Bayview Park when they moved here in 1925 from Muscogee Florida. All comments are appreciated … Thanks for looking …
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I took swimming lessons at Bayview in the mid-60’s. My grandmother lived a few blocks away on Lee Street, and she or my father would take me to play on the playground, which was my favorite playground in Pensacola, having both the “merry-go-round” and “teeter-totter.” At that time the water there was clean enough in which to swim.
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Mark Reed
August 19, 2012 at 5:42 am
I swam in the bayou for maybe 20 years and I never once got sick or ever had an ear ache…Frank
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Frank Hardy
August 22, 2012 at 3:36 pm
My family called Bayview “Old Glory Hole”…I don’t know why and I hope it isn’t offensive
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Suzan (Everman) Wheeler-Beck
June 25, 2012 at 5:31 pm
Thanks for the comment … I have never heard Bayview Park, or for that matter Bayou Texar, called ” Old Glory Hole ” and I do not think that it is offensive. It seems that back in the 20’s, 30’s and 40’s, a lot of things had a nickname back then. Thanks again and maybe someone else out there might have heard a nickname for Bayview, too.
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Frank Hardy
June 25, 2012 at 7:51 pm