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Franklin McMillan Diary, 1929-1930

Frank McMillan 1929-1930 Diary 44.pdf

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homes here. passed through Eau Gallie. a small place and Melbourne a larger town examined at Mico to see if we had any oranges or fruit. as they have no Mediterranean Fly south of here. Mico about 20 miles south of Melbourne. arrived at Vero Beach 1115am had dinner in the Park got a bottle of milk 23¢ Got Gas £1 15 oil 25¢ at Fort Pierce. Stopped again outside of Stuart to see if we had any Spanish Moss they dont seem to have any down here. passed through some small places. Gomez, Olympia, Likely, Jupiter, Kelsey City, Riveria then we arrived at West Palm Beach about 230p.m. Got rooms at the 6th place we tried at the Alma Hotel price $5.00 and 25¢ tip. free parking on the street in front. started for Palm Beach took a couple of snaps at the waterfront then crossed the bridge & through Palm Beach city to the shore spent about one hour here the children went in paddling lots of people in bathing suits. getting tanned seems to be a regular business saw Portugeuse men of war blue balloon like fish trimmed with pink. something like an octopus. the bathers afraid of them. if you get stung by them. they are very bad saw the largest hotel in the World called the Poinciana has 1100 rooms

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