I had a boss who was telling me about a place she and some of her biker friends used to go to on Heckscher Dr. for beers and maybe wings or seafood a long time ago. I could be wrong but it sounded like it was on the river near where the Hess plant is currently located.
I was just curious if anyone remembers this place or has pictures of it. It sounded like a really cool spot.
There was a fish camp down there. I forget the name of it. There were always bikes parked out in front. It was near Hess/paper mill/the old Jiffy Mart.
I used to live off Heckshire from b/w '85-88.
Where was the Best Little Shorehouse?
Dunn's Creek Fish Camp is/was on the east side of the bridge across Dunn's Creek. That would be about a half mile east of the Hess operation at the intersection of Heckscher and Eastport Rd.
No, I think the Shorehouse was at the corner of Heckscher and August, near the cruise terminal.
Dunns creek fishcamp was it's name...there was a grocery store on the river directly in front of the Hess compless at eastport road in the 20's and 30's to serve rive folk it's foundation is now gone though..the port authority own the property.
The way she was talking about it made it sound like it was there in the 80s or 90s. Kind of a shame there isn’t something similar in the area anymore. It’s such a great view.
Quote from: Bewler on January 13, 2011, 11:07:40 AM
The way she was talking about it made it sound like it was there in the 80s or 90s. Kind of a shame there isn’t something similar in the area anymore. It’s such a great view.
In my pleasure boat business I host experienced boaters and water front enthusiasts from around the country-the lack of such confounds them.
Quote from: north miami on January 13, 2011, 11:26:20 AM
Quote from: Bewler on January 13, 2011, 11:07:40 AM
The way she was talking about it made it sound like it was there in the 80s or 90s. Kind of a shame there isn’t something similar in the area anymore. It’s such a great view.
In my pleasure boat business I host experienced boaters and water front enthusiasts from around the country-the lack of such confounds them.
Its funny you say that. A lot of the waterfront entertainment venues were swallowed up by condo projects over the last decade.
People always ask me for dining suggestions... when the topic of waterfront dining comes up, I'm always ashamed to give my
very short list. We are after all the River City, no?
It was Dunns Creek Fish camp. And it was a hole in the wall place that you just wanted to go back to time and time again. I've got some great stories.
Just got off the phone with my mom. Dunns Creek Fish camp is right. They also sold bait there as well. She reminded me of a gentleman up at DCF that got me started on using squid to catch sheepshead off our dock. Wow, what a flashback. Thanks for starting this thread Bewler so I could reminisce with dear old Mom for a bit!
Football season and the playoffs. My experience with Dunns Creek Fish Camp was one where I would take my son and maybe one of his buds and sometimes we took the family dog on occasion and we would check our crab traps.
During one football season we had a routine. We would get the .29 or .39 cent 10 lb. bag of fryer leg quarters at Winn Dixie then trailer up the jon boat and put in at the boat ramp that was behind the place. I had permission from a property owner to have five traps around their dock and once a week we would go out and check our traps. We were never skunked and had about a dozen or two every weekend.
What an organic mix of small cumulative enterprises. The small functional bait store not a Dicks. A boat launch that I believe we paid a couple of bucks to use. Depending on when we got started after we were finished the empty parking lot was filling up with bikers the smokers were getting fired up. and the second wave of a vibrancy was emerging.
The place is gone. An activity that we have not duplicated again. And right now we are again in another round of losing more access to the River.
Be concerned.
Keep score.
There was a general goods store with a lunch/breakfast counter and a small marina/launch operation at Fort George year's ago.... I think the name was Overall's