Roughly a week ago, Tommy Laird (DHS '67) saw some kids swimming in Oyster Creek. He commented that swimming in the Creek is a rarity these days. I'm sure it is, but I'm glad to see the tradition is still alive.
Here's an 11-minute video of locals swimming in Oyster Creek over the past 90 years. (Hey guys, be sure and check this out. There's some vintage cheese cake in this video.)
I don't want to leave anyone out, but there are a few people I couldn't identify. You'll see Tommy Laird, Johnny Armstrong, Rit Jons, Richard Bunting, Bill Banahan, James Schuman (maybe), Douglas Warmke (maybe), David Neal, Tom Neal, Mary Lee Scanlin, Lynn Senior, Emma Davenport, Candy Gandy, Robbie Womack, Gayle Lockhart, Paula King, Carolyn Renfrow, Martha Suhr, and Louise Nygren.
In the last segment, you'll see Karen Laird, Nancy Shelton, Waldine Barron, Carol Park, Wanda Skidmore, Belinda Jenkins, and Cynthia Gross.
I'm sure I've missed some people. Maybe the participants will fess up and identify people I've missed.
Thanks, Tommy, for providing these home movies.
ReplyDeleteChuck and I lived a little upstream on the east bank of Oyster Creek from the Lairds. The Gandys and Sheltons lived nearby on the west bank as well.
These movies remind me of the joyous sounds of howls, screams, and splashes carried across the water from Sugar Land youths during hot Sugar Land summers in the 1960s.
Anyone remember the soft Oyster Creek bottom, crawling out of the creek with a mud-mustache, and pulling off small, clinging leaches from the bottom of your feet?
Scotty has a story about swimming around the Shelton's float/pier when Dugan told her not too. (The Sheltons had a floating pier that they could move out into the creek.)
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