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Bathing suit clad model Eva Sloan posing with a nozzle atop a fireboat. I thought it might be the Roosevelt Blvd. Bridge over the Ortega River in the background but my friend Bill Yates who has lived in Jacksonville most of his life, much of it in the Ortega area, thinks this may be the […]
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“An aerial view of the Huckins Yacht Corp. on the Ortega River and Roosevelt Blvd. Some of the finest Yachts in the world are built there. They built crash boats and P.T. boats during World War Two. After some of the big storms in the East, The Huckins would be the only yachts afloat.” LS […]
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Workers from the Huckins Yacht Corporation roll the Mystic VIII from their workshop off Jacksonville’s Lakeshore Blvd. to launch it in the Ortega River. This 60 foot Atlantic model was ordered from Huckins in 1956 by Philip R. Mallory and delivered in 1957. Mallory started the P.R. Mallory Company in 1916 which began as a […]
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