Issue 14 • Jan. 13 - 19, 2015
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REARVIEW MIRROR: A look at the history of the Breconshire ship wreck It will be 121 years ago in April that a British steamship ran aground and was stranded on an offshore limestone reef while passing along the coast of what would later be known as Humiston Park in Vero Beach. The cargo steamer was built in 1884 and renamed from Numida SS to Breconshire SS when bought by D.J. Jenkins & Co. It was 300 feet long and 37 feet wide. Robert Taylor commanded a crew of 24 men. It traveled from England to several Mediterranean ports and then to New York. In spring 1894, it headed to Tampa to pick up an unknown cargo. Taylor was not familiar with Florida waters and his charts did not include the coast for 20 miles south of Cape Canaveral. The ship hit the reef in morning darkness and went to the ocean bottom. The crew escaped the sinking ship and stayed at the
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season in recent years. Always a reliable barometer is the number of people walking along Ocean Drive. There has been a noticeable increase in foot traffic. Take it from Paul Castraberti, owner of The Lemon Tree restaurant, the season is off to a great start. “So far, we have had five record-breaking days (since Christmas),” he said. “I’ve never seen the beachside so busy.” Casey Steil, the owner of Casey’s Place, agrees with Castraberti’s assessment. “It’s been unbelievable,” said Steil, who opened the outdoor restaurant in 1981. “This was our busiest December ever.” “Ever?” I interjected. “Yes, ever,” he said.
Steil says he hasn’t figured the totals for December yet, but he estimated business was up “a minimum of 10 percent, and maybe even 15 percent.” The great thing is, we’re just getting started. “February, March and April are, by far, the busiest months,” Steil said. He says Costa d’Este – the resort owned by singer Gloria Estefan and Russ Lemmon her husband, Emilio – and the Vero Beach Hotel & Spa deserve a lot of credit for the increase in tourist dollars. It’s been so busy that, for the first time, Casey’s Place will be opening on Sundays in a few weeks. You can just feel the energy. It’s going to be a great year. As Steil said, “The whole country is looking at (the weather in) Florida and saying, ‘Wow.’ ” Continuing with the same theme, real estate sales are
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humming too. I had to laugh over how Jim Daly, a local Realtor, spent the final day of 2014. He had a personal record of five closings in one day, with sales totaling $1.091 million. And he was still able to make it to Billy Joel’s New Year’s Eve concert in Orlando – a special treat for his 82-year-old mother. Of the 1,200-plus columns I wrote for the Press Journal, one of my favorites had to do with Margarette Koplin trying to find a home for a six-story birdhouse built by her late husband. She gave it to the Grand Harbor Audubon Society in 2012 … and the organization has certainly lived up to its end of the deal. Deb Fletcher reported the “bird condo” – built for purple martins – is now in place for another season. How cool is it that Eve Plumb – you know, Jan on “The Brady Bunch” – is appearing in the play “Crazy for You” at the Riverside Theatre? JP Matty’s, a popular restaurant in Sebastian, is starting
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to make the transition to its new name, Café in Paradise. Owners Wanda and Paul Simmons kept the JP Matty’s name for the first few months because they didn’t want to confuse seasonal residents returning to the area. They’re keeping JP Matty’s on the marquee for a little while longer, but everything inside will reflect the new name. By the way, Wanda and Paul formerly owned Paradise Ice Cream in Sebastian. Yes, the former New Jersey residents really believe this place is like paradise. OK, I admit I never thought I’d see gas for less than $2 a gallon again in Indian River County. Confession: When I went to C.J. Cannon’s to meet Dale O’Brien, who is featured in the “Meet me at Table 51” feature on page 6, I thought I was meeting a man. When I found out Dale is a woman, Lois Cappelen poked fun at me. Then, Lois told me the story about her mother-in-law renting a house in the early 1960s from Clyde Steel. You guessed it – Clyde was a woman.
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Meet me at Table 51 Some trivia: Whether at Bob Evans or C.J. Cannon’s, Hall, from age 7 to 22. Her mother and aunt were Russ and his wife usually eat breakfast at Table 51. In forced to return to the United States after the London what will be an occasional feature, Russ breaks bread bombing in 1940. with someone you may or may not know. “They lived the life for 15 or 16 years,” Dale said. “It She was drinking tea. was an elegant lifestyle.” Kind of fitting, because Dale O’Brien and I were Dale, who lives in Sebastian, wanted to make sure Dale O’Brien meeting to discuss a family-history project inspired by this part of family history was preserved for future the popular TV show “Downton Abbey.” generations, so she created a website titled “Life with Auntie She didn’t start watching the British drama series – which follows B” (that’s what her mother, who died in 1985, called the the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and its servants in the Marchioness of Huntly, Isabelle Gordon). post-Edwardian era – until Season 3. But she could instantly relate. The website address: dcobinfl.wordpress.com. That’s because her mother and aunt lived on a Downton “I wanted the family to be aware of the history,” Dale said. Abbey-esque estate in England from the mid-1920s to 1940. Dale has made two trips to see Orton Hall. In 1967, when It’s a remarkable “rags to riches” tale, as the sisters previously she went with her mother, it had been turned into a school for lived in a Chicago orphanage. Their great-aunt and greatgirls run by the government. The next time, in 1998, it was a uncle, the Marchioness and Marquis of Huntly, brought both Best Western hotel and conference center. girls to England. Fans of “Downton Abbey” will be fascinated by the website. Dale’s mother lived on the countryside estate, called Orton Check it out.
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461. “Dream On”
(1976) Aerosmith Memory: At the time (senior year in high school), this was a song by just another up-and-coming band. Who knew Aerosmith would still be relevant today?
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(1994) Melissa Ethridge Memory: A great song, full of emotion. Remember the video, with Juliette Lewis as a suicidal mental patient?
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