This text was obtained via automated optical character recognition.
It has not been edited and may therefore contain several errors.

---

Camille Flea Market
Young-at-hearters Albert and Dorothy Blanchard, souvenir shop owners at Gay Apartments, Central Beach, Biloxi, are perfect £ examples of true grit. They’re not letting a hurricane get in the way of the original Straw Doll shop they have been operating
the past five years since moving to the Mississippi Coast from New Orleans. Seventy-five-year-old Blanchard conducts business as usual, or rather unusually, for walking traf- means fic this sunny afternoon. (Staff Photo by Em- > 0per_ ily Germanis)	!week-
: on if ard, a says, i n few
F.
on a co
bustling witn activity;.
While she may be a far cry from most of her contemporaries, the new arrival is there for the interested passers-by, cam-era-laden wanderer or big-eyed sightseer.	..
When these are accommodating, two of her favorite people Albert and Dorothy Blanchard, j are nourishing her new environ-; ment with salvaged souvenir i trinkets and that little memento for out-of-town company.
Flea Market’s predecessor— Straw Hat—unwillingly deserted her devoted and dependable masters the night of Aug. 17 or, the morning of Aug. 18. Weir anyway, she’s gone. Moving; right in to bide the time of the j Blanchards these days, Flea; Market is adding a breath of; ife to the determined couple] besides.
'shop on the ground floor of the i building as a retirement sideline.
They made a little money. They met a lot of people and ended up rich with devotion with their newfound interest.
Now, determined not to let something like a hurricane retire them permanently, the young-at-hearters searched mud, crawled under once sturdy flooring and sprang back to existence with cleaned-up and saleable goods.
Their makeshift displays first bordered the sidewalk outside the once-glass enclosed shop on Aug. 28 and an enthusiastic threesome was revived.
I After a moment’s consideration on this otherwise breezy I	and sunny afternoon, he came :
i	to admitting the new venture
“has done reasonably well, under the circumstances.” The Blanchards lost some $20,000 in stock to Camille.
The future? “Well, we went down and made out an SBA loan a p p lication.” answers Blanchard.
Meanwhile he doesn’t seem to mind answering questions (even reporter’s), wearing Bermudas, relating the night he rode out the storm, taking in Flea Market at night and getting her ready in the morning. He’s too busy.