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“The pressure dropped so low
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that our ears were popping.... It sounded like a freight train was coming through our livingroom. It was a horrible "sound.”
Yvonne Ladner White Cypress
Gone .
BILL DENNIS
Only the staircase of Sam Owen’s beachfront residence in Gulfport remained after Camille. Sam and Genevieve Owen died in the storm.
Homes
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At the time of Wilson’s visit, Mrs. Thomas Herndon and her daughter, Alice, were renting it and gladly played hostess to the president. Gutted and minus its porch and supports following Camille, the house was too damaged to be repaired.
Also gone but not forgotten is the Old Pirate House built in 1802 on the Waveland beachfront. The reputed “safehouse” for Louisiana pirate Jean Lafitte was owned by a New Orleans businessman who reputedly moonlighted as Lafitte’s financial adviser.
Ghosts of murdered pirates and other assorted apparitions were said to roam the old house before it was swept away in Camille. Bjom H. Lister rebuilt a house on the same lot, using bits and pieces of the original house, and ghost rumors have resurfaced.
An era of gazebo socializing disappeared when Camille destroyed the last of Bay St. Louis’ beachfront gazebos, once popular places for evening gatherings. The gazebo was in the front lawn of 414 S. Front Beach. The house known as Swoop Manor survived, but not the gazebo, which had been there since the mid-1850s.
At one time, 15 such structures graced the beach road, but hurricanes have claimed them all.
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THE JOE SCHOLTES COLLECTION
A familiar landmark for years, the old Biloxi Yacht Club was destroyed by the hurricane.
AUDPf.Y ML'OS-I
AUDREY MURPHY
Overlooking the small-craft harbor in central Biloxi, the U.S.O. was once the Biloxi Community Center, fell victim to Camille.
The front porch and bottom floor of this Victorian mansion, the Treasure House, were washed away by the hurricane.