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BARKERS
RESTAURANT
LOUNGE AND
SEAFOOD HARBOR
Enjoy Dining Over the Water
Watch the Shrimp Boats and Sea Gulls
JUST EAST OF BUENA VISTA HOTEL 633 CENTRAL BEACH • BILOXI
OYSTERS ON THE HALF SHELL YEAR 'ROUND
SEAFOOD IN THE ROUGH
★	BOILED CRAB
★	SHRIMP • BOILED • FRIED
OR STUFFED
★	FRIED BILOXI BACON
(MULLET)
★	LOBSTER
★	FAMOUS FOR STUFFED FLOUNDER
★	CREOLE GUMBO ★ AND MORE
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FOR INFORMATION
About BIIOXI
•	BILOXI FOLDER
•	ACCOMMODATIONS, 3.000 RMS.
•	WHERE TO GO—WHAT TO SEE
•	BILOXI UNDER 8 FLAGS
•	NATION'S SEAFOOD BASKET (Recipes)
•	FISHING INFORMATION
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OCEAN SPRIGS
MISSISSIPPI
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LONG BEACH
"The Friendly City"
On the Mississippi Gull Coast Write for Free Literature CHAMBER OF COMMERCE LONG BEACH. MISSISSIPPI
Gulf Coast sloops and schooners fishing for oysters off Cat Island at the mouth of South Bayou. That was 99 years ago. It was probably the South Bayou oysters that were responsible for the large raccoon population on Cat Island, for they loved nothing better than to eat oysters at low tide opening the shells with their claws. But the oysters were finally killed off by the Conches according to Mr. and Mrs. Matt Browning, who were caretakers for the Boddies on Cat Island for 35 years.
In the Roaring Twenties South Bayou acquired another sort of fame. It seems that not only bivalves but bottles of bonded liquor could be and were frequently found in South Bayou.
The explanation of course is very simple. South Bayou was, in the Prohibition Days, a very handy halfway hiding place for the speedboats who met the rum runners out in the Gulf. Now and then one of these speedboats, loaded with liquor in gunny sacks, would be chased up the bayou either by a revenue cutter or a hijacker and to save the liquor would dump it overboard. When ’ they returned later they were not always successful in salvaging all of it. Hunter Kimball, the first Mississippi Director of Conservation, told the writer that on one of his trips back around 1933 to Cat Island, he watched one of his men, with an expression of dazed delight, pull out of the water of innocent looking South Bayou an intact quart of bonded Canadian Club.
RESTORING THE RACCOONS
The above reference to Hunter Kimball, Mississippi’s first Director of Conservation back in 1933, recalls the project of that same year of upgrading Mississippi’s fast disappearing raccoon population by using this island, where white men first spotted them, as a 3,000 acre fur bearing animal refuge. Arrangements were made between the Game and Fish Commission and the Boddies, the program being to release an excep-t onally black coated type of raccoon (about 30 of both sexes) to breed with normal coons on Cat Island, the cross breeding to secure a darker coated animal that would bring a better price to the trappers. The coons were later live trapped and released on the mainland to build up the normal supply of coons for hunting and trapping. The program iasted two years.
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2 floors and a balcony of straw goods, gourmet foods, barware, fabulous jewelry (in style, not price), Oriental oddities, luscious artificial flowers, fruit, foliage, shells, toys and stuffed animals, china, crystal, linens, soaps, lamps, party goods, serving accessories and distinctive imported and American gifts and cards . . . but absolutely the most you've ever seen.
Phone UN 3-5902 1400 27th Ave. GULFPORT, MISS.
DON'T MISS SEEING "OLD SPANISH FORT"
Oldest Building in the Mississippi Valley. Built in 1718 by French . . . later renamed by Spanish. Museum and Fort Open Daily from 9 to 5.
JUST NORTH OF HIGHWAY 90 IN PASCAGOULA, MISSISSIPPI
See ihe Gulf Coast's Major Year ’Round Attraction
Wumfeud
60 Acres of Landscaped Beauty
AND THE BELLINGRATH HOME
Priceless Antiques, China and Silver
OPEN EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR Theodore, Ala. Near Mobile