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Seafood Festival
Gulfport, FL
APR 11 1986
St. Petersburg Times
Evening Independent
Photo By
KATHLEEN CABBLE
By Michelle Bourrie
Neighborhood Times Staff Writer
GULFPORT - While thousands of people celebrated the Festival of States in St. Petersburg, quite a few folks found their way to a festival in Gulfport.
The Second Annual Gulfport Seafood Festival began as boats lined up, a round of seafood hit the grills and the beer truck served its first customer.
The festival began 5 p.m. Friday and ended Sunday evening.
Saturday's events began at 11 a.m. as city residents and visitors flocked to the waterfront to taste deep sea delicacies and enjoy a friendly gathering.
"I'm walking around and seeing everything, and I'm enjoying what I'm seeing," said Gulfport resident Robert Duffey. "It's a pleasant surrounding, I'm seeing people, I'm eating good food and I'm having a very relaxing day."
Duffey and a crowd of festivalgoers walked up and down Shore and Beach boulevards in Gulfport taking in the smells of beer-boiled shrimp, fried grouper, New England clam chower, smoked salmon, black tip shark, hotdogs and popcorn.
They also took part in children's games, soaked willing volunteers in a dunking botth and assessed the weight of a six-foot shark.
The shark arrived Saturday morning. It was strung up by the pier so that passers-by could guess its weight.
One man stuck his hand in the open jaws and touched the teeth. "Yeah, they're sharp," he said.
"It's neat. I touched his noise, and it felt like a sponge," said 11-year-old John Bates.
Past the shark an down at the end of Gulfport's new pier, Rev. Dwight McQueen of the First United Methodist Church of Gulfport and Father Bernard
APRIL 14 1986
Folks of all ages enjoy the music of the Melodians at a street dance that was part of the Gulfport Seafood Festival.Language
English
