A Pensacola tale
Craig Pittman, Special to the News Journal
6:02 a.m. CDT July 10, 2016
... Didn’t every beach town have a house shaped like a flying saucer? I mean, didn’t every state have an economy that relied on drunken sailors, horny college kids, and speculative home building? ...
The teachers did tell us about Juan Ponce de León discovering Florida during the spring of 1513 ... Our teachers didn’t mention that on a subsequent visit to another part of Florida, our great discoverer was mortally wounded by a poison-tipped arrow fired by the Calusa. Nor did they mention that the native inhabitants might disagree with anyone claiming Ponce de León “discovered” their homeland ...
We did learn, in passing, that in 1821 Jackson returned to Pensacola one last time to oversee Florida’s transition from Spanish colony to American territory. We didn’t hear about how .. he locked his Spanish predecessor in the hoosegow. Nor were we told that his wife, Rachel, found Pensacola to be “filthy and disgusting” ... Can you imagine what she’d say now ...
When I was growing up there, it was just a short walk from the Jackson bust to the town’s most famous hangout for Navy fliers, Trader Jon’s, where the strippers would show you a different kind of bust. One would sometimes bounce hers on the patrons’ heads as if she were playing the bongos ...
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