40 years later

[original spanky]

message to piggymon anfd rjsun. would love to chit chat to you guys about my second favorite subject(wife and kids first) will be heading down in feb for what i am calling my 40 and counting Negril tour. first year 1974 and would still be staying in red ground if they had't torn down the place i stayed at the old pal cottages just a bit down the road from grandma porters.Mosely family . you might remember uncle Dan , Ms. Pernell and Dalton all who have passed. Patrick is the patriarch now.

[Piggymon]

message to piggymon anfd rjsun. would love to chit chat to you guys about my second favorite subject(wife and kids first) will be heading down in feb for what i am calling my 40 and counting Negril tour. first year 1974 and would still be staying in red ground if they had't torn down the place i stayed at the old pal cottages just a bit down the road from grandma porters.Mosely family . you might remember uncle Dan , Ms. Pernell and Dalton all who have passed. Patrick is the patriarch now.

Uncle Dan, was he the one who owned the donkey? The braying of the donkey, along with the crowing of the roosters, mooing of Knockie's milk cow, the thump of bass from the dancehall, and the snarl of motorbikes made a lovely background music.

[lane]

I have more photo but would like to enlarge them but do not know how to go about that the are on a flash stick and what you see is how they down load.
I have a good photo of Captain Dennis at the road side bar.
I think someone out there has a good picture and some history on the little boy with the straw hat on sitting at the front of the grocery.

[TrelawnyT]

I thought I would add to the great old photos.

[TrelawnyT]

I'm going to try again to attach this photo.

[TrelawnyT]

One more

[Piggymon]

Love the photo. That is the real deal.

Thanks for posting it!

[Candy man]

I visited Negril either 1972 or 73. Not sure which. Stayed in a hut behind a fisherman's house. He rent out several of these huts. He also had a thatched roof restaurant. Served food every day, whatever he caught. It was on the 7 mile beach strip. I can't remember his name. He had a woman, who we called Mrs. Light-a. I have no idea how you spell it. She cooked. I remember a granddaughter named Masea. Again, no idea how to spell it. Anyone visit Negril during that time recognize any of this? I've enjoyed all the old stories.

[Bossman]

I visited Negril either 1972 or 73. Not sure which. Stayed in a hut behind a fisherman's house. He rent out several of these huts. He also had a thatched roof restaurant. Served food every day, whatever he caught. It was on the 7 mile beach strip. I can't remember his name. He had a woman, who we called Mrs. Light-a. I have no idea how you spell it. She cooked. I remember a granddaughter named Masea. Again, no idea how to spell it. Anyone visit Negril during that time recognize any of this? I've enjoyed all the old stories.

Could it have been Lester and Miss Lena Donaldson? Mister Lester was a fisherman. They had one of the original properties on the beach between what is now Tree House and Footeprintes which was another one of the early properties on the beach. Their Daughter Deloris O'Conner manages the property today. Their Son Ossie's Donaldson owns the property across the road along with Ossie's Jerk Center.

[original spanky]

Piggymon, is that the same Jason whose family owned the place on the cliffs that they sold to the group from rock house?