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OldSalty · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2018 8:37 am Post subject: Johnny's Bar & Rattlesnake Man

As a teenager in the early 60's I learned to surf and catch fish on Mustang and Padre Island. My friends and I usually stopped at Johnny's. We couldn't go inside though - too young. Long gone but it was at the intersection of the road to Port Aransas and Padre Island Drive. There was a large pit there with live rattlesnakes gotten from the dunes all around there. A crazy guy actually handled them for the crowds to see. It was quite an attraction. Anyone old enough to remember this? Or maybe you heard about it.

hickroots07 · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2018 9:53 am Post subject:

Sounds awesome. I would have loved to have been around for that.
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hillcountryfisherman · Pony Mullet Joined: 15 Dec 2017 Posts: 58

Yes, i remember Johnnys, About the time they were starting to build The Million Dollar Inn on the Island to help sell lots. Padre Island back then was the last frontier, where you could drive 75 m.p.h. at low tide, No rules.

Little later great memory's of hanging out with my dads friend Johnny Litefoot who owned Woodys, Then always having breakfast at Mrs Petes. Then snicking in to Shortys or Yankee Bettys in Port A.

Our friends back then were the Janoskys who had a large WW II weapons / personal carrier. We drove all over the dunes back then because it was nit illegal.

Shot lots of coyotes at the dump near Charlies Pasture. Remember the night the Wharf Cat came in. We waited and partied all night long waiting for it to arrive from Mississippi where it was built. Guess that was probably around 1974.

hillcountryfisherman · Pony Mullet Joined: 15 Dec 2017 Posts: 58

Yes, i remember Johnnys, About the time they were starting to build The Million Dollar Inn on the Island to help sell lots. Padre Island back then was the last frontier, where you could drive 75 m.p.h. at low tide, No rules.

Little later great memory's of hanging out with my dads friend Johnny Litefoot who owned Woodys, Then always having breakfast at Mrs Petes. Then snicking in to Shortys or Yankee Bettys in Port A.

Our friends back then were the Janoskys who had a large WW II weapons / personal carrier. We drove all over the dunes back then because it was nit illegal.

Shot lots of coyotes at the dump near Charlies Pasture. Remember the night the Wharf Cat came in. We waited and partied all night long waiting for it to arrive from Mississippi where it was built. Guess that was probably around 1974.

hillcountryfisherman · Pony Mullet Joined: 15 Dec 2017 Posts: 58

Sorry for the double post, Thought it was not going to submit ...........

Another little story, back around 1970 my day and his fishing buddy [ who they found one day near St. Luis Pass dead face down covered with crabs on his back and his stringer wrapped around him, ] planned a week long trip to Little Shell. They had a International Red Scout with balloon tires that were some kind of military no tread tires they put on when they hit the sand, and a handmade fishing gear trailer,

Long story short, after a few days of getting stuck, bad windy weather, my dad as the story goes, walks into the water and threw the keys in the surf, and left everything down there and were recused by a Oil field chopper back to Mathis.

The story made the front page in the Sunday San Antonio sports page.