POINTE-AUX-CHENES, La. — A week before the first day of shrimping season, Alton Verdin stepped right through his pier.
He made this one, but the following wave, a fifteen-foot peak that came crashing through the pier, caught him inside.
These hit their peak in 1949, when, helped by the arrival of railways and cheap fares, more than 5 million people passed through the pier's turnstiles.
If the goods on the docks will run-sugar, tea, coffee, grain-they'll bore a hole through the pier into th booty & let it trickle down into their boat, taking away from 500 to 1500 pounds at a trip.
Man collecting customs passes talks to the people trying to get through; person on pier waiting for Bella, tries to pick her out of the mass on the boat; returned traveller meets her people; a watcher spots Nazimova, Edna Ferber and Senator Whitney and thrilled by it, and a man who has had everything but his shirt taken from him by those foreigners.
"Where else can you walk around and see water 360 degrees?" The couple built the structure and a pier through a permit granted through a nearly 40-year-old cabin program run by the Texas General Land Office.
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"I've actually seen it come through these piers when it was a real crazy squall".
This enigmatic, expressionless figure drifts through the piers and diners of New York, a dispossessed flâneur.
In the midafternoon, I had the bridge practically to myself, and I couldn't help paddling figure eights through the piers and their reflections and shadows.
