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Originally Posted by Martin Pal
What is that by your left knee?
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Martin: That's a clipboard with the roster of our Detachment. The top page has fallen over to my knee. That was our ''inspection" day.
I'm still in contact with a couple old shipmates you see that that photo.
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This is
YMCA Camp Orizaba on Catalina Island at White's Landing in 1955. I spent a week there as a 12 year old.
The large dark rubber lifeboats were used as landing barges [lower right]. They would float them out to sea and the water taxi boats would offload. Then they would pull them ashore
to disembark the supplies and kids. At that time there was no dock.
Its now a multipurpose camp, catering to many groups.
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Here is a water taxi of that era. From LA Harbor to Catalina was a very rough 2 hour ride in one of these small boats.
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