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Show Rent Land Under Water? It's Quite the Thing Here! JT ater, water, all around! Here's lesson No. 1 on how to "got away jrom it all!" Visitors are renting ground under water at SI per acre in Miami's Biscane. bay, 11 miles off shore, and building "tumbledown" shacks with all the comforts of home except a telephone, tele-phone, 'lhese pictures shoiv some of those with a Robinson Crusoe complex who can reach their "summer homes" only via boat. : ii h- i' ' r -- J! l ) ., l' l ' x - ' 1 'kill , fT-"", ; , f i , ' - J ,' - w ' I ''K4 : I The picture above shows Miss Barbara Wells calmly pulling in a fish through her bedroom window, caught while she was napping in the afternoon at one of Miami's Mi-ami's "tumbledowns." If this isn't the last word in piscatorial comfort then we're missing our guess by a mile. Left: All water is either carried to the houses via boat or caught off the roof tops. Here Miss Ruth Fay collects some fresh rainwater rainwa-ter for the household til i-lx - i Above: Host Leo Edwards, Ed-wards, prominent Miami auto dealer, right, gives a fish fry for his friends. Above: Host Leo Ed- f"Vf Y ""'"O wards, prominent Miami S li--" auto dealer, right, gives a H'T'C' - v fish fry for his friends. vil f " A room in one of the luxurious houseboats near the swanky, $250,000 Quarterdeck club which has just been opened in the area, featuring the last word in life aboard ship. This room, which has been redecorated, is tastefully designed and furnished. View from the deck of the new Quarterdeck club during dur-ing a "Miami I Iyer" boat race. W hen the owners want a change in marine tempo they whizz over to the club in their speedboats. " ' ' ' View from the deck of the new Quarterdeck club dur-ing dur-ing a "Miami flyer" boat :" ' roc?. W hen the owners want "eSS . o change, in marine tempo , they whizz over to the club " ; in their speedboats. ".tirtr- V , Mr ,S. L ' f , '. i i ' I . 1 V , 1 Vj lSi ---- f j An aerial view taken while flying over a typical "tumbledown" shack in the Quarterdeck club area of Biscayne bay. |
