Im still not used to NGA....for some reason national golf association always pops in my head, and I dont even play golf.
I grew up in Ocala, silver springs was our swimming pool. The had a big sandy beach, three pontoon docks marking the roped in area, steps to get down in the spring, and it was heaven. It cost a quarter to get in, and they gave you a colored string to put on your wrist. We never liked to cut them off, the more strings, the cooler you were. Different color for different days. It was then just a big park, beautiful grounds on the spring, a great place. free.( Just like Busch Gardens, when it was a free garden) They had the glass bottom boats, a little strip of shops with candy makers, a little deer feeding area, and thats it. It was disney world to us!!!
My Dad owned a laundry/dry cleaner/rental uniform business, when in college, he got a contract to do whatever for a movie they were filming at silver springs. Ill never forget the day he took me out there to watch some filming. I dont know if I was more in awe of being able to see parts of the springs I had never seen after all the years I went there, or watching Rock Hudson wrestle the alligator for the movie.
