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@@rescue270 Say "Hi" to Leroy, the owner. You'll probably find him at the new 1886 tavern he installed on the back building. Very popular with the locals.
I still remember the Good Morning America video visiting port a in 99. From that day forward the fishing Village began to die. The wealthy descended upon Port A pushing out the local families with their high taxes. And now it's a complete mockery. A tourist trap filled with Looney Tune millionaires. Port a doesn't exist anymore I don't know what it is now
Well to be fair... everything changes... places get discovered... where I used to ride dirt bikes as a kid in Scottsdale AZ, is all subdivisions and shopping malls now. I have friends from dogpark that have been here in Port A since the early 70's. While it is not the same place it used to be, there is still awesome fishing! We have fishing tournaments all year and the famous "Deep Sea Round Up" is coming up in just a couple weeks! deepsearoundup.org/ ALSO, ton's of family fun like the Red Dragon Pirate Cruise! a great swashbuckling show for the kids and a galley bar for the parents! 🙂The only place in 1000 miles you can drive on the beach right up to a spot to set up- no lugging all your beach gear a mile from some parking lot! Port A may not be the same, but it is still a blast!
If you liked Port A in the 90s, you should have seen it in the 60s and 70s like I did! It was a scruffy little piece of beach heaven. My parents bought a house there for $14,000! Spent many summers there. Having a house at the coast was a challenge, though. Go down for a weekend and by the time we'd mowed the grass and fixed the water heater and replaced some boards on the deck railing it was time to go home again. Then there was hurricane season that was always a tense time. Had a big hole get blown in the roof by one. Made the whole ceiling fall down in one piece all over the living room. Still a great house and made for some great summers for a teenager. Mom sold the place in 1991. The big changes were already happening and millionaires and corporate investors were already taking over by then. She made a very good profit off of it. It's still there, but crowded in by larger houses all around so the breezy feeling is gone. Looks just like a subdivision now. The newcomers will learn one thing... ...nothing is forever on the Texas Coast. Ultraviolet light and salt destroy everything. That house needed to be repainted every three years. Two galvanized chains we put up across the driveway fell down from rust a year later. Aluminum sliding glass door frames turned yellow and grainy and disintegrated. Yes, aluminum corrodes. The Laguna Madre is the largest super saline lagoon system in the world. Salt left on the shores blows around like dust and dewey mornings just activate it's concentrated corrosiveness with a vengeance. It's the most corrosive environment I've ever seen, and I been to a lot of coastal areas. Port A was best left scruffy and people accustomed to luxury will find it hard to maintain there.
Why call the Listing Broker who represents the best interests of the Seller? Put me to work as your Buyers Agent and I will show you the "ins and outs" of Port A and only represent YOUR best interests. Email me at: William.Foster@eXpRealty.com
Search all of Port A Real Estate with one click!
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That why the old hotel is the Tarpon Inn. It was named for the town. Town's name changed. Hotel's name didn't.
yep!
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I'll be down there in a couple of weeks. Spend one night on the beach in the back of my truck. Tarpon Inn the rest of the time.
@@rescue270 Say "Hi" to Leroy, the owner. You'll probably find him at the new 1886 tavern he installed on the back building. Very popular with the locals.
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Sounds cool!
Leroy. Got it.
Excellent, thanks for that lesson
Your quite welcome. Bring the family on down sometime this summer!
Love Port A and been there many times with my family.Thank you so much for the history.
Yeah buddy! Thanks for helping to make this a great family vacation spot!
Hmmm. I never called it “port A” before. Apparently it’s a thing tho, but what about Port Arthur ?
paddled across that channel to surf St. Joes many times back in day.
Awesome, we mostly surf the pier
@@PortABeachLifeWhen the Port A side was big and out of control from monster southeast spring winds, Joe's had big, long, clean rights.
I still remember the Good Morning America video visiting port a in 99. From that day forward the fishing Village began to die. The wealthy descended upon Port A pushing out the local families with their high taxes. And now it's a complete mockery. A tourist trap filled with Looney Tune millionaires. Port a doesn't exist anymore I don't know what it is now
Well to be fair... everything changes... places get discovered... where I used to ride dirt bikes as a kid in Scottsdale AZ, is all subdivisions and shopping malls now.
I have friends from dogpark that have been here in Port A since the early 70's. While it is not the same place it used to be, there is still awesome fishing! We have fishing tournaments all year and the famous "Deep Sea Round Up" is coming up in just a couple weeks! deepsearoundup.org/
ALSO, ton's of family fun like the Red Dragon Pirate Cruise! a great swashbuckling show for the kids and a galley bar for the parents! 🙂The only place in 1000 miles you can drive on the beach right up to a spot to set up- no lugging all your beach gear a mile from some parking lot!
Port A may not be the same, but it is still a blast!
If you liked Port A in the 90s, you should have seen it in the 60s and 70s like I did! It was a scruffy little piece of beach heaven. My parents bought a house there for $14,000! Spent many summers there. Having a house at the coast was a challenge, though. Go down for a weekend and by the time we'd mowed the grass and fixed the water heater and replaced some boards on the deck railing it was time to go home again. Then there was hurricane season that was always a tense time. Had a big hole get blown in the roof by one. Made the whole ceiling fall down in one piece all over the living room. Still a great house and made for some great summers for a teenager. Mom sold the place in 1991. The big changes were already happening and millionaires and corporate investors were already taking over by then. She made a very good profit off of it. It's still there, but crowded in by larger houses all around so the breezy feeling is gone. Looks just like a subdivision now.
The newcomers will learn one thing...
...nothing is forever on the Texas Coast. Ultraviolet light and salt destroy everything. That house needed to be repainted every three years. Two galvanized chains we put up across the driveway fell down from rust a year later. Aluminum sliding glass door frames turned yellow and grainy and disintegrated. Yes, aluminum corrodes. The Laguna Madre is the largest super saline lagoon system in the world. Salt left on the shores blows around like dust and dewey mornings just activate it's concentrated corrosiveness with a vengeance. It's the most corrosive environment I've ever seen, and I been to a lot of coastal areas.
Port A was best left scruffy and people accustomed to luxury will find it hard to maintain there.