Just curious!

[b_ray_p]

Anyone on the island remember this old guy? His name was Mack Sonnier. You might have also known him as frenchy!

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[Ibtsoom]

I'll ask my dad - he's been around the island for 70 or so years now. Not many people he hasn't run across.

[plugger]

I like the old pictures . Don't you wish you could time travel thru the past ?

[Old Salt]

Heard a lot of stories about him but I've never met him.


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[Termo]

I like the old pictures . Don't you wish you could time travel thru the past ?

One of Plugger's old fishing buddies back in the '20's. I think they went to high school together in Sweeny.

[Flounderpounder420]

Cools pics.

[Silver Wolf]

Nice pictures. I had some black and white pictures when I was young. My brother has those picture. There's one where we're standing on the bottom of amistad bridge pillar with gravel. Now, it's 100 feet down. Great Lake to fish. Caught bass, strippers, catfish, crappie, and used to bowfish talapia. Lord Bless.
robert

[plugger]

One of Plugger's old fishing buddies back in the '20's. I think they went to high school together in Sweeny.

Well , I didn't say anything because of the old scandal , but , since you unearthed it , yes , he was from Sweeney . His real name is Cooter Needlemeyer . After the public uproar when it was known that he had joined the Democratic Party , he changed his name and moved to Galveston Island . In seclusion and ostracized from polite society , he took to fishing alone and became a quite proficient angler .

[plugger]

That last picture of Cooter , a.k.a. Frenchy , shows him with hair missing . He had long hair . The summer previous to that photo he snagged a tarpon in the surf ( that was possible in those days ) and as the line squealed off the spool , his long locks tangled in the reel , snatching off his top and front couiffed hair . An Apache couldn't have done a finer job . He didn't land that fish . He kept his hair short there after . Ole Cooter , what a hoot !

[plugger]

I remember that first photograph .
Uncharacteristically for a democrat , Cooter was fairly intelligent . Living as a pariah on the far end of the island , he had time to fashion a type of long board with a push pole and a little outboard . Craving social interaction , he would offer free sight seeing excursions to the back coves for the locals as pictured here . To help ends meet , an occasional paying fly fisherman would seek out his services . Early on he would try to disguise his identity by wearing a laughable cheap toupee . Eventually he settled on a more reasonable ball cap as demonstrated in the picture . Despite lunatic political leanings , Cooter had a good heart . The Plugger would visit him bringing canned goods and groceries , and do favors such as driving his pickup truck with the hand break engaged in order to show him that the squeaking sound meant that his break shoes were shot . Jamaican weed helped ease his pain and calm his nerves . His political leanings which were an affront to God and the universe took their toll .

[b_ray_p]

That's my grandfather in the pics. I guess I should have mentioned that! Lol but this makes me want to post some more old pics with no back story to see what y'all come up with! Pretty hilarious!

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[b_ray_p]

I like the old pictures . Don't you wish you could time travel thru the past ?

Yes, yes I do! Even the recent past, like twenty years. I'd have learned about me from him that's for sure!

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[b_ray_p]

Yes, yes I do! Even the recent past, like twenty years. I'd have learned about me from him that's for sure!

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Alot more from him that is!

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[H.Maier]

I remember that first photograph .
Uncharacteristically for a democrat , Cooter was fairly intelligent . Living as a pariah on the far end of the island , he had time to fashion a type of long board with a push pole and a little outboard . Craving social interaction , he would offer free sight seeing excursions to the back coves for the locals as pictured here . To help ends meet , an occasional paying fly fisherman would seek out his services . Early on he would try to disguise his identity by wearing a laughable cheap toupee . Eventually he settled on a more reasonable ball cap as demonstrated in the picture . Despite lunatic political leanings , Cooter had a good heart . The Plugger would visit him bringing canned goods and groceries , and do favors such as driving his pickup truck with the hand break engaged in order to show him that the squeaking sound meant that his break shoes were shot . Jamaican weed helped ease his pain and calm his nerves . His political leanings which were an affront to God and the universe took their toll .

This has got to be awarded the Pulitzer prize nonfictional comedy. Hilarious. Plugger failed to mention Cooter's ability catch huge trout trolling his corky tied to the back of his Harley with thunderous applause from the east end beachcombers.

[plugger]

Oh , b ray p , I appologize for jacking your thread and making up stories . No disrespect intended . I didn't know he was family .
I guess I better not tell the story behind the second photograph . The one about his uncanny ability to tight rope walk on braided fishing line stretched from the mainland to the island using that flounder laden balancing pole as frenzied crowds threw oyster shells at him . Despite the bleeding cuts , he never once fell . But , I shan't tell that story .