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Mike Grimm sent this email:

  Just read the Wind Across The Everglades piece. About a year before the film crew moved into Everglades to start that film, WNOG started the talk show, Pub Time. It was broadcast from the Pub Room of Yeaman's Old Cove restaurant. Pappy Grimm was the original host of the show. (Pappy Grimm was Mike's father)

 Gypsy Rose Lee agreed to be a guest on the show but Pappy had to go down there and tape it. No problem, until he got there. It seems that someone else was always demanding her time and he couldn't get a word in edgewise. 

  Finally she took pity on him, loaded him up in the back of that Rolls and had the driver go for a spin while they did the interview.

 He was very impressed and became one of her best fans.  Talked about it for years.

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  I was reminded that several scenes from Wind Across the Everglades were filmed at Smallwood's General Store. Now a National Historic Site. Mrs Smallwood had a bit part in the film.

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Editor's note: Pub Time was a mainstay on Naples radio for years. It later moved to the Piccadilly Pub and was hosted by Bill Ryan, who became one of the owners of Palmer Broadcasting, that became the present Comcast.
  And, when the above picture of Gypsy was taken, she was considered to be the epitome of feminine pulchritude. No starvation diet there.