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OK P and 2na... now I gotta go dig thru my archives...
I got a Cape Codder article from the 50's somewhere in the "history heap"... where the town fathers in P-town and Truro.. (remember this was pre NPS)..address the "tent cities" in the dunes, and the deploreable unsanitary conditions etc., and other issues they had..
I also remember Bob Andrews reminisceing to me on this issue a few years ago....he was Pres. of the mbba during that blow-up, and somehow the club got involved...but it kinda led to the designation of what became the "self-contained" campers... ( mostly bread trucks and sedan delivery wagons converted, back then... a few steel sided jeeps too) back then... the tents kinda went away..but a few die hards like George flew under the radar...for the most part.

And yes Mike...P-town was a much different town then, than it is now.... as is the whole cape...

It was a more bohemian lifestyle years ago on the cape...free and easy...lot more wide open places too.

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Originally Posted by 2na (Post 707706)

Paul, all of the locals in Provincetown (and remember, back in the day it was just the portuguese community) would set up a tent and claim an area of beach in May for the summer. One of the guys was showing me pics of him and his family on the beach in tents in the late 1940's - that is how it was done. I'm pretty sure that 63# George got was November 3 1981 - there is a pic of him with the fish on the wall at Nelson's, I think.

Lastly, 'while allowing the public to enjoy a unique resource' - what a statement for lawyers to turn and parse into something it doesn't mean.

You are probably right. George told me the story long ago and I probably have the dates wrong. I have not been in Nelson's since Emelo sold it. There were a bunch of us that hung out up stairs back in the day. I slept in the parking lot in my truck for a lot of years and Emelo was just the best guy.