Hull Bay lost friends, Larrys Hideaway 80's

Jay! When you arrive go to Betsy"s Bar in French Town..you'll find lots of locals there for happy hour and later. Mick is still on island. Have seen him a few times at Deno's , the old Ferreries Rest in Dorothea. Betsy was at Tickles 90's as bartender..you may remember her. If you do she'll remember you and what you were drinking at that time.

Peg

Thanks Peggy
I lived in Hull bay for 6 months in 1987 graduating from a one man tent to 10X10 then to a house.
Its been a long time. I'm being told former owner Larry LaPlace Sr. has passed away, no more Hull bay campground
I'm going to try and come down I'n January, working on a room for 10 days.
Dont need much. I'm a Computer, audio and componenet level electronics tech if anyone wants to bartor.

-J

Well if you can believe this 5 years later and I was looking to find out stuff about Larrys Hideaway,Guess what I'm the O'Hara
Terry as a matter of fact. Larry's hideaway is still going strong its under Hull Bay Hideaway, even of face book!

Haa Haa Haa Terry.... Its Joe up in New York.
I stayed in your house 2 weeks how the hell are ya.
"Hell I don't want to hang loose with Russell" should make you remember"
I hear Larry no longer owns Hull bay Hideaway and there is no more camping. I still wonder what became of him. Last I talked to him was right after hurricane Hugo. Larry was bitching about local politics, some new people (2 guys) renting his restaurant, changes on the island, how he needed a new boat and had to go to Miami boat show.

Aww Bummer
I just read Jay's post got the bad news Larry LaPlace Sr. has passed away (not-confirmed). He was such a fun character and good friend who helped me out of many jams.
-Joe L

I hear Larry no longer owns Hull bay Hideaway and there is no more camping..

Yeah, ownership changed, Arthur still makes his burgers there, and the new ownership decided to relieve the bans on a good part of my friends their.

"Hell I don't want to hang loose with Russell" should make you remember

I don't know how many drinks I bought for that drunkard, who is my friend and would take breaks from cooking to sit with us, from Basil.

...got the bad news Larry LaPlace Sr. has passed away...

Yeah that is pronounced La Plass...

Edit:

I played in a band at The Greenhouse.

Heh I have probably met you, or at least you know my friends. You probably don't like me 🙁

I knew a Basil. Wasn't he the bartender that played the soda cups with the straws to this song on the jukebox.
"Those girls are gonna get the dickens" was one of his quotes.
Bryan's bar did have the best burgers on the island. I have many master film photos of that mural someplace. Earlier that day some wild pigs on St.John chased me up a tree damaging my cameras light meter in the process so i took 10 photos at different exposures on a tripod to capture it. I think it was Basil who moved all the tables so I could setup a tripod get hi resolution professional photos of it.
I distinctly remember this now
I hear a year or 2 later Hugo took out the place including Larrys twin palm tree. The only one in the world.

Greenhouse: At the time this fella Sonny worked at the Greenhouse, I think he moonlighted as some kind of taxi broker.
-Joe

I knew a Basil. Wasn't he the bartender that played the soda cups with the straws to this song on the jukebox. ...I think it was Basil who moved all the tables so I could setup a tripod get hi resolution professional photos of it...

ROFL, Basil's last name is Bryan. Can you guess that he owned the bar?

Bryan's bar did have the best burgers on the island

Yeah Russel always took special care with everything he cooked, like Arthur did too down at Hull (Arthur bartends mostly now)

Greenhouse: At the time this fella Sonny worked at the Greenhouse, I think he moonlighted as some kind of taxi broker.

Again ROFL. My friends and I never paid the cover charge. The first thing I did when walking into the Greenhouse, after stopping to talk to Sonny, was to go to the bar and get him a vodka and tonic, every time. That is his favorite drink.

Edit: oh I bet you saw the video that they occasionally showed as a commercial, in the Greenhouse, advertising jet ski rentals. The boat that was filmed from was mine - I did it for free, and they chose my boat because it was fast enough to keep up with the jet skis at full throttle :p

ROFL, Basil's last name is Bryan. Can you guess that he owned the bar?

Figured Basil owned it but then again 1/2 the population of north side island was Bryan, Berry or LaPlace cracking open cans of "Old Milwaukee" down by the boat ramp 4PM..
Lots of pickup trucks and some guy with a red Volkswagen Karmann Ghia ...Stanly I think, he tried to rent or sell me a this trailer it had holes in the floor and was infested with hives of Jack Spaniards
I by this time I had an old Chevy Nova but had enough of the Island and went back to New York, That Summer I ran into Larry LaPlace Sr. playing cards outsid LIERs in the Hampton's (Montauk)
Larry said he just had very successful cataract operation in PR claiming: "Puerto Rickans are very good with the knife ya know now" claiming he can now look at these nice "new york woman with the "no hair or mustache on the legs".
At this point people listening were rolling on the floor laughing.

-Joe

 

Yeah Russel always took special care with everything he cooked, like Arthur did too down at Hull (Arthur bartends mostly now)

Russel showed me exactly how to make them, and what you do and use wile cooking them (I don't want to give it away)
It was a quick grab, pack and throw down patty mix of 3 different meats from PR (that what & ratio I don't remember, some pork in there perhaps ?).
I never been able to duplicate it with northeast beef, It must have to do with the oat and grain fed cattle in PR.
Never asked Arthur, I didnt like his burgers + he didn't talk much and when he did nobody could understand him anyway he was a bit of a crouch who shouldn't be bar-tending or working with the public ---at the time anyway IMO

If you can't understand Arthur - just order a burger , Heineken, pay and tip, and try and listen up for a few years, He has been doing this job since before you were born.

Heineken ?
Naaa..I don't drink the green bottles of Euro beer...and nothing that ran down a Montreal moose's leg neither.
Anyway these days is just Coke Classic or bottled water

Hi Folks,

This is Larry Laplace's nephew Bill, Larry is alive and well. He sold his property in Hull Bay and Purchased some land up the Mountain a bit. I lived with Uncle Larry for 3 years(1986-1989) and ran the camp ground for part of that time. Uncle Larry lost his son Steve to blood cancer a couple months ago. His daughter Lisa is still down there, He is still feisty and funny and still trying to "LEARN ME" (teach in English) when I speak to him, as for Arthur I hear he hangs in Frenchtown now. I am heading to the Islands in December to see him.

Bill

Thank you Bill glad to hear Larry is still ticking I was thinking about taking a trip but im told STT has been turned into a yuppie Disneyland. Tell Larry a bunch of people out on Long Island made him a wooden horseshoe carved plaque of him in his hat "Too St.Larry's" on the beach in Montauk at Camp Hero park, it points south, they remember him well and wish he was president.
Larry "taught me" a lot of things, what liberals are, a great man, a true legend here on Long Island and Manhattan.

-Joe

Thank you Bill glad to hear Larry is still ticking I was thinking about taking a trip but im told STT has been turned into a yuppie Disneyland. Tell Larry a bunch of people out on Long Island made him a wooden horseshoe carved plaque of him in his hat "Too St.Larry's" on the beach in Montauk at Camp Hero park, it points south, they remember him well and wish he was president.
Larry "taught me" a lot of things, what liberals are, a great man, a true legend here on Long Island and Manhattan.

-Joe

Arthur still slings Arthur burgers at the Hideaway and they are good, he bartends in the morning and can be found at E&M at 8am. Frank and Mimi sold the Hideaway back to Keith and he has revieved it and made it awesome again. They make great dinners with fresh fish and lobster, have bands in that pavillion on the weekends, and are doing well. Hull Bay hasn't changed in 30 years, hearing it called "yuppie disney land" by someone that lives in New York is the most laughable thing I've heard in a while. Salud.