RUBY DRI-FIT FISHING SHIRT
On the back of the shirt is Carol’s original image of Ruby Stern, or “Miss Ruby”, the matriarch of Downtown Card Sound Road, a place that doesn't exist on any map... yet was home to a community of free spirits, fisherman, and Independent thinkers who took up residence there.
Ruby was a familiar site to travelers across Card Sound bridge. Located on the west side of the road south of Alabama Jack's, and the $1 toll booth, the shack was originally built by construction workers who built the toll bridge around 1968. Moving in in 1972, Ruby lived there for 27 years... Ruby Stern sat on the steps of her shack, with an old Colt 44 daring anyone to throw her off the land. She stayed. Not even the destructive hurricane Andrew, and the county's condemnation of the shack, could send her from her spot on the bay on Card Sound. She moved to a trailer alongside and lived there until 1999 when she had to leave due to illness, and soon died at age 90.
The passage of time has erased most all the evidence of this once-thriving spot in the Florida Keys, However, the image still survives as a reminder of an earlier time.
"Let me live in a trailer
On Card Sound Road
In uptown Card Sound, Fla.
And be a friend to all."
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