Word: texoma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These three assorted craft patrolling the waters of Lake Texoma last week belonged to the Texas navy, fastest-growing sport fleet in the country. A late starter in the nationwide boating boom, Texas is now intent on becoming the top boating state in the U.S. Though national marine sales are down 14% from last year, boat sales in Texas are up 42%, outboard motor sales 55%. One out of every eight Texas families now owns a boating rig (national average: one family out of twelve...
Improbably Popular. Cashing in on the boating boom, Texas developers last week formally opened a huge fresh water marina on Lake Texoma, a 95-mile-long finger-shaped artificial lake north of Dallas that has 1,250 miles of shoreline. The all-steel, $1,600,000 Eisenhower Marina now has 400 slips finished, will soon have 200 more available. Monthly slip rental is $1.25 per boat foot. The developers look to a total of 2,000 slips in the marina, a conservative figure since the lake already has 8,400 boats registered, with another 8,000 hauled in on trailers...
...other Texas boatmen are never threatened by such violence. So enticing is marina living that they never leave the slip all weekend long, as they sun on the boat deck, swim off the stern, and cook in the galley. To add to their comfort. Lake Texoma port authorities have come up with a novel, congenial, and undemanding way of fishing: the "Fisharena." This is a huge building built out over the lake, with a circular hole cut into the floor so that 500 anglers can fish the waters below at one time. In true Texas style, the Fisharena is heated...