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Oh, it was a SPLENDID morning. Oh so early, and oh, what a low tide.
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And under the pier, a world of its own. Mossy, muddy, and very slippery too.
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Dinghys turned upside-down and strewn about. Not going anywhere soon.
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Going way back to the 1860's, Bay Shrimp was spread on mats covering the hillside, using the sun to dry the catch, but sometime in the 1930's Frank Quan and his brother, being young and innovative, had a notion to build a "modern" evaporator made from a large diameter steel tube encased in bricks. A fire was built at one end of the pipe and hot dry air was fanned over tiers of wooden trays evenly distributed with the shrimp they had been able to net that day.
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