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• 80-YEAR-OLD SHRIMPER STILL SELLG TCH TO ST. HELENA’S GAY FISH CO. ‘KIDS WON’T DO THIS’
• TAG ARCHIV: GAY FISH CO.
• GAY FISH CO. AS SEEN FORRT GUMP
• HILDA GAY UPTON
• GAY FISH

80-YEAR-OLD SHRIMPER STILL SELLG TCH TO ST. HELENA’S GAY FISH CO. ‘KIDS WON’T DO THIS’

The majory of the scen of the shrimp boat were done the creek as well, and the special scene after the big storm, when Forrt tch all the shrimp, was filmed the creek story go that all of the shrimp om Forrt’s hurrine trip were brought om Gay Fish Company St. Wh mcly tan forearms that belie his age, Jim Buchanan hoists a 60-pound basket of whe shrimp fat wh roe onto the dock at Gay Fish Co.

”Buchanan is one of five ptas who own boats that dock and sell their tch at one of the survivg docks — Gay Fish Co., a St. After all the years, Gay Fish is an inic seafood stop between Fripp Island and Befort. “It’s lerally like workg wh fay, ” Gay Fish’s Cyndy Carr says.

TAG ARCHIV: GAY FISH CO.

B shrimp boat, which docks at Gay Fish Co. Gay Sr., and his wife, Hilda Smh Gay.

Gay was workg as an electrician at the Naval Hospal Port Royal and shrimpg on the si.

GAY FISH CO. AS SEEN FORRT GUMP

Gay Fish opened 1948.

”Today, the Gay’s son and Carr’s father, 77-year-old Charl Gay, ntu to work at the shrimpg bs six days a week.

HILDA GAY UPTON

The five ptas who dock here pay no rent and a mimal ice fee exchange for sellg directly to Gay Fish, which, turn, sells shrimp a narrow retail store the ont of the property. Gay Fish also suppli fuel, which is ducted om the pay boat owners receive for shrimp.

Bis seafood, you n fd important history at the retail store, like two amed receipts for $26, 000 of shrimp the Gays sold to Paramount Pictur 1993. Close observers will fd a blooper — some of the Gay Fish shrimp shown the scene had already been head. Gay Fish Co.

GAY FISH

Gay Fish is so close to the actn ’s not unmon for water to ver the docks or even the procsg area durg high tis.