| "That was in 1963, we started out there and got a bulldozer out there on the hill, and just at the last minute the guy that had part of the North Shore Marina, who had given it to us, said no – he was going to give it to us for five or six thousand dollars, sell it, and we would raise that money, but then he said he didn’t think he wanted to do that now, you got a big project going over there and so we asked how much he really wanted and he said he’d take twenty grand for it, it was a lot of money in 1963, and Paul Johnson of the Loutit Foundation said “we will buy that and give it to the city for twenty thousand. . ."
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