This 16MM home movie is from a vacationer at Weeki Wachee Springs, FL from 1952. For those of us who have never been to the springs, they are famous for dressing women up as mermaids and letting tourist oogle them from subteranean glass enclosures. The women breath from air hoses, eat apples and drink cokes. Pierce Pettis wrote a song about his dad's home movies of the women. And, the springs are still at it, mermaids and all. Check out thier website. It looks like they are being threatened by neglect. http://mermaid.weekiwachee.com/
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