Will This Things Fly?

Hello Sowpub Readers,

If this is not the correct place to post this message then I apoligize and will accept deletion. However, if you don't try you never know, so here goes.

I was reading the article about Dr. Paul Hartnung (excuss the possible misspelling)and how he sold the Brooklin Bridge back in the early 80's. I always try to think of how to bridge other's successes into my own situation and as a result of the article I had a brainstorm. I live in sunny S. Florida (Palm Beach County to be exact)right around the corner from glitzy, ritzy Palm Beach, FL and all the scandel, wealth and lust associated with it. Several years back I actually bartended on Palm Beach at a local neighborhood where the local zillionaires came. I always thought about how to bottle and sell this sizzle.

Well after reading the Brooklin Bridge story I thought, why not bottle the actual sand from beachfront Palm Beach in small glass containers each holding appr. 1-2 sq. inches of beachfront Palm Beach property and sell it. It could be marketed many ways and extra benefits attached such as a monthly ezine covering a "lifestyles of the rich" type angle with insights on wealthy lifestyles. Hey, if someone could sell pieces of old wood from some old bridge the where could this lead?

Is this a crazy idea? If so let's all get a good laugh out of it. If not, then maybe we can think and say, "hummmm"?

What do you think.

Mitch

Hi Mitch,

That's an interesting idea! It wouldn't cost you much to test, over the internet for example (put a bottle on ebay or set up a web page)... :)

Here's an interesting story about something similar.... In 1994, I met a couple Brazilian women who were traveling through Australia, who I became friends with.... One of them was going to be in Australia for a whole year, since she was studying here for a year; the other was her sister, who was only here for a month or so.

Anyhow, one thing that she was doing was going to certain Australian beaches, and getting a test tube of sand from that beach, at the request of a friend of hers back in Brazil. This friend of hers was an avid surfer, and he wanted sand from famous Australian surf beaches. I remember driving her down to Bell's Beach - where there's a famous surf competition - so she could fill her test tube with the sand!

After seeing this, I was wondering about this too.... Would keen surfers overseas pay for test tubes of sand from certain Aussie surf beaches? (However, in Australia, I think it might not be legal to take things from the beach, which would probably prevent this from becoming a legal business.... I'm not sure what the laws are elsewhere....)

I guess, in this case, there *might* be a motivated market - surfers - interested in having sand from specific beaches related to what they love - that is, from famous surf beaches.

Would aspiring actors and actresses be interested in sand from Malibu, as inspiration? I don't know....

It's an interesting thought though.... :)

- Dien