More Pirates than you can shake a pirate stick at
Published by Nate Nance July 10th, 2006 in Noteworthy News, Movie Blog, Urban Legends, American HistoryPirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest is doing very well and sparking widespread interest in pirates. It’s not just kitschy costumes, people want the real deal.
Today’s Corpus Christi Caller-Times tells us that a pirate museum just opened in their neck of the woods.
The Pirate and Smuggling Museum is now open on Padre Island.
Curator John Dowling says his father — who was a magician — started the museum 32 years ago in England, on the Isle of Wight.
But Dowling says his father died in 2003, so he decided to carry on along the Gulf of Mexico coast — where Dowling says pirates were known to roam.
Like the infamous Jean Lafitte. You know, there is a ghost story about his buried treasure still being on the beaches of Padre Island. There’s also an interesting story from blockade runners during the Civil War that swear they saw his ship, Pride, just off the coast in a blue fog, crewed by ghostly sailors. If you want to know more, I’m going to make you go to the museum.
As for the movie itself, it had quite a good opening weekend. It opened with about $132 million. By contrast, Superman Returns has raised about $141 million over the past two weeks. If life were a comic book, it would be called Johnny Depp vs. Superman, and Johnny would be kicking some ass.
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