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Photo from sales launch at Marriott’s Monarch at Sea Pines, circa 1984

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I believe that one of the people pictured is Bill Coker.

My memory is not everything that it used to be (but, my photo album is pretty good).
 

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Cool, did you take the picture?
 
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Wow cool picture!
I think that's JME buying his first timeshare.
Rumor has it that his gift was a free meal at Harold's Diner.
 

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Wow cool picture!
I think that's JME buying his first timeshare.
Rumor has it that his gift was a free meal at Harold's Diner.

Uh, not exactly, I started in 1998, the year AFTER color photography came into being...... :)
AND, we bought three timeshare weeks on our big day, so there would have been a local marching band in attendance
in that picture had it been us.
As for the free meal at Harold's Diner, "that guy" in the picture probably got it, as I believe around 1984 was the last time Harold's cleaned their grill.

Also, that certainly cannot be me......my wife is far more beautiful.

I will say this......the buyer does resemble Grande Ocean's General Manager, Massimo Santangelo.
 
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