Sunlight glints off the Gulf Coast as a long wooden dock stretches toward the horizon, lined shoulder-to-shoulder with deep-sea charter fishing boats at Gulfport's Municipal Pier — a scene that once drew sportfishing enthusiasts from across the South to these Mississippi waters. The vivid chrome-era color photograph, taken by Walter Wright, captures the bustling marina in its mid-century prime: masts bristling skyward, nets draped over rails, and at least one figure in a white captain's hat tending to gear on the left. A red-cabined cruiser dominates the far slip while smaller runabouts crowd the foreground dock. The distant treeline and pale Gulf sky frame a community whose pier life defined postwar leisure along the Mississippi Sound — before Hurricane Camille (1969) and later Katrina (2005) would forever alter this shoreline.