Village loses one of its community anchors, former shop owner Bob Bristol

The huge anchor that graces the entrance to the Beach Club on Key Biscayne typifies the type of person Bob Bristol was. After all, he had a hand in getting the enormous salvage piece from San Salvador to where it’s, well, anchored today.

Bristol, a long-time resident of the island whose family started a toy business that blossomed into Bristol’s Cameras, passed away this past week from health complications after being transferred from his East Ridge living facility to Jackson Memorial Hospital. He would have been 75 in August.

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