In 1989, Del Monte stunned the port when it moved its banana shipments from Tampa to Port Manatee near Bradenton. The unloading moved away from the Arthur N. Over several decades, that scene faded from view.

It's kind of nostalgic to think about how, as a little boy in elementary school, I would look at the bananas, and now we've got them coming back.' 'I still remember going over there as a kid,' port board chairman Steve Swindal said, recalling a schoolyard rumor that tarantulas would hitch rides on the bananas. In mid-century, when the economy and leisure time options were both more simple, some Tampanians would make a day of going to the docks to buy bananas directly off the boat. At the historic banana docks, hog-sized stalks of bananas would rise on conveyor belts from the holds of freighters.Īt the end of the line, scores of sweating longshoremen would hoist and carry them off for delivery. He cannot close the suitcase and later decides to have his holiday at home.At one time, bananas were among the port's best-known imports. Warehouse Mouse is packing his suitcase for his holiday. He decides to make all the picture the same angle as Smitty's picture. Warehouse Mouse has a problem hanging Smitty's picture, while it swings to an angle. While wrapping Smitty's birthday present Warehouse Mouse gets a ribbon stuck on his tail. He gets it in by tipping the bin over, he then puts the bin up, but then when he gets another can he needs to put that in and he has to tip the bin over again. Warehouse Mouse tries to get an empty apple juice can into a high-up recycling bin. Warehouse Mouse gets a giant piece of cheese off Nina, but he cannot move it into his mouse hole and tries about everything there is to get it in and then decides to eat it outside of his mouse hole. Warehouse Mouse trips over Rich's drumsticks and his helium balloon gets stuck up high in the warehouse and he tries to get it. He then decides to eat the strawberry inside a net which he tried to catch the fly with. He jumps on it, the banana comes out and is deflected by a wall, it goes through a fan where it is cut to slices and then it lands in a bowl.Ī fly lands on Warehouse Mouse's strawberry and tries to get rid of it. Warehouse Mouse tries to get the peel off of a banana. Warehouse Mouse keeps falling off his hammock. He then later decides to sleep with earmuffs on. Warehouse Mouse prepares to go to sleep, when his cuckoo clock wakes him up and cannot stop it from cuckooing.

The show was set within the Season 2 Imagination Movers studio. It featured the character Warehouse Mouse from the pre-school show Imagination Movers.

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