Edward Carelton Swift, at one time the owner of the largest meat packing operation in the U.S. built a mansion, Swiftmoor on Paine Avenue in Prides Crossing. Eleonora Eleo Sears a flamboyant female socialite and world class tennis player owned a residence that still exists where Paine Avenue and West Beach meet.
In 2003, burnt-out ex-CIA(SAD/SOG) Paramilitary operations officer and former U.S. Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance officer John Creasy (Denzel Washington) visits his old comrade Paul Rayburn (Christopher Walken), who runs a security firm in Mexico.
Hawkins was known to have referred frequently to King Philip as 'my old master'. In fact, Hawkins was known as Juan Aquines by the Spaniards, who castilianized the name, such was his fame among them. In 1555 John Lok brought five men from present-day Ghana back to England from a trading voyage to Guinea.