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Accompanying note: "Touring the Sunshine Skyway is like going to Sea in your Automobile. Fifteen miles of sun, sea and sky and stops on the wide causeways are permitted to fish and enjoy the warm surf. The Sunshine Skyway is reached from the North by U.S. 19, from the South by U.S. 41 and is part of the new West Florida Coast Speedway."

The Sunshine Skyway Bridge is a bridge connecting St. Petersburg in Pinellas County and Terra Ceia in Manatee County, Florida, passing through Hillsborough County waters. A system of five bridges with six fills, it originally opened as a steel cantilever bridge on September 7, 1954. Damaged during the worst bridge disaster in Florida history when an errant freighter ship "Summit Venture" struck a major support of the southbound lane during a storm on May 9, 1980. The main span toppled into Tampa Bay and 35 people lost their lives. Later, the bridge was replaced by a $230 million cable-stayed main span that opened in February 1987.

Can't imagine those poor people that drove off the opening to their deaths because that bridge is way up there.

Holy cow, EVERYTHING is fun in the Florida sun, especially since a foot of snow is heading my way!!!

Accompanying note: "'Stairway to the Stars,' longest continuous motor stairway ever built. Carried visitors over the reflection pool to the 86-foot high observation deck on the roof of Anheuser-Busch's twenty-five million dollar Budweiser Brewery for a 'parrot's-eye' view of Busch Gardens."

I think I remember going up this as a very little girl!

The enameled panels adorning the side of the escalator were produced by enamel muralist, Paul Hultberg, who was known for his large scale architectural enamel commissions in copper, steel and aluminum. More of his work can be found on this website: www.hultberg.com