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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.

Just beautiful.....

I'm in Miami trick.

Poem reads: "Why will folks their winters spend Where ice and snow never end. While in De Land the warm sun shines, And zephyrs whisper in the pines? Oh fair city of De Land, In this lovely spot I take my stand, Here every charm of nature lies, A symbol of God's Paradise. Beneath a sky of azure hue, Where sunshine greets the whole year through, With fruit and flowers on every hand, Al these you'll find in Fair De Land. The evening bells of Stetson 'U', That greet the stars and falling dew, What sweeter chimes you'll find than these To float upon a Southern breeze? Her spires of many churches tell That God's children love Him well, Schools, homes, kind friends and love abound To greet the stranger on his round. So meet me here in Fair De Land, And then you, too, will take your stand, And say here is Earth's Paradise-- That here her choicest treasure lies. W.G.S. Lowe"