More “Florida” stuff:
Skyways Fishing Pier - old memory re the old Skyway Bridge I usta drive.
“Skyway Fishing Pier State Park is a Florida State Park located on the north and south sides of the mouth of Tampa Bay. When the original cantilevered Sunshine Skyway Bridge, carrying I-275 (US 19), partially collapsed in 1980, due to the collision of a freighter on one of its pilings, it was replaced by the current bridges. The approaches to the old bridge, however, were left in place and converted into the longest fishing pier in the world.]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyway_Fishing_Pier_State_Park
‘The southbound span (opened in 1971) of the original bridge was destroyed at 7:38 am on May 9, 1980, when the 606 ft (185 m) freighter MV Summit Venture collided with a support column during a sudden squall, causing the catastrophic failure of over 1,200 ft (370 m) of the span. Six cars, a truck, and a Greyhound bus plummeted 150 ft (46 m) into Tampa Bay, resulting in 35 deaths.[31]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Skyway_Bridge