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Say Good-bye to Manatee County Public Beach Pier

December 2, 2009

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com
Lifeguard Curtis Mcfee sent me this cell phone photo today of the pier at Manatee County Public Beach being torn down. I don’t remember when this pier was originally built, but it must have been before 1960, the year I was born, because I can never remember a time when [...]

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Manatee Beach Pier Closed

March 1, 2009

I don’t know when this short and low concrete pier was originally constructed, but I know it has been here since I started coming to the beach in the 1960’s. Piers draw visitors, and that’s exactly what this structure has done for half a century.
I caught my first mackerel from this pier while on summer [...]

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Cortez Piers Slowly Surrender: Concrete Returns to Sand

February 5, 2009

Cortez Beach. This is where spent my first day learning to surf back in 1974. Me and my school friend Stan Rollins spent a warm summer day getting totally blistered by the sun (no SPF 50 back then). We had a blast. Since that first day I was hooked, and spent many glorious days surfing [...]

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