Some more classic pictures
- Thread starter Welder guy
- Start date
67newport
Old Man with a Hat
SGT FURY
Senior Member
Some modern day junk art photos from big m auto wreckers
https://lostamerica.com/photo-items/big-m-auto-salvage-4/
https://lostamerica.com/photo-items/big-m-auto-salvage-4/
68PK21 440.6bbl
Old Man with a Hat
Daytona 1928 & 1929
.
68PK21 440.6bbl
Old Man with a Hat
That's the Daytona Beach Main St. pier in the 60's before I was here in 1973. I don't ever remember the beach trolley, that's gone so is most of the end of the pier. I think Hurricane Floyd took that part out in the 90's. The cable car ride is gone too, big deal on tearing that down. Million & Millions have been spent on that pier just in the past decade by the city to repair the pilings and fix up the old dance hall on top of it to turn it into a Joe's Crab Shack restaurant. Even though the restaurant is pretty popular I don't think the city is making any profit on the lease and along with the County Civic Center that's a stone's throw away it is pretty much a taxpayers money pit.
.
rapidtrans
Senior Member
November 2020.
Most of that pier is still there.
The Joe’s Crab Shack upper deck was kinda hoppin over Thanksgiving with snowbirds like myself. You just have to wade through all the homeless looking types hanging around the land end of the pier.
I had fun anyway!
68PK21 440.6bbl
Old Man with a Hat
Well I'm glad you had fun, heh ironic as just after I made my comments the pier was in the local paper (again) here are some notes as the paper is pretty much useless unless you buy a subscription.
An artificial reef could even be constructed a short distance off shore to improve surfing and calm waves that batter the nearly 100-year iconic pier.
This is idiotic as they have screwed up (mother nature) the beach with well over 40+ artificial reefs over the years to enhance the sport fishing industry. This has been a convenient dumping ground for all the old concrete from recent 1-4 & I-95 construction.
Way back a long time ago someone had the bright idea to dump tons of Coquina Rock off the beach in Ormond Beach just north of Daytona Beach.
It crumpled and deteriorated and softened up the sand making the 'Red Sand' part of the beach un-driveable most of the time.
The city will pay a West Palm Beach firm $173,720 to study the feasibility and costs of several possible changes. The firm will explore constructing a new pier, bolstering the existing 740-foot-long span, making an addition to the city-owned structure, renovating the building that houses Joe's Crab Shack and establishing new uses of the park that overlooks the beach.
"In 2020 alone, the pier has already lost eight load-bearing piles."
Built in 1900, Damaged by a hurricane a few years later, and then destroyed by a fire in 1919
The current pier and the building on top of it were constructed in 1925. That new pier, located at the eastern tip of Main Street, stretched out for 1,000 feet. But storms and hurricanes have chewed away at the span and 260 feet has been lost over the years.
The pier has had several different owners, and in 2004 the city acquired it.
Translation: Some big money investment deal went belly up and I think someone went to prison.
The city has amassed well over $4 million in rental payments since Joe’s opened nearly nine years ago.
City Manager Jim Chisholm, who's now about two months away from his planned retirement after more than 16 years at the helm.
This guy that wants to bulldoze everything is not a popular guy and I'm sure many here are glad to see him go.
Daytona Beach Joe's Crab Shack fighting water leaks.
The United States National Park Service has designated it as a certified historic structure, records show.
The casino building is on the National Register of Historic Places, which would make it difficult or maybe even impossible to demolish.
...which just underwent $1 million of repair and reinforcement work last year.
That $1 million project came seven years after $10 million was poured into overhauling the pier.
Over the past few years, the city has talked about repairing the pier building, which has had water intrusion problems for years.
Let me get the crystal ball out, it says... Shoddy work was done.
I think over the past 2 decades the bill is up around $20 million in my opinion, but hey what the heck it's a toor'ist (money) trap.
Anyways the city has bigger problems with the $192 Million Dollar Russian Hotel project being now a year past it's completion (permit) date and is starting to be a eye sore and a traffic boondoggle. That's progress... (I guess).
Oh and on a final note, surfers are assholes and have been pretty much banished from the beach into ever changing 'Surfing Zones'.
Most go now down to the inlet and I'm sure you've heard about New Smyrna Beach as being shark bite capitol of the world right?
Me? I'm glad sharks like the taste of 'Smart Mouth Surfer' ...LOL
.
Last edited:
Similar threads
