HOMEPORT - Pensacola's Muni Pier -

Take a good look, this view doesn't exist anymore. In the 1960's and 70's, at least for Sebago Sailors, this was the road to excitement. It was the municipal pier area; a big parking lot, civic auditorium that often hosted professional wrestling, and further up the street was Trader Jon's, Rosie O'Grady's, and of course the beach.

Today the auditorum and pier are gone, victims of some severe hurricane action. The parking lot is the site of a large condo complex, and Trader Jon Weissman has been dead several years.

I can only imagine how much revenue the Pensacola Police Department lost each time we put to sea... they would patiently wait out of sight for each of us young studs to burn rubber away from the dockside and then nail us as we got near the courthouse plaza and write us a citation for "improper start" - hell, we didn't know any other way to get underway for liberty!

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-Mark Pfrenger collection