This video was awesome! I've watched dozens of videos about the skyway, but you presented it in a different and interesting way. Love seeing videos of the original skyway. It was so foreboding looking! That incline was something else and the fact that it was a twin design means double the awesomeness lol. You captured the current skyway on a perfect night as that's the prettiest I've ever seen the color designs! That was just breathtaking.
Nice video. My parents lived in Manatee County for almost 35 years, and I grew up in Ft Myers. Many great memories of the old and new Sunshine Skyway bridge. Been over it in a plane, stood underneath it on the deck of a cruise ship, and of course drove on it. Remember the news coverage the day the old span was hit. Very sad. Love the new spans tho, very iconic and beautiful.
Sunshine Skyway meant time to wake up because we were almost to grandma's home in Sarasota after a 14 hour commute -Christmas's & summers- for 15 years. Driving across the old bridge definitely woke my sisters & I up & never failed to impress us. The new bridge is pretty but it doesn't hold a candle to my memory of the old one.
The old one you could look straight down into the water from the passenger side, because of not having a wide shoulder and a see through barrier. It was quite a view for sure but it was always a little unsettling going across that span. Especially when the old span with the large section missing was left up. It wasn't as high as the new one but definitely scarier.
When I was growing up in the 70s my family went across the old bridge many times. I remember it very well. The incline was very steep going up. We moved to Georgia in 78 so we was gone by the time the bridge was hit. But of course it was on the news so we knew what happen.
I wish i would have been able to experience going on that bridge. It amazes me how it looked it just a whole different bridge compared from todays skyway.
@@TH3GIFT3D At the very top of the old bridge was made out of open meshed steel you can see thru. The sound it made crossing it was a very loud rumble. My mother never liked crossing that bridge. She didn't think it was safe. Maybe she was right.
A bridge Built in the 1950s and 1970s is New bridge in New England Boston area.. Heck many bridges we still use are from 1890s, 1900, to 1920s, some highway bridges are from the 1940s even.. The Tobin Bridge in Boston is a huge double decker bridge built between 1948 and 1950. It still carries US Route 1 to this day.. Its 11,906 feet or 2.2 plus miles in length and is over 250 feet tall. Quite the feet for 1948 standards..
Great vid, ty!
That's neat how the new Sunshine Skyway Bridge is lit up at night.
This video was awesome! I've watched dozens of videos about the skyway, but you presented it in a different and interesting way. Love seeing videos of the original skyway. It was so foreboding looking! That incline was something else and the fact that it was a twin design means double the awesomeness lol. You captured the current skyway on a perfect night as that's the prettiest I've ever seen the color designs! That was just breathtaking.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Nice video. My parents lived in Manatee County for almost 35 years, and I grew up in Ft Myers. Many great memories of the old and new Sunshine Skyway bridge. Been over it in a plane, stood underneath it on the deck of a cruise ship, and of course drove on it.
Remember the news coverage the day the old span was hit. Very sad. Love the new spans tho, very iconic and beautiful.
Sunshine Skyway meant time to wake up because we were almost to grandma's home in Sarasota after a 14 hour commute -Christmas's & summers- for 15 years. Driving across the old bridge definitely woke my sisters & I up & never failed to impress us. The new bridge is pretty but it doesn't hold a candle to my memory of the old one.
Sandra P. Must of been quite a view, I would of loved to see it.
The old one you could look straight down into the water from the passenger side, because of not having a wide shoulder and a see through barrier. It was quite a view for sure but it was always a little unsettling going across that span. Especially when the old span with the large section missing was left up. It wasn't as high as the new one but definitely scarier.
The part you were standing on was built in 1971. The original 1954 span is closed to pedestrians and traffic and has been partially demolished.
When I was growing up in the 70s my family went across the old bridge many times. I remember it very well. The incline was very steep going up. We moved to Georgia in 78 so we was gone by the time the bridge was hit. But of course it was on the news so we knew what happen.
I wish i would have been able to experience going on that bridge. It amazes me how it looked it just a whole different bridge compared from todays skyway.
@@TH3GIFT3D At the very top of the old bridge was made out of open meshed steel you can see thru. The sound it made crossing it was a very loud rumble. My mother never liked crossing that bridge. She didn't think it was safe. Maybe she was right.
A bridge Built in the 1950s and 1970s is New bridge in New England Boston area.. Heck many bridges we still use are from 1890s, 1900, to 1920s, some highway bridges are from the 1940s even.. The Tobin Bridge in Boston is a huge double decker bridge built between 1948 and 1950. It still carries US Route 1 to this day.. Its 11,906 feet or 2.2 plus miles in length and is over 250 feet tall. Quite the feet for 1948 standards..
My sister is horrified of that bridge