UF has a library of aerials

Here's 1958:  http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00071730/00021/189x?coord=28.130127737874002,-80.57373046875,27.907058371121995,-80.4638671875

I don't see it then.  May be hidden in the surf.  Kinda looks like a deep hole, perpendicular to the beach, right where it should be?  I don't know.  

Here's 1969:  http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00071730/00023/92x?coord=28.130127737874002,-80.57373046875,27.907058371121995,-80.4638671875

You can see the T in this one.  

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Well, golly gee, , , , I find it to be very interesting that this thread's "detractor" was in diapers during time we are talking about. Don't you?

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Edited: 01/30/2018 at 07:39 AM by dingpatch

Surfing there when half the pier was still standing was always kinda spooky. Always wondered how much of the first half was really gone. Remember some really fine days out there.

One more, 1960.  Shows the full length.

https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/104172

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(ref Rocketsurf's post) - I had a buddy nail one of those pilings dead on with his brand-spanking-new G&S twin fin when the wave sucked out right in front of him (as he was going for a tube) around 1970-71. He rode that thing for the next few years with a major repair on it.

I remember maybe early sixties some guy fishing off the pier caught a huge ray and it took him two or three days to land it, made the papers back then. I do not think any ships of any size ever docked at that pier, to shallow, and for awhile in the sixties the Air Force would not let anyone surf there. Does anyone remember the Canova Beach pier?

Yes, the Canova Pier was much smaller if I recall. (So was I so, my memory could be wrong.)

Patsy's had a picture of a big tiger shark caught on that pier hanging in her shop.

Yep, big, big, ray. Put it on display at the Port.

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Well done folks. Dr. tom, dynamite aerial and period stuff.
Major progress, it would be nice to get documentation from the military.
How fun

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Yeah Dingpatch, but my Dad was ripping it before Claude and Tabeling mid 60's so how ya like them apples?!?! As well as "Canaveral Pier", Lums, and inside the Canaveral Jetties!!! Hell, Dick, Murph, and my Dad kinda found Playalinda out duck hunting in 64'!

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MCS,

Thanks for the clarification.

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This is cool...Thanks for the photos and links!

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