Cropped image from 1970 aerial of Bradenton to show the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradenton_Riverwalk" class="extiw" title="w:Bradenton Riverwalk">Bradenton Riverwalk</a> area from 1970. This is to illustrate why the area got the nickname "The Sand Pile"
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1970-12-18
Aerial photographs of Manatee County - Flight 1MM (1970), Tile 127, <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00071767/00015/106j">http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00071767/00015/106j</a>