Brass Bowl

This marker is located on the Northwest corner of Harbor Island.  It commemorates the landing of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca of the Panfilo de Narvez expedition in Tampa Bay on April 17, 1528, 480 years ago.

I know this is not funny to everyone,  but it did give me a morning snicker moment.

I took a stroll down by the History Center last week, and the exterior work is still going on.  I noticed the free standing columns being cast and grabbed a few images to share.  The first two are of a column as it is formed up, that is, encased in the mold that will give the column its shape.  The last image is of one of the completed cast columns.

Okay, lets look at this one.  It’s an exterior ground level door, in a condo, labeled  “Storage”.  What does that tell you?  Well, if I’m a burglar, it tells me, “Break in here, it’s not a residence, and some expensive equipment might be stored here.”  Wouldn’t it be better to just put a number on this door, and leave the labels off of it?

Do we really need this sign?  I would hope that the person running the trolley would comprehend that the tracks end at this point, and wouldn’t need a sign to tell them to pull back on the throttle and mash the brake.  I would hope.

Similar in use to the rat guards on ships, these creatively done people guards are pure flotsam.  I found them at Harbour Island’s private berthing spaces.