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Pier-ing into history - 2004-02-22
Lew Merrill was just a youth in 1929 when the SS Palo Alto first came to what is now Seacliff State Beach.
"They had some kind of a casino, too. But I wouldn't know too much about that because I wasn't old enough to gamble then," Merrill added with a surreptitious smile.
A group of businessman first bought the ship in Oakland, hauled it to Seacliff and built the original pier with grandiose plans of converting it into a casino and amusement center.
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One of St. Petersburg's first black police officers passes on - 2004-02-22
Willie Seay Jr., one of the first African-American police officers in St. Petersburg, passed away Friday at Bayfront Medical Center. He was 79.
In 1949, Mr. Seay was one of five African-Americans employed to serve on the St. Petersburg police force.

He went to Gibbs High School and played the trumpet in the school band, and with the George Cooper Orchestra, the house band at St. Petersburg's historic Manhattan Casino on 22nd Street S.
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