As Pensacola is planning on bringing in a new ferry system, few citizens realize we've had ferries here before. Once upon a time, a ferry docked at the foot of Palafox Street conducting cars and citizens to Gulf Breeze. But during WWII, getting military personnel and civilians to and from the Naval Air Station was upmost importance. Oddly, they used ferries throughout most of the war and only in 1945 did they cut loose funding for a permanent bridge from the foot of Sunset Boulevard at Navy Point to the NAS peninsular.
The 1984 bridge into NAS Pensacola today
Pensacola News Journal 6-8-1942
Pensacola News Journal 4-1-1945
Pensacola News Journal 11-5-1943