You are right. There are a million other things much more important than this.
But when I was looking up the info for the 75th birthday of the ‘Courtney Campbell’ Causeway, we found out that Ben Davis built it with his own money. Courtney later convinced the state to pony up the dough for improvements, leading to the renaming of the road.
Which is how things are done ’round here. Courtney had the connections, while Bennie was just a regular guy that put his money where his mouth was.
The Davises have brought it up now and again. In 1972, George tried to convince us to reinstate the roadway’s original name after his Grandpa. The Clearwater Sun reports he was back at it in 1979.
When we chose to rename the shortcut, we stuck Ben T. Davis with a small beach park, where we only go if we have to. The roadway should be named after Ben T. Davis, and we can call the recreational trails on either side the “Courtney Campbell Park” or something.
Bob Ross
10 months ago
What about all the schools named after bureaucrats and board members?
And what did Amerigo Vespucci ever do to deserve having his name on two whole continents? Why isn’t it Vespucciana?
Rob
10 months ago
Sounds good to me. It’ll never happen, though, cause we’re not the Campbells of the world.
wayne
10 months ago
The roadway in question is properly called the Courtney Campbell Parkway, not Causeway, as the TV folks paint it, addicted, as are they, to alliteration, correct or not. The bay-spanning causeway was a toll road for years and years, thus the parkway designation.