Editing Bradenton Beach, Florida (section)

==== 1920s & 1930s ====
The '''City of Bradenton Beach''' was settled in 1893,<ref name=BraBeaInc/><ref name=BBInc/> and referred to as "''Cortez Beach''" since it was close to the community of [[Cortez, Florida|Cortez]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Google News Archive Search|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4zogAAAAIBAJ&pg=6818,4195067|access-date=2020-07-15|website=news.google.com}}</ref> Construction on a wooden bridge to the mainland began in the summer of 1921. The [[1921 Tampa Bay hurricane]] that October destroyed 80% of the bridge that was built up to that point. Despite a majority of the bridge being destroyed, it was completed sometime in June 1922, eight months later.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Favorite|first=Merab|date=September 30, 2018|title=Sunday Favorites: Camping at Turtle Beach|url=https://thebradentontimes.com/sunday-favorites-camping-at-turtle-beach-p21485-133.htm|url-status=live|access-date=2020-07-15|website=[[The Bradenton Times]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200715155034/https://thebradentontimes.com/sunday-favorites-camping-at-turtle-beach-p21485-133.htm |archive-date=July 15, 2020 }}</ref>

A two-story pavilion at the end of Bridge Street was built that same year. It had 100 lockers along with a dance hall and dining room located in the center of the building. On the second floor, the owners of the pavilion had their apartments. It would burn down after a fire and was later rebuilt. The pavilion was destroyed by fire for a second time in 1929 and was never rebuilt.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Beach and the Bradenton Beach Pavilion and Bathhouse|url=https://cdm16681.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16681coll1/id/5603|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-17|website=Manatee County Public Library System: Digital Collection|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210517180409/https://cdm16681.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16681coll1/id/5603 |archive-date=May 17, 2021 }}</ref> The name "Bradenton Beach" began being used during the mid 1920s as the [[Florida land boom of the 1920s|Florida land boom]] was occurring. Real estate developers saw this as a way to convince possible buyers that it was closer to Bradenton.<ref name=":2">{{cite news|author=Grimes, David|date=November 23, 1979|title=The Legends Behind Manatee Names|pages=3B|work=Sarasota Herald-Tribune|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4zogAAAAIBAJ&pg=6818%2C4195067|access-date=June 6, 2015}}</ref> Sometime in early 1926, a county [[Bond (finance)|bond]] was approved to build a wooden bridge linking Bradenton Beach to Longboat Key; the bridge was finished in August. However, the bridge was only open until October, when a hurricane damaged it. On March 6, 1932, the bridge was swept away during a high tide. It would not be replaced until 1957.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The History of Longboat Key|url=https://www.longboatkeyhistory.com/the-history-of-longboat-key.html|access-date=2020-07-21|website=Longboat Key History|language=en}}</ref>