Vintage Brevard pt 2

Here's another shot from the Leighton Postcard Company - This time looking north along the river, showing the original shoreline, the famous Melbourne Trysting Steps, and the Bluff Walk. Built in the early 1890's, the path connected Melbourne's first residential section along what is now Riverview Drive, to the first commercial section along Front Street. Everyone enjoyed a good stroll along the river's edge in the pre-AC days, but by 1919 the Bluff Walk was in serious disrepair. The stairs were poured in concrete sometime later, but by that point, Downtown Melbourne had migrated west from Front Street to where it currently sits along New Haven Avenue. Unfortunately, the stairs were permanently removed in 2004 for a planned development that never materialized

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