Bathing suit clad model Eva Sloan posing with a nozzle atop a fireboat. I thought it might be the Roosevelt Blvd. Bridge over the Ortega River in the background but my friend Bill Yates who has lived in Jacksonville most of his life, much of it in the Ortega area, thinks this may be the Blanding Blvd. Bridge over the Cedar River since there does not appear to be a railroad bridge running beside it. There is not a lot more I can add to this other than Eva Sloan is one of a number of models that appear repeatedly in photographs from Loyd Sandgren’s collection.
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My bet would be the trout river… bridge.
Most definetly looks like Cedar Creek bridge on Blanding Blvd in front of Herb White’s marina.