The only thing stranger than the name “Pass-a-Grille” is what that name means. Plus, the story of man who built the world’s longest toll bridge: “Dad” Gandy.
Why do they call it Pass-a-Grille?
Back when “beachwear” covered most of bathers’ bodies, tourists flocked to Pass-a-Grille to stay at the Don CeSar resort.
They were apparently not chased away by Pass-a-Grille’s strange name.
Old maps had the end of a southern Pinellas County island and a nearby passage out to the Gulf labeled “Pass-aux-Grilleurs” — which is French for, of course, “passageway of the grillers?”
