Over four decades after it opened, the Casino was demolished in 1972. A fishing pier 1,200 feet long is in process of completion, and reaches from the casino out into the gulf where water is 22 feet deep. Its bath house accommodates 500 persons, its dining room 300, and its dance hall 200. The Casino on Santa Rosa Island is a splendid building of reinforced concrete and hollow tile structure with its floors elevated 18 feet above sea level. The Frisco Employees' Magazine described the facilities: Events included boxing tournaments every Tuesday, sponsored by the YMCA, and the Miss Florida beauty pageant. The complex featured a dance pavilion, bath houses, shops and a restaurant. It cost $150,000 to build and was one of a series of projects by the Pensacola Bridge Corporation that included the Pensacola Bay Bridge and the Santa Rosa Sound Bridge. The Pensacola Beach Casino (often called simply ' The Casino') was a community recreation complex on Santa Rosa Island and the first tourist attraction on Santa Rosa Island accessible by automobile. Photo courtesy Pensacola Beach Preservation and Historical Society
