Why is Tampa Bay currently a marine graveyard?

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VINTAGE ST. PETE: Tom Petty, MTV and the Don

It was a Sunday, just after noon, and a film crew from MTV had set up light reflectors and a semi-circular dolly track on the expansive balcony outside the south-facing 8th floor suite of the Don CeSar Hotel. In 1930, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald had vacationed in Room 800 (the living-room-sized balcony, in those Great Gatsby days, was known as a “moon garden”).

Fifty-five years later, on April 21, 1985, Tom Petty and his wife Jane were the registered guests; Petty’s manager Tony Dimitriades had the adjoining suite. The other members of the Heartbreakers, Petty’s longtime band, were booked into regular rooms in the lower reaches of the towering pink-and-white Don.

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