Sometimes it seems as if the Don CeSar Hotel, the great pink castle that separates St. Petersburg Beach from Pass-a-Grille, has always been there. Like the St. Pete Pier and the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, the Don is both iconic and unmissable, a landscape feature so distinctive that even longtime residents can scarcely remember a time without it.
The Don was a product of the 1920s Florida land boom, and a victim of the Great Depression that followed. And for 25 years, it served the American military in various capacities.
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