Sebring city officials explore St. Pete similarities

Robert Blackmon immediately noticed that Harder Hall, Sebring’s historic Mediterranean-style pink hotel, bore a striking resemblance to St. Petersburg’s Vinoy Resort and Golf Club.

The former St. Petersburg City Council member and his family bought the derelict Harder Hall - opened in 1925 and shuttered in 1986 - in September 2022. During the ongoing renovation process, Blackmon noticed other parallels between the small city and St. Pete.

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Arts Alive! podcast: Actress Kathi Grau

For just about the entire 30 year run of Guavaween, Ybor City’s legendary all-hell Halloween party, Kathi Grau was the figurehead, the dealer in debauchery, the Grand Mistress of the bacchanalian 7th Avenue parade. She was Mama Guava, queen bee of the so-called “Mama Guava Stumble,” once labeled by a local reporter as “the sheer joy of cocktail-fueled exhibitionism.”