St. Pete Yacht Club’s redevelopment plans inch forward

The St. Petersburg Yacht Club’s leadership now has a tentative goal to demolish the waterfront landmark - first opened in 1917 - and build anew in fiscal year 2028-29.

Members received the latest project update Monday. The email, obtained by the Catalyst, followed several Building Replacement Oversight Committee (BROC) meetings from July 2023 through February.

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Vintage St. Pete: The Suncoast Playboy Club

On two sunny days in April, 1981, the lobby of the Bayfront Concourse Hotel swarmed with pretty young girls wearing bathing suits and high heel pumps.

The Suncoast Playboy Club, scheduled to open in May, had issued an open audition call for “Bunnies” to staff the place. The fantasy lifestyle that Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner had sold to the American male included “exclusive,” members-only nightspots, where the cocktail waitresses were dressed in leggy, revealing costumes topped off by a pair of rabbit ears, and a white “cottontail” on the derriere.

Welcome to Florida: The Civil War

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	USF Men’s Basketball coach named AAC Coach of the Year
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	Applications open for ‘Citizens University’