As a go-to concert venue, the City-owned Bayfront Center Arena came in with a whimper: Home shows, boat shows, trade shows, sportsman’s shows, bridal shows, conventions,...
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 Florida Land Boom was in full flower in 1924, and speculators cast their nets far and wide as St. Petersburg, like most burgeoning metropolitan cities,...
The fact that Shuffle Board (sic) is simple and requires no training has made the sport one of the most popular pastimes in St. Petersburg. St....
Somewhere around 5 or 5:30 in the afternoon, six days a week, the Evening Independent landed on lawns and driveways across St. Petersburg. If skies were...
Local history books tend to document those who “built the city,” laid the roads, brought in the railroads, platted the parks and bravely launched a small-town...
History did not record exactly why 61-year-old shoe manufacturer Andrew Hardee Baker relocated to St. Petersburg, from Brockton, Massachusetts – a big shoe-making town at the...
The dogs don’t run at Derby Lane any more. There hasn’t been a documented canine on the premises since the tail end of 2020, when Florida’s...
From the road, the two venues appeared pretty much the same. Raymond James Stadium, home of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, was constructed in 1999 – bigger,...
Here is a rundown of every known pop, rock, country, jazz and comedy concert held in the big room at Tampa’s Curtis Hixon Hall between the...