So many of St. Petersburg’s iconic hotels went up in the mid 1920s, when the Florida land boom was in full stride, and the city was...
St. Petersburg might be a very different place today if Titan Marketing Group had purchased Sunken Gardens back in 1999, as the Homosassa-based real estate company...
City Escapes Big Hurricane read a tiny Page 2 headline in the Oct. 25, 1921 edition of the St. Petersburg Times. The story underneath explained that...
You couldn’t miss the sign. Sixty feet high, it spelled out the word JOYLAND in blinking pink, green and yellow capital letters. Between 1959 until 2003,...
When the St. Petersburg Coliseum opened nearly 100 years ago, it was touted as the largest and most luxurious dance hall in the South, with a...
The “Inverted Pyramid” St. Pete Pier (1973-2015) earned its place in entertainment history July 4, 2006, when 16-year-old Taylor Swift performed a 20-minute set, as part...
The fate of three long-established St. Petersburg businesses is apparently still undecided. Victims of the Covid-19 pandemic, Haslam’s Books, Coney Island Grill and the Wagon Wheel...
St. Petersburg’s road from winter playground to retirement village to buzzing metropolis has been long and bumpy. Arguments over what should remain, and what should be...
Last of three parts Like virtually all nonprofits, the Science Center took a bad financial hit during the recession of 2008 and 2009. Philanthropists, it appeared,...
Part two of three. As the longest-tenured Science Center director (1979-2004), Susan Gordon looks back on the glory days with a mixture of pride and amazement....
