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....
Part One of three. The test tubes, bunsen burners, beakers and bird bones are long gone. There are no aquariums, no rock specimens, no rocketry fuses...
When Maryland’s Francis Scott Key Bridge was struck by a ship and collapsed March 26, memories returned to a similarly dark day on Tampa Bay. On...
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,...
