When filmmaker Robert Altman and a cast of A-list stars set up camp at the Don CeSar Hotel in 1979, everyone went – briefly – berserk....
When professional musical theater made its grand entrance in St. Petersburg, it wasn’t with major-league stars, first class sound and lights and Broadway-style creature comforts like...
“All skate, all skate!” When Elynor Gould’s voice came over the public address system at Gay Blades Roller Rink, the skaters on the floor – sometimes...
When Rob Stambaugh was a boy, his job was to sweep up the family business every night, once the last customer had departed and the buzzing,...
No one in all Florida rejoices more than I in the development of your great city, with its splendid schools and churches … You have added...
St. Pete wasn’t exactly a one-horse town in 1939, when its aging City Hall (at the current site of the First Central Tower, on 4th Street...
INDIAN SHORES – Between 2,500 and 3,000 wild birds arrive at Seaside Seabird Sanctuary every year, some dropped off in cardboard boxes by citizens who’ve discovered...
Because of its popularity as a retirement destination, and the subsequent preponderance of an elderly population, sleepy St. Petersburg had a nickname: God’s Waiting Room. Although...
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...
When the Great Depression enveloped America in the late 1920s, the curtain had just come down on the silent film era. Spirit-lifting “talkies” were all the...
