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,...
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 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...
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...
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...
