It was state-of-the-art in 1954, when it was built. But in 2022, the Williams Park Bandshell is strictly old school. The green, Chevron-shaped high ceiling is...
Gulfport’s stately Stetson University College of Law was a product of the 1920s Florida Land Boom. Developer I.M. “Handsome Jack” Taylor put up the Mediterranean Revival-style...
Ray Liotta took the red-eye from Los Angeles to Tampa on March 7, 1999, and when he stumbled off the plane, around 4 a.m., the actor...
When visitors stepped through the door that would lead them aboard HMS Bounty, moored on the north side of the St. Pete Pier approach for decades,...
As a City of the Arts, St. Petersburg’s road from “provincial” to “powerhouse” was long and bumpy. The reception to public art, in particular, was chilly...
This story appears in the book Vintage St. Pete Vol. II: Legends, Locations, Lifestyles, now available from St. Petersburg Press. The last movie to flicker...
Pasadena Avenue was just two narrow, unpaved lanes when Ted Peters bought a single acre of mangroves and sand in 1950. There was no retail in...
At one time, it was said, there were so many sponge boats in Tarpon Springs that you could walk from one side of the Anclote River...
After the turn of the 20th century, small theater companies began to sprout in communities across America, dedicated to putting plays on the stage that defied...
In another time, Winter the dolphin would have been forced to toss beachballs, play a toy piano with her snout and leap over limbo poles suspended...
