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...
Part 1 of 2 It wasn’t much to look at, inside or out, but Curtis Hixon Hall – the boxy, 62,000 square foot convention center on...
He operated the most lucrative fishing-excursion fleet on the Gulf Coast, and knew the waters of the Pinellas barrier islands, every fathom, by heart. And Wilson...
On June 24, 1935, actor Francis Wilson stood in front of a crowd of about 100 people on North Fort Harrison Avenue in Clearwater. The occasion...
Stories of the men who’ve made the gears turn in St. Petersburg, in the 132 years since the city was founded, are well documented. At the...
Noisy cliques of waterbirds known as gallinules swim, hunt and peck among the reeds, weeds and aquatic grasses that ring Round Lake, a small pond just...
The boxy little building situated at the corner of 4th Street South and 24th Avenue is nothing much. It’s next door to the Harbordale YMCA, and...
So long ago, and such an innocent time, it seems now. But a community’s music scene, in any generation, is built upon the bones of those...
