Outgoing St. Petersburg mayor Rick Kriseman wrote the foreword to the upcoming second volume in the Vintage St. Pete book series. “St. Pete’s early reputation as...
More than two decades after Dr. Paul Bearer left us for that great tenement castle in the sky, his legend lives on. He still holds the...
In the 45 years he operated the Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary, Ralph Heath had been nipped by thousands of birds. Any traumatized wild animal will lash out,...
This story appears in Vintage St. Pete Volume II: Legends, Locations, Lifestyles, from St. Petersburg Press. The old joke went like this: Movie stars never die,...
Dan McCarty was dead. The 31st governor of Florida suffered a massive heart attack in February, 1953, and seven months later he was...
The Beach Theatre’s new owner is looking for community input as to the future of the 81-year-old St. Pete Beach landmark. Christopher Scott, whose Scott Commercial...
Developer Frederick Guest, great-grandson of New York steel magnate Henry Phipps, first toured the Vinoy Park Hotel in 1982, after the St. Petersburg bayfront landmark had...
Tom Reese told the author of On the Road to hit the road. Legendary beat novelist Jack Kerouac, living out the last alcoholic years of his...
This story appears in Vintage St. Pete Volume II: Legends, Locations, Lifestyles, from St. Petersburg Press. The Royal Theatre opened on Nov. 23, 1948, just a...
Man has conquered the elements, the last element to be brought under subjugation being the air. Yesterday demonstrated the fact that air lines will in the...
