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...
It was a Sunday, just after noon, and a film crew from MTV had set up light reflectors and a semi-circular dolly track on the expansive...
The wrecking ball has a date with the crumbling concrete, brick and stucco building at 1850 Central Avenue, next to the I-275 overpass, and it’s going...
In the wee hours of Feb. 1, 1964, thieves cut a hole in the roof of 401-405 Corey Avenue in St. Petersburg Beach, squeezed into an...