It began, some said, when nine large panes of reflective glass became discolored from sprinkler system residue. It ended seven years later, when a troubled teen...
He was skinny as a rail, and weighed maybe 140 pounds dripping wet. Still, to thousands of St. Petersburg and Tampa-area kids in the 1950s, Burl...
St. Petersburg’s oldest tourist attraction may get a facelift this year – restoring it to its mid-century grandeur. Sunken Gardens, which has been at 1825 4th...
It wasn’t a soap opera, exactly, but there was drama, and a lot of behind-the-scenes intrigue, at 4799 4th Street N. between 1938 and 1959. Don’t...
Despite a resume longer than the tri-oval track at Daytona after 200 laps, the dean of Tampa Bay sportscasting swears his career was a combination of...
Leaning back on a beach recliner under a blue-and-white striped cabana for two, the most-photographed woman in the world smiled shyly at the gathered gaggle of...
So Bob Dylan sold the publishing on his extensive song catalog. Was anyone surprised? In all of popular music, no artist has ever been more enigmatic...
In the aftermath of 2017’s Hurricane Irma, Boyd Hill Nature Preserve Operations Foreman Howard Saytor and his maintenance crew were digging out the root system of...
This story appears in the book Vintage St. Pete Volume II: Legends, Locations, Lifestyles. Another story about films made in the area will appear later this...
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...