It’s one of the most-recorded songs of the last 50 years, and is often used as the soundtrack for documentaries about a tumultuous time in recent...
VINTAGE ST. PETE is a series focused on our city’s illustrious (and occasionally notorious) past. Many of these features have appeared in the Catalyst over the past...
The old joke went like this: Movie stars never die, they just fade away. But first, they do dinner theater. From the early ‘70s through the...
VINTAGE ST. PETE is a series focused on our city’s illustrious (and occasionally notorious) past. Many of these features have appeared in the Catalyst over the past...
St. Petersburg mayor Rick Kriseman, via official proclamation, declared Nov. 19, 2016 Coney Island Day. The occasion was the 90th anniversary of Coney Island Sandwich Shop,...
A photograph in the Oct. 2, 1953 edition of the St. Petersburg Times shows five men standing on a dock, a dead bottlenose dolphin stretched out...
GRAND FORKS, N.D. – Trumpet player Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong said yesterday he’s given up plans for a government-sponsored trip to Russia because “The way they are...
From the corner of Rui Farias’ office, Doc Webb is always watching. Farias, director of the St. Petersburg Museum of History, considers Webb – the founder,...
Actor Henry Fonda, lured to the area with the promise of a day’s tarpon fishing, gave a short speech at the Fort De Soto Park dedication...
On a narrow stretch of sand in the town of Indian Shores, the earth has reclaimed Tiki Gardens. The tidy footpaths that meandered past neatly-manicured palm...
