Part 2 of 2 Mary Lucille Rowe lost the Don CeSar when the United States government exercised its power of eminent domain – the legal right...
Sometimes it seems as if the Don CeSar Hotel, the great pink castle that separates St. Pete Beach from Pass-a-Grille, has always been there. Like the...
Should the Queen of England ever make a quick whistlestop in St. Petersburg, odds are her itinerary would include afternoon tea at the Chattaway. One of...
In the lengthy filmography of the late Canadian actor John Candy, 1985’s Summer Rental isn’t generally mentioned in the same breath as such classics as Splash,...
This VINTAGE ST. PETE story was originally published on Jan. 14, 2020. For more in the series, click here. More than two decades after Dr....
Fifty years ago Wednesday, St. Petersburg was visited, for the first time, by an incumbent American president. Richard Milhous Nixon gave a speech to a capacity...
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’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...