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From the Museum’s Archives: Snell Building

Majestically towering over Central Avenue and 4th Street, the iconic Snell Building is a monument to one of the city's most prolific developers. Originally...

From the Museum’s Archives: William L. Straub

On April 1, 1901, prominent Michigan journalist William L. Straub purchased the St. Petersburg Times and began a quest to transform St. Petersburg from an industrial...

From the Museum’s Archives: Spring Training

St. Louis Cardinals’ Johnny Mize, Enos Slaughter and Pepper Martin survey Waterfront Park during 1939 MLB Spring Training in St. Petersburg. For 94 years,...

From the Museum’s Archives: Joe Savage

Just one month after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed in Memphis after supporting a sanitation worker’s strike, sanitation crew chief Joe Savage...

Webb’s City…and the Live Mermaid Show!

In 1925, James Earl "Doc" Webb came to St. Petersburg and changed the city's retail and tourism landscape forever. Starting with a small drug...

From the Museum’s Archives: Lynx

The Joseph Conrad arrived in St. Petersburg in 1939 as a training vessel for the United States Coast Guard as Bayboro Harbor had been...
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