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From Bucket Brigades to Chemical Crank: Remembering the Early Days of Fighting Fires
On Dec. 21, 1907, the St. Petersburg Times ran a front-page story on the “Largest Fire in St. Pete History.” “The alarm of fire...
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Remembering Goose Pond: From Prairie Lake to Retail Space
On November 18, 1952, an estimated 50,000 people flooded into St. Pete’s newest “shopping center” at 34th Street and Central Avenue. With 2,500 parking...
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Remembering Baseball in Sunshine Park, 1914-1919
By 1914, St. Pete’s population had grown to over 7,000, from only 1,600 people in 1900. Numerous new homes, businesses, and public works also...
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High Hopes and Flying Follies: St. Pete Looks to the Skies
Banking on Tourism
As St. Pete moved toward the second decade of the 20th century, many influential leaders “banked on tourism” as the path...
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Pride 2022: Commemorating, Celebrating, & Building Community
53 and Counting: Shouting Gay Pride
Fifty-three years ago, patrons at the Stonewall Inn in New York City chose to fight back in the...
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Before The Princess Martha: Remembering Hotel Mason
In 1995, the St. Petersburg City Council designated the Princess Martha as a historic landmark. Operating as a hotel for nearly 65 years, and...
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