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History Comes Alive at Sunken Gardens

January 18, 2023 by Janan Talafer No Comments

Kathy Turner Lee remembers hollering to her mother, “Going over to the gardens,” as she ran out her front door on 18th Avenue and to a side gate that led into Sunken Gardens. In the 1950s and ‘60s, Sunken Gardens may have been one of the most famous roadside attractions in Florida, but to Lee, the four-acre tropical oasis was just the family business that her grandparents, George and Eula Turner, Sr., founded decades before. It was like an extension of her own backyard.  

“The gardens were a big part of my childhood,” Lee recalls. “My brother and I would run around by ourselves and no one thought anything of it.”… Read More

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Our Piers Through the Years: Celebrating a City Landmark

by Will Michaels No Comments

Piers and St. Petersburg are virtually synonymous. The city was founded by John and Sarah Williams and Peter Demens in 1888. The Williams owned the land and had visions of a great city. Back then, in order to be a great city a railroad was required. Peter Demens, owner of the Orange Belt Railway, agreed to route his fledgling railroad to the new city in exchange for a prime share of the anticipated new downtown real estate. Part of the deal was that he would extend his railroad tracks out over a pier reaching water 12 feet deep to allow cargo exchange between ships and the train.… Read More

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No Car, No Problem: Getting Around Is Getting Easier 

by Jon Kile No Comments

Getting around the bay area without a car keeps getting more interesting. We have scooter and bike rentals, a seasonal ferry, trollies, and even an old-fashioned streetcar. Now, St. Pete boasts an innovative way to whisk residents and visitors through some of the city’s most vibrant neighborhoods. Of course, I’m referring to the new SunRunner, the Bus Rapid Transit Route (BRT) that takes riders from downtown to St. Pete Beach.  

Spend more than a few minutes with someone in our house and you’ll start hearing about how much we love the new SunRunner. I’ve been accused of being on the PSTA payroll, but I assure readers that the only thing PSTA has given me is a ride.… Read More

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Peter Belmont: The Key to Keeping St. Pete Special

November 15, 2022 by Monica Kile No Comments

You may not be personally familiar with Peter Belmont, but chances are you’ve come across the fruits of his 40 years of volunteer labor in St. Petersburg. Have you ever attended Movies in the Park? Or taken a walking tour with Preserve the ‘Burg? Maybe you’ve shopped in the Crislip Arcade or sipped a drink on the verandah of the Vinoy. If so, then you’ve had a brush with Belmont’s legacy. Over his decades of activism, Belmont has left such a mark on the city that his recent cancer diagnosis prompted a flurry of efforts by friends and admirers to honor his work.… Read More

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Empowering People Through the Magic of Sailing

by Janan Talafer No Comments

Ed Baird was 9, and Allison Jolly was 10 – two local kids looking for something to do on summer vacation – when their parents enrolled them in “learn to sail” lessons at the St. Petersburg Sailing Center. Both would go on to be superstars in the world of sailing. But at the time they were just having fun, hanging out with friends on the water. 

“The Sailing Center was our home away from home,” Jolly recalls. “It was a very safe and welcoming environment.”  

Getting hooked on sailing at a young age.

St. Petersburg was still a small town not yet discovered, then.… Read More

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A Historic Couple: Jacqueline and Earl Cotman

November 11, 2022 by Will Michaels No Comments
A couple smiling at the camera in formal wear

Jacqueline Nickson Cotman and Dr. H. Earl Cotman are an amazing couple, gracing our city with their considerable talents and civic activities for many years. They arrived in St. Petersburg in 1981 from East Lansing, Michigan. Earl was invited to join the staff of Bayfront Hospital as a radiation oncologist after serving as assistant professor of medicine at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, chief of radiation therapy at William Beaumont Army Medical Center while in the service at Ft. Bliss, Texas, and as associate in radiation oncology at Edward W. Sparrow Hospital in Lansing. In addition to his tenure at Bayfront, he established the practice of radiation oncology at St.… Read More

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First United Methodist: Preserving an Iconic Church

September 21, 2022 by Will Michaels No Comments

Historic landmarks, especially cherished churches, require TLC, and so it is with First United Methodist located across from Williams Park in downtown St. Petersburg. The church dates its history back to 1889, a year after the city’s founding. The first church building was erected in 1892 and later succeeded by a second building on the corner of 2nd Avenue North and 3rd Street in 1902. The present grand structure dates from 1925-27. 

It was a challenge to get the church built. After much of it was constructed in 1925, an outer wall collapsed, virtually requiring construction to start anew. Upon rebuilding, the church was retrofitted with an interior steel frame.… Read More

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Media Guru Elliott Wiser Celebrates 25 Years of Bay News 9

by Cindy Cockburn No Comments

If you bump into Tampa Bay’s media guru and Beach Drive resident Elliott Wiser walking around downtown St. Pete on September 24, don’t be surprised if you see a big smile on his face. It was on that day in 1997 he launched Bay News 9, the popular 24-hour news channel here in Tampa Bay. 

 Yes, 25 years ago Wiser had a dream. A vision. And while retired now, it is with a sense of accomplishment and pride that he describes a project that seemed surreal at the time. 

“This idea started out as a new concept for a TV station,” he explains.… Read More

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The ‘Pay What You Can’ Bike Co-op

by Abby Baker No Comments

The first rule of the St. Petersburg Bike Co-op: It’s not a bike shop. For a total of six hours a week, the co-op at 559 Mirror Lake Drive North is open for anyone to come in and buy a bike or get a bike repair. The bikes are mostly donated or built from scratch by shop volunteers and mechanics. That factor allows prices to be extremely low. 

“I didn’t enjoy working for profit,” says shop coordinator Caelan Jeffery. “Working with expensive bikes and pompous people, it’s not for me.” 

Along with a fluctuating team of about 10 volunteers, mechanic and co-op coordinator Jeffery runs the show in an equal distribution of power that only a co-op can truly attain.… Read More

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Meet St. Pete’s Real-Life Indiana Jones

July 19, 2022 by Jeannie Carlson No Comments
Schuler at Wadi Rum in Jordan

Though he’s an anthropologist rather than an archaeologist, Bryan T. Shuler is an adventurer, scholar, professor, musician, pilot, and all-around fascinating guy – much like Indiana Jones, except that Shuler is the real deal. Sometimes, when he is on one of his adventures, he even wears a hat that looks suspiciously like the iconic fedora.

Shuler’s life reads like an adventure novel, with wild tales from his globe-trotting escapades: getting charged by a bull elephant as a Fulbright Scholar in Ghana; being surrounded by whales as the onboard anthropologist for the National Geographic Explorer during a six-week expedition off the coast of Africa; hiking in the Yung Frau region in the Swiss Alps; he still recalls “the breathtaking view and thrill of crossing a glacier in a crevice.”… Read More

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