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Sep 12, 2024 | 
ilovetheburg.com | Monica Kile
“Mirror Lake was made by nature the civic center of St. Petersburg, and the civic center of St. Petersburg it will forever be.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
l8r.it | Monica Kile
St. Petersburg’s Coliseum turns 100 years old this November. The striking building once known as the “Palace of Pleasure” is a unique reminder of St. Petersburg’s colorful history as one of the country’s leading tourist destinations. After the horror of WWI, Americans were looking for a good time and dances like the Charleston and the Fox Trot swept the country. Dancing was no longer reserved for stuffy ballrooms, and huge dance halls were built from coast to coast.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
ilovetheburg.com | Monica Kile
St. Petersburg’s Coliseum turns 100 years old this November. The striking building once known as the “Palace of Pleasure” is a unique reminder of St. Petersburg’s colorful history as one of the country’s leading tourist destinations. After the horror of WWI, Americans were looking for a good time and dances like the Charleston and the Fox Trot swept the country. Dancing was no longer reserved for stuffy ballrooms, and huge dance halls were built from coast to coast.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
ilovetheburg.com | Monica Kile
By the early 1950s, Florida Power was the fastest growing of the 100 largest utilities in the country. Between 1960 and 1972, the average residential power usage by Florida Power customers more than doubled, due to a rapidly increasing population and the growing use of air conditioning. Florida Power would add 700 customers a week in 1971, and by the summer of 1972, 82 percent of those residential customers were using electric climate control.
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Jul 13, 2024 | 
thatssotampa.com | Monica Kile
If you haven’t visited Tampa’s Old City Hall Building lately, July 15 offers a unique opportunity to do so. On Monday, Tampa celebrates its 137th birthday with programming and birthday cake at the local landmark, which features perhaps the only clock in the world named Hortense. So just how did the time-ticker in the City Hall tower come to be known as the Hortense Clock?
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Jul 13, 2024 | 
l8r.it | Monica Kile
If you haven’t visited Tampa’s Old City Hall Building lately, July 15 offers a unique opportunity to do so. On Monday, Tampa celebrates its 137th birthday with programming and birthday cake at the local landmark, which features perhaps the only clock in the world named Hortense. So just how did the time-ticker in the City Hall tower come to be known as the Hortense Clock?
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
ilovetheburg.com | Monica Kile
During the spectacular Florida real estate boom of the 1920s, St. Petersburg’s population grew from 14,000 to 40,000 people. Building permits in 1925 hit a high of $23 million dollars, a figure not reached again until 1949. The newly renamed Florida Power Corporation continued to grow, buying smaller power companies in Pinellas County and beyond, adding Clearwater, Tarpon Springs, Brooksville, Dunellon, Bushnell, and Ocala to the grid.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
ilovetheburg.com | Monica Kile
During the spectacular Florida real estate boom of the 1920s, St. Petersburg’s population grew from 14,000 to 40,000 people. Building permits in 1925 hit a high of $23 million dollars, a figure not reached again until 1949. The newly renamed Florida Power Corporation continued to grow, buying smaller power companies in Pinellas County and beyond, adding Clearwater, Tarpon Springs, Brooksville, Dunellon, Bushnell, and Ocala to the grid.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
l8r.it | Monica Kile
Did you know that St. Pete’s love affair with baseball has its roots in another American burg? (Well, technically, burgh, as Pittsburgh is the only city in the United States that still has the “h” at the end of its burg.) Back in 1870 a man named Al Lang was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Growing up poor, his family often lived in a rooming house that catered to members of opposing baseball teams in town to play the Pittsburgh Pirates, for whom Lang became a die-hard fan.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
ilovetheburg.com | Monica Kile
Did you know that St. Pete’s love affair with baseball has its roots in another American burg? (Well, technically, burgh, as Pittsburgh is the only city in the United States that still has the “h” at the end of its burg.) Back in 1870 a man named Al Lang was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Growing up poor, his family often lived in a rooming house that catered to members of opposing baseball teams in town to play the Pittsburgh Pirates, for whom Lang became a die-hard fan.
