After so many days of gray skies and rain, it was absolutely glorious to wake up yesterday morning to blue skies and sunshine, the way things are supposed to be, here in St. Petersburg! I was close to downtown on business, so I drove by the Chihuly Collection location on Beach Drive, just to see [...]
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There are a lot of things to like about downtown St. Petersburg these days. New energy, new attitude, new restaurants, new art museums and galleries… And a new bakery! For me, this is one of those areas where my response today is pretty much the same as it would have been when [...] Visitors to downtown St. Petersburg have an easy and inexpensive option when it comes to getting from place to place. There are two bus lines (but they’re designed to look like trolleys, and if you look at the sign on the top of the side of the car, they’re even called ‘St. Petersburg Trolley’.) One [...] Post Card of Open Air Post Office (click on picture for larger image) St. Petersburg has a very unique and beautiful post office in the heart of downtown. It’s known as the Open Air Post Office because, as you can see in this late 1940’s or early 1950’s era postcard, the main areas of the [...] Don’t ask me – the post title just jumped into my head. This is one of those photographs that pretty much speaks for itself. But if you use your imagination, it could take you so many different places! Photo was taken at the Pier in downtown St. Petersburg… Awaiting the Mother Ship (click on photo [...] Central Coffee Shoppe in St Petersburg (click on photo for larger image) I don’t do a lot of posts about restaurants, partly because I’m not uniquely qualified to be a restaurant critic and partly because I really don’t want this blog to be all about commercial establishments. But, once in awhile, I will post about a place [...] I love public art! I can be out in the world, just moving along through life, and I might be anywhere at all, and suddenly I come upon something that was placed there, just for me to look at, to study, to question, to enjoy, or maybe to laugh at. Okay, maybe it wasn’t placed there [...] For many years, the only condo building close to the waterfront in downtown St. Petersburg was the Bayfront Tower building. But look what’s happened! This photograph was taken from the top of the Bayfront Tower, looking north along Beach Drive. Closest to the camera is the Florencia, next back is Ovation, then the Cloisters, then Parkshore [...] This is a night view of the observation tower at the Vinoy Hotel in downtown St. Petersburg… Vinoy Hotel (click for larger view) St. Petersburg has a fantastic variety of options for those who are interested in seeking a college education in our city. We have St. Petersburg College (SPC), which used to be a two year facility but now offers four year degrees as well. We have Eckerd College, a private university located off the Bayway and [...] |
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