Vintage St. Pete & Pinellas Volume 3

<p>The third volume in the <em>Vintage St. Pete</em> series takes another long loving deeply nostalgic look at life in Florida's fastest-growing city before the dawn of the twenty-first century. These lavishly-illustrated stories will strike a chord with anyone who's ever called St. Petersburg or Pinellas County home. Here are the cherished traditions and legends: The annual Festival of States parade fancy dinners at the world-famous Kapok Tree Inn and one-of-a-kind casual restaurants The Penguin and Ted Peters Famous Smoked Fish. Hometown heroes like organ-playing comedian Lenny Dee beloved newspaper columnist Dick Bothwell and Tom Reese the eccentric master of ceremonies at the uber-bohemian Beaux Arts Gallery; media icons Salty Sol Ernie Lee Shock Armstrong and the rest of the WTVT Big 13 gang (the top-rated local TV station for 25 years). The whole historic saga of Tarpon Springs once the world's sponge-diving capital; behind the scenes of <em>Dolphin Tale Spring Breakers The Strange One</em> and other Hollywood movies filmed in town ... so much rich entertaining local history you won't read about anywhere else in 25 all-new chapters!</p>