Sunrise 200: A Lively Look at St. Petersburg’s Past. Illustrated by Jack Barrett.
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- Times Publishing Company, 1975
Times Publishing Company, 1975. Folio, softbound (stiff, full-color illustrated, white wrappers), 96 pp. Very Good, with wear along edges of covers. Contents: The Search for Gold and Slaves; The Land and the Bones Beneath; Settling the Land; The Magic Lore of Gold; Five Pioneers; Hurricanes that Made History; Oxcarts to Airliners; It’s Not All Sunshine; Ralph Reed: Half a Century of Reporting the News; How an Alligator Sold St. Petersburg; Hook, Line & Sinker for Fun and Profit; Growing Up with Cattle and Fish; Spring Training: Baseball in the Sun; Publicity: The Mirror on the Wall; Land of Mystery: Weedon Island; A Forgotten Philanthropist: Edwin H. Tomlinson; Those Young Old Men: The Kids and Kubs; From Fort to Park; The Magic of Winged Things; St. Petersburg’s Moveable Feast: The Festival; The Incredible Doc Webb; Downtown Show Biz; The Invisible Blacks Emerge; Walter P. Fuller: Historian Who Made History; Some Fascinating Giants of the Deep; The Banjo Man’s Big Dance Hall; 1914’s Wild Blue Yonder; Albert Whitted and the Dawn of Aviation; The Pier: St. Petersburg’s Family Tree; Historic Hostelry: The Detroit Hotel; Resurrection for a Pink Palace; The Many Lives of Handsome Jack’s Hotel; Gandy Bridge: Green Light To a Peninsula; The Vinoy: Grand Old Lady of the Waterfront; Sunshine Skyway, Suncoast Cornucopia; Shuffleboard Capital of the U.S.; Love/Hate Symbol: St. Petersburg’s Green Benches; The Waterfront: Downtown’s Priceless Asset; Rube Allyn: Most colorful Newsman; Bait & Boats: The O’Neill Brothers; Echo Chambers of the Past; Ed C. Wrigt: St. Petersburg’s Horatio Alger Character; A Press Profile: The St. Petersburg Times; Soldiers in Hotels: World War II’s Impact; The World-Famous Sunshine Offer and the Major; The Changing Face of The Sunshine City; Where Will St. Petersburg Be Tomorrow?