On June 1, 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, lifted off from Miami to continue their second attempt at flying around the world along […]

On May 31, 1953, WSUN-TV, Channel 38, signed on in the Tampa Bay area as St. Petersburg’s first television station and one of the earliest UHF […]

The West Coast Inn was a well-known hotel in downtown St. Petersburg, historically located on 1st Street South across from Al Lang Stadium and part of […]

On May 29, 2018, the Tampa Bay Rays delivered one of those rare moments that instantly becomes part of franchise memory. In the third inning against […]

On May 28, 1935, Florida lawmakers adopted Stephen Foster’s “Old Folks at Home” as the official state song, thanks to sponsorship by Miami legislator S. P. […]

The Florida Wild Animal Ranch once stood at the corner of 4th Street North and 48th Avenue North in St. Petersburg, a classic Old Florida roadside […]

May 26, 1845 marked Florida’s first statewide election, held just two months after it officially entered the Union. Voting was limited to free males over 21 […]

On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy stood before Congress and issued one of the most ambitious challenges in American history: land a man on […]

Six Gun Territory once brought the Old West to life in the heart of Ocala. Opened on February 2, 1963, the 200-acre attraction sat just outside […]