Originally just a thoroughfare connecting St. Petersburg with Pass-a-Grille, the area on St. Petersburg Beach immediately south of the Corey Causeway would, in time, become a destination of its own. As Florida recovered from the Great Depression, real estate developers the Upham Company carefully turned a swampy and mosquito-infested property into a successful commercial district, eventually to be called St. Pete Beach's Downtown. Over the years, many businesses would come and go, but several of the earliest continue into the 21st century, and the offices of the largest municipality on Pinella... Read More
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Originally just a thoroughfare connecting St. Petersburg with Pass-a-Grille, the area on St. Petersburg Beach immediately south of the Corey Causeway would, in time, become a destination of its own. As Florida recovered from the Great Depression, real estate developers the Upham Company carefully turned a swampy and mosquito-infested property into a successful commercial district, eventually to be called St. Pete Beach's Downtown. Over the years, many businesses would come and go, but several of the earliest continue into the 21st century, and the offices of the largest municipality on Pinella... Read More
Originally just a thoroughfare connecting St. Petersburg with Pass-a-Grille, the area on St. Petersburg Beach immediately south of the Corey Causeway would, in time, become a destination of its own. As Florida recovered from the Great Depression, real estate developers the Upham Company carefully turned a swampy and mosquito-infested property into a successful commercial district, eventually to be called St. Pete Beach's Downtown. Over the years, many businesses would come and go, but several of the earliest continue into the 21st century, and the offices of the largest municipality on Pinellas County's barrier islands are now located there.
Details
Pages: 128
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Imprint: Arcadia Publishing
Series: Images of America
Publication Date: 26th October 2009
State: Florida
Illustration Note: Black and White
ISBN: 9780738566139
Format: Paperback
BISACs: TRAVEL / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest TRAVEL / Food, Lodging & Transportation / Road Travel PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials) HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Author Bio
Author Roberta L. Whipple brings a unique perspective to telling the Corey story, having grown up on St. Petersburg Beach as the daughter of a Corey-area merchant. Today she is the library director and secretary of the Corey Area Business Association. The photographs and ephemera contained in Images of America: St. Pete Beach's Corey Avenue come mostly from the archives of the Gulf Beaches Historical Museum, the City of St. Pete Beach, and the personal collections of the author and current and former business owners and their families.
Originally just a thoroughfare connecting St. Petersburg with Pass-a-Grille, the area on St. Petersburg Beach immediately south of the Corey Causeway would, in time, become a destination of its own. As Florida recovered from the Great Depression, real estate developers the Upham Company carefully turned a swampy and mosquito-infested property into a successful commercial district, eventually to be called St. Pete Beach's Downtown. Over the years, many businesses would come and go, but several of the earliest continue into the 21st century, and the offices of the largest municipality on Pinellas County's barrier islands are now located there.
Pages: 128
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Imprint: Arcadia Publishing
Series: Images of America
Publication Date: 26th October 2009
State: Florida
Illustrations Note: Black and White
ISBN: 9780738566139
Format: Paperback
BISACs: TRAVEL / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest TRAVEL / Food, Lodging & Transportation / Road Travel PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials) HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Author Roberta L. Whipple brings a unique perspective to telling the Corey story, having grown up on St. Petersburg Beach as the daughter of a Corey-area merchant. Today she is the library director and secretary of the Corey Area Business Association. The photographs and ephemera contained in Images of America: St. Pete Beach's Corey Avenue come mostly from the archives of the Gulf Beaches Historical Museum, the City of St. Pete Beach, and the personal collections of the author and current and former business owners and their families.
