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Pheil Hotel, St. Petersburg, Fla.
A postcard featuring a colored image of the Pheil Hotel & Pheil Theatre in St. Petersburg, Fla.Tags E. C. Kropp Co., Florida, Pheil Hotel, Pheil Theatre, Pinellas County, Postcards, St. PetersburgPosition: 98 (114 views)
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Facts and History of Webb's City, "Home of the World's Most Unusual Drugstore."
Brochure for Webb's City, "Home of the World's Most Unusual Drugstore," in St. Petersburg, Fla.Position: 41 (161 views)
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Downtown Business Section on Central Avenue St. Petersburg, Fla.—"The Sunshine City"
A postcard featuring a colored image of Central Avenue, St. Petersburg's downtown business section. The Pheil Hotel can be seen in the background. It's postmarked February 10, 1951.Position: 55 (144 views)
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Fenway Hotel, Dunedin, Fla., Near Clearwater
A postcard featuring a colored image of the Fenway Hotel in Dunedin, Fla.Position: 35 (168 views)
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Jenkin's Orphanage Band playing at the Y.M.C.A Building in St.Petersburg, Fla., the Sunshine City
A postcard featuring a colored image of the Jenkins Orphanage Band playing at the YMCA Building in St. Petersburg, Fla. Jenkins Orphanage was established in 1891 by Rev. Daniel Joseph Jenkins in Charleston, South Carolina. Jenkins was a businessman and Baptist minister who encountered street children and decided to organize an orphanage for young African Americans.
The orphanage took in donations of musical instruments and Jenkins hired two local Charleston musicians — P.M. "Hatsie" Logan and Francis Eugene Mikell — to tutor the children in music. Upon its establishment, it became the only black instrumental group organized in South Carolina. The band's debut was on the streets of Charleston with the permission of the mayor, police chief, and Chamber of Commerce. The Jenkins Orphanage Band, wearing discarded Citadel uniforms, performed throughout the United States and even toured England raising money for the support of the orphanage. It played in inaugural parades of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Taft. It appeared at the St. Louis Exposition and the Anglo-American Exposition in 1914. It toured the United States from coast to coast and played in Paris, Berlin, Rome, London, and Vienna. As many as five bands were on tour during the 1920s. The band ceased to exist in the 1980s.Position: 24 (186 views)
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Sulphur Springs Water Tower, 210 Feet High, Tampa, Fla.
A colored postcard for the Sulphur Springs Water Tower in Tampa, Fla. The back reads, "This imposing structure is one of Florida's best land and aerial marks, the top of which has a tank holding 136,000 gallons of pure water, supplied by spring in base of tower."Position: 210 (38 views)