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St. Pete Beach's Corey Avenue
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.
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St. Pete Beach's Corey Avenue
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.
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St. Pete Beach's Corey Avenue

St. Pete Beach's Corey Avenue

by Roberta L. Whipple
St. Pete Beach's Corey Avenue

St. Pete Beach's Corey Avenue

by Roberta L. Whipple

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780738566139
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 10/26/2009
Series: Images of America Series
Pages: 128
Sales rank: 1,094,787
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 8

Introduction 9

1 The Corey Causeway 11

2 The Upham Company 23

3 First Arrivals 37

4 The Beach Theatre 53

5 The Postwar Boom 61

6 City Operations 77

7 An Eclectic Group of Businesses 99

8 Special Events 115

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