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Awakening Days At Dead River, Edward Curry Woodward
Awakening Days At Dead River, Edward Curry Woodward
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
Awakening Days at Dead River traces the history of a remote public park in north Hillsborough County that was once a privately-owned riverside enclave with modest cabins, and home to a popular fish camp on the Hillsborough River. The timeframe focuses on the mid-twentieth century to present, with a contextual background of earlier history in the immediate area. The story recounts the adventures and challenges of a select group of homeowners and visitors who experienced life on the Hillsborough and Dead Rivers during that timeframe. It also shows how the area evolved into a public property when regional flood control …
Selling St. Petersburg: John Lodwick And The Promotion Of A Florida Paradise, Nevin D. Sitler
Selling St. Petersburg: John Lodwick And The Promotion Of A Florida Paradise, Nevin D. Sitler
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
For over a century Florida's Tampa Bay area has been extolled for its abundant seashores and moderate climate. The success of early twentieth-century St. Petersburg as a tourist destination was due to a consistent method of self-promotion highlighting the natural and physical features of peninsular Pinellas County. Warmed by balmy Tampa Bay breezes, St. Petersburg had been dubbed the “Health City.” This tiny 1890 coastal town of less than three hundred inhabitants, now blessed with a slogan, new train tracks, and a railway pier, was an ideal setting for tourism. By 1902, boosters declared St. Petersburg a city second to …
Spring Break: Image, Identity, And Consumer Culture In A Florida Rite Of Passage, Meeghan Kane
Spring Break: Image, Identity, And Consumer Culture In A Florida Rite Of Passage, Meeghan Kane
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
This thesis is a social history of spring break, examining the economic and social aspects of this youth culture phenomenon in Florida. Spring break follows the evolution of youth culture's increasingly complex relationship with an expanding consumer culture. I am exploring its many manifestations in music, film, and popular fiction, but also its rebellious expressions in the riots and arrests on Florida's beaches. I intend to focus on the small beach communities that were transformed by spring break, particularly Fort Lauderdale. Spring break in Florida dates back to the late 1920s in Palm Beach. Wealthy New England families spent their …
Menendez Versus Mickey: A Study Of Heritage Tourism In Florida, Monica Rowland
Menendez Versus Mickey: A Study Of Heritage Tourism In Florida, Monica Rowland
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
The National Trust for Historic Preservation defines heritage tourism as: “traveling to experience the places and activities that authentically represent the stories and peoples of the past and present. It includes irreplaceable historic, cultural, and natural resources.”1 Heritage tourism is a lucrative industry in the United States. On average, heritage tourists spend $623 per trip compared to $457 for all U.S. travelers.2 The rise of heritage tourism is inextricably linked with several trends in American society, namely: the historic preservation movement, the desire for a sense of place, and nostalgia. These motivating tendencies often inspire problems of authenticity, commodification, and …
Tampa’S Lafayette Street Bridge: Building A New South City, Lucy D. Jones
Tampa’S Lafayette Street Bridge: Building A New South City, Lucy D. Jones
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
The late nineteenth and early twentieth century was a time of dynamic social and political change for Tampa, a growing city on Florida’s west coast. These changes led Tampa’s commercial-civic elite to look beyond the law, the militia, and the church for ways to maintain their sense of order. This thesis illustrates non-violent enforcement of the status quo via public works, specifically bridge construction over the Hillsborough River. Over a period of three decades, three different bridges were built at the same place, at Lafayette Street. Each time the bridge was built or replaced, it was ostensibly for a different …
“Trust Yourself To God” : Friar Francisco Pareja And The Franciscans In Florida, 1595-1702, Albert William Vogt
“Trust Yourself To God” : Friar Francisco Pareja And The Franciscans In Florida, 1595-1702, Albert William Vogt
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
Friar Francisco Pareja represented the pinnacle of the achievement for the Franciscans in Florida during the Spanish colonial period. But who were the Franciscans? Why were they, and Friar Pareja in particular, so successful as missionaries? The bulk of the writing done thus far on the mission system in Florida has concentrated on retelling the lost story of the native peoples who once inhabited the land. The impact of the missions and the Spanish colony weighed heavily on native cultures and the Franciscans role in this has been discussed. However, little has been said about the religious order itself, and …