{"id":280295,"date":"2026-05-22T02:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/280295\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T02:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:20:07","slug":"happy-hour-with-the-historian-the-triumphs-and-tragedies-of-1930s-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/280295\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Hour with the Historian \u2013 The Triumphs and Tragedies of 1930s Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Depression left a profound legacy in St. Petersburg. The Florida Boom\u2013the eight-year party of wealth and excess\u2013collapsed in 1926. The Great Depression followed in 1929. The Thirties represent a decade of unemployment and misery, but also the remarkable accomplishments of the New Deal. Construction projects like the Veteran&#8217;s Hospital at Bay Pines and St. Pete&#8217;s City Hall took shape, and remarkable artists and authors flocked to the Sunshine State.<\/p>\n<p>Presented by Southern Roots Realty. Doors open at 6pm and program begins at 6:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>Location: St. Petersburg Museum of History, 335 2nd Ave NE, St. Petersburg, FL 33701 <\/p>\n<p>Thursday, April 11, 2026 6:00-8:00 PM <\/p>\n<p>$15.00 ($7.00 Museum members)<\/p>\n<p>LINK: https:\/\/lp.constantcontactpages.com\/ev\/reg\/35jh9fn<\/p>\n<p>                                        St Petersburg Museum of History\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>                                        $15\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>                                        06:00 PM &#8211; 08:00 PM on Sat, 11 Apr 2026\n                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Great Depression left a profound legacy in St. Petersburg. The Florida Boom\u2013the eight-year party of wealth and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-280295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}