{"id":394973,"date":"2026-09-09T17:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/394973\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T17:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:49:06","slug":"gulfports-salty-pup-coffeehouse-is-getting-a-larger-home-and-a-vintage-marketplace-next-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/394973\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulfport\u2019s Salty Pup Coffeehouse is getting a larger home and a vintage marketplace next door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The caf\u00e9 also hosts book clubs, crossword groups, and open-mic nights that bring together poets, writers, and performers from Gulfport, St. Pete, Tierra Verde, and South Pasadena. Those events have often outgrown the current shop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cBy 5:30, we have people who come in and there\u2019s nowhere to sit, so they have to end up leaving,\u201d Jody said of the open-mic nights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The new Salty Pup will offer more seating and longer hours, creating room for those gatherings and a new weekend brunch menu. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The caf\u00e9 will also expand its beer and wine offerings, allowing customers to order a mimosa on Sunday or stay a little longer after lunch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Next door, Electric Flamingo will have vendor booths ranging from roughly 8-by-8 to 10-by-10 feet. Vendors with larger furniture or displays will be able to combine spaces, while local artists, jewelry makers, and collage artists can lease gallery wall space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The Musselmans expect the marketplace to carry a curated mix of vintage merchandise from the 1950s through the early 2000s, including furniture, clothing, vinyl, collectibles, and other finds. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The caf\u00e9 also hosts book clubs, crossword groups, and open-mic nights that bring together poets, writers, and performers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-394973","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\/394973","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=394973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}