Photograph of Webb’s City drug store at dusk. Credit: Dunn, Hampton, "Webb's City. The World's Most Unusual Drug Store." (1900). Hampton Dunn Collection of Florida Postcards. Image 4688.
There’s nothing scarier than losing your identity, and while St. Petersburg is a city experiencing rapid, sometimes polarizing growth, it’s hard to argue that there are some long gone buildings that haunt local preservationists.

Two smart guys—Rui Farias and Manny Leto, Executive Directors at St. Petersburg Museum of History and Preserve The ‘Burg, respectively—will “share spooky tales of buildings that have vanished from the St. Pete landscape” at this lecture.

Webb’s City (“The World’s Most Unusual Drugstore” if you believe the hype) will surely be on the docket, but so might many of the Sunshine City’s old hotels (Floronton, Pheil), banks (American Bank and Trust), and theaters (La Plaza).

There’s no cover for “Ghost Buildings, Places That Haunt St. Pete’s Past” happening Thursday, Oct. 24 at the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library.

And if you’re looking for a Tampa-centric haunted history activity, check out Friday’s “Legends and Landmarks: A Haunted History Hunt,” Tampa Downtown Partnership’s inaugural interactive scavenger hunt which kicks off at downtown’s Hillsborough Lodge.

Cover for Tampa Downtown Partnership’s “Legends and Landmarks: A Haunted History Hunt” happening Friday, Oct. 23 is $5-$10.
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This article appears in Oct 17-23, 2024.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...