[Editor's Note: For more on the beaches, check out our full Summer Guide 2010 coverage.]
They certainly got the name right. Pinky's Ice Cream and Candy Shop, a small strip-mall storefront in Indian Rocks Beach, is a retro explosion of color and sweets — the type of place that lives as legend in the beach tales of thousands of family vacationers (especially the young ones). The shelves along the walls are loaded with all manner of sugary treats — you name it, it's probably in here somewhere — and almost all of it is somehow pink. There are even flamingos crammed into every corner of the store.
This article appears in May 13-19, 2010.