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State Theatre (St. Petersburg, Florida)

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The Floridian Social Club (formerly the State Theatre) is a Beaux-Arts style concert venue in St. Petersburg, Florida. The venue closed in 2017 due to local fire code violations. It was purchased in 2018, with renovations beginning that same year. Construction was completed however the site was not able to reopen due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The venue reopened in February 2021.In 1991, the building was added to The St. Petersburg Register of Historic Places.

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State Theatre (St. Petersburg, Florida)
Central Avenue, Saint Petersburg

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The State Theatre

Central Avenue 687
33701 Saint Petersburg
Florida, United States
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Webb's City was a one-stop department store that was located in St. Petersburg, Florida. Founded in 1926, it claimed to be "the World's Most Unusual Drug Store;" founder James Earl "Doc" Webb has been described as "the P. T. Barnum of specialty store retailing". Sideshows included animal tricks, acrobats, and talking mermaids. At its peak, Webb's City had 77 departments, 1,700 employees, and covered about ten city blocks. It was considered a forerunner to the shopping center. The jingle in its radio ad was: "There'll be no more hoppin' around the town a-shoppin', Webb's City is your one-stop shopping store." As shopping centers became popular, business dwindled at Webb's City, which closed in 1979.Doc Webb's philosophy regarding to Webb City was "stack it high and sell it cheap", a tactic years later picked up by Sam Walton for his Walmart empire. Ronald D. Michman and Edward M. Mazze attribute its success in St. Petersburg, which was "populated by a larger than average number of elderly citizens who desired to patronize an interesting complex to spend their pension money". Because of its location, sales, and low prices its shopping base primarily consisted of senior citizens and African Americans. The store hired from the African American community, though it had whites-only shopping areas and purposely did not allow black workers to rise in rank. This racial glass ceiling and discrimination became the focus of Civil Rights sit-ins and controversies during the 1960s.