The City of Sunshine
March 24th 2011 St. Petersburg likes to call itself the Sunshine City.
It gets quite a lot.
In 1910, the St. Petersburg Evening Independent newspaper instituted a famous offer that the paper would be free if it rained that day.
In their seventy six years of publishing, they had to make good on the offer 296 times, less than once every three months!
For obvious reasons, this city has attracted tourists since i
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