It was Friday night and I was taking the Frau to one of those overpriced French (which is redundant) restaurants downtown. I mean tthe entire downtown was jumping. After dinner we cruised along the waterfront and there were crowds of people strolling and lining up to go into one of the dozens of restaurants and outdoor cafes. The blue lights hanging in the tress made the entire strip look as if it were decked out for the holidays.
We were, of course, in St. Petersburg where up and down Beach Drive there was that vibrancy you only get in a big town.
We drove by the elegant Museum of Fine Art, which just opened its new 33,000 square foot wing and past the site of the proposed “Placa Dali’’ that will house their great Salvador Dali collection.
The new Dali museum, by the way, is being designed by HOK Florida in Tampa, the same design group that recently completed the $43 million expansion of the John and Mable Ringling Museum in Sarasota.
Meanwhile back in Tampa, where there is no traffic problem in downtown Tampa at night, they have at least broken ground on the city’s museum, the boxy design of San Francisco architect Stanley Saitowitz.