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Here comes Mr. Sun

Our place, yesterday. You wouldn’t think there were floods two days ago.
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With a couple nice sunny days after three straight weeks of rain and some king-size flooding, it’s the perfect time to talk about Mr. Sun.

Photo from the St. Pete Chamber of Commerce’s Twitter account. Click to see the source.

St. Petersburg, located on the other side of Accordion Bay, is also known as “The Sunshine City” and has had a graphical mascot called “Mr. Sun” for decades. My favorite version of Mr. Sun is the 1950s one, which has recently been placed over the doorway to the Chamber of Commerce, as shown in the photo above. They should market the hell out of it — I’d buy a t-shirt, aloha shirts and loads of stickers with that design if they were available.

Here’s a montage showing various versions of Mr. Sun, taken from the Old Florida Tumblr (which is worth checking out):

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I’m going to spend a day a week doing my work in various work-friendly spaces in beautiful downtown St. Pete, and I’ll even bring my bike on the rack so I can get out and about, as there’s lots to see and the streets there are very bike friendly. Expect to see lots of photos here soon!

Joey deVilla

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