Talk:List of city nicknames in Florida

Hollywood - The Dream City (Supposedly the founder and real estate developer of this city - Joseph Wesley Young - had a dream or vision of creating a movie capital on the east coast of Florida. Buddmar (talk) 02:42, 22 September 2009 (UTC)buddmar

St. Pete
Hi, I added two citations to the use of "St. Pete" as a common nickname for St. Petersburg, FL, both by the city itself and by its major newspaper, to replaced the "Citation Needed". (It should also be noted that The St. Petersburg Times also sponsors a hockey arena in Tampa, whose official name is "The St. Pete Times Forum"). These are the most specific citations I can find - they don't explain that everyone there calls St. Petersburg "St. Pete," but they demonstrate that the name is widely accepted. The newspaper article talks about the neighboring beach community, originally named "St. Petersburg Beach," officially shortening its name to "St. Pete Beach" in 1994.

It's widely held that St. Pete is commonly used to refer to St. Petersburg. I don't think you'd find a single person living there who would dispute it. But I would be hard-pressed to find a specific authoritative source saying that that's what it's called.Mockingale (talk) 18:54, 27 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for those citations, Mockingale. They do demonstrate the usage (and I agree that it is a well-known and well-established usage), but they still fall short of what we would like to have (and have been able to find for almost every other nickname on these lists). So please keep looking! --Orlady (talk) 22:16, 27 January 2011 (UTC) One thought: Apparently politician Peter Wallace is/was known as "St. Pete from St. Pete." I can't see the whole text of news articles like this one, but I think that newspaper documentation of his nickname would also provide good documentation for the city's nickname. --Orlady (talk) 22:24, 27 January 2011 (UTC) And another: Obituary for "E. Erwin `Ed' Dollar, lobbyist, fought nickname of `St. Pete'". --Orlady (talk) 22:29, 27 January 2011 (UTC)


 * How about this: Skaggs, Calvin (ed.), The American Short Story, Volume 2 (Dell 1980), p. 199? I'm not sure what source you would consider a quality source. Mockingale (talk) 05:04, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

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