Corinne Freeman became St. Petersburg's first female mayor on April 1, 1977. She served until 1985, after which she became a member of the Pinellas County School Board for the next 10 years.

Founded in 1924, the St. Petersburg Shuffleboard Club is the oldest and largest shuffleboard club in the world. Today the club, which has over 1200 members, is enjoying a resurgence in interest in the game and its courts.

The Salvador Dalí Museum has the world's largest collections of Dalí's works, including 96 oil paintings, over 100 watercolors and drawings, 1,300 graphics, photographs, sculptures, and objets d'art.

Despite being born into slavery during the mid 1800s, Elder Jordan not only became a successful businessman after buying his freedom and moving to St. Petersburg, but left behind a legacy of building a community for Blacks in segregation-era St. Petersburg. The housing development Jordan Park still bears his name, and in 2020, city leaders gathered at the corner of 22nd Street and Seventh Avenue to unveil a bronze statue of Jordan. "He was a remarkable man," Mayor Rick Kriseman said. "He didn't just build a dancehall or fight to get a school constructed--he built opportunity."