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St. Petersburg and the green benches
1908
St. Petersburg, Florida
Jackdude101 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
A merchant put orange benches outside his shop, the city standardised them in green, and thousands lined the downtown streets, a place for the retirees the town was courting to sit and talk. The local paper gave the edition away free any day the sun failed to shine, which cost it very little. The benches were removed in the 1960s partly because they made the city look old and partly because they were desegregating.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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