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About
Our Personal Chef Services in St. Petersburg, FL
Tampa
Bay Personal Chef Service provides gourmet food services
for busy professionals, couples, and families
throughout
the Tampa Bay area including: St. Petersburg, FL.
The city was co-founded by John C. Williams, formerly of Detroit,
Michigan, who purchased the land in 1876, and by Peter Demens, who was
instrumental in bringing the terminus of a railroad there in 1888. St.
Petersburg was incorporated on February 29, 1892, when it had a
population of only some 300 people.
It was named after Saint Petersburg, Russia, where Peter Demens had
spent half of his youth. A local legend says that John C. Williams and
Peter Demens flipped a coin to see who would have the honor of naming
the city.[6] Peter Demens won and named the city after his home, while
John C. Williams named the first hotel after his birthplace, Detroit (a
hotel built by Demens[7]). The Detroit Hotel still exists downtown, but
has been turned into a condominium. The oldest running hotels are the
historic Pier Hotel, built in 1921, formally Hotel Cordova and The
Heritage Hotel, built in 1926.
Philadelphia publisher F. A. Davis turned on St. Petersburg's first
electrical service in 1897 and its first trolley service in 1904.[8]
The city's first major industry was born in 1899 when Henry W. Hibbs,
1862–1942, a native of Newport, North Carolina, established
his wholesale fish business at the end of the railroad pier, which
extended out to the shipping channel. Within a year, Hibbs Fish Company
was shipping more than a thousand pounds (454 kg) of fish each day.
Central Avenue in c. 1910
Dredging of a deeper shipping channel from 1906 to 1908 opened St.
Petersburg to larger shipping. Further dredging improved the port
facilities through the 1910s. By then the city's population had
quadrupled to 4,127.
In 1914, airplane service across Tampa Bay from St. Petersburg to Tampa
and back was initiated, generally considered the first commercial
airline. The company name was the St. Petersburg–Tampa
Airboat Line and the pilot was Tony Jannus, flying a Benoist XIV flying
boat. The Tony Jannus Award is presented annually for outstanding
achievement in the airline industry. Jannus Landing, a local
music/entertainment venue on Central Avenue in downtown, is also named
after him.
The city population continued to multiply during the 20th century.
Booming in the 1940s and 50s with the advent of
air-conditioning[citation needed] and through the 1970s as the town
became a popular retirement destination for Americans from midwestern
cities, reaching 238,647 in the 1980 census. By that time, however, the
population had levelled off, and has grown by only 10,000 since then;
this is primarily a result of the city being largely "built out".
At
Tampa Bay Chef we are always working to provide you with innovative
services that make your life easier and more delicious, so come back
often! If you are looking for a specific service that you
don't
see listed, please let us know and we'll be happy to work with you!
Below
are our services at a glance:
-
Weekly Personal Chef Meal Packages
- Gourmet Dinner Parties in your home
- Sushi Parties and Classes
- Interactive Cooking Classes for Adults
- Kids cooking classes
- Organic and Weight Loss Meal Plans
- Couples Cooking Lessons
We invite you to browse our website to learn
more
about all the gourmet
services that we offer. We have many satisfied clients and would be
happy to provide our gourmet services to you! |
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