Hello fellow St. Augustinians on this rather brisk Thursday. 🥶The North Pole has indeed arrived in America’s oldest city. Temps are predicted to remain below 60 the entire day with winds making the air feel even cooler. 🧣🧤🧥
This week’s theme spotlights my favorite stocking stuffers — books. 📕 Today, we spotlight Ann Colby’s, “Wicked St. Augustine.” Adults only please as Colby walks readers through hidden-in-plain sight bordellos, speakeasies, casinos and the occasional opium den in America’s oldest city. Yup. You read that right.
As noted on the book jacket, “with the cooperation of law enforcement and politicians, St. Augustine’s madams, bootleggers and high rollers created a veritable Riviera where tourists, especially the wealthy, could indulge in almost every vice and still bring the family along for a wholesome vacation of picking oranges and gawking at alligators.”…