Wild Friday: The Sea Vamp Conspiracy!
Nevin Sitler’s history of St. Petersburg relates the true story about the tongue-in-cheek Purity League, and their role in a publicity campaign bemoaning the presence of “Sea Vamps” in tiny one-piece swimsuits. “Through a mix of practical jokes and pure sensationalism, propaganda guru John Lodwick and Mayor Pulver devised the St.… Read the rest