“If I’d have known it was going to be this warm, I would have worn a flapper outfit,” Chris Oertle laughs from under the floppy brim of her hat as she adorns pirates and passers-by with beads.
As part of the Gulf Beaches Historical Society’s annual Island Fest, Oertle dressed as a St. Pete Beach resident may have in the early 1900s.
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