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The Mushroom Coffeehouse collection of J. M. "Sudsy" Tschiderer, 1972-1975

 

Summary

Creator:
University of South Florida
Tschiderer, J. M. "Sudsy"
Abstract:
This collection provides a comprehensive record of campus life and activities at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, focusing particularly on the Mushroom Coffeehouse also known as Pot-Pourri—-a student-run hub for music and entertainment in the early to mid-1970.
Extent:
4 folders
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

The Mushroom Coffeehouse Collection of J.M. "Sudsy" Tschiderer, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL.

Background

Biographical / historical:

The materials in this collection document campus activities and student life at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. Compiled by J. M. "Sudsy" Tschiderer—a longtime director of Student Activities—this collection includes organizational and operational records of a popular campus gathering place, the Mushroom Coffeehouse. Also known as Pot-Pourri, this studentinitiated facility provided a venue for music, movies, and entertainment during the early and mid1970s. Sudsy Tschiderer and Patricia J. "Pat" Sciarappa played an instrumental role in establishing this venue in a former U. S. Maritime Service building that sat along Asbury Street South, next to the pool (at the present-day site of the western wall of Coquina Hall).

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Terms of access:

None. The contents of the collection may be subject to copyright. Visit the United States Copyright Office's website at http://www.copyright.gov/ for more information.

Preferred citation:

The Mushroom Coffeehouse Collection of J.M. "Sudsy" Tschiderer, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL.

Location of this collection:
140 7th Avenue South
St. Petersburg
FL
33701
USA