Photo(Courtesy of the Florida State Library & Archives, 1920s): Cattle in the Tampa area The old cattle docks sit abandoned on the Port of Tampa Property and access can only be granted with permission as well as having an active port pass, but thanks to Mike Woodfin, he has been able to share with us [...]
Photo(Nomeus, 2009 – Flurbex.com): The Britton 8 consists of eight small screening rooms such as this one Opening as a single screen theater in 1956, the Britton Theatre was designed by architect James E. Casale with a seating capacity of 1,800. Described as being the “largest theatre south of Washington, D.C.”, it had a 70mm [...]
Photo(Nomeus, 2008 – Flurbex.com): The jail was built in 1964 and an annex was added in 1981. In the early 1900s, the property which Morgan Street Jail stood on was occupied by a small walled structure surrounded by various businesses. In 1925, the structure was replaced with the Hillsborough County Jail . The much larger [...]
Photo(Bullet, 2011): The old, brick cigar factory is currently being renovated by the Tampa Sweethearts Cigar Company. The four-story brick building was built in 1895 for Garcia Brothers & Co. and was later used for the shipping and warehousing of tobacco products. At one point it was occupied by the Salvador Rodriguez Cigar Company and [...]