floridan hotel stories
Earlier this month, the Tampa Bay History Center told us that construction began on the Floridan Hotel in 1926. Last May, the Trib published a couple stories of the old hotel, and I finally went back and found it. There are some pretty cool recollections within the Trib article, if you like that sort of thing.
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February 11th, 2006 at 7:04 pm
It’s a shame there are no hotel redevelopers brave enough to restore the Floridan to its former glory. Hotels like this in other cities have been returned to service, so why not here?
February 11th, 2006 at 10:46 pm
Bama, they are in the process of remodeling the Floridian “To it’s former glory”. I’ve told you this before.
February 11th, 2006 at 11:03 pm
Click here to see a story from last year about Floridian restoration efforts.
February 13th, 2006 at 11:54 am
Yeah but I’ve been hearing plans to “Restore the hotel to it’s former glory” since I was a kid. I’ll believe it when I see construction dumpsters outside of it.
February 14th, 2006 at 1:13 pm
ARC reviews on Hillsborough TV every so often, windows opened in that building for the first time in 15 years as work goes on…
The ARC process alone take a whiel but it IS moving forward.
June 1st, 2006 at 10:55 pm
The hotel was nice in it’s hey-day I still have a dinner knife that just happened to leave with me after a convention.. This was back in 1948..