public spectacle
75 years ago…
February 12, 1931 – Tampans celebrate “Shriners Day” at the fair by watching Tampa businessmen kill D. E. Pression on the corner of Franklin and Madison Streets. The symbolic embodiment of the Great Depression was then thrown into the Hillsborough River.
Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.
Tags: business, economy, on this day, tampa







February 12th, 2006 at 7:41 pm
That’s Tampa — any excuse for a party.