public spectacle

February 12, 2006 | TBHC | One comment so far, add yours!

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.

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  1. Meredith

    4 years ago

    That’s Tampa — any excuse for a party. :-)


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