walking the alligator
85 years ago…
April 18, 1921 – Local fisherman John Anderson takes a stroll down Franklin Street with a two-foot long alligator on a leash. Passersby were both interested and terrified by the live, though restrained, animal. Anderson caught the gator in the Hillsborough River near Sulphur Springs and didn’t have any immediate plans for his new pet, though he would sell him “if the price was right.”
Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.
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