gulf coast jokesta
95 years ago…
April 25, 1911 – What started as a joke soon got way out of hand when Arthur Schlemann, Tampa’s dog catcher, was continually approached by Italians who were concerned that he would be picking up their children and taking them to the pound. Charlie Wall, king of Tampa’s gambling underworld, apparently started the joke, though it is not know why given his connections to, and dependence on, Tampa’s Latin community.
Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.
Tags: citizens, on this day, tampa
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April 25th, 2006 at 11:04 am
That’s awesome. I wish I’d known that when I wrote my paper about the Tampa Mafia. It’s a good character shot of Charlie Wall.