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by TBHC @ 10:33 am

70 years ago…

August 17, 1936 – Work begins on the repaving and expansion of Howard Avenue, from Grand Central Avenue (present-day Kennedy Boulevard) and Bayshore Boulevard. The work, which expanded Howard from twenty-four feet to thirty feet wide, employed 100 men through the Works Progress Administration.

Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.

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