On Saturday we checked out the Quincy Restaurant after watching a glowing video review of the soul food restaurant on Bright House’s Tampa Bay On Demand channel. Quincy is located on N. 40th St. in east Tampa by the Hillsborough River and down the road from Big John’s Alabama BBQ. When we showed up at Quincy around [...]
Last year, I purchased a couple domain names – TampaBayRail.com and TampaBayRail.net. I intended to launch a web site on mass-transit and address the Tampa Bay area as one region. Not a separate-but-equal take that local government has had in the past on transit solutions. But those plans were soon forgotten as [...]
145 years ago… October 31, 1861 – Early in the American Civil War, Captain James McKay’s steamer, the Salvor, is impounded by the Federal Government and he is taken as a prisoner of war. Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.
Found via the Right Wing Howler. The pink plastic flamingo, a Florida-inspired icon that has been reviled as kitschy bad taste and revered as retro cool, is dead at age 49. Apparently, the factory that creates the plastic lawn ornaments will stop making them this year. Not from the bird-flu as reported months ago, but dying just [...]
