Rumors suggested Wal Mart would open a store at the corner of 22nd and Adamo. But, it was announced today that Ikea is coming to Tampa in that spot. Just a month after breaking ground in Orlando, Ikea will build a store in the heart of Tampa at the former Tampa International Center. Back [...]
65 years ago… November 15, 1941 – A $202,739 ($2.6 million in today’s dollars) defense project to connect the shipyards with downtown Tampa and Ybor City by way of 19th and 20th streets is submitted by the city to the Works Progress Administration. As written, the city would provide equipment and material to cost $26,653 ($351,162 [...]
85 years ago… October 28, 1921 – An interesting discovery is made in hurricane-ravaged Palmetto Beach, were dozens of hollowed-out logs are found strewn all over the community south of Ybor City. The logs were almost certainly employed in the illicit trade of trafficking liquor – outlawed in the US since 1919 – into the country [...]
95 years ago… August 13, 1911 – The sound of fireworks rocked the “Sunday rest” of the people of Tampa, especially in Ybor City, as a “multitude of Latin Americans” celebrate at a picnic in De Soto Park in Palmetto Beach. Telephone operators (known as “hello girls”) assured residents that there was neither a fire [...]
