Late last month I noticed that somebody had dumped a mattress by the side of the road near my house south of Gandy. This was not a free bit of furniture like you see sometimes; free stuff left at the curb for anybody to take away. This mattress had seen a rough life [...]
This post is a bit overdue, due to limited Net access until just days ago, but I thought some of you would still be interested in how our last two weeks of dining in Tampa went before our move up to Gainesville. The weekend before last, we decided to stop into Castellano & Pizzo Italian Gourmet [...]
We’re now down to less than two weeks before we make the move to Gainesville. So instead of reviewing one restaurant this week, I thought I’d provide brief summaries of the places we’ve eaten at the past two weeks. Thanks again to everyone who posted suggestions of restaurants to visit one last time [...]
Looks can be deceiving. Especially at the dully-named-but-tasty Thailand Restaurant on S. Dale Mabry, SOG and just a couple of blocks from the base.From the outside, the restaurant looks semi-abandoned with paint badly peeling (could this be the original coat of paint from when the place first opened in 1979?) and with letters missing from [...]
Steve remembers a discotheque in South Tampa, but not entirely. So he wants some help in completing that memory, and decided to Ask-A-Tampan: Hi! Back in the Seventies there was a Teen Disco called “The Force” but no one on my High School Alumni list seems to remember exactly where it was. I cannot find [...]
We were in the mood for something new and different this past Saturday, so we decided to try the misspelled-but-correctly-spelled Gengiz Khan, a little Turkish and Mediterranean restaurant located South of Gandy (SOG) on MacDill. We had never been to Gengiz Khan before, but were familiar with it since it is located in the strip [...]
Derek Reusser publishes a magazine and mails it to residents in SOG City, including Port Tampa City, Interbay, Ballast Point, and Sun Bay South. My Gandy highlights local businesses and residents, helpful articles, and historical stories of the area. If you are in the area, pick one up and check it out. They even published a historical piece I wrote [...]
Tampa City Council members listened intently today to the double-edged information presented by Tindale-Oliver and Associates about the current problems and future concerns about transportation and roads in the South Gandy area. As always, an elevated roadway over Gandy was discussed, too. But the costs and reactions from nearby homeowners make this on-again, off-again proposition unlikely. The two hour long [...]
In Jules Verne’s novel “From the Earth to the Moon,” Tampa Town is the place chosen for the launch. The novel was written around 1865, yet it seems many of his notions were dead on. Verne’s spacecraft was launched in December, from latitude 27 deg 7 min North, longitude 82 deg 9 min West (which I think [...]
