Sitting here this morning, it occurred to me that we could use a thread like this, since so often historical references or inferences come up in our discussions.

http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/commerce/c682620.jpg
Downtown Tampa, 1970's unsure of the exact year.

This one is for the kids...
http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t296/akb1710/burgert/7034.jpg
I'm sure kids back then looked forward to back to school, if they went at all. Courtesy of the Burgert collection.

I look forward to going back to school... well, mainly because I'm in college...

^^I'm somewhat looking forward to going to school as I'm starting college, but not looking forward to paying for it.

A sticky perhaps?

1960's St. Petersburg Skyline

http://www.stpete.org/images/122504.jpg

I'd give up the cars, the house and it all to go back to 2000 and be a college freshman all over again. Undergrad were the best years, always looked forward to going back to school in the fall. Fall was great particularly as you got a little older, sophomore, junior, senior years because you got to watch all the incoming freshmen girls, all done up and dressed to the hilt....that lasted for about 1/2 the semester and then it was sweats and tshirts from there on out.LOL But at any rate, back to the topic at hand.

USF in its formative early years.
http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/commerce/c678821.jpg

^^
I wonder which building is that?

And the Library building is so hideous. I hope something is done to replace it down the road.

Lol if you look closely it looks as if that parking lot is brick!!! And I believe it is.


You are correct.

Lol if you look closely it looks as if that parking lot is brick!!! And I believe it is.

Whoa, you are clairvoyent ^^:lol:

I did not know that they did Brick streets and stuff in the 50's!

I beleive that is what would become the Marshall Center. As far as the library I like it, probably partial to many an hour spent on the 6th floor studying and such.

^^
I wonder which building is that?

And the Library building is so hideous. I hope something is done to replace it down the road.

http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/postcard/pc5712.jpg

Curtis Hixon & DT from UT.

http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/commerce/c676563.jpg

My old firm has a score card from the golf course that used to be on Tierra Verde (now Oceanview Drive). Next time I'm in town I scan it. Not a photo but good for history'c sake.

I don't know if UF just launched this part of their site or what, but it is a great new resource from my map. Finally found a proper picture of the old, yet short-lived Cespedes Hall that use to lie on Albany and Main in West Tampa.
http://128.227.54.53/gsdl/collect/image_files/SF/70/02/02/09/00001/00001.jpg

http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/prints/pr08361.jpg
Don Cesar Hotel

Just found some great old photos on the seminoleheights.com website. Unfortunately not all of them are titled. Anyone know what this beauty is or was?

http://host1.bondware.com/~seminoleheights/mod/ophoto/media/albums/4/kBaib-whLoGG.jpg

http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/postcard/pc4428.jpg

http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/postcard/pc6103.jpg

Just found some great old photos on the seminoleheights.com website. Unfortunately not all of them are titled. Anyone know what this beauty is or was?

http://host1.bondware.com/~seminoleheights/mod/ophoto/media/albums/4/kBaib-whLoGG.jpg

OK I found out what this structure is, thanks to a trip to the library today! It is the first Centro Asturiano Club building built in 1909 on Nebraska and 9th ave. Unfortunately it burned in 1912 and the current blond brick structure was built on Nebraska and Palm in 1914. Check out the history of their organization here (http://www.centroasturianotampa.org/museum.asp).

http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/postcard/pc6119.jpg

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o192/saerdna99/MaasBros.jpg

Is that TGH now? I recall its older pictures looking different...

Is that TGH now? I recall its older pictures looking different...

Yes, that is what is now TGH.

http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/reference/rc20693.jpg

Yes, that is what is now TGH.

And that old building still stands, though it looks wierd with all the modern buildings flanking/connecting to it.

Yeah I thought it was an X shaped building. ... Well kinda X Shaped its like two Y's opposite with a cross in the middle
____Y
----|----
___^
thats how it looks from aerial now...

found a cute little site today: http://www.socialtampa.com/westtampa/
A site about west tampa (mostly the story of a few families and their business). The ferlita macaroni company at 933 W. Union St. (

http://www.socialtampa.com/westtampa/macaroni_factory/medium/0004.jpg

Historic Map of Florida - Circa 1856...
Check out Hillsborough County
http://www.worldmapsonline.com/images/KR/kr-1856-fl.jpg

http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/reference/rc20073.jpg
Port Tampa, circa 1920.

Wow that's really awesome, I wish they still had stuff like that RIGHT on the water.

Until that category 4 comes.

Lol Its so hard to think we'll get hit because we never do

^^It will be devasting once we do get hit, a cat 5 and 500,000 people are affected by flooding from storm surge in Pinellas County alone.

Failed developments and down economies are nothing new to Tampa. Here's a look of one that didn't make it...
http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t296/akb1710/burgert/4001.jpg
Caption on burgert site says Water St., Tampa and Franklin... I assume this would have been the block between Washington and Whiting. What a hulking mass.

Wow that would have been a nice addition! But yes failed economies have happened quite a few times.

That definitely would have been pretty awesome, particularly if it had survived intact to this day.

That would've been great....

Howard Frankland back in the day...

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/03/10/images/large/ASecti_howardf_1436021.jpg

I know it's not necessarily a photo but there are some shots of the 1970's Tampa Bay.

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This one has the annoying intro slogan, I'd suggest muting.

suhJiJjBnEM&NR=1

If anyone hasn't noticed this before, they have a nice collection of pictures of Old Tampa on the City Clerk page. Here's the link to the pictures,

http://www.tampagov.net/dept_City_Clerk/Information_resources/Photo_Galleries/index.asp

I posted these photos on the Publix thread and just realized, why not post them here.

From the Burgert Bros photo gallery. All photos were taken in the mid to late 1950s.


Publix on Gandy Blvd. Very odd since I thought they opened this location in 1987. Maybe it was just the current building that opened in 87?
http://digital.hcplc.org/burgert/archive06/5992.jpg

http://digital.hcplc.org/burgert/archive08/7199.jpg

Interior Displays
http://digital.hcplc.org/burgert/archive15/14682.jpg

http://digital.hcplc.org/burgert/archive08/7309.jpg


Publix at Britton Plaza
http://digital.hcplc.org/burgert/archive08/7236.jpg

Yummy Vanilla Wafers....
http://digital.hcplc.org/burgert/archive08/7419.jpg


Publix on Dale Mabry/Neptune (similar architecture to the Gandy store)

http://digital.hcplc.org/burgert/archive08/7138.jpg

Checkout lanes
http://digital.hcplc.org/burgert/archive15/14623.jpg

Displays
http://digital.hcplc.org/burgert/archive13/12393.jpg

Interesting driveway? under the britton plaza sign.
http://digital.hcplc.org/burgert/archive08/7236.jpg

^^
Yeah, I noticed that too. Of course that "driveway" no longer exists. And that parking lot was likely considered to be HUMONGOUS for those times. I'm guessing that about 1/4 of thier parking space has since been taken up by establishments like Taco Bell, Walgreens, and the former Frank's Nursery.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/trainman/29397797/

Check this out!!! While not a historic picture, this is an awesome "Memory Map" for someone like me who grew up here!

Oh and if someone knows how to embed images with tags here, please let me know!!!!

[URL="http://www.flickr.com/photos/trainman/29397797/"]Oh and if someone knows how to embed images with tags here, please let me know!!!!

Can't do that... It's not supported, but it also requires JavaScript and that's not allowed to be posted publicly because of security issues (it quickly becomes a free for all if the forum software doesn't escape JS correctly).

But no worries, clicking through is fine :).

Franklin Street during the 1930s
http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/reference/rc02159.jpg

Sulphur Springs Hotel and Apartments(1930-1940)
http://digital.hcplc.org/burgert/archive03/2211.jpg

http://digital.hcplc.org/burgert/archive01/155.jpg

http://digital.hcplc.org/burgert/archive03/2212.jpg

http://digital.hcplc.org/burgert/archive01/156.jpg

The Hotel's "Pool"(1930)
http://digital.hcplc.org/burgert/archive02/1425.jpg

http://www.tampapix.com/SulphurSprings-Hotel-1940s.jpg

History
http://www.dasstudio.net/sulphur-springs-hotel.htm

Historic Pics of Lowry Park Zoo and Safety Town

http://www.tampapix.com/zoo_old.htm

Corral Wodiska Comp. building in Ybor
http://www.tampapix.com/Corral-Wodiska-Co.jpg

El Pasaje Building
http://www.lib.usf.edu/ldsu/digitalcollections/B29/images/unk15.jpg

Old Clipping from Tampa trib. about the end of the Streetcar and link to article
http://www.tampapix.com/streetcars.htm

Burgert Bros. building
http://www.lib.usf.edu/ldsu/digitalcollections/B29/images/4448.jpg

http://www.lib.usf.edu/ldsu/digitalcollections/B29/images/11017.jpg

http://www.lib.usf.edu/ldsu/digitalcollections/B29/images/39942.jpg

Historical Pics from the Italian Club
http://www.myitalianhistory.com/italianclub/giunta/old_photos/index.html

Old West Tampa State Bank building

http://www.lib.usf.edu/ldsu/digitalcollections/R05/images/20216.jpg

http://www.lib.usf.edu/ldsu/digitalcollections/R05/images/20263.jpg

Looking down Howard Ave. in 1904
http://www.tampapix.com/alessi&macfarlane1909.jpg

Link to a 1895 pic of the El Grifo Cigar factory
http://ufdcweb1.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?b=SF70000252&v=00001

Thanks Mike, haven't seen any activity in this thread in a while

I know. I got a glimpse of the thread when I entered the Skyway Lounge and decided it needs some activity.

^^
I think we need to restart the other photo a day thread too. Its been dead for a while as well. Unfortunately for me, I haven't taken any new photos these past several months cause my brother borrowed my Kodak camera. My other camera is not as good in resolution. I just got my Kodak back but have been working a lot lately so maybe this evening I'll capture some photos of something.

My camera broke 6 months ago so that's why I haven't taken any more pics. And I don't have a job yet to buy a new one.

Meh, another structure I wish we kept.

De Soto Hotel
http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.122142514.jpg

Hotel Thomas Jefferson
http://www.tampapix.com/1947-Thomas-Jefferson-Hotel.jpg