J.C. Newman of Ybor City – Featured on Discovery Channel
Calling all Ybor City history fans!!!! There is a very interesting & fun story about the building across from the J.C. Newman Cigar factory in Ybor City. Go to Discover+ then search “YBOR”. There you will find “Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America” season 3 episode 1
Congratulation to J.C. Newman on a great job. Thanks
Great Ybor City Fire of March 1, 1908
Statistics of damages from the Great Ybor City Fire of March 1, 1908, reported in The Weekly Tribune on March 5, 1908. Photo courtesy of the University of Fla. George A. Smathers Library digital collection, from the Pizzo collection.
A good friend of ours is Miss April. Together we have bartended together for over 10+ years. She is tons of fun and looks like “Elvira: Mistress of the Dark”. People don’t know that bartending is her fun parttime job. During the day time she is a funeral director. This year she wanted to set up a booth at the Pride Festival for her funeral home. We asked if Tampa Pride and her could be next to each other. After set up we all noticed that the booth on her other side was “Suicide Prevention”. Hum… LMAO
