Legendary DRAG QUEEN Bert Savoy Steals the Show in 1920s Entertainment?
You cannot make up how she died!!!
Meet Photographer Chip Weiner
If you LOVE Tampa like we do, you will LOVE Chip’s Facebook page!!!! Recently Chip did a great story about the building that is now home to… The Disco Pony Nightclub in Ybor City. Formally our store MC Film Festival!!! Visit Chip’s page today
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Henry Plant built the most expensive hotel in the Western Hemisphere in the middle of a Florida swamp. Nobody came. 🏛️
In 1891, railroad magnate Henry B. Plant opened the Tampa Bay Hotel at a cost of $3 million — roughly $100 million in today’s dollars. It had 511 rooms, electric lights, and a private railroad spur. It also had 13 Moorish minarets and silver onion domes that made it look like it had been dropped from another continent entirely.
The hotel was a financial disaster almost from the start. Tampa had no real tourist infrastructure, no wealthy winter crowd, and no reason to justify a palace of that scale. Plant died in 1899. By 1905, the building was leased to the city for $1 a year.
It survived because no one could figure out what else to do with it. Today it houses the University of Tampa and a small museum. The minarets still rise above the Hillsborough River, exactly as Plant left them — a monument to one man’s ego and the Florida boom mentality that has never really gone away.
What did they teach you about Henry Plant in school?
STOP! THAT! TRAIN! | Official Trailer (RuPaul 2026)
