20090513
My Kind of Town
Ybor City in Tampa is my favorite place to hang out and take photos. It's been a part of my life since the early eighties when I attended college there. I loved the idea of an inner city school. Back then its streets were lined with small eclectic shops, Cuban restaurants, clubs, and art galleries.By the late ninties, it tried to recreate itself as a party town....clubs began replacing the shops, quaint restaurants, galleries and yes, the apartments of the artists. Money was to be made in them there clubs. But with the clubs came crime and the clubs began shutting their doors.
But Ybor continues to evolve as it has since the days when it was first settled by the Cuban immigrants as Cigar City. And so today the artists are returning along with the art galleries and more restaurants. And a contingency of shop owners are hyping Ybor as Gaybor. Yes, my kind of town.
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A Little of This and That
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
West Tampa--Old cigar Factory
The old City Hall in downtown Tampa
Lunch with Holly at the Gallery Eclectic Bistro, Tampa
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2008 June ---Cypress
Max and I took a walk through the Hood and to the park. These cypress trees have been here for a long time, but i really looked at them for the first time and saw a photo.
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The Eighties
My friend and I during a trip to NYC.No, we didn't get to see the show.
Me posing and looking very ????????.
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