I love looking at Florida in every decade, but the fun and fashionable ’70s will always hold a special place in my heart. The ill-fated De Soto conducted a peace treaty with the Tocobaga, and a short-lived Spanish outpost was established.

Victoria is a native Floridian and writer for OIYS.

He was attacked by two white or Hispanic males. A lot of thigs, from the silly to the serious, were changing in Florida at this time, and a … Most were supporters of the winning candidate, Robert E. Lee Chancey, who his opponents claimed had close ties to Tampa's "underworld".The situation was even more chaotic during the next election cycle in 1935. The structure also boasted the first electric lights in Tampa and the first elevator in Florida.The first streetcars between downtown Tampa and Ybor City used wood-burning steam engines and were installed in 1885 by J. E. Mitchell, operated by the In 1892 it merged with the Florida Electric Company to form the Tampa Street Railway and Power Company, and converted to electrically powered streetcars in 1893. They included: Blanche Armwood; Herman Glogowski; Gavino Gutierrez; Bena Wolf Maas; Hugh Macfarlane; and Moses White.Another six were unveiled in 2016. The Clara Frye Memorial Hospital that existed in West Tampa from 1938 to 1967 was named after her. The bullet passed through his body and exited out of his back. In 1905, In 1904, a local civic association of local businessmen dubbed themselves During the first few decades of the 20th century, the cigar making factories in Ybor City and West Tampa continued to be the backbone of Tampa's economy. As he backed out of the driveway he heard a loud noise and quickly realized Ms. Hines had been shot. Ms. Hogan died as a result of upper body traumaOn November 2, 1984, Margaret Slayton, 22 years of age, was discovered in a vacant lot in the area of N. MacDill Avenue and E. Osborne Avenue. They included: Meroba Hooker Crane, Edward Daniel Davis, Ignacio Haya, Francisco Rodriguez, Norma Tina Russo, and Mack Ramsey Winton.In 2017, six more were added.

You could see the sign for it (20 years ago) when going over the hump. The following 31 photos show a slice of life in Florida during the 1970s:What did you think of these photos? Stiebing was approached by two unknown black male subjects. It was somewhere in the SW corner of DM & Hillsborough. Timeline Attributes. On July 9th, 2001, at about 8:47 AM, an intrusion alarm activated at the business. Except for two Tampa's fortunes shifted dramatically beginning in the 1880s with the construction of the first railroad links to the town and the development of thriving cigar and phosphate industries – all within a decade. I lived in Largo for 10 years and it was not until I moved and looked at a map of Pinellas Co. that I realized I had never heard of Kenneth City or Gulfport. The victim was struck by a gunshot in his back. People looking at merchandise offered on the street - Apalachicola, Florida, 1973.View of people riding on an elephant at the Circus World theme park in Orlando, Florida, 1977.People buying strawberries at Plant City's Strawberry festival, 1976.People gathered for the Isle of Eight Flags Shrimp Festival boat races - Fernandina Beach, Florida, 1972.View showing protester holding up a protest sign at a KKK rally on South Monroe Street in Tallahassee, Florida, 1977.Florida's 37th Governor Askew tells people of bomb threat at his inaugural ball - Tallahassee, Florida, 1971.Tennis celebrity Bobby Riggs (center) talking with unidentified people - Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1977 or 1978.People grilling food at the Ochlockonee River State Park near Sopchoppy, 1970.Unidentified people in a hot tub looking over materials from the Miami-Dade Community College Open College, 1979.People walking over sand dunes at the beach - Pensacola, Florida, 1971.Shoe shiner talking to people outside barber shop - Tallahassee, Florida, 1971.People in costume on a float in the Springtime Tallahassee parade, 1978.View showing members of the Pot People's Party in Flamingo Park during the 1972 GOP Convention - Miami Beach, Florida, 1972.People dancing at the Portable Folk Festival - White Springs, Florida, 1977.Estee Lauder with David Field at a party in Palm Beach, 1971.Famous daredevil Evel Knievel in front of his house in Ft. Lauderdale, sometime in the 1970s.Thank you! After almost seven years of vicious fighting, the war was over and the Seminoles were forced away from the Tampa region, and the tiny village began a period of slow growth. Mr. Watkins died from multiple gunshot wounds suffered during the attack.The victim was across the street from his residence in the Highland Pines area of Tampa when a shot rang out. Share on Discovering the Cartography of the Past. I hated the Pinellas Co. beaches back then and still can't stand them today, especially from Indian Rocks going south. On August 8th, 2001, a little after 11:30 PM, Mr. Clevenger was found dead inside his vehicle, a 1996 blue Suzuki Esteem. The Tampa Municipal Hospital did not admit black patients until the 1950s. They include: Frank Adamo, Elizabeth D. Barnard, Ossian B. Hart, Victoriano Manteiga, Benjamin Mays, and Stephen M. Sparkman.A large downtown parking garage near the old fort site is called the Fort Brooke Parking Garage.In the 1970s columnist Steve Otto gave Tampa the nickname Nine historians including former Tampa Tribune reporter Bullen, Ripley P. (1978). One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. In 1922 the trilingual By 1929, Maas Brothers dominated Florida's West Coast. After acquiring the Tampa and Sulphur Springs Traction Company in 1913, Tampa Electric had almost 50 miles (80 km) of track, increasing to 53 miles (85 km) by 1926.