Tampa: A Photographic History

Rob.M · 10-05-2006, 12:33 PM

I thought this may be something that I can keep adding to that y'all may be interested in.

Tampa's Maas Brothers Department Store...which was unfortunately demolished this year to make way for yet another condo tower development. Here is a little history.

Maas Brothers was a Tampa, Florida department store founded by German immigrants Abe and Isaac Maas in 1886 as the Dry Goods Palace. Abe Maas opened the Dry Goods Palace on December 10, 1886. Isaac formally joined his brother on September 15, 1887 and the store became Maas Brothers. After outgrowing its first two locations, Maas Brothers opened its third and largest store in 1921. By 1929, Maas Brothers dominated Florida's West Coast, when it was acquired by Hahn Department Stores in 1929 (reorganized as Allied Stores Corp. in 1935).

In 1948, Maas Brothers opened its first full line branch store in downtown St Petersburg. Other branch stores opened in downtown Lakeland in 1954, downtown Sarasota in 1956 and downtown Clearwater in 1961. Maas Brothers opened its first mall store in 1965 in the Edison Mall. By 1981 Maas Brothers opened its 17th store in Gulfview Square Mall in Port Richey. This was the last Maas Brothers store built.

In 1985, Maas Brothers absorbed the Savannah, Georgia based stores of fellow Allied nameplate Levy's of Savannah (founded in 1871 as B H Levy & Bro.). After the takeover of Allied by Campeau in 1986, Maas Brothers was consolidated with the weaker Jordan Marsh Florida franchise on Florida's East Coast in 1987 (Allied's Jordan Marsh had expanded from New England in 1956, later forming a separate Allied division). The plan was that the stronger Maas Brothers would help the weaker Jordan Marsh. This brought the total number of combined stores to 39 throughout Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. In 1989 the official store name was changed to Maas Brothers/Jordan Marsh.

In 1988 Campeau completed its ultimately disastrous follow-up takeover of Federated Department Stores, at which point Maas Brothers and Federated's stronger Florida chain, Miami-based Burdines, began to share some operating functions. On January 16, 1990, after struggling under huge debt payments from the takovers, Federated and Allied filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. In 1991 after Allied and Federated were formally merged into the 'new' Federated in bankruptcy court, Maas Brothers/Jordan Marsh Florida was folded into Burdines and its Tampa headquarters shuttered. After sitting empty for 15 years the flagship downtown Tampa Maas Brothers store was demolished in March 2006.

TNathe · 10-05-2006, 12:52 PM

very cool. thanks for sharing.

tim99 · 10-08-2006, 08:10 AM

I would love to see you keep posting Tampa historical pictures/info. I was born and lived in Tampa for 40 years but now I am in KY and miss home sometimes. These are great to see.

peace . . .

Rob.M · 10-08-2006, 01:47 PM

Title: [U.S. Army transport "Saratoga" at Port Tampa ready for the Spanish-American war
Publication info: 1898.

Publication info: ca. 1935.
Location: Port Tampa

Publication info: 1925.
General Note: The Neptune was possibly known also as the "Smokie Joe".
Biographical note: The Neptune was built at Palatka in 1902, and was registered number 130991. It had a gas-powered screw propulsion system. It hada gross tonnage of 19, and a net of 8. It was 53' long, 12' wide, with a depth of 3.5'.

Publication info: 1925.
General Note: Photonegative of a photograph by the Burgert Brothers, no.14419.
Biographical note: Seddon Island is now known as Harbour Island.

Publication info: 1920.
Location: Port Tampa

Publication info: [Detroit] : Detroit Photographic Co., 1902.
Physical descrip: 1 postcard : col. ; 9 x 14 cm.
Location: Port Tampa

Rob.M · 10-08-2006, 01:53 PM

Title: [10th U.S. Cavalry embarking for Cuba aboard transport "23" : Port Tampa, Florida
Publication info: 1898.

Title: [Bird's eye view of Tampa harbor : Port Tampa, Florida
Publication info: [19--]
Physical descrip: 1 photonegative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.

Title: Tugging a phophate bark into Port Tampa Dock
Publication info: 19--.
Physical descrip: 1 photoprint : b&w ; 6 x 10 in.

Title: Submarines in Tampa harbor
Publication info: 1915.

H0ndaturbo · 10-08-2006, 03:10 PM

Cool, I like this kind of stuff. It is cool to see how things were before my time. Thanks for sharing.

Rob.M · 10-09-2006, 01:13 AM

Publication info: ca. 1915.
Physical descrip: 1 photoprint b&w 8 x 10 in.
Series Title: (Reference collection)
General Note: Accompanying note: "The intersection shown at upper left (behind three-story frame building with chimneys on either end) is the corner of Morgan and Zack streets, site of the present headquarters building of General Telephone Company of Florida, as it looked about 1915. Scene looks southward along Morgan Street from Polk Street tracks of Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. At right center is old DeSoto Hotel. Immediately behind DeSoto may be seen the balustrade atop Tampa's Post Office. Behind Post Office, top floor and penthouse of Hillsboro Hotel are visible. Sacred Heart Church is in center background."

Title: [Bird's eye view of the downtown area : Tampa, Florida] [graphic]
Publication info: 1913.
Physical descrip: 1 photoprint b&w 8 x 10 in.

Title: [Peninsular Telephone Company employees by company wagon : Tampa, Florida] [graphic]
Publication info: 1906.
Physical descrip: 1 photoprint b&w 5 x 10 in.
Series Title: (Reference collection)
General Note: Accompanying note: "A Peninsular Telephone Company (now General Telephone Company of Florida) crew poses for photographer before stringing telephone lines in downtown Tampa in 1906. Demand for telephone service was booming in Tampa, following Peninsular's purchase of the Bell Telephone Company's Tampa exchange, one of the few cases on record of Bell's selling to an independent telephone company."

Publication info: 189-.
Physical descrip: 1 photoprint b&w 8 x 10 in.
Series Title: (Reference collection)
General Note: Accompanying note: This is possibly the first run of the Tampa Street Railway from downtown Tampa to Ybor City.

Publication info: 19--.
Physical descrip: 1 photoprint b&w 8 x 10 in.
Series Title: (Reference collection)
General Note: Accompanying note: "First home of Peninsular Telephone Company (now General Telephone Company of Florida) was two-room office in the Roberts Building, at the corner of Zack Street and Florida Avenue, in downtown Tampa. Office is now occupied by a retail shop. The telephone company moved into this building in 1901, soon after its organization by W.G. Brorein. Shown standing in the telephone company doorway is Mr. Brorein. Part of Tampa's Post Office may be at the extreme left of this photograph."

Title: [Peninsular Telephone Company headquarters building : Tampa, Florida] [graphic]
Publication info: ca. 1915.
Physical descrip: 1 photoprint b&w 8 x 10 in.
Series Title: (Reference collection)
General Note: Accompanying note: "Original Tampa headquarters building of Peninsular Telephone Company (now General Telephone Company of Florida), soon after it was occupied in 1915. When the company moved into these quarters, Tampa became the first city of its size to have 100 per cent dial-operated telephones in 1915. Located at the corner of Zack and Morgan streets in downtown Tampa, the building is part of the company's present Tampa headquarters. Tampa's post office is in the background of this picture. A 12-story addition to this building (on site of frame house at lower left) was occupied in 1927. This building was remodeled extensively in 1952, when a fifth floor and penthouse were added."

If anyone is interested in previous Tampa History posts, you can find all of them logged on my Myspace page. Check it out >> Here.

**thereturnofdark** · 10-09-2006, 10:38 AM

this post in completely inaccurate. first off i see no negroes. and also no chinamen next to that railroad.........

Rob.M · 10-09-2006, 02:53 PM

Here you go. Just for you.

A black and white photo of people in the Rent quarters in the India Street School section of Tampa taken for the Raper Report, " A study of Negro life in Tampa", 1920.

**1BADP71** · 10-12-2006, 08:53 PM

nice .

**Joann** · 10-12-2006, 10:56 PM

you never cease to amaze me

Gdad · 10-13-2006, 03:05 AM

Pretty cool stuff.

Rob.M · 10-13-2006, 12:39 PM

Today, I am focusing on what Ballast Point used to look like. At one time as short a time ago as my grandmothers childhood (1920s/30s) you could take a trolley ride to this well manicured and maintained park complex...a far cry from the fishing pier complex found there today. A point of interest in 1933 it cost a nickel to ride round trip from Port Tampa to Ballast Point on the trolley.

Personal Author: Hook, W. E. (William Edward), 1833-1908.
Title: Balast Point, Pavilion. [graphic]
260: Tampa, Fla. : Morast's Photo-Studio, [18--?]
Physical descrip: 1 photoprint : b&w ; 5 x 8 in.

Corporate Author: Burgert Bros.
Title: [Bathing costume contestants at Ballast Point : Tampa, Florida] [graphic]
Publication info: 1922.
Physical descrip: 1 photoprint b&w 10 x 8 in.

Title: [Streetcar at Ballast Point park : Tampa, Florida] [graphic]
Publication info: 1910.
Physical descrip: 1 photoprint b&w 8 x 10 in.

Title: [Max Argintar and two other men at Ballast Point] [picture]
Publication info: 1907.
Physical descrip: 1 photonegative : b&w ; 5 x 4 in.

Title: Ballast point water view : Tampa, Florida [picture]
Publication info: New York : Tanner Souvenir Co., [19--?]
Physical descrip: 1 postcard : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm.

Title: Pavilion, Ballast Point : Tampa, Florida [picture]
Publication info: New York : Tanner Souvenir Co., [19--?]
Physical descrip: 1 postcard : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm.

Rob.M · 10-13-2006, 12:49 PM

Title: The Shore Road, view from casino : Ballast Point, Florida [picture]
Publication info: Portland, Me. : Hugh C. Leighton Co., [19--?]
Physical descrip: 1 postcard : col. ; 9 x 14 cm.

Title: View at Ballast Point : Tampa, Florida [picture]
Publication info: [S.l.] : S.H. Kress, [19--?]
Physical descrip: 1 postcard : col. ; 9 x 14 cm.

Title: [Pavilion at Ballast Point : Tampa, Florida] [picture]
Publication info: [19--]
Physical descrip: 1 photonegative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.

Title: Ballast Point water view : Tampa, Florida [picture]
Publication info: [S.l.] : Raphael Tuck & Sons, [19--?]
Physical descrip: 1 postcard : col. ; 9 x 14 cm.

Title: Ballast Point land view : Tampa, Florida [picture]
Publication info: [S.l.] : Raphael Tuck & Sons, [19--?]
Physical descrip: 1 postcard : col. ; 9 x 14 cm.

Title: Ballast Point : Tampa, Florida [picture]
Publication info: New York : International Post Card, [19--?]
Physical descrip: 1 postcard : col. ; 9 x 14 cm.

Rob.M · 10-13-2006, 01:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Joann

you never cease to amaze me

Thanks!

XtremeSaturn · 10-13-2006, 03:30 PM

WTF Happened to that place? I would have loved to go to something like that rather than a damn pier that looks like it's falling apart.

XtremeSaturn · 10-13-2006, 03:35 PM

meh, nevermind:

Quote:

Monday, October 9th, 2006
95 years ago…

October, 9, 1911 – Two local investors lease the Ballast Point Park area with plans to transform it into an amusement park, complete with an Atlantic City-style boardwalk. The duo planned on spending $20,000 dollars (almost $400,000 in today’s dollars) on the improvements and on sprucing up the pavilion (built in the early 1890s). Most of the plans fell through, and the pavilion would be badly damaged during a hurricane ten years later. The pavilion’s companion gazebo still stands today at the park.

Guess hurricane insurance must have been a bitch following that lol

Rob.M · 10-13-2006, 03:50 PM

Some more history:

1850
Cattle trade has become a major shipping business in Tampa. Ballast Point is used as the docking area for large, heavy draft ships. Only shallow draft steamers and small sailing vessels can reach the wharf on Whiting Street in Tampa.

1892
Electric streetcar service linked downtown Tampa, Ybor City, West Tampa and Ballast Point.

1896
Captain John Herbert Peck of Tampa is hired to assist in piloting the tug through the Florida Keys and Cuban waterways. The Three Friends stops at Ballast Point to pick up ammunition, supplies, and men for a trip to Cuba.

Link to FL Historical Market

The dirty fish monger park that is there now, is but a sad testament to what was once a terrific local and tourist attraction at the end of the trolley line.

Here is a better view.

Genre Black-and-white photographs
Location Depicted Florida--Hillsborough County--Ballast Point;
Date of Original 1911;
Publisher Burgert Brothers
Place of Publication Tampa (Fla.)
Medium of Original Photograph
Material of Original Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 21 x 26 cm.
Summary The Ballast Point Pavilion.;
Contributor Burgert Brothers -- Photographer
Resource Type Still image
Digital Format jpeg
Unique Identifier B29-rel-00000124;

**Joann** · 10-13-2006, 06:30 PM

I've never even heard of this place...but it's beautiful.

Rob.M · 10-13-2006, 10:43 PM

Follow Bayshore Blvd until it ends and then go to the left a little further south. Ballast Point Park will be on your left. A little trivia, this is the park where Jules Verne launched his rocket ship in "From the Earth To the Moon"

10-05-2006, 12:33 PM	#1 (permalink)
Rob.M Down Shift Magazine	Tampa: A Photographic History I thought this may be something that I can keep adding to that y'all may be interested in. Tampa's Maas Brothers Department Store...which was unfortunately demolished this year to make way for yet another condo tower development. Here is a little history. Maas Brothers was a Tampa, Florida department store founded by German immigrants Abe and Isaac Maas in 1886 as the Dry Goods Palace. Abe Maas opened the Dry Goods Palace on December 10, 1886. Isaac formally joined his brother on September 15, 1887 and the store became Maas Brothers. After outgrowing its first two locations, Maas Brothers opened its third and largest store in 1921. By 1929, Maas Brothers dominated Florida's West Coast, when it was acquired by Hahn Department Stores in 1929 (reorganized as Allied Stores Corp. in 1935). In 1948, Maas Brothers opened its first full line branch store in downtown St Petersburg. Other branch stores opened in downtown Lakeland in 1954, downtown Sarasota in 1956 and downtown Clearwater in 1961. Maas Brothers opened its first mall store in 1965 in the Edison Mall. By 1981 Maas Brothers opened its 17th store in Gulfview Square Mall in Port Richey. This was the last Maas Brothers store built. In 1985, Maas Brothers absorbed the Savannah, Georgia based stores of fellow Allied nameplate Levy's of Savannah (founded in 1871 as B H Levy & Bro.). After the takeover of Allied by Campeau in 1986, Maas Brothers was consolidated with the weaker Jordan Marsh Florida franchise on Florida's East Coast in 1987 (Allied's Jordan Marsh had expanded from New England in 1956, later forming a separate Allied division). The plan was that the stronger Maas Brothers would help the weaker Jordan Marsh. This brought the total number of combined stores to 39 throughout Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. In 1989 the official store name was changed to Maas Brothers/Jordan Marsh. In 1988 Campeau completed its ultimately disastrous follow-up takeover of Federated Department Stores, at which point Maas Brothers and Federated's stronger Florida chain, Miami-based Burdines, began to share some operating functions. On January 16, 1990, after struggling under huge debt payments from the takovers, Federated and Allied filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. In 1991 after Allied and Federated were formally merged into the 'new' Federated in bankruptcy court, Maas Brothers/Jordan Marsh Florida was folded into Burdines and its Tampa headquarters shuttered. After sitting empty for 15 years the flagship downtown Tampa Maas Brothers store was demolished in March 2006.

10-08-2006, 01:47 PM	#4 (permalink)
Rob.M Down Shift Magazine	A Photographic Collected Anthology of Tampa History Title: [U.S. Army transport "Saratoga" at Port Tampa ready for the Spanish-American war Publication info: 1898. Publication info: ca. 1935. Location: Port Tampa Publication info: 1925. General Note: The Neptune was possibly known also as the "Smokie Joe". Biographical note: The Neptune was built at Palatka in 1902, and was registered number 130991. It had a gas-powered screw propulsion system. It hada gross tonnage of 19, and a net of 8. It was 53' long, 12' wide, with a depth of 3.5'. Publication info: 1925. General Note: Photonegative of a photograph by the Burgert Brothers, no.14419. Biographical note: Seddon Island is now known as Harbour Island. Publication info: 1920. Location: Port Tampa Publication info: [Detroit] : Detroit Photographic Co., 1902. Physical descrip: 1 postcard : col. ; 9 x 14 cm. Location: Port Tampa

10-09-2006, 01:13 AM	#7 (permalink)
Rob.M Down Shift Magazine	A Photographic Collected Anthology of Tampa History Publication info: ca. 1915. Physical descrip: 1 photoprint b&w 8 x 10 in. Series Title: (Reference collection) General Note: Accompanying note: "The intersection shown at upper left (behind three-story frame building with chimneys on either end) is the corner of Morgan and Zack streets, site of the present headquarters building of General Telephone Company of Florida, as it looked about 1915. Scene looks southward along Morgan Street from Polk Street tracks of Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. At right center is old DeSoto Hotel. Immediately behind DeSoto may be seen the balustrade atop Tampa's Post Office. Behind Post Office, top floor and penthouse of Hillsboro Hotel are visible. Sacred Heart Church is in center background." Title: [Bird's eye view of the downtown area : Tampa, Florida] [graphic] Publication info: 1913. Physical descrip: 1 photoprint b&w 8 x 10 in. Title: [Peninsular Telephone Company employees by company wagon : Tampa, Florida] [graphic] Publication info: 1906. Physical descrip: 1 photoprint b&w 5 x 10 in. Series Title: (Reference collection) General Note: Accompanying note: "A Peninsular Telephone Company (now General Telephone Company of Florida) crew poses for photographer before stringing telephone lines in downtown Tampa in 1906. Demand for telephone service was booming in Tampa, following Peninsular's purchase of the Bell Telephone Company's Tampa exchange, one of the few cases on record of Bell's selling to an independent telephone company." Publication info: 189-. Physical descrip: 1 photoprint b&w 8 x 10 in. Series Title: (Reference collection) General Note: Accompanying note: This is possibly the first run of the Tampa Street Railway from downtown Tampa to Ybor City. Publication info: 19--. Physical descrip: 1 photoprint b&w 8 x 10 in. Series Title: (Reference collection) General Note: Accompanying note: "First home of Peninsular Telephone Company (now General Telephone Company of Florida) was two-room office in the Roberts Building, at the corner of Zack Street and Florida Avenue, in downtown Tampa. Office is now occupied by a retail shop. The telephone company moved into this building in 1901, soon after its organization by W.G. Brorein. Shown standing in the telephone company doorway is Mr. Brorein. Part of Tampa's Post Office may be at the extreme left of this photograph." Title: [Peninsular Telephone Company headquarters building : Tampa, Florida] [graphic] Publication info: ca. 1915. Physical descrip: 1 photoprint b&w 8 x 10 in. Series Title: (Reference collection) General Note: Accompanying note: "Original Tampa headquarters building of Peninsular Telephone Company (now General Telephone Company of Florida), soon after it was occupied in 1915. When the company moved into these quarters, Tampa became the first city of its size to have 100 per cent dial-operated telephones in 1915. Located at the corner of Zack and Morgan streets in downtown Tampa, the building is part of the company's present Tampa headquarters. Tampa's post office is in the background of this picture. A 12-story addition to this building (on site of frame house at lower left) was occupied in 1927. This building was remodeled extensively in 1952, when a fifth floor and penthouse were added." If anyone is interested in previous Tampa History posts, you can find all of them logged on my Myspace page. Check it out >> Here. Last edited by Rob.M : 10-09-2006 at 01:19 AM.

10-13-2006, 12:39 PM	#13 (permalink)
Rob.M Down Shift Magazine	A Photographic Collected Anthology of Tampa History Today, I am focusing on what Ballast Point used to look like. At one time as short a time ago as my grandmothers childhood (1920s/30s) you could take a trolley ride to this well manicured and maintained park complex...a far cry from the fishing pier complex found there today. A point of interest in 1933 it cost a nickel to ride round trip from Port Tampa to Ballast Point on the trolley. Personal Author: Hook, W. E. (William Edward), 1833-1908. Title: Balast Point, Pavilion. [graphic] 260: Tampa, Fla. : Morast's Photo-Studio, [18--?] Physical descrip: 1 photoprint : b&w ; 5 x 8 in. Corporate Author: Burgert Bros. Title: [Bathing costume contestants at Ballast Point : Tampa, Florida] [graphic] Publication info: 1922. Physical descrip: 1 photoprint b&w 10 x 8 in. Title: [Streetcar at Ballast Point park : Tampa, Florida] [graphic] Publication info: 1910. Physical descrip: 1 photoprint b&w 8 x 10 in. Title: [Max Argintar and two other men at Ballast Point] [picture] Publication info: 1907. Physical descrip: 1 photonegative : b&w ; 5 x 4 in. Title: Ballast point water view : Tampa, Florida [picture] Publication info: New York : Tanner Souvenir Co., [19--?] Physical descrip: 1 postcard : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm. Title: Pavilion, Ballast Point : Tampa, Florida [picture] Publication info: New York : Tanner Souvenir Co., [19--?] Physical descrip: 1 postcard : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm.

10-05-2006, 12:52 PM	#2 (permalink)
TNathe Registered User	very cool. thanks for sharing.

10-08-2006, 08:10 AM	#3 (permalink)
tim99 Registered User	I would love to see you keep posting Tampa historical pictures/info. I was born and lived in Tampa for 40 years but now I am in KY and miss home sometimes. These are great to see. peace . . .

10-08-2006, 01:53 PM	#5 (permalink)
Rob.M Down Shift Magazine	Title: [10th U.S. Cavalry embarking for Cuba aboard transport "23" : Port Tampa, Florida Publication info: 1898. Title: [Bird's eye view of Tampa harbor : Port Tampa, Florida Publication info: [19--] Physical descrip: 1 photonegative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. Title: Tugging a phophate bark into Port Tampa Dock Publication info: 19--. Physical descrip: 1 photoprint : b&w ; 6 x 10 in. Title: Submarines in Tampa harbor Publication info: 1915.

10-08-2006, 03:10 PM	#6 (permalink)
H0ndaturbo I <3 drunk girls	Cool, I like this kind of stuff. It is cool to see how things were before my time. Thanks for sharing.

10-09-2006, 10:38 AM	#8 (permalink)
thereturnofdark This is why i'm hot	this post in completely inaccurate. first off i see no negroes. and also no chinamen next to that railroad.........

10-09-2006, 02:53 PM	#9 (permalink)
Rob.M Down Shift Magazine	Here you go. Just for you. A black and white photo of people in the Rent quarters in the India Street School section of Tampa taken for the Raper Report, " A study of Negro life in Tampa", 1920.

10-12-2006, 08:53 PM	#10 (permalink)
1BADP71 E & I Certified	nice .

10-12-2006, 10:56 PM	#11 (permalink)
Joann You'll love me.	you never cease to amaze me

10-13-2006, 03:05 AM	#12 (permalink)
Gdad Dr. Jekyl & Me	Pretty cool stuff.

10-13-2006, 12:49 PM	#14 (permalink)
Rob.M Down Shift Magazine	Title: The Shore Road, view from casino : Ballast Point, Florida [picture] Publication info: Portland, Me. : Hugh C. Leighton Co., [19--?] Physical descrip: 1 postcard : col. ; 9 x 14 cm. Title: View at Ballast Point : Tampa, Florida [picture] Publication info: [S.l.] : S.H. Kress, [19--?] Physical descrip: 1 postcard : col. ; 9 x 14 cm. Title: [Pavilion at Ballast Point : Tampa, Florida] [picture] Publication info: [19--] Physical descrip: 1 photonegative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. Title: Ballast Point water view : Tampa, Florida [picture] Publication info: [S.l.] : Raphael Tuck & Sons, [19--?] Physical descrip: 1 postcard : col. ; 9 x 14 cm. Title: Ballast Point land view : Tampa, Florida [picture] Publication info: [S.l.] : Raphael Tuck & Sons, [19--?] Physical descrip: 1 postcard : col. ; 9 x 14 cm. Title: Ballast Point : Tampa, Florida [picture] Publication info: New York : International Post Card, [19--?] Physical descrip: 1 postcard : col. ; 9 x 14 cm.

10-13-2006, 03:30 PM	#16 (permalink)
XtremeSaturn Registered User	WTF Happened to that place? I would have loved to go to something like that rather than a damn pier that looks like it's falling apart.

10-13-2006, 03:50 PM	#18 (permalink)
Rob.M Down Shift Magazine	Some more history: 1850 Cattle trade has become a major shipping business in Tampa. Ballast Point is used as the docking area for large, heavy draft ships. Only shallow draft steamers and small sailing vessels can reach the wharf on Whiting Street in Tampa. 1892 Electric streetcar service linked downtown Tampa, Ybor City, West Tampa and Ballast Point. 1896 Captain John Herbert Peck of Tampa is hired to assist in piloting the tug through the Florida Keys and Cuban waterways. The Three Friends stops at Ballast Point to pick up ammunition, supplies, and men for a trip to Cuba. Link to FL Historical Market The dirty fish monger park that is there now, is but a sad testament to what was once a terrific local and tourist attraction at the end of the trolley line. Here is a better view. Genre Black-and-white photographs Location Depicted Florida--Hillsborough County--Ballast Point; Date of Original 1911; Publisher Burgert Brothers Place of Publication Tampa (Fla.) Medium of Original Photograph Material of Original Gelatin silver print Dimensions 21 x 26 cm. Summary The Ballast Point Pavilion.; Contributor Burgert Brothers -- Photographer Resource Type Still image Digital Format jpeg Unique Identifier B29-rel-00000124;

10-13-2006, 06:30 PM	#19 (permalink)
Joann You'll love me.	I've never even heard of this place...but it's beautiful.

10-13-2006, 10:43 PM	#20 (permalink)
Rob.M Down Shift Magazine	Follow Bayshore Blvd until it ends and then go to the left a little further south. Ballast Point Park will be on your left. A little trivia, this is the park where Jules Verne launched his rocket ship in "From the Earth To the Moon"