Ybor City has a nice Christmas display this year and have added several things to their decorations. It is a huge improvement as last year about half the lights were out when I tried to go photograph it. This year they added a couple wreaths and some tin soldiers. Afterward […]
Ybor City is known for a couple of things. It is known for its cigar making factories, most of which have been turned into condos or other uses now. There is also a lot of other interesting history some of which can be learned about in the Ybor City Museum […]
The original Columbia Restaurant, located in the historic Ybor City neighborhood in Tampa, Florida, is the oldest continuously operated restaurant in Florida, the oldest Spanish restaurant in the United States and one of the largest Spanish restaurants in the world with 1,700 seats in 15 dining rooms taking up 52,000 […]
The theme of the post today is neon lights. There are a bunch of places around Tampa that have some nice lights including Tampa Theatre and Ybor City along with the Tampa Skyline. The Suntrust building in particular frequently changes color depending on holidays, Lightning games, etc.
Here are a few more shots of the Ybor City Christmas tree, a closeup and a wider angle. The Ybor City tree is nice and has some nice glowing decorations. However, when I photographed it, the top 1 1/12 feet were not lit up so I had to add a […]
Ybor City is a historic neighborhood in Tampa, Florida, United States, located just northeast of downtown. It was founded in the 1880s by Vicente Martinez-Ybor and other cigar manufacturers and was populated by thousands of immigrants, mainly from Cuba, Spain, and Italy. For the next 50 years, workers in Ybor […]
Ybor City is full of history and is a great place to explore near Tampa. Ybor City was known for its cigar factories although there are only a few left. Now it also has an entertainment district, Centro Ybor. The first shot is of Centro Ybor where the Muvico is. […]
Ybor City is a historic district of Tampa that is famous for it’s cigar factories. It was founded in the 1880s by cigar manufacturers and was populated by thousands of immigrants, mainly from Spain, Cuba, and Italy. For the next 50 years, workers in Ybor City’s cigar factories would roll […]
Still working through a bunch of new shots, but here are a few from the not so distant past. I usually try to look for some kind of theme to tie together the two pictures that I post and today it’s neon. Neon lights at dusk or at night are […]
“Ybor City is a historic neighborhood in Tampa, Florida located just northeast of downtown. It was founded in the 1880s by cigar manufacturers and was populated by thousands of immigrants, mainly from Spain, Cuba, and Italy. For the next 50 years, workers in Ybor City’s cigar factories would roll millions […]