TAMPAPIX

TampaPix is my hobby and combines some of my favorite interests: photography, genealogy, history, origin of street names, and in the course of digging into Tampa's history, interesting "trivia" about Tampa. The "Did You Know?" features at TampaPix were the result of learning about (and often, stumbling upon) unique and interesting facts about Tampa and persons of note whom I discovered had some sort of tie to Tampa... The name of Fortune Street downtown conjures up images of boom-time prosperity, with business owners making a fortune in profits, but this isn't why this street and the bridge, once named the Laurel Street bridge, were named. See the newly updated feature about Fortune Street and the bridge, with new photos, scenes from the 2004 film "The Punisher" shot on this bridge, and more, here at TampaPix... In Tampa, the term "Roaring 20s" took on literal meaning when on Oct. 25, 1921, a major hurricane swept through the Tampa Bay area causing major destruction from storm surge...

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