The Tampa Bay History Museum is a very new museum only open less than 6 months. They had some very
high tech 3 D movies and lots of very interesting materials. Of course, they also had a Columbia Restaurant
Café too. They had a lot of materials on the Seminoles also. The history of the immigrants and the cigar
industry was very interesting. At my grandfathers drug store, we carried a lot of the brands made in Tampa,
and I always assumed that they were sold just because they were close by. The Tampa cigars were sold all
over the word and were the best ones around. You can still get a hand rolled cigar in the area, but I suspect
that this art will be dead in another generation. My father told me of the cigar factories in Fort Myers on piers
over the water where the yacht basin is now, but I have no details. He said that Thomas Edison, Henry Ford,
and Harvey Firestone would be a Royal Palm cigar and sit down and smoke (or chew) them in the store
when he was a kid. This would have been in the early 20. Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics soon
followed in 1926.
high tech 3 D movies and lots of very interesting materials. Of course, they also had a Columbia Restaurant
Café too. They had a lot of materials on the Seminoles also. The history of the immigrants and the cigar
industry was very interesting. At my grandfathers drug store, we carried a lot of the brands made in Tampa,
and I always assumed that they were sold just because they were close by. The Tampa cigars were sold all
over the word and were the best ones around. You can still get a hand rolled cigar in the area, but I suspect
that this art will be dead in another generation. My father told me of the cigar factories in Fort Myers on piers
over the water where the yacht basin is now, but I have no details. He said that Thomas Edison, Henry Ford,
and Harvey Firestone would be a Royal Palm cigar and sit down and smoke (or chew) them in the store
when he was a kid. This would have been in the early 20. Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics soon
followed in 1926.
Tampa History Museum.
The early Indians used spear throwers to increase the force and bow and arrows.
Remains of an old pre Seminole dugout canoe.
Nancy used to stop at the roadside Indian villages and wants to see them again. Unfortunately that was of life is long gone.
Cigar memorabilia.
Bolita again. I guess it was legal in the early days.
Replica of a cigar factor. 1000's would be employed.
They had a wonderful 3D movie about the Seminoles and American's 3
wars. 11,000 Seminoles were sent out West. 300 stayed in Florida to
become Florida's Seminoles now numbering 4,000 or so.
wars. 11,000 Seminoles were sent out West. 300 stayed in Florida to
become Florida's Seminoles now numbering 4,000 or so.
The readers kept the workers entertained and well informed politically
and socially.
and socially.
Seminoles in a parade and the Ocala Indian village.
I played Billy Bowlegs in a Boy Scout skit as a kid and there is a creek
in Fort Myers named for him.
in Fort Myers named for him.
Seminole handy work.
The Columbia Restaurant has a café at the museum. Had a wonderful
lunch there and my best Cuban sandwich ever.
lunch there and my best Cuban sandwich ever.
Bar of silver from Mexico that was lost in a shipwreck in the area.
I have always wanted one of these Seminole shirts. While in the Big
Cypress recently we priced them at $750. A little too steep for us.
Cypress recently we priced them at $750. A little too steep for us.