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20231101.en_13208625_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Ybor City ( ) is a historic neighborhood that includes the Ybor City Historic District in Tampa, Florida. It is located just northeast of downtown Tampa and north of Port Tampa Bay. The neighborhood has distinct architectural, culinary, cultural, and historical legacy that reflects its multi-ethnic composition. It was ... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Ybor City was founded as an independent town in 1885 by a group of cigar manufacturers led by Vicente Martinez-Ybor and was annexed by Tampa in 1887. The original population was mostly composed of Cuban and Spanish immigrants who worked in the cigar factories. Italian and Eastern-European Jewish immigrants followed sho... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Martinez-Ybor started the practice of building small houses, "casitas", that his workers could buy at cost, in order to increase staff retention. He also helped to ensure medical care and paved the local streets and sidewalks. | [
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20231101.en_13208625_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | The neighborhood grew rapidly during the 1890s, quickly evolving from a primitive outpost with streets of loose sand populated mainly by young Cuban and Spanish men seeking work into a bustling city with modern amenities and a diverse demographic makeup. During this decade, Ybor City's residents founded mutual aid soci... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_4 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | The coming of the Great Depression in the early 1930s brought a sharp reduction in the worldwide demand for fine cigars, and Ybor City's economic base suffered greatly. Some cigar factories closed, others ended the hand-rolled tradition and turned to mechanization to reduce costs, and remaining operations sharply decre... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_5 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Beginning in the 1980s, the old business district centered on 7th Avenue (La Septima) began a slow recovery, first as a bohemian haven for artists and, by the early 1990s, as a popular nightlife and entertainment district. Since 2000, many historic structures near 7th Avenue have been renovated and restored, and constr... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_6 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | While Ybor City's old business district and some nearby residential areas have been revitalized, not all of the original neighborhood has shared in the recovery. Poverty and blight are ongoing problems in portions of Greater Ybor City, especially north of I-4 and east of 22nd Street. | [
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20231101.en_13208625_7 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Ybor City came into existence as a direct result of a New York City businessman's failed search for guava trees. Spanish émigré Gavino Gutierrez was a civil engineer by training, but was employed by a New York City fruit packing and canning firm in the mid-1880s. He had heard that there were many guava trees growing wi... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_8 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | The trip was long and difficult. The existing railroad line to Florida run by the Plant System only went as far south as Jacksonville, Florida, with a steamboat connection down the St. Johns River to Sanford, Florida (near present-day Orlando). Gutierrez took the rest of the trip across the state by stagecoach over un... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_9 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Gutierrez returned to New York by sea, stopping on the way to visit his friend Vicente Martinez Ybor at his home in Key West, Florida. Ybor was a fellow Spaniard who had built a prosperous cigar-making operation in Havana, Cuba based on his El Príncipe de Gales (Prince of Wales) brand. However, Ybor had provided publi... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Ybor rebuilt a successful business in Key West. However, by the early 1880s, high costs, labor strife, and transportation issues (overseas land links were still decades away) had him exploring relocation options once again. Several southern American port cities such as Mobile, Alabama; Pensacola, Florida; and Galveston... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_11 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Upon learning about Ybor's plans, Gutierrez mentioned Tampa as another possible site for relocation. Ybor was intrigued, as was Ignacio Haya, a visiting Spanish cigar manufacturer from New York who was also looking for a new factory location. | [
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20231101.en_13208625_12 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Haya and Ybor boarded the next available steamship sailing for Tampa and arrived the next day. They agreed that Tampa was an excellent location for cigar production: it was near enough to Cuba that importing Cuban tobacco by sea would be quick and cheap; the climate was warm and humid, which would keep the tobacco leav... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_13 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Months later, in September 1885, Ybor and Haya set out on a "fact-finding mission" to the most promising relocation sites, hoping to finalize a deal and begin moving their operations soon thereafter. Their first visit was to Tampa, where the sticking point was the price of a tract of land that Ybor was interested in b... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_14 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Seemingly at an impasse, Ybor and Haya prepared to move on to their next potential site: Galveston, Texas. But on October 5, 1885, as the men were literally about to depart, the Tampa Board of Trade, including W. C. Brown and W. B. Henderson, offered to subsidize the $4000 difference in the price of the land Ybor wishe... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_15 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Preparation to move their cigar operations began immediately. On October 8, only three days after making the real estate deals, Ybor had crews at work clearing the land and had invited Gavino Gutierrez to lay out a street grid for a new town, which was to be dubbed Ybor City. | [
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20231101.en_13208625_16 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | There was almost a major crisis before the settlement got started. The only bank in Tampa at the time was a branch of the Jacksonville-based First National Bank. Due to the stagnant state of commercial business in town, bank management had decided to close the location. When Ignacio Haya heard the news, he visited the ... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_17 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Cigar making was not just a job to the tabaqueros (literally, "tobacco workers"). The torcedores who rolled the finished cigars, especially, thought of themselves as "more of an artist than a worker." The trade was closely regulated by the tabaqueros in a manner reminiscent of the artisan's guilds of old Europe. Beginn... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_18 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Key West was home to thousands of trained tabaqueros in 1885. In contrast, Tampa was a small town with a population of about 3,000 and no resident cigar workers. Ybor would have to convince potential employees to leave established communities in Key West (and Cuba and New York) to help build a frontier settlement. Whil... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_19 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Ybor's idea was to build a modified company town. Unlike other such communities in which the company owned virtually all of the housing and businesses (such as Pullman, Illinois), Ybor envisioned a place in which employees could own their homes and private entrepreneurs could buy land on which to build businesses. This... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_20 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Ybor also had good business reasons to be magnanimous. His goal was to not only attract residents to town, but to get them to stay. His employees in Key West had often traveled back and forth between Florida and Cuba looking for the best pay and conditions. By offering the anchor of land and home ownership – something ... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_21 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Along with the hastily built wooden factories constructed by Ybor and Haya, some of the first structures in Ybor City were 50 small houses (casitas) for prospective employees. These narrow shotgun-style homes (so called because a shot fired through the front door would theoretically exit harmlessly out of the aligned b... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_22 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Another of Ybor's modifications to the company town model was that his community was not a one-(or even two-) company town. To increase the number of jobs (and thus the pool of available workers), Ybor encouraged other cigar manufacturers to move to his new colony by offering cheap land and a free factory building if t... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_23 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | On April 13, 1886, Haya's factory produced the first Ybor City cigar. Ybor's factory followed suit a few days later. At the time, they still had less than 100 employees between them. | [
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20231101.en_13208625_27 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | In 1888, Ybor completed an imposing 3-story brick building which was the largest cigar factory in the world at the time, and in 1897 he opened The Florida Brewing Company building which was the tallest building in Tampa until 1913. But for the most part, the Ybor City that greeted the first arrivals was primitive. | [
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20231101.en_13208625_29 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | As is typical in boom towns, many of the first residents of Ybor City were either unmarried men or men who had left their families behind (if only temporarily) to take jobs in a place where work was plentiful but living conditions were rough. These pioneers began the process of developing the community. As another earl... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_39 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | The issue had caused controversy right from the start. In 1886, Vicente Martinez-Ybor's cigar factory had been the first to be built and equipped. However, the start of production was delayed because his Cuban workers refused to work for a Spanish foreman who had earned an anti-Cuban reputation in Key West. Only after ... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_41 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Jose Marti, the "Apostle of Cuban Independence", visited Ybor City and West Tampa many times, delivering several passionate speeches to audiences of thousands. One 1893 speech from the steps of Ybor's factory was reprinted in newspapers all over the US and Cuba and led directly to war. A few Tampa residents volunteered... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_49 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | By pumping out hundreds of millions of hand-rolled cigars annually (the peak was 500,000,000 in 1929, right before the Great Depression took hold), the cigar workers of Ybor City not only made a good life for themselves, but also pumped millions of dollars into the coffers of local businesses and city government. | [
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20231101.en_13208625_51 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Despite the immigrant element, Ybor City's mutual aid clubs had less in common with aid associations such as Hull House and other settlement houses than with benefit societies and fraternal organizations. Ybor City's social clubs were founded by immigrants for the benefit of immigrants - the funds to build the large an... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_52 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | While the clubs provided a place to socialize, the main reason they were founded was to provide basic medical care for their members. Medical care at Ybor City clinics was included for the price of weekly dues, and two of the clubs (El Centro Asturiano and El Centro Español) also established hospitals. In the days befo... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_53 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Besides medical care, the clubs offered many social activities. Club buildings housed gymnasiums, cantinas (small cafés for members), and large auditoriums for concerts and often elaborate theatrical performances. They also organized events such as dances and picnics, sometimes hiring buses for outings at Ballast Point... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_56 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Ybor City's Cuban community organized two main clubs: La Union Martí-Maceo for darker-skinned Cubans and Circulo Cubano for those with lighter skin. This was especially awkward when members of the same family had different shades of skin and were required to join different clubs, but it was the law at the time. Not sur... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_58 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | One tradition that the tabaqueros brought with them from cigar factories in Cuba was that of El Lector (The Reader). Because the job of rolling cigar after cigar could become monotonous, the workers wanted something to occupy and stimulate the mind. Thus arose the tradition of "lectors", who sat perched on an elevated ... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_59 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Typically, the lector would start the day reading local Spanish newspapers and some fiction, such as a romance or adventure novel. Since most residents of Ybor were very interested in politics, the lector would then usually move on to political treatises or writings about the current events in Cuba or Spain or other co... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_60 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Lectors were well respected and often highly educated. Most could look at text written in English or Italian and read it aloud in Spanish, the language of the factories. The lectors were hired and fired by the tabaqueros, not the factory owners. Their salary was paid directly by the workers through a small deduction fr... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_61 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Most factory owners were less supportive. They felt that the lectors stirred up their workforce by fostering "radical ideas". News of labor conditions or problems in other locations, especially, led to worker walkouts and protests on many occasions. More than one owner tried to ban lectors from his factory floor, leadi... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_62 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | The lectors would remain fixtures in Tampa's cigar factories until 1921, when several owners negotiated the removal of the lectors as part of an agreement to end a labor strike. At the end of a particularly bitter strike in 1931, workers in all Ybor City and West Tampa cigar factories were forced to agree to the remova... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_63 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Some of the lectors continued to speak to the cigar workers in other ways. Victoriano Manteiga, for example, founded La Gaceta, a tri-lingual (English, Spanish, and Italian) newspaper which is still published by his grandson in Tampa. Some took other jobs, becoming teachers or regular tabaqueros. Some went to Cuba to s... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_65 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | The 1930s were a time of rampant corruption in Tampa, with many accusations of stolen elections and mayors on the payrolls of rival organized crime factions. After a time known locally as the "Era of Blood" in which local criminal interests fought over control, Santo Trafficante, Sr. pushed Wall aside and emerged as Ta... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_67 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | The markedly decreased demand for cigars during the Great Depression of the 1930s had serious consequences for Ybor City. Many smokers found themselves unable to afford luxury items and switched to cheaper cigarettes, weakening the neighborhood's dominant industry and starting the area on a slow economic and social dec... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_73 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | The quantity and quality of jobs in the cigar industry would continue to fall as Tampa's manufacturers underwent a near-universal shift to mechanization. Replacing traditional hand-rolled cigars with machine-made varieties allowed cigar firms to employ fewer workers and pay them less. Even when demand quickly increased... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_74 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Another issue in Ybor City after World War II was the aging of the area's housing stock. New construction had all but stopped during the Depression and the war, and thousands of homes built during the neighborhood's era of rapid growth around 1900 were still in use. These old wooden structures were becoming dilapidated... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_75 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | The Veterans Administration encouraged this trend by offering mortgage loans on new homes at very favorable rates to returning vets. Since there were few new homes or empty lots for new construction available in Ybor City, veterans who wanted a VA loan were also pushed to buy elsewhere. | [
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20231101.en_13208625_76 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Finally, the G.I. Bill made it possible for many Ybor City-born veterans to get a college education and start a career outside of the dying local cigar industry. While many of these eventually settled back in Tampa after finishing school, few could find suitable employment in their old neighborhood and relocated as wel... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_77 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | The period from the late 1950s to the early 1970s saw two seemingly contradictory trends in Ybor City history. While the neighborhood was dying, two of its native sons, Nick Nuccio and Dick Greco, became the first "Latins" to serve as mayor of Tampa. Despite this newfound political clout, Ybor City stagnated and declin... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | The Federal Urban Renewal Program of the 1960s were supposed to revitalize Ybor City with new residences and businesses designed to attract tourists to "Tampa's Latin Quarter" (a nod to the French Quarter in New Orleans). Thousands of remaining residents were forced to move as entire blocks of old homes, business, and ... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_79 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Another blow was the construction of Interstate 4, which cut east–west across the approximate center of the neighborhood. Besides resulting in the demolition of even more homes and other structures, the highway cut most of the north–south routes through the area. | [
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20231101.en_13208625_80 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Ybor City's cigar industry had been in decline for years by the early 1960s, but the most serious blow of all came in February 1962, when rising tensions between Fidel Castro's Cuban government and the United States led to an embargo on all imports from Cuba, including tobacco. Faced with the sudden end of the supply o... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_81 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | With the emptying of Ybor City in the 1950s and 1960s and the passing away of the first generations of immigrants, membership in Ybor City's mutual aide societies declined, and the clubs' offerings and amenities fell accordingly. By the 21st century, most survive as archival projects with very few members or services. | [
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20231101.en_13208625_82 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | The German-American Club shut down due to anti-German sentiments before World War II. Its building was used by the Young Men's Hebrew Association for several decades, and was subsequently purchased and remodeled by the city of Tampa in the late 1990s for city office space. El Centro Español ceased most operations in th... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_83 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | The remaining clubs have greatly reduced their benefits and focus most of their resources on preserving their history and buildings. The Cuban Club, Centro Asturiano, and Italian Club buildings have been at least partially restored using club dues, various fund raisers, rental fees on their ballrooms and theaters, and ... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_85 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | By the early 1970s, very few businesses and residents remained in the formerly bustling commercial center of Ybor City around 7th Avenue, most notably the Columbia Restaurant The northern portion of the neighborhood (now known as V.M. Ybor), which had been separated by I-4, still had a substantial population, but a cle... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_86 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Starting in the late 1980s, an influx of artists seeking interesting and inexpensive studio quarters began converting long-vacant storefronts along 7th Avenue into studio and gallery space, leading to a period of commercial gentrification. | [
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20231101.en_13208625_87 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | By the early 1990s, many of these same old brick buildings on 7th Avenue had been converted into bars, restaurants, nightclubs, and other nightlife attractions. The crowds grew until portions of the old neighborhood became a nighttime carnival, especially on weekends. The city built parking garages and closed 7th Ave.... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_89 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | The recovery has not impacted different portions of historic Ybor City equally nor at the same rate. While the once-abandoned commercial district south of Interstate 4 underwent much redevelopment during the 1990s, populated areas north of I-4 and east of 22nd St. did not. Despite years of public and private attempts t... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_91 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | Most Tampa cigar factories were made of wood and by 2018, only two such structures remained: the Oliva factory, totally renovated and converted into apartments, and the Salvador Rodriguez Co. on 22nd St. S. in the Palmetto Beach area, now an office building. | [
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20231101.en_13208625_92 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | The local museum is the Ybor City Museum State Park in the former Ferlita Bakery building (originally La Joven Francesca) building on 9th Avenue. Tours of the gardens and the "casitas" (small homes of cigar company workers) are provided by a ranger. Exhibits, period photos and a video cover the founding of Ybor City an... | [
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20231101.en_13208625_93 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | In July 2018 the Tampa Bay Rays announced their plans to build their new stadium in Ybor city. In December 2018 the team announced that the Ybor City location was no longer viable. | [
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20231101.en_13208625_94 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ybor%20City | History of Ybor City | As of 2023, one cigar factory was still in operation in Ybor City, the J. C. Newman Cigar Company, which moved to Tampa from Ohio in 1954 and took over the previous Regensburg cigar factory. The company was continuing to utilize some antique, hand-operated ARENCO and American Machine and Foundry cigarmaking machines fr... | [
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