Sunland Tribune Volume 26 01/01/2000 Article 9 2000 Tampa at Midcentury: 1950 Gary Mormino Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/sunlandtribune Recommended Citation Mormino, Gary (2000) "Tampa at Midcentury: 1950," Sunland Tribune: Vol. 26 , Article 9. Available at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/sunlandtribune/vol26/iss1/9 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Sunland Tribune by an authorized editor of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Tampa at Midcentury: 1950 Dr. Gary Mormino Miami surged by 59 percent and 45 percent respectfully. To most Tampa The 1950s triggered Tampa Bay’s Big leaders, the lesson was simple: Expand Bang. National prosperity, Social or Die. Indeed, the early 1950s spawned Security, and Cold War defense a number of annexation attempts to bring spending made the Florida Dream into Tampa’s boundaries the population possible to new generations of rich neighborhoods of Palma Ceia, Americans. Technological wizardry, Beach Park, Sulphur Springs, and Port most notably air conditioning, DDT, and Tampa City.1 superhighways, made Florida endurable and endearing. In 1950, Hillsborough The schism between Tampa and and Pinellas Counties totaled 409,143 Hillsborough County widened in the late residents. By the end of the decade, the 1940s and early 1950s, when for the first two counties combined had almost time, the county’s population gains three-quarters of a million residents, an outpaced the city’s. For almost a century, astounding population increase of 89 Tampa had claimed the lion’s share of percent.