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Sunland Tribune Volume 20 Article 1 1994 Full Issue Sunland Tribune Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/sunlandtribune Recommended Citation Tribune, Sunland (1994) "Full Issue," Sunland Tribune: Vol. 20 , Article 1. Available at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/sunlandtribune/vol20/iss1/1 This Full Issue 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]. Table of Contents THE PRESIDENT’S REPORT By Charles A. Brown, President, Tampa Historical Society 1 TONY PIZZO Ã1912-1994 By Leland M. Hawes, Jr. 3 JAMES T. MAGBEE: “Union Man, Undoubted Secessionist, and High Priest in the Radical Synagogue” By Kyle S. VanLandingham 7 THE POLITICS, GREED REGULATOR VIOLENCE, AND RACE IN TAMPA, 1858-1859 By Canter Brown, Jr. 25 SUNLAND FORGING THE FLORIDA FRONTIER: The Life and Career of Captain TRIBUNE Samuel E. Hope By Joe Knetsch 31 Volume XX November, 1994 FLORIDA: JEWEL OF THE GILDED AGE Journal of the By Hampton Dunn 43 TAMPA HISTORICAL SOCIETY The Olivette and Mascotte of the Plant Steamship Line Tampa, Florida By Arsenio M. Sanchez 49 KYLE S. VanLANDINGHAM BAYSHORE BOULEVARD: A BRIEF LOOK AT ITS HISTORIC PAST Editor in Chief By Charles A. Brown 51 1994 Officers OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS ONCE: A Conversation with Manuel “Curly” Onis CHARLES A. BROWN By Wes Singletary 55 President “MY NATIONAL TROUBLES” The Civil War Papers of William McCullough Introduction and Notes By Kyle S. VanLandingham 59 KYLE S. VanLANDINGHAM Vice President THE OAKLAWN CEMETERY RAMBLE – 1994 By Arsenio M. Sanchez 87 MARY J. BROWN Secretary 1994 D. B. McKAY AWARD 89 LOIS LATIMER TAMPA PASTIMES 90 Treasurer MEET THE AUTHORS 92 Board of Directors Ralph N. Beaver 1994 SUNLAND TRIBUNE PATRONS 93 Rowena F. Brady Paul E. Camp TAMPA HISTRICAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP ROSTER – September 19, 1994 94 Jo Ann H. Cimino Lula J. Dovi The 1994 Sunland Tribune is dedicated to the memory of Tony Pizzo, founder and Frances Henriquez first president of The Tampa Historical Society. George B. Howell, III The Sunland Tribune is the official annual publication of Tampa Historical Society, Frank R. North distributed to members each year. Non-members may receive limited edition issues Scott L. Peeler, Jr. by contacting the Society at 259-1111. Paul R. Pizzo Bill Schricker Individuals interested in contributing manuscripts for consideration should send them Richard Sessums to the headquarters no later than July 1 of each calender year. The Sunland Tribune Barbara G. Reeves, Committee will review, accept or reject articles and will return all photographs and president ex officio materials not selected for publication. All manuscripts should be no more than twelve double-spaced typed pages in length and should include footnotes, lists of Headquarters sources as well as captions for all photographs submitted. 245 S. Hyde Park Avenue Tampa, FL 33606 Phone (813) 259-1111 The President’s Report Ferman family and Michael Kilgore, Marketing Director for the Tampa Tribune have given generous financial support to further develop the mission of this society. Scott Peeler put forth a fine effort on our historical marker book. Richard Sessums worked extremely hard to ensure the success of our Annual Spring Sale. Jeff Gordon, JoAnn Cimino, and Arsenio Sanchez spent countless hours of their time with the Oaklawn Cemetery project. Frank North is producing our splendid newsletter, and Frank Smith continues to donate his time on our taxes. Our house volunteers, Lu Dovi, Olga Henriquez, Marguerite Marunda, have been invaluable. Barbara Reeves and George Howell continue to provide me with their advice and support. Leland Hawes and Hampton Dunn have given generously of themselves throughout the year. Mary CHARLES A. BROWN Brown continues to do an excellent job as President our Recording Secretary. I'd like to offer my personal thanks to the other members of the The Tampa Historical Society has Board of Directors for their involvement in experienced a banner year in 1994. With the so many projects throughout this year. dedicated support of our members and friends, our accomplishments have been And Lois Latimer, whom I've been many. The renovation of our headquarters is privileged to have the pleasure of working complete, our membership has increased by with for two years, continues to be an over 100, and through the efforts of Kyle inspiration to us all. Her love, dedication, VanLandingham, you are receiving the and many hours of hard work have been a finest issue of The Sunland Tribune ever major factor in our success. produced. The future of The Tampa Historical Society The Board of Directors has made significant looks bright and your continued support and progress in providing a bright and stable encouragement will make our society one of future for this society. There arc numerous the finest in the state of Florida. individuals and families to thank for the support they have provided this year. The In closing, I want you to know that it has been a great honor to serve as president of this society, and I look forward to 1995. Thank you for the unending support and generosity that you, as members, have given to the society. Together, we will continue the very important process of preserving and promoting Tampa's history. Respectfully, Charles A. Brown TONY PIZZO 1912 - 1994 By LELAND M. HAWES, JR. progress. It took 89 years to formally orga- nize a society. He was referring to the fact that the initial call for such a group had come back in 1882, when Judge J. G. Knapp urged its formation. He wrote in the weekly Sunland Tribune: "Tampa should have a historical society." When it finally did happen, it was entirely appropriate that Tony Pizzo should become the first president of the long-overdue society. For Tony Pizzo provided the spark that ignited the torch of history carried on today by his successors. And all of us agree that his passing in January 1994 dealt a sharp loss to the Tampa Historical Society. For the exuberant enthusiasm of the proud Tony Pizzo at age two native of Ybor City for Tampa history was evident almost until his last breath. "There is still so much more to do," he told those who Nobody remembers the exact date, but a gathered around his bedside at Memorial small group got together in Tony Pizzo's Hospital. home one day in the spring of 1971 to talk about forming the Tampa Historical Society. Tony had in mind another book -- an illustrated album depicting life in Ybor City, Nonita Cuesta Henson recalls that the initial based on the hundreds of photographs he gathering of a few organizers took place in had collected over the years. The pictures Tony's Florida room, overlooking his were assembled, but Tony hadn't been able beloved garden. It was there that her late to squeeze in the time to write the captions. husband, William E. Henson, offered to draw up incorporation papers for the new His own generosity of spirit and willingness society. to help others intruded on his time to such an extent that the Ybor book became an In a later recollection, Tony wrote: "The unfinished project. With his papers and formation of the Tampa Historical Society pictures going to the University of South emerges as a strange episode in our cultural Fifteen-year-old Tony Pizzo with a "Jenny Tony Pizzo in 1942 during World War II Plane" at Drew Field of going back to Sicily with my grandfather. Florida Library, it will fall to other My father was married to Rosalia Pizzolato, researchers to give the photographs new life. and, by the way, she lives today. But they face a formidable task. For only "My mother's father was Peter Pizzolato. He Tony knew the significance, the background opened a grocery store at Eighth Avenue and the nuances of many of the scenes he and 18th Street in Ybor City. It was called saved in his files. Tony's lifetime aptitude of Pizzolato Market, then Pizzo Grocery [then assimilating sights, sounds and memories Castellano and Pizzo]. The Little Sicily was incomparable. Market is located on that corner today. Born in 1912, the son of Rosalia Pizzolato "It's in our blood. When we owned the store and Paolo Pizzo, he grew up on Eighth in Ybor City, my mother worked right Avenue in a section almost exclusively alongside my dad, and they specialized in Italian. He explained his family background Cuban, Italian and Spanish food. My father in an interview with Tom McEwen: "My was a learned man. He was an impresario at paternal grandfather, Anthony Pizzo, came the clubs of Ybor City, and he formed the to New Orleans first from Sicily by what Sons of Italy Club here." was called the Lemon Route, coming on board a sailing vessel that was then bringing Pictures preserve some of Tony's own lemons. childhood of discovery: selling newspapers on the streets and in the clubs of Ybor City; “My father was born in New Orleans in watching patriotic parades in World War I; 1889 and came to Ybor City in 1901, instead Mr. and Mrs. Tony Pizzo on their 10th Wedding Anniversary - July 14, 1951 gulping spaghetti on a Boy Scout camping trip. "I've always had a spirit of adventure," he said. "I just wanted to discover my environment. I'd go to the railroad tracks and walk as far as Six Mile Creek. It was all Tony Pizzo as first "Mayor" of Ybor City -- wilderness in those days." 1952-53 once in a while an "A" would fall in.