Sunland Tribune Volume 16 Article 1 2018 Full Issue Sunland Tribune Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/sunlandtribune Recommended Citation Tribune, Sunland (2018) "Full Issue," Sunland Tribune: Vol. 16 , Article 1. Available at: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/sunlandtribune/vol16/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 ‘OUTFITTING A WAR LADY,’ Sketch by Kent Hagerman INSIDE FRONT COVER STRENGTHENING T. H. S. FOR THE FUTURE By James S. Judy, President, Tampa Historical Society 2 TAMPA THEATRE By Camille Cathy Symons 6 THE BLOSSOMING OF BLOOMINGDALE THE By Norma Goolsby Frazier 7 SUNLAND ILLEGAL BOLITA PAVED WAY FOR NEW LOTTERY 12 TRIBUNE THE DAMNEDEST TOWN THIS SIDE OF HELL: TAMPA, 1920-29, (Part I) By Dr. Frank Alduino 13 Volume XVI November, 1990 LIMONA FOUNDING MARKER UNVEILED 18 Journal of the THE BURGERT BROTHERS OF TAMPA, FLORIDA TAMPA HISTORICAL SOCIETY By Dr. Jack B. Moore and Dr. Robert E. Snyder 19 Tampa, Florida DR. JIM INGRAM, TAMPA HISTORIAN, DIES AT 68 HAMPTON DUNN By Leland Hawes 27 Editor REMEMBERING SCOTTISH CHIEF 28 Officers 1990 THE SAGA OF THE ‘SISTERS NINE’: ST. JOSEPH’S HOSPITAL JAMES JUDY By Dr. James M. Ingram 29 President SISTER MARIE CELESTE SULLIVAN AT ST. JOSEPH’S 25 YEARS 34 CHARLES JORDAN Vice President SHIPBUILDING IN TAMPA DURING WORLD WAR II MARY BROWN By Dr. Lewis N. Wynne 35 Recording Secretary ACCOUNTING FOR THE HOMELESS IN THE 1990 CENSUS LOIS LATIMER By Catherine E. Dixon 43 Corresponding Secretary 1990 D. B. McKAY AWARD WINNER: JOAN W. JENNEWEIN A. FRANK SMITH By Hampton Dunn 46 Treasurer LIST OF D. B. McKAY AWARD RECIPIENTS 47 Board of Directors BAR GIVES TONY PIZZO LIBERTY BELL AWARD 47 Ralph Beaver Jean Ann Cone CONGRESSMAN BENNETT ACCEPTS D. B. McKAY AWARD 48 George Howell Raymond Miller MAN ON OUR COVER: AL LOPEZ OF TAMPA 50 Florence Murphy Anthony Pizzo TV COMMENTATOR WIND ‘ANGEL AWARD’ 50 Barbara Reeves Arsenio Sanchez TAMPA COLLEGE 100 YEARS OLD 50 Becky Savitz Margaret V. Smith A HEART AT HALLOWEEN Lee Touchton By Hampton Dunn 51 Kyle Van Landingham KEEP THOSE CARDS AND LETTERS COMING 52 Ex-officio Terry Greenhalgh TAMPA CHARTERED FIRST BLOOD BANK By Dr. Paul J. Schmidt 54 Executive Director KEN MULDER DIGS BAY HISTORY 60 Patricia C. Davies MEET THE AUTHORS 62 Headquarters 245 S. Hyde Park Avenue TAMPA PASTIMES: THE DAY PRESIDENT KENNEDY VISITED Tampa, FL 33606 TAMPA 64 Phone (813) 259-1111 PIONEER COMMERCIAL LES AND YETIVE’S LOVE STORY, Page 51 PHOTOGRAPHER JEAN BURGERT INSIDE BACK COVER CONGRESSMAN BENNETT SHOWS OFF D. B. McKAY MEDAL BACK COVER The Sunland Tribune is the official annual publication of Tampa Historical Society, distributed to members each year. Non-members may receive limited edition issues by contacting the Society at 259-1111. Individuals interested in contributing manuscripts for consideration should send them to the headquarters no later than August 1 of each calender year. The Sunland Tribune Committee will review, accept or reject articles and will return all photographs and 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 sources as well as captions for all photographs submitted. LESTER AND YETIVE OLSEN . Longtime Sweethearts -Photo by HAMPTON DUNN The President's Report STRENGTHENING T.H.S. FOR THE FUTURE By JAMES S. JUDY enjoying a monthly lecture series in conjunction with The Henry B. Plant Museum. Also newly introduced are monthly "bring a friend" socials at the Knight House, to not only socialize, but bring in new members. On tap, too, is an overnight "field trip " to St. Augustine. Historical markers honoring West Tampa and the Scottish Chief have been unveiled and our quarterly newsletter has been reintroduced. Continued cooperation with the History Museum of Tampa/Hillsborough County board brings us ever closer to the reality of a history museum in which to exhibit our rich heritage. T.H.S. hosted a reception for this year's Florida Historical Society's annual convention which took place in Tampa and was a big success. So, as we face the challenge presented to us in the '90s, I would like to ask each of you to help us with your program ideas, As we move into the 1990s, we find volunteerism, your membership (and that of ourselves having to modernize and change a friend), and professional and financial in order to preserve the past. assistance. Two-plus years without a director has taken I would like to thank my predecessor, Terry its toll, and I am enormously pleased to Greenhalgh for paving the way for me, our announce that THS now has a director. She board of directors who work so hard to make is Patricia Davies, and she has become a it happen, our volunteers, Patricia Davies, very busy person by catching up with our and especially Lois Latimer for her past and planning for the future. Our ac- countless hours of dedication. tivities are increasing manyfold. We are now TAMPA THEATRE By CAMILLE CATHY SYMONS First Serial Rights #1990 A faint 20s overture emits from red brick around the ticket booth under the old marquee, up to the highest seat in the balcony where a star-lit ceiling blinks and a cloud machine filters a blue view. From a lion's mouth, in this pirate's dream, coral-castle, sea remnant palace, performers' eyes gleam deep into footlights. Deco lamps cast emerald light on carved fruit growing into men, and a stone priest stares at sideshow banter, maligning possible falls. Gryphon storms hover over French doors leading nowhere. Lobster crowns circle the proscenium and seahorse ribbons roll from saintly knees. By the stage, a chipped scholar SOUTH'S MOST BEAUTIFUL THEATRE studies a naked youth's flute. -Photo from HAMPTON DUNN Shells enclose orators at stone windows COLLECTION as the velvet curtain slowly hushes. In the lobby cherubim assuage thirst in child-sized shells. Wide twin stairs Operatic voices died here invite grand strides amid marbled where athletes fall from the frieze. shuffling. Eagles fly by cupid's eyes. Tulip and heart-lit art transpires. Fellini phones. Garbo sinks. Gato salves. Orson, in a film noir (Rita blonde as an Clouds in the ceiling, angels in flight, angel) Mighty Wurlitzer rolling on stage, makes sharks poetic, in silhouette. built for the evening when movies were new, a projection of city's pride THE BLOSSOMING OF BLOOMINGDALE By NORMA GOOLSBY FRAZIER LANDMARK STILL IN EXISTENCE The 1884 Bloomingdale School Building located on Pearson Road in Bloomingdale. It was later converted to a residence with a room added on the west side and a porch added on the east side of the small wooden structure. -Photo by HAMPTON DUNN It was to little more than a wilderness they The aroma of flowering trees filled the fresh came, in the spring of 1872, after one of the spring air with dogwoods, magnolias, and coldest Alabama winters any of the Hendrix sweet bay trees adorning the riverbanks. family could remember ever having ex- Stands of thick yellow pines were found in perienced. The hills and fields were bathed abundance nearby. The beautiful Alafia in blossoms of wild flowers such as purple River, its banks blanketed in crimson and violets, wild irises, and beautiful tiger lilies white by the dogwood blossoms, was clear growing in the wet marshlands around the and full of fish "for the catchin'," and the Alafia River. favored delicacy, "swamp cabbage," the heart of the sabal palm, was readily colors in nature, would be their home. And so, this land, found near the center of the beautiful state of Florida, was quite appropriately named Bloomingdale Valley. Father James, his three sons, Reuben, Pete, and Noah, their wives, together with his daughters, their husbands, and children, were the ancestral pioneers of the many present-day Hendrix, Parrish, and Garner family members still residing in the community today. "Uncle Dan" Kelly, the much-loved uncle and husband of Lucy Hendrix Kelly, was among the adventurous group. The couple had no children of their own but children were always made welcome in their home. "Uncle Dan," who had served as an officer in the Civil War, and as an engineer, was not only married to Lucy Hendrix, but was a first cousin of Lucy's mother, Drucilla Corley Hendrix. "Uncle Dan" told many tales to youngsters who visited the Kelly home which is still standing near the intersection of Lithia- Pine crest Road and Bloomingdale Avenue, being located near the northeast corner. The children also loved to play on the old cannonball which rested in "Uncle Dan's" yard near the Kelly barn, which also held SLAIN BY INDIANS The headstone of John Carney who was killed another early treasure, an old black buggy and scalped by Indians (who thought he was on which the children took many "pretend" stealing their hogs) on April 17, 1856. The trips while seated at its helm. Another relic grave is located on the old ~ Carney plantation of earlier times, remembered by older family site Just east of Lithia/Pinecrest Road on members who spent many Sunday Stearns Road. afternoons in homestyle church gatherings or just socializing in the Kelly couple's spacious yard, was Aunt Lucy's spinning available and found in the swamplands near wheel. The Kelly homesite then extended the river. eastward from Miller Road to Pearson Road and fronted on Bloomingdale Avenue.