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Tampa downtown at twilight. The reflecting sunset rays on the skylines. Composed from the pedestrian bridge over Hillsborough river near convention center.
This trestle across the top of Old Tampa Bay was built in 1913 by the Tampa & Gulf Coast Railroad to connect Tampa with southern Pinellas County. The line once carried Seaboard Air Line Railway trains, and is still used today by the CSX for freight operations. Mark Lessard photo
Clearwater Beach Florida ranks in the top 10 best beaches in the USA. With the new boardwalk and new resorts added in the last few years, it definitely shows character this side of Tampa Bay area.
CSX power sits in the engine storage track above Lakeview Road in Clearwater in 1989. It includes U36B slug mother 5758 with MATE 5224, both in early CSX livery, and GP16 locomotive 1747 with the older Family Lines paint scheme. Courtesy Mark Zielinski
The city of Tampa is situated on the west coast of Florida along the Gulf of Mexico. This city is the economic center of western Florida. The central financial district is an area of high-rise office towers, but Tampa also has historic old sections such as Ybor City and Old Hyde Park.
The maps drawn by the Spanish conquistadors show a number of Indian settlements around the Tampa Bay area. In 1824 the Americans built a fort at the mouth of the Hillsborough River directed against the Seminole Indians. After the Second Seminole War a port and trading center were established here, and this soon developed into a regional center. The Civil War brought a period of stagnation, until a boost was given to the town by the construction of the South Florida Railroad.
Towards the end of the 19th century Tampa became a fashionable winter resort. In 1886 the Cuban cigar manufacturer Vincente Martinez Ybor moved his business to Tampa and a new quarter, Ybor City, was built for his Spanish-speaking employees. The mining of phosphates in the surrounding area also gave a stimulus to the city's development.
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It had just stopped raining and the sun came out decorating the beautiful blue sky with a rainbow. The mangrove trees bordering the bay looked greener than before. What more can i ask when i have clear skies, blue bay, green trees and a rainbow - all in one picture!!
Casting illumination over the lounge area, tea (left) and coffee (right) bars of The Oxford Exchange.
420 W Kennedy Blvd
The Oxford Exchange is a one-of-a-kind establishment in downtown Tampa Bay. It has a boutique housewares and home decor, bookstore, tea/coffee lounge, upstairs office space, Champagne Lounge and upscale restaurant (see the glass sunlit Conservatory) downtown Tampa, off W Kennedy Blvd.
This business is what Tampa Bay is striving to show others: it's a little bit of everything people need, with an artisan touch.
Tampa (/ˈtæmpə/) is a major city in, and the county seat of, Hillsborough County, Florida, United States. It is located on the west coast of Florida on Tampa Bay, near the Gulf of Mexico, and is the largest city in the Tampa Bay Area. The city had a population of 335,709 at the 2010 census, and an estimated population of 369,075 in 2015.
Archaeological evidence indicates that the shores of Tampa Bay were inhabited by indigenous peoples for thousands of years. The Safety Harbor culture developed in the area around the year 1000 AD, and the descendant Tocobaga and Pohoy chiefdoms were living in or near the current city limits of Tampa when the area was first visited by Spanish explorers in the 16th century. Interactions between native peoples and the Spanish were brief and often violent, and although the newcomers did not stay for long, they introduced European diseases which brought the total collapse of native societies across the entire Florida peninsula over the ensuing decades. Although Spain claimed all of Florida and beyond as part of New Spain, it did not found a colony on the west coast. After the disappearance of the indigenous populations, there were no permanent settlements in the Tampa Bay area until after the United States acquired Florida from Spain in 1821.
In 1824, the United States Army established a frontier outpost called Fort Brooke at the mouth of the Hillsborough River, near the site of today's Tampa Convention Center downtown. The first civilian residents were pioneer ranchers and farmers who settled near the fort for protection from the nearby Seminole population. The town grew slowly, and had become a minor shipping port for cattle and citrus by the time of the United States Civil War. Tampa Bay was blockaded by the United States Navy during the war, and Tampa fell into a long period of economic stagnation that continued long after the war ended. The situation finally improved in the 1880s, when the first railroad links, the discovery of phosphate, and the arrival of the cigar industry jump-started its development, helping Tampa to grow from an isolated village with less than 800 residents in 1880 to a bustling city of over 30,000 by the early 1900s.
Today, Tampa is part of the metropolitan area most commonly referred to as the "Tampa Bay Area". For U.S. Census purposes, Tampa is part of the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. The four-county area is composed of roughly 2.9 million residents,making it the second largest metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the state, and the fourth largest in the Southeastern United States, behind Miami, Washington, D.C. and Atlanta. The Greater Tampa Bay area has over 4 million residents and generally includes the Tampa and Sarasota metro areas. The Tampa Bay Partnership and U.S. Census data showed an average annual growth of 2.47 percent, or a gain of approximately 97,000 residents per year. Between 2000 and 2006, the Greater Tampa Bay Market experienced a combined growth rate of 14.8 percent, growing from 3.4 million to 3.9 million and hitting the 4 million population mark on April 1, 2007.[13] A 2012 estimate shows the Tampa Bay area population to have 4,310,524 people and a 2017 projection of 4,536,854 people.
Tampa was ranked as the 5th best outdoor city by Forbes in 2008.[15] Tampa also ranks as the fifth most popular American city, based on where people want to live, according to a 2009 Pew Research Center study.[16] A 2004 survey by the New York University newspaper Washington Square News ranked Tampa as a top city for "twenty-somethings." Tampa is ranked as a "Gamma+" world city by Loughborough University, ranked alongside other world cities such as Phoenix, Charlotte, Rotterdam, and Santo Domingo.
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How about including a Bench Monday in my 365. Taken on my last morning walk before heading back to the cold weather.
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The forecast called for a cloudy, overcast day, and it was at the start of the day. Knowing that I had plans later in the day, I decided to go out and take my shot of the day. When I got near the edge of the Bay, I was lucky to have the clouds opened up a little just in time for to let the sun out. Probably wouldn't have gone out, if it wasn't for the
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After taking the S-line from Clearwater, the northbound Amtrak Champion leaves the east leg of Tampa's Gary Wye and prepares for the track switches that will allow the train to back into Tampa Union Station on July 3, 1977. A crewman has already positioned himself at the vestibule for the reverse move. Courtesy Fred Clark, Jr.
Dramatic Deluge Whipping Winds Rushing Rain Sunday Surreal Seaside Sunset - IMRAN™
This was the last Sunday sunset of 2024. And it was magical.
Yes, my GSD K2 just HAD to go for a walk in this rain. It was a typical surreal random thunderstorm and torrential rain occurrence. Did you see the video earlier?
The colors of the sky — with sunset across the horizon and layers of an aerial river gushing past my blessed home — are so beautiful. I’m so grateful for everything.
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This 1962 photo, looking west along First Avenue South from Bayshore Drive, shows an EMD diesel electric switcher locomotive in use at the St. Petersburg ACL depot. The switcher brought the Champion down to the station, and is now waiting to move the train that arrived earlier in the morning back to the railroad yard after the Champion departs. Courtesy City of St. Petersburg
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What can be more fun than a seaside sunset scene with boats going by on Tampa Bay, Florida, as my two German Shepherd Dogs, Kennedy and K2, play Tug of War with fallen dried palm fronds at a neighbor's empty lot. It was a really busy day so I have not had a chance to take them for a longer walk all day. I just finished my last conference call at 6PM which is not unusual even on a Friday. Come enjoy some fun. Like, Love, Comment, click Share!
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