The University of Tampa in downtown Tampa, Florida is host to one of the most unusual architectural buildings Kongo has seen in some time and was completely surprised to discover it during a business trip there this week. The former Tampa Bay Hotel was built by railroad magnate Henry Pant in 1888 as one of […]
Kongo took a walk through Tampa’s historic Ybor City district this afternoon. Ybor City, just about a mile from downtown Tampa, was founded by immigrants from Cuba, Spain, and Italy in the 1880s. The industry of the day was cigar making and Ybor City immigrants rolled millions of cigars annually. You can still find places
Kongo left chilly New York yesterday and flew down to Tampa where it was 81 degrees when he stepped off the plane. What a difference a flight makes! In NYC there was constant hustle and bustle, crowds, traffic, people scurrying about, horns honking, sirens whooping. In Tampa the traffic is civilized and sparse. When Kongo
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