Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between
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Mrs. Culp's Diary, Tuesday, April 20, 1937

Mrs. Culp's Diary, Tuesday, April 20, 1937

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Mrs. Culp's Diary, Tuesday, April 20, 1937
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A quiet day in Tampa. Mrs. Culp went to the city market and to the post office to mail a letter to her sister, Else. No bridge game at the Bay View Hotel today. "Sat in lobby a while and talked," she concluded. Here's a vintage postcard from ebay showing the Tampa post office in the 1930s. Incidentally, it only cost a penny to mail a postcard then.

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