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, Aug. 3, 1937

Mrs. Culp's Diary, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 1937

A visit to the Beach Park neighborhood

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Mrs. Culp's Diary, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 1937
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Mrs. Culp and a friend, May Phillips, visited a Mrs. T—’s “beautiful residence” in the Tampa neighborhood of Beach Park. Now considered one of old Tampa’s loveliest areas, Beach Park was for a while a victim of the Florida Land Rush of the 1920s, according to an article in Tampa Magazine. Writes Rodney Kite-Powell, “The boom came to a crashing end in la…

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