Cigar City
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Cigar City Stories
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2012-09-28
Cigar City Stories written by and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-28 with Fiction categories.
In 1885, Vincent Martinez Ybor, a Spanish entrepreneur, purchased forty acres east of Tampa and built a company town of tall red-brick factories and small wood-frame houses for the workers. Over the next forty years, this community of cigar-makers from Cuba, Spain, and Italy grew into a thriving industry that made Tampa the Cigar Capital of the World. The urban renewal of the 1960s, however, struck a deathblow to Ybor City; thousands of cigar-makers homes and businesses were leveled by bulldozers, and an interstate highway stormed through the dying neighborhood. The narratives, reflecting a coming-of-age in this colorful community that no longer exists, speak of a kidnapping, a hold-up, a shark attack, a deadly duel, and a murder. A teenager comes to grips with his sexual identity, an activist mother resists Jim Crow laws, and an unexpected baby changes everyones life. In Cigar City Stories, author Emilio Gonzalez-Llanes presents a collection of short stories that provides a snapshot of this lost island in time. Julian stood on that raised platform in the middle of the factory floor, reading to the workers: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Les Miserables, writings of Cervantes, newspapers, and the poems of Jos Marti. He didnt just read the words; he took on the voice and mannerisms of the characters in the novels, like an actor in the theater. Good performances were followed by the sustained thumping roar of two hundred chavetas, or tobacco knives, repeatedly striking the workers tobacco-cutting boards. from El Lector
Cigar City Stories
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Author : Emilio Gonzalez-Llanes
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2012
Cigar City Stories written by Emilio Gonzalez-Llanes and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Fiction categories.
In 1885, Vincent Martinez Ybor, a Spanish entrepreneur, purchased forty acres east of Tampa and built a company town of tall red-brick factories and small wood-frame houses for the workers. Over the next forty years, this community of cigar-makers from Cuba, Spain, and Italy grew into a thriving industry that made Tampa the "Cigar Capital of the World." The urban renewal of the 1960s, however, struck a deathblow to Ybor City; thousands of cigar-makers' homes and businesses were leveled by bulldozers, and an interstate highway stormed through the dying neighborhood. The narratives, reflecting a coming-of-age in this colorful community that no longer exists, speak of a kidnapping, a hold-up, a shark attack, a deadly duel, and a murder. A teenager comes to grips with his sexual identity, an activist mother resists Jim Crow laws, and an unexpected baby changes everyone's life. In Cigar City Stories, author Emilio Gonzalez-Llanes presents a collection of short stories that provides a snapshot of this lost island in time. Julian stood on that raised platform in the middle of the factory floor, reading to the workers: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Les Miserables, writings of Cervantes, newspapers, and the poems of José Marti. He didn't just read the words; he took on the voice and mannerisms of the characters in the novels, like an actor in the theater. Good performances were followed by the sustained thumping roar of two hundred chavetas, or tobacco knives, repeatedly striking the workers' tobacco-cutting boards. -from "El Lector"
Cigar City
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Author : Paul Wilborn
language : en
Publisher: St Petersburg Press
Release Date : 2020-04-30
Cigar City written by Paul Wilborn and has been published by St Petersburg Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-30 with categories.
Cigar City: Tales From a 1980s Creative Ghetto, is a collection of linked short stories about the young artists, writers, poets, musicians and actors who inhabited Tampa's Ybor City in the 1980s. Drawn by urban authenticity and cheap rents, they created a surreal, chaotic arts scene set against the backdrop of the empty cigar factories and shotgun shacks of Tampa's immigrant past. Ybor drew international artists like James Rosenquist, Jim Dine and dozens more, and mirrored what was happening in New York's Alphabet City.The stories are fictional but they capture the spirit of the district during the 1980s. The collection is illustrated with photos from the era by Bud Lee and David Audet.
Cigar City Mafia
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Author : Scott M. Deitche
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005-05
Cigar City Mafia written by Scott M. Deitche and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05 with History categories.
"Complete with a profile index of each known Trafficante family member, Cigar City Mafia shows readers the local factories, bolita gambling houses, and the Hillsborough River. There a new body floated to the surface practically every other day."--Jacket
Key West
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Author : L. Glenn Westfall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Key West written by L. Glenn Westfall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Cigar industry categories.
Mart City
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Author : L. Glenn Westfall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Mart City written by L. Glenn Westfall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Cigar industry categories.
Cigar City Architecture And Legacy
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Author : Wallace Reyes
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-04-27
Cigar City Architecture And Legacy written by Wallace Reyes and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-27 with categories.
Tampa's architecture is quite diverse and reflects the city's history and ethnic culture. Depending upon the part of the city you are visiting, the architecture can vary widely. While the downtown boasts a modern skyline, reflecting Tampa's commitment to its economic future, Tampa's oldest neighborhood, Hyde Park, is full of beautiful Arts and Crafts style, early 20th-century bungalow homes and businesses. The buildings in Tampa's Ybor City neighborhood reflect the area's Spanish-Cuban roots with their balconies decorated with iron lace and hacienda-style facades. In my previous work I presented you how the cigar industry grew and helped in the development of the city, and the region with their problems and accomplishments. In this new work I present you the architecture as a result prior, during and after the influence of the cigar industry. I present you some of the many structures that are silent witnesses of our past. From cigar factories, public buildings and private structures their individual history and their creators. As a historian and researcher I found their background very important and interesting to be overlook, therefore this book is dedicated to "Cigar City Architecture and Legacy..."
Florida Breweries
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Author : Gerard Walen
language : en
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Release Date : 2014-04-01
Florida Breweries written by Gerard Walen and has been published by Stackpole Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-01 with Travel categories.
The craft brew revolution has spread south. This all-new guidebook profiles the Sunshine State's 66 breweries and brewpubs.
Once A Cigar Maker
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Author : Patricia Ann Cooper
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1987
Once A Cigar Maker written by Patricia Ann Cooper and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
Patricia A. Cooper charts the course of competition, conflict, and camaraderie among American cigar makers during the two decades that preceded mechanization of their work. In the process, she reconstructs the work culture, traditions, and daily lives of the male cigar makers who were members of the Cigar Makers' International Union of America (CMIU) and of the nonunion women who made cigars under a division of labor called the "team system." But Cooper not only examines the work lives of these men and women, she also analyzes their relationship to each other and to their employers during these critical years of the industry's transition from hand craft to mass production."
Annual Report
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Author : Pennsylvania. Dept. of Factory Inspector
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
Annual Report written by Pennsylvania. Dept. of Factory Inspector and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with categories.