Here is the man behind the name of the city--Vicente Ybor. He is responsible for bringing the cigar factory to Tampa. Cuban, Italian and Jewish immigrants migrated to the city and worked in the factories.
They have a trolley in Ybor.
This Saturday Market sign is upside down. A sign of discontent and strife?
Ybor City Museum
The museum is housed in this old Cuban bread bakery.
Some guy would crawl into the oven while it was still hot to repair the broken tiles. He would cover himself in wet burlap to do it.
El lector. This person was paid by the workers to read to them. El ingenioso hidalogo Don Quijote de la mancha was a popular read.
Factory work station.
Damn cigarettes.
Ten Year War
José Martí would stay in the house of Paulina Pedroso, a black Cuban immigrant, while staying in Ybor city in order to raise support for the Cuban independence movement. He would often stay up late into the night writing by candle light in her and her husbands house which is now a park commemorating Martí and his devotion to Cuban independence.
Immigrant Statue
Teddy was one rough rider cowboy.
These mosaic tiles are found outside the Columbia restaurant which has very good Cuban food. I love this tile and got a couple of post cards of it.
My mom and I. I had the loma de cerdo (pork) and we shared a pitcher of Mojitos. There were Cubans working there and eating there which I loved. It really reminded me of eating in Cuba especially when the Cuban guys kept checking me out to the point that even my mother noticed. That is Cuban men for you. God help you if you are a woman and a foreigner in Cuba. They will look at you no matter what. They are way more sexual and open then we are.
Here I am an amigo de José Martí. This park where Paulina Pedroso's house once sat is now a park owned by the Cuban government. The park is run by Cuban exiles now who keep it under lock because of vandalism which may be political in nature. They only keep the park open during the week for a couple of hours. Inside is soil from each of the provinces of Cuba. This kind of park is very common in Cuba.
Here he is the man who is adored by all Cubans.
I put my foot in trying to once again touch Cuban land. If I could go back I would....I really would. It makes me so sad that maybe I never will be able to go back. It was so expensive for me to go the first time through UB, I couldn't even afford it then, but I did it anyways. Now I can only go illegally and risk being punished for doing so. Land of the free people, land of the free.
I also stopped at this photo exhibit of pictures from Cuba. They had some nice work there, but I was expecting way more. I could have contributed if I had known.
Heheh... I made everyone pick up their plastic bottles and take them home, today at the evil cafeteria. My beady little eyes work their hardest magic during lunch. ;)
You really couldn't ever be carbon-free in our society. Even the Amish are buzzing around at the greyhound station and at airports. I'm not sure how they claim to be going carbon free, but at least they are making attempts. Like (e:terry) said, they are referring to pollutants, mainly the one that causes global warming. Whatever we do really is producing more carbon dioxide which now even the oceans aren't able to absorb like they used to. Less trees, the saturation of the oceans, increasing levels of pollutants are all contributing to the changes in temperature we are all ready seeing. We are not responding fast enough to these changes.
One of my friends knew a person who was responsible for wearing the costume and being the Duke mascot at Duke games (I grew up in Durham, where Duke is based).
i believe he means carbon emissions, ie: CO2, methane, etc, and not just carbon the element in general.
sorry, but what does carbon-free mean? Pretty much everything has carbon in it...
Your post just gave me a great idea for a costume of course it is to late now, not that I would have any idea how to get or make this costume but to go as a blue devil as in the mascot and name of the Duke basketball team.