Cars Parked near Liquor Store, Tampa

Creator

Progress Village

Files

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Creation Date

1-1-1950

Time Period

circa 1950s-1960s

Abstract

Vehicles parked next to a building with a sign that reads "Package Liquors." St. James Episcopal Church is the brick building in the background. This photo was used during a presentation promoting Progress Village, a suburb community designed to provide Tampa's Black residents with homes and yards in satisfactory surroundings with adequate zoning.

Keywords

Liquor stores, Church buildings, Black wall streets

Extent

1 color photograph

Subject: geographic

Hillsborough County (Fla.); Tampa (Fla.)

Physical Collection

Progress Village Collection

Box

3

Folder

15

Digital Date

2024

Media Type

Color photographs

Note

"The Scrub" neighborhood was founded by freed enslaved people after the Civil War just north of downtown Tampa and near Central Avenue's thriving Black-owned businesses including the Pyramid Hotel started by Isaac Gardner. It consisted of over 600 homes, housing workers for nearby lumber mills. It was declared a slum by the City of Tampa in the 1950s and razed to create the Central Park Village housing development. Parts of the area were razed again to build I-275 in the 1950s.

The brick church in the background has been preserved by the Tampa Bay History Center and will tentatively open in 2026 as Tampa's Black History Museum.

Identifier

progress_village_images_1007

Recommended Citation

Progress Village, "Cars Parked near Liquor Store, Tampa" (1950). Progress Village Collection - Images. Image 8.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/progress_village_images/8