Fortunate indeed if you ever found Alessi's bakery..........

Publius — 6/15/2006 1:56:25 AM (archived)

A couple of points you might enjoy about the cigar heyday: Tampa was the first place in the United States where men and women enjoyed equal pay for equal work, the typical Tampan earned $ 1. per day, cigar workers averaged $ 5. per day. I am searching back in memory, but the Cuban population had one of the first comprehensive medical programs in the nation for their workers in a facility called Centralato Austrilato (?) (I am going to have to look this name up, the building is still there and undergoing restoration) the typical Tampan was some 27 per cent literate, the cigar people 99 per cent, the workers came to Tampa both from Key West and New Orleans, the ethnic breakdown was about 2/3 Cuban, 1/3 Italian. Almost all were Roman Catholic, which was another scary element to the native Tampans. Those shotgun residences were one of the first "Levit towns" in the US and were advertised in the NY papers for $ 750.

The history of Tampa and the cigar industry and the people involved is both rich and charming. And, it enriched the area culture and brought Tampa a legacy of having the best food in Florida.

Publius

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Fortunate Son - ER - 6/14/2006 1:22:26 AM
- re: Fortunate Son - ER - 6/15/2006 2:31:07 AM
- Fortunate indeed if you ever found Alessi's bakery.......... - Publius - 6/15/2006 1:56:25 AM
  - re: Fortunate indeed if you ever found Alessi's bakery.......... - ER - 6/15/2006 2:07:43 AM
- re: Fortunate Son - Tom Brosz - 6/14/2006 6:59:32 PM
  - Creedence, not GWB. - ER - 6/14/2006 8:44:15 PM
- Americans did not invent racism - FrankC - 6/14/2006 5:46:16 AM
  - I agree with you Frankie.......... - Lindy - 6/14/2006 5:26:19 PM
    - And roast pork and yucca with butter and salt and pepper. mmmmm - alcaray - 6/14/2006 10:12:53 PM
      - So you know about yucca? Lucky man! - ER - 6/14/2006 10:31:47 PM
    - Frankie - FrankC - 6/14/2006 7:30:21 PM
      - Well! - Lindy - 6/14/2006 11:03:31 PM
    - Oye, Yanqui! Un sanwiche Cubano, por favor. - ER - 6/14/2006 6:00:09 PM
      - I'll settle for un media noche et cafe coladito, por favor...... (n/t) - Publius - 6/14/2006 8:34:50 PM
        
        "media noche = "midnighter" - ER - 6/14/2006 8:49:49 PM
        
        Gracias... pero, que es un "cafe coladito"? (n/t) - Fox - 6/15/2006 12:49:58 AM
        
        Die, Yuppie scum. - ER - 6/15/2006 1:46:15 AM
        
        Cuesta Rey 95 comes close................. (n/t) - Publius - 6/15/2006 1:59:17 AM
      - "the piece of bread at each end of the baguette" - Tom Brosz - 6/14/2006 7:00:50 PM
        
        Anatomical bread - Laurie Street - 6/14/2006 9:44:32 PM
        
        "Called the heel here" - Mary Anne - 6/14/2006 11:47:29 PM
        
        re: "Called the heel here" - Fox - 6/15/2006 12:51:04 AM
        
        Bread - Laurie Street - 6/15/2006 7:52:04 PM
        
        re: Bread - Lindy - 6/16/2006 5:24:01 AM
        
        Kaslo - Laurie Street - 6/16/2006 6:27:13 AM
        
        re: Kaslo - Lindy - 6/18/2006 10:24:22 PM
        
        re: Kaslo - Lindy - 6/16/2006 4:56:52 PM
        
        Bagels - Tom Brosz - 6/16/2006 5:04:20 AM
        
        Oddly enough, it is called the pancreas here (n/t) - R.L. - 6/15/2006 7:24:15 PM
        
        I didn't know baguettes had made it to the midwest yet. - ER - 6/14/2006 8:21:32 PM
        
        We called it French bread. - Tom Brosz - 6/15/2006 12:56:08 AM
        
        So do the Cubans! - ER - 6/15/2006 1:54:26 AM
      - Pentagon spying on your sandwich preferences....LOOK here! - Lindy - 6/14/2006 6:50:42 PM
        
        I don't care what they collect, as long as they spell my name right. - ER - 6/14/2006 8:25:10 PM
        
        I'm in trouble now. - ER - 6/14/2006 8:57:51 PM
- re: Fortunate Son - Laurie Street - 6/14/2006 4:21:26 AM

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