This 40-page magazine style special edition comes packed with rare mafia photos and articles of the Mafia era in Tampa. Released in previous back issues of Cigar City Magazine, we included all of our historical mafia stories and photo's in just one special issue.

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This 40-page magazine style special edition comes packed with rare baseball photos and articles of 100 Years of Baseball in Tampa. Released in many previous back issues of Cigar City Magazine, we include all of our historical baseball stories and photo's in just one special issue.

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During the investigation of Velasco’s murder, a “payoff list” was discovered that named elected officials, law enforcement officers and others who allegedly took money from Velasco in return for protection and favors. This list thrust Tampa’s crooked ways into the national spotlight.

However, in February 1949, a grand jury declared the payoff list to be a fraud, made up to tarnish the good names of public officials. The names on the list were never exposed to the public and the list was then locked away so that no one would ever see it…until now. READ MORE

January 10, 2011 marked the 150th anniversary of Florida’s secession from the United States. Florida followed South Carolina and Mississippi and was the third state to leave the Union. The Civil War began three months later when Southern forces fired on Union-held Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. The opening shots of the war were almost directed at Fort Pickens in Pensacola Harbor, but President Abraham Lincoln decided to resupply the South Carolina fort instead.

Check out this amazing collection of hand-drawn painted postcards of Tampa and Ybor City from 1910-1950. SEE THE COLECTION HERE

Luisita Pacheco, the wife of Ferdie Pacheco, is herself a captivating woman. A professional Flamenco dancer born Karen Louise Maestas in Denver, Colorado, she moved to Seville, Spain at the age of 14 to pursue her dream.