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DICK GRECO VS. NICK NUCCIO

3/1/2011

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Tampa's Mayor Dick Greco and Mayor Nick Nuccio.
Tampa's Mayor Dick Greco and Mayor Nick Nuccio.
Long before Mayor Dick Greco was attempting to become the oldest Mayor in the history of Tampa, he was the youngest. Before he boasted of the experience he would bring to the mayoral position, he was the mayor with little experience. Before he was a political legend with his own statue, he had to defeat a political legend that was posthumously honored with a statue. Before he became Mayor Dick Greco, he had to defeat Mayor Nick Nuccio in the 1967 mayoral election, one of the hottest elections the city of Tampa has ever seen, an election that billed the young, handsome upstart against the old political legend. It was a heavyweight battle that changed the history of the city of Tampa forever. And it was a battle that started in 1963 when Mayor Dick Greco was known as City Councilman Dick Greco.

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BULLFIGHTING IN YBOR CITY?!

7/1/2009

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Bullfighting in Ybor City
​Before city leaders envisioned Ybor City as a residential and shopping district, they boasted about bullfights. "It was how we were going to save Ybor City," explained former Mayor Dick Greco.

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The Floridan Hotel:The Resurrection of Downtown Tampa’s Crown Jewel

3/1/2009

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The Floridan Hotel in the 1930s
The red neon "Open" sign in the Franklin Street News Stand window would flicker on at 7 A.M., followed by the neon signs for the news stand's neighbors–the Shoe Hospital and Carmen's Sandwich Shop–shortly after that. A block away, the homeless people sleeping in front of Sacred Heart Church would wake up, roll up their blankets and seek shade from the hot sun. 

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MEET MILTON:The Man who inspires Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

1/1/2004

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Dwayne "THE ROCK" Johnson and Milton
To the layman, it would have appeared to be the worst premiere in the film career of the world's biggest Hollywood star–Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.

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