• old Tampa Stadium - "the old sombrero"
  • Al Lopez Field - baseball stadium
  • Burdines
  • Sears
  • future site (at the time of this photo) of Montgomery Ward
  • Buffalo Ave (now MLK Blvd)
  • Himes Ave
  • Dale Mabry Hwy.

Tampa Bay Center - opening day

Tampa Tribune - Aug 6, 1976

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  1. ferret111 (40 months ago | reply)

    That Burdines exterior really was innovative.

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  3. URY914 (40 months ago | reply)

    Nothing but wide open spaces on the right (north) of the mall. Jesuit was really built in the middle of nowhere at the time.

  4. JSDesign (40 months ago | reply)

    it was, ferret... sadly, i bet they got a fortune for the scrap metal when they tore it down

    ury - yeah, this is the kind of place malls tend to get built - large open, undeveloped areas

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  6. adonis hunter / ahptical (20 months ago | reply)

    This is sooo awesome, thanks for the shot! It gives us 'new' local historians a great perspective since we werent here to see it then.

  7. JSDesign (19 months ago | reply)

    Thanks, adonis hunter! Nice to meet someone that's newly interested in local history. I was just a toddler myself here in Tampa when it was being built.

  8. Phil Jones Illustration (15 months ago | reply)

    My how things have changed!

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