Ybor City Chronicles

by Pacheco, Ferdie

• ISBN13: 9780813012964
• ISBN10: 0813012961
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-08-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Florida

Summary

With his gift for storytelling, Ferdie Pacheco stirs a gust of cigar smoke into the hot steam of cafe con leche and creates the magic of this lighthearted memoir. His stage is Ybor City, the colorful immigrant community on the edge of Tampa, and the time is 1935-45, the decade when Pacheco grew up and the community he loves outgrew its ethnic splendor.
Ybor City Chronicles includes vintage photographs and Pacheco's own cartoons, sketches, and paintings, many never before published, and an epilogue by Ybor City historian Tony Pizzo, who describes the features that today make Ybor City a National Historic Monument.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Sweet Sam	p. 1
Remembrances of J.B	p. 27
Tampa's Toonerville Trolleys	p. 45
The Greening of Cousin Paul	p. 58
Tales of the Columbia	p. 71
My Cousin, My Brother	p. 124
Ybor City's Last Intellectual	p. 134
La Economica Drugstore Free Deliveries	p. 143
Abuelita	p. 163
The Dream Merchant	p. 168
Trelles Clinic	p. 181
The White Shadow	p. 193
Home Movies	p. 204
War Years	p. 251
The University That Hid in a Hotel	p. 287
Ybor City: A New Face with an Old Look	p. 299
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