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TAMPA — Central Avenue was once the hippest place in Tampa. It’s where Ray Charles made his first recording and where Hank Ballard discovered “The Twist,” the dance that inspired his song popularized by Chubby Checker. Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald also regularly performed there. But nothing remains of Central Avenue today. “So much of the hardscape of the African American community has . ....
A statue of a mother and three children given to the City of Tampa by a Cuban organization in 1948 is back in public view just in time for Mother’s Day. ....
FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA The Honor to Mothers of the World, a statue that more recently stood outside the German-American Club, seen at a storage facility in Tampa on Thursday, April 22, 2021. (Ivy Ceballo/Tampa Bay Times/TNS) This 73-year-old Mother’s Day statue needs a home TAMPA, Fla. For six decades, it was a Mother’s Day tradition in Tampa to place flowers at the base of a six-foot sculpture depicting a mother holding a baby while her two small children reach up to hand her flowers. “It was sweet,” said Robin Nigh, manager of arts and cultural affairs for the city of Tampa. ....