South of gandy

[IBM9000]

Sometimes I find it strange.
This area.
The military influence as well as the criminal influence.
A power house for athletes, celebrities, geniuses and artists.
Almost everything here was a test.

They called it "port tampa".
At one point an impoverished neighborhood now being a product of gentrification.
Certain places unforgotten but still remain a staple.
The train tracks that ran through by tillies all the way through past Monroe middle school and eventually past the warehouse.
A lake of gators by Robinson.
The Cubans sandwiches at the cherrokee store.
The wrestlers from south tampa, the football players.
The old Rembrandt projects full of chaos.
Bayshore and it's lovely joggers on that long sidewalk towards downtown.

This city now changed, a place I once knew.
Now just another person who lives outside of that city, raised in the s.o.g.

I wonder if this is the truth you guys could know about macdill/s.o.g

 

[PaulaJedi]

Tampa is a traffic cesspool, now. I haven't driven in it in years. Bloomingdale Ave. is like New York City, bumper to bumper traffic.
I saw the birth and death of a Walmart. Crazy how old I'm getting. I moved to the country to find peace. Will have the peace once the kids start driving. But now the greedy developers are inching closer and closer to build homes for New Yorkers. They won't build up. They want to destroy the countryside and historical sites where I am. It's sad. Farms are disappearing from America.

Have you even seen an orange grove? They're dead or completely gone. We have a large company out here that exports oranges, but the smaller orchards are now neighborhoods. Why? Money.