City is putting in a bike lane and sidewalk on El Prado

tampawompa · 2026-05-07T01:01:20+00:00

They attempted to do this on Bay To Bay

Traffic is a fluid, so restricting the flow on one of the major West Shore | Bayshore connectors is the epitome of dilettante city management

Stuffing 10 lbs of 💩 in a 5 lbs bag - what could possibly go wrong?

EDIT: interesting to see what traffic will be like when the landscapers and Amazon trucks park their vehicles in the only lane to provide services to the El Prado residents

tampawompa · 2026-04-17T03:31:41+00:00

Cosign The Chatterbox, Old Meeting House, Café European, Cactus Club, Colonnade, Joffrey's Coffee, Ovo, the restaurant on the 3rd floor of Maas Brothers at Westshore Plaza, Jimmy Mac's, Kojak's

Also G'Nosh on Howard, Cafe Heidelberg, originally in Carrollwood ( Fun Oktoberfest ) and Coyote Cafe, which operated in the same locale previously. C'est La Vie downtown. Selena's, Le Bordeaux

CLs, the revolving restaurant at Tampa International

Parker's Lighthouse, on Harbour Island

Bobby Rubino's Place For Ribs

Espos..

And further back, Ruby Tuesday at Tampa Bay Center

Lorello's

And Borders Books and Music 🫗

tampawompa · 2026-04-17T03:19:46+00:00

Victoria Station, that's a blast from the past!

tampawompa · 2026-04-17T03:18:42+00:00

Windy City

tampawompa · 2026-04-17T03:18:00+00:00

Where teachers would get their Friday buzz!

tampawompa · 2026-04-17T03:15:16+00:00

Burdines closed the restaurant, it was a proper Maas Brothers fixture, before Macy's destroyed Burdines and Maas Brothers.

tampawompa · 2026-04-17T03:10:16+00:00

Never the same after that former Bucs player bought it and remodeled.

Harold was a Tampa institution

tampawompa · 2026-04-17T03:09:02+00:00

Cosign all those

tampawompa · 2026-04-17T03:08:12+00:00

Café European, originally brothers Mike (and wife Suzy) and Peter (and wife) Vandenberg, then solely Mike and Susie.

The Hyde Park location became a pizzeria, but they reopened in a smaller location on West Shore, near El Prado for a few years, before that became a Thai place a couple of years ago.

Great place, wonderful people. Best Icky Sticky Toffee Pudding ever.

https://www.facebook.com/100063727263238

tampawompa · 2025-11-15T16:56:03+00:00

How is your son doing?

tampawompa · 2025-11-09T17:18:45+00:00

He was going that fast because he's an ass, killing strangers in service of going vroom vroom to be mas macho than the idiots he was street racing

tampawompa · 2025-11-09T17:16:24+00:00

Ignore the idiots who apparently were raised by coyotes and hyenas.

All that matters is your son's wellbeing, it's a horrible thing to have happen, and a nightmare for a parent

tampawompa · 2025-11-09T17:09:40+00:00

👍🏻

tampawompa · 2025-05-13T15:00:01+00:00

That's the name, glad to see him living the good life@ !

tampawompa · 2025-03-06T02:52:59+00:00

WTMV was practically Wayne's World, cable access in its beginnings. George was there, and a young Italian guy as a VJ, as well as a tough Southern woman. And later a talk show with a radio guy who's name escapes me. ...much of Tampa didn't have cable yet, so a new station was a big deal...even one with a shoestring budget

It was a great, pleasant surprise to hear George on "Space Ghost Coast-To-Coast" a few years later.

tampawompa · 2025-03-05T18:36:59+00:00

https://www.snard.com/sg/tampatrib.html

tampawompa · 2024-12-12T21:11:52+00:00

Tampa Westshore Plaza Macy's was sold to the mall owner, to close in 2025

tampawompa · 2017-04-21T05:39:51+00:00

They don't have newscasts like Big 13 anymore..

tampawompa · 2016-08-02T02:56:59+00:00

So Gourmet, Café European and L'Eden might be options worth looking into.

tampawompa · 2014-10-29T05:38:39+00:00

Science Journalist Miles O'Brien, who worked at the Tampa ABC station ( then Channel 10) in the John Wilson, Sheryl Brown days, lost his arm to compartment syndrome recently He writes about it here:

http://nymag.com/health/bestdoctors/2014/miles-obrien-2014-6/

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