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TAMPA , the business hub of the
west coast, has been one of the major beneficiaries of the flood
of people and money into Florida - and boasts an impressive cultural
diet envied by many larger rivals. A small, stimulating city with
an infectious, upbeat mood, it's well worth a stop: in addition
to its fine museums and Busch Gardens
, one of the most popular theme parks in the state, it boasts
in Ybor City the West Coast's hippest and most
culturally eclectic quarter.
Tampa began as a small settlement beside a US Army
base built to keep an eye on the Seminoles in the 1820s. In the
1880s the railroad arrived, and the Hillsborough River on which
the city stands was dredged to allow seagoing vessels to dock.
Tampa became a booming port, simultaneously acquiring a major
tobacco industry as thousands of Cubans moved north from Key West
to the new cigar factories of neighboring Ybor City. The Depression
ended the economic surge, but the port remained one of the busiest
in the country and tempered Tampa's postwar decline. Little seems
to stand in the way of Tampa's continued emergence as a forward-thinking
and financially secure community
