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Special Holiday Post

It's not Tampa/St. Pete-centric, it isn't even new, but it is hilarious. Via the South Florida Sun-Sentinel it's time for some holiday trauma from the formative years:

Scared of Santa

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Store display at Milagros on Central Avenue for El Dia de los Muertos, the Mexican Day of the Dead.

Found Photo Series, No. 10

A pontoon
soap box
racer?

TBay Around The Net

Tampa in Red and Green:

• A True Dilemma (Henchman Mike/photo)
• Macro Colors (Android9/photo)
• The Captain That Ate Tampa (mattsabo17/photo)
• Straight Seasonal (Shooting Chris/photo)

Ghosts Of Tampa Past

An ad, circa 1920, enticing travelers to spend the holidays at the Tampa Bay Hotel, now the University of Tampa.

Open During Exterior Facelift

The storefront awning as Chinese paper umbrella, at Chiang Mai on the 1100 block of Central Avenue in St. Pete.

South Clearwater Beach At Night

Kinda pretty, almost as if they weren't rushing to be the next beachside concrete canyon...

TBay Around The Net

Flickr tags "tampa" and "mullet":

• "We watch mullets so you don't have to" (kuhnzaga/photo)
• Better than: "Bird Cage Liner" (Fancy Horse/photo)

Going All Out

At the beach, they're ready for the holidays, with decorations on the lamposts and on the sand itself with.....

Holiday Seaweed!

TBay Around The Net

Flickr tags "Tampa" and "Dog":

• Red Hots! (lumierefl/photo)
• Spotties (natural gas/photo)
• Immortalized Pet (Opiliones/photo)