Florida City Discovers Mysterious Network of Tunnels, Experts Believe They Were Used During Prohibition or for Human Trafficking...
The Daily Mail reported that underground tunnels under Ybor City, a suburb near Tampa, were discovered after being hidden from the general public for decades.
Lovely place if you need your fix. Got a flat tire there one night on my way home to Bradenton, back in '89. Luckily, it was right across the street from the police maintenance garage.
Bradenton is so yucky now in the city. My friend lives there and I visit him once every couple months. Last trip I saw so many people tweaking on drugs, hookers working and dealers selling all in broad daylight and no cops anywhere in sight. It’s sad how much that place has fallen.
It was a bit shaky even back then, but everything else down there was so expensive at the time, and I was going through my internship on Longboat Key. I used to walk up to a place called Wags, on the corner of Cortez and 14th Ave, for coffee (probably long gone by now), as it was a short distance from the hovel I lived in, and would get stopped for identification checks by the police quite frequently, as they thought I might be a male hooker kek. After a while, I just started driving the few blocks instead. I don't blame them, though, as I was also accosted, more than once, by an old black guy in a Caddy who was probably looking for a hummer.