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Tampa Sportatorium
The Tampa Sportatorium was a professional wrestling studio used by Championship Wrestling from Florida. The former television studio building may be demolished for a new building. Located at 106 N Albany Ave near downtown Tampa, Florida, the 7,500-square-foot stucco building was used for television tapings at 11am on Thursdays, which would air on the following Sundays. Tampa native Hulk Hogan attended shows at the Sportatorium as a teenager and recalled that the studio could not fit more than 50 people in it and that it was not air conditioned despite Florida's often warm, subtropical, and humid climate. To make the room seem bigger to the television audience, the walls were painted black. Dory Funk Jr. praised the content to come out of the building, stating: "The Sportatorium was small, but the television it produced was so good." The upstairs of the building was used as an office by company executives Eddie Eddie or Eddy may refer to: Science and technology *Eddy (fluid dyna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Tampa () is a city on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida. The city's borders include the north shore of Tampa Bay and the east shore of Old Tampa Bay. Tampa is the largest city in the Tampa Bay area and the seat of Hillsborough County. With a population of 384,959 according to the 2020 census, Tampa is the third-most populated city in Florida after Jacksonville and Miami and is the 52nd most populated city in the United States. Tampa functioned as a military center during the 19th century with the establishment of Fort Brooke. The cigar industry was also brought to the city by Vincente Martinez Ybor, after whom Ybor City is named. Tampa was formally reincorporated as a city in 1887, following the Civil War. Today, Tampa's economy is driven by tourism, health care, finance, insurance, technology, construction, and the maritime industry. The bay's port is the largest in the state, responsible for over $15 billion in economic impact. The city is part of the Tampa-St. P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
