Showing posts with label El Centro Español. Show all posts
Showing posts with label El Centro Español. Show all posts

Monday, November 24, 2014

El Centro Español De Tampa

Was the most affluent of the city’s social clubs — those organizations that provided immigrants with social services ranging from medical care to banking to entertainment from the late 1800s through the mid-1900s. Centro Español had almost 10,000 members of Spanish descent, two cemeteries and two large clubhouses that measured over half a city block — one each in Ybor City and West Tampa. here