WEEK 3

This street in Tampa has had 4 ( four ) names though the years

Guess 3 correctly, and you win a free trip to Tully Greenland

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Lafayette Street

Grand Central Avenue.

Memorial Hwy

John F. Kennedy Boulevard.

Grand Central Avenue in 1925, looking east towards downtown from Howard Ave. - After WW1, Grand Central was dedicated as "Memorial Highway", westward from Howard Ave. By 1921, this monument was placed at the intersection, along with another identical one at the west end past Westshore Blvd. It wasn't long before cars frequently began crashing into this one at Howard Ave, so the monument was moved to the American Legion Cemetery at what is now Kennedy Blvd, just west of Dale Mabry.

In the 1920s, a WW1 veterans memorial was erected west of here, at Grand Central & Howard Avenue (photo), and Grand Central was renamed as Memorial Hwy from Howard Ave. westward.

  In the 1950s, Memorial Hwy was changed back to Grand Central Ave for simplicity so it could extend the entire distance westward to the bay.

The road was renamed for President John F. Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963),
In 1964 by unanimous vote of Tampa City Council following his visit to Tampa on November 18, 1963, less than a year earlier.

His motorcade made use of the roadway during that rare visit only four days before his assassination. It was chosen for such a renaming because Kennedy had used about five miles (8 km) of Grand Central Avenue for his motorcade leading through the center of the business district.