But actually, it used to be a physical place with a postal address.
Kristi Burghdurf makes a photo of the sunset with her phone as an outer band of Hurricane Ian passes the waterfront of Tampa Bay, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, in St. Petersburg, Fla. What should a Tampa resident be called?
“I grew up in Tampa. Not Tampa Bay,” Lynette Boyd-Fleming commented. “To me, it feels like the city is trying to be renamed when I hear newscasters and others refer to Tampa as the bay.” “As a local, I don’t take much umbrage with it and don’t see a lot,” he said. “Every time we look out into the water, we see Tampa Bay. So, we’re part of Tampa Bay. The only time people get fired up is when they don’t want their city to be clumped in with Tampa.”There does not seem to be a consensus. Visit Tampa Bay is the tourism arm of Hillsborough County. But Visit St. Pete/Clearwater also describes itself as part of Tampa Bay.
The Tampa Bay History Center describes itself as a regional museum, but that region is hard to define. “If you wanted to refer to the area before any cities existed, what else are you going to say, the Greater Fort Brooke region?” said Andy Huse, a University of South Florida librarian.“The post office was originally established as Tampa Bay,” said Jenny Lynch, the United States Post Office historian. “The post office name was changed to Tampa on Sept. 13, 1834.”The University of Oklahoma has 127 pages of letters written to and from Fort Brooke spanning 1837 to 1839.
Then in 1912, land that had previously been a part of Hillsborough was incorporated as Pinellas and the new county sought to establish its own identity.Tampa Bay continued to be used to describe the area through the early 1900s, but Suncoast emerged as a tourism brand for Pinellas in the 1960s. Civic and governmental agencies adopted it, too.
“It rolls off the tongue,” Núñez said. “It’s easy to say. Hey, hey Tampa Bay. Good day Tampa Bay. I get it. But it has replaced Tampa.”
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