1904 1954 50TH PIRATE DOUBLOON GASPARILLA FESTIVAL TAMPA BAY FLORIDA COIN TOKEN
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NOW FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE… GASPARILLA'S GOLDEN JUBILEETAMPA FLORIDA (FL)50 YEARS OF PIRATE PAGEANTRY...1904 - 1954FACE DEPICTS PIRATE CAPTAIN PROFILEREADS: "YE MYSTIC KREWE..." REVERSE DEPICTS SAILING SCHOONERCOMMEMORATIVE SOUVENIRMARDI GRAS DOLLARMEASURES ABOUT 39mmCOMPOSITION - ALUMINUMVINTAGEGREAT PIECE OF BOOTY?SHOWS AGE AND STORAGE WEARFROM A DAMP TREASURE CHEST...ARGHHH -----------------------FYI
The Gasparilla Pirate Festival is an annual celebration held in the city of Tampa, Florida. Held each year in late January or early February and hosted by Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla and the City of Tampa, it celebrates the apocryphal legend of José Gaspar (Gasparilla), a mythical Spanish pirate captain who supposedly operated in Southwest Florida. Over its first few decades, the Gasparilla parade was often scheduled to coincide with the Florida State Fair, which was held at Plant Field near the traditional parade route. Since the fair moved to a larger location several miles east in the 1970s, new supporting Gasparilla-themed events have taken its place, including a children's parade, a film festival, an arts festival, a road race, a music festival, and the Sant'Yago Knight Parade in Ybor City.
The theme and focal point of Gasparilla is an "invasion" by Jose Gaspar and feedza crew. On the day of the main Gasparilla parade, members of Ye Mystik Krewe of Gasparilla, accompanied by a flotilla of hundreds of smaller boats, sail across Tampa Bay to downtown Tampa on the Jose Gaspar, a 165' long "pirate" ship which was specially built for this purpose in 1954. The mayor of Tampa then hands over the key of the city to the pirate captain and a "victory parade" ensues down Bayshore Boulevard, one of Tampa's major streets. Ye Mystik Krewe and other krewes throw beads, coins and other items while shooting blank pistols from floats during the parade. The parade is broadcast every year on WFLA-TV, and has been since 1955; station WTVT-TV also covered the parade from 1955 to 1980. Two smaller pirate-related parades are held in the weeks before and after the main Gasparilla Parade of Pirates. The Gasparilla Children's Parade, a more family-friendly event, is generally held the Saturday prior to the main parade in downtown Tampa. The Sant'Yago Illuminated Knight Parade (sometimes referred to as the Gasparilla Night Parade), is generally held a Saturday or two after the main parade in Ybor City. In all parades, area high schools and universities provide marching bands, majorettes, and drill teams as part of the festivities. Many local businesses and organizations participate by entering often-elaborate floats and throwing beads, coins, and other trinkets to the crowd along the parade route. The "Outward Voyage Home" was revived in 2008 after being discontinued in 1964. During this ceremony, the Krewe's pirates return the key of the city to the mayor, then climb aboard the Jose Gaspar and "sail away" across Tampa Bay, reversing their route from Gasparilla day several weeks previously.
Pirate festivalThe first Gasparilla parade was held in May 1904, after Tampa Tribune society editor Miss Louise Frances Dodge and Tampa's director of customs George Hardee combined the legend of the dashing pirate and elements of a New Orleans Mardi Gras to give Tampa's relatively sedate May Day celebration a new theme. The first "invasion" was via horseback, with the first sea-based invasion coming in 1911. As the festival grew, a US Navy ship would be attacked by small boats throwing Cuban bread and black bean soup. The Navy would respond with fire hoses but would succumb to the Ybor City Navy, and then surrender to the Alcalde of Ybor City. The sailors would be treated to an evening on the town. This was discontinued after the September 11, 2001 attacks. However, the invasion itself continues as "Capt. Jose Gaspar" and his crew of "Pirates" "attack" Tampa, surrounded by hundreds of other boaters as they sail the Gasparilla Ship through Tampa Bay, land near downtown and "take over the city." Historically, Gasparilla was held on the second Monday of February. It was a holiday in Tampa, with schools and many businesses closed. In 1988, the main parade was moved to a Saturday in early February to allow more local communities to take part in the celebration. Since 2005, the event has been held on the first Saturday of February.
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