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The Rex Café
- He bought a bar, the Rex Café, on Seventh Avenue, the main drag through Ybor City.
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Aug 9, 2019 · He bought a bar, the Rex Café, on Seventh Avenue, the main drag through Ybor City. The Florida state attorney considered the Rex to be “a bolita place.” Trafficante rises to boss after ‘Era of Blood’
Bar and brothel operated by the notorious Trafficante crime family in the 1940s and 50s. By Samuel Irizarry and the Tampa Historical Team. This building once housed a casino, a brothel, and a bar. Until the end of the 1960s, it was a fixture of the criminal activities centered on bolita in Ybor City. Tampa political fixer and bolita ‘dean ...
After a time known locally as the "Era of Blood" in which local criminal interests fought over control, Santo Trafficante, Sr. pushed Wall aside and emerged as Tampa and Ybor City's leading crime boss in the 1940s.
Jun 18, 2024 · Santo Trafficante Jr. sitting on a stool in front of his bar at the Sans Souci Night Club in Havana, Cuba. Spend any amount of time in Ybor City, and someone is bound to talk to you about...
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U.S. Treasury Department documents indicate that law enforcement believed Trafficante's legitimate business interests to include several legal casinos in Cuba; a Havana drive-in movie theater; and shares in several restaurants and bars in Trafficante's hometown of Tampa, Florida.
The 40's was dominated by Italian mobster Santo Trafficante Sr. and his son Santa Trafficante Jr. as they extended their crime organizations beyond Tampa Bay including into the bolita business. Bolita was one of the most popular illegal acts committed by crime organizations and the general population.
The Trafficante crime family, also known as the Tampa crime family or the Tampa Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Tampa, Florida. The most notable boss of the family was Santo Trafficante Jr. who ruled Tampa and the crime family with an iron fist.
