Resident Remembers Temple Terrace Teen Town
Karen Howell was a teenager in the late 1950s.
Karen Howell was a teenager when her family moved to Temple Terrace in 1956. "It was such an innocent time," she remembered of her teenage years, visiting Temple Terrace Teen Town and volunteering at the Temple Terrace Library, which was housed with City Hall at what was Club Morocco in the 1920s and is now the Florida College Student Center. Howell went to the Temple Terrace Library April 13 when the Tampa-Hillsborough Public Library System's Library History Road Show was in town for the Temple Terrace Library's 50th anniversary. Howell brought with her a newspaper clipping from 1961 of a picture of her and a friend headed into the library. She also brought her Temple Terrace Teen Town identification dated Aug. 4, 1958. She explained that…
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Sherri Lonon
5:11 pm on Friday, April 20, 2012
I would love to read more about it myself. The area has such a rich history and so many stories that need to be told! more ›