Tampa slumbered as a little fishing village while East Coast beach towns began to boom as vacation resorts in the late 1800s.

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It tapped directly into long summer rides to Jones Beach with the dash-mounted eight-track blasting, to boom boxes in the Rockaways and Beach Haven, and turntables in back bedrooms of ethnic neighborhoods in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and the burbs.

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The oil washed up even though workers on the beach have been laying boom along the waterline and replacing it as it gets soaked with incoming oil.

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Hotels and restaurants are being erected in almost every part of the town and in nearby beach areas as the construction boom continues.

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