A century after Charles Dickens wrote his 1859 novel about the French Revolution, The Tampa Tribune's Leland Hawes began an eight-part series, "A Tale of Two Cities," devoted to exploring the contentious relationship between Tampa and St. Petersburg.
Today, an eerie civility exists between the two great cities on opposite sides of Tampa Bay. It was not always so. Since the founding of the twin cities on Tampa Bay in the 19th century, Tampa and St. Petersburg have fought for urban, economic, and journalistic supremacy.
As the twigs were bent
By the 1880 and 1890s, the collective destinies of Tampa and St. Petersburg seemed set. And the quarreling began.
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