by Marlene Boggs

These two pages are from the Peninsula Telephone Company's 1953 telephone directory for Tampa. The Ruskin listings are in the very back of this book, which my husband, a native Tampan, kept for some reason. I was surprised the Ruskin numbers were in there! Note that all of the telephone numbers for Ruskin that year exactly fit on one page.

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