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Brenda's update on Dec.
29th, 2016 in the Save Fairyland! group had produced four comments as of Jan. 4, 2017.
Mario commented shortly
after she posted, reinforcing Brenda's plea for support. It
was followed by a reply asking for a link to our Go Fund Me page,
which Mario provided.
On Jan. 1, Linda Hope
considered the idea that the bidding might start with the going
rate of salvage per pound.
Brenda replied shortly
thereafter providing more detail about the auction, stating that
they were not being sold by the pound.
Linda Godfrey Napier,
whose father helped create the original figures in 1958, reaffirms
that they are heavy.
Mario replied to another
request for the location of our Go Fund Me page on Jan. 4.
Then, on Jan. 4, 2017, at 8:58pm,
Nikki Chandler Couture finally said what was on the minds of
so many Save Fairyland supporters, and she tagged Richard with the
comment. (She edited the post on Jan 5, 8:33am to correct
punctuation.)
About 15 minutes later,
Richard responded to the tagged comment.
Oh no! I need to attend the
auction!...
Four minutes later, Brenda jumped in.
Richard's comment produced 17 replies
and many more comments.
Richard responded to Brenda's question; mentioning his earlier
conversation with Mario in 2013.
Mario commented in secret
code to Richard - "If you can, call my cell today before 1pm."
Spoken in Spanglish like a true Tampeño.
Fairyland fans have a new hope!
The Save Fairyland Go
Fund Me campaign collected its 2nd highest daily total the day
R.G. announced his participation in the auction, and it's best day
yet the next day after the word spread on Facebook, for a 2-day
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Richard Gonzmart, a son of Cesar Gonzmart & Adela
Hernandez Gonzmart, has a fervent love for Tampa. Foremost is his
love of family and Tampa's history and heritage. Keeping
memories alive of places he spent the years of his childhood and early
youth in Tampa are important concerns for him. Recently, he
had the old, abandoned Tampa Waterworks building on the Ulele Spring
(f.k.a. Magbee Spring) beautifully restored and converted into Ulele (pronounced You-lay-lee)
Restaurant. Ulele celebrates the vibrant fusion of ingredients
from Florida waters and land once home to many Native Americans,
including the young princess Ulele. It's beautifully situated North end
of Tampa's Riverwalk, just south of where the Hillsborough River makes a
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More recently, Richard turned his sights on
reviving a long-time Tampa institution, the iconic Goody Goody
restaurant, which was founded in Tampa in 1925 as a BBQ sandwich stand
on Grand Central Ave. (now Kennedy Blvd.) and operated at 1119 N.
Florida Ave. for 75 years until it closed in 2005 and was soon
demolished. For 11 years, it remained in the hearts and minds of Tampans
as a place where one could have a great "Goody Goody burger P.O.X.,"
(short order cook notation for pickles, onions, secret sauce), a
delicious real ice-cream milkshake, and a slice of Yvonne Freeman's
mouthwatering homemade pies. The new Goody Goody, a beefed-up
supercharged version of the old one, but still maintaining the nostalgic
appeal and many recipes of it's predecessor, opened with much hoopla and fanfare in Hyde
Park Village on Swann Ave. in August of 2016. The hoopla and
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8 Gonzmart May Rescue Fairyland - Fox 13 Lloyd Sowers story with
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TAMPA (FOX 13) - Tampa Restaurant owner Richard Gonzmart says he
plans to save the storybook characters from Tampa's old Fairyland
children's park.
The life-size
characters, including Cinderella, The Three Little Pigs, and Snow
White stood through five decades at Lowry Park beginning in the
1950's. They were taken down in the mid 1990's, but squirreled
away by a city worker.
 Mayor
Bob Buckhorn says the city doesn't want the statues. Some are in
disrepair. They're scheduled to be auctioned off Saturday, January
14th at Manheim Auctions. But Gonzmart says if he can't convince
the city to keep them, he'll buy them. "I will be there at the
auction," he says. "Some of them can't be repaired, but there are
a lot of people who want to help me. I want to make them available
free for families to come and see them," he says. Gonzmart
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Save Fairyland group photo by adding the
remaining two little pigs from two separate photos and reduced
transparency of the Rainbow bridge.
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After reviving Goody Goody, Gonzmart sets sights on Fairyland park
Tampa
Bay Times Paul Guzzo
TAMPA — Among Richard Gonzmart's fondest childhood
memories are playing at nursery rhyme-inspired Fairyland park then
heading over to Goody Goody Burger for dinner.
Fairyland was razed in 1996.
Goody Goody closed in 2005.
But Gonzmart, the prominent local restaurant owner, wishes every
Tampa child could enjoy the daylong experience he remembers, so he's
working to bring it back.
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First, he purchased the rights to the Goody Goody name and last
summer in Hyde Park re-opened the burger joint originally established
downtown in 1925. Now, he's planning to bid on the life-sized concrete and fiberglass
nursery rhyme figures that once populated the 15-acre North Tampa park
known as Fairyland.
The city of Tampa will auction the figures Saturday and Gonzmart
hopes to walk away with them. He would restore them and place them at
his Ulele Restaurant and Brewery in Waterworks Park along the Tampa Riverwalk.
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"My phone rings with the theme from Andy Griffith," said Gonzmart,
63, whose family also owns the 102-year-old Columbia Restaurant in Ybor
City. "Call me nostalgic or a romantic fool, but I miss that time when
things were more wholesome. I want to bring some of that back."
The sale will be held at 10 a.m. at the Manheim auction house, 401 S
50th St. The figures depict a number of individual fairy tales and will be
offered for sale by story. The statues will not be present. Any bidder interested in a preview
can call Manheim at (800) 622-7292.
Fairyland was built in the 1950s as a free complement to Lowry Park
Zoo. Nursery rhyme music would play throughout the attraction and the
characters lined a winding path. Rapunzel peered out of the tower that held her captive. The big bad
spider looked down on Little Miss Muffet. Children could climb Jack's
beanstalk.
"This was before iPads," Gonzmart said. "Kids used their imaginations
to play and Fairyland was a great place for that."
The park was dismantled to make way for a larger zoo. The statues now
sit outside a city warehouse near MacDill Air Force Base. Some have not survived the years. The Three Little Pigs story is
missing the brick house, though the houses of straw and sticks remain
intact. Others are in poor shape. Sleeping Beauty's face is caved in.
 "They'll have to be restored," Gonzmart said. "We'll get it done."
This is welcome news to Mario Nunez, host of the TV history program
The Tampa Natives Show. When Nunez learned of the auction, he spearheaded a fundraising
effort to purchase and restore the statues then find a home for them.
Someone tagged Gonzmart on a Facebook post about Nunez's plan and
that piqued the interest of the restaurateur. Nunez raised nearly $2,000 but will not try to outbid Gonzmart. "When the cavalry shows up, you step aside and let them lead," Nunez
said. "Richard Gonzmart is the right person for this job.
In the spirit of the original Fairyland, there would be no charge to
enjoy the statues if Gonzmart comes away with them. "They will be part of the Riverwalk for generations to enjoy again,"
Gonzmart said. "That's how it should be."
Contact Paul Guzzo at pguzzo@tampabay.com or (813) 226-3394. Follow @PGuzzoTimes.
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2017-01-10 Manheim Tampa made an announcement on their Facebook page
along with the image of the City's auction announcement flyer.
Lowry Park Figurine Sale. January 14th at 10 a.m. - here at Manheim
Tampa. Cash, Certified Cashiers Check or Money Orders Accepted. Open to
the Public.
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1. Humpty Dumpty
2. Hickory Dickory Dock
3. Little Boy Blue
4. Mary Had A Little Lamb
5. Little Miss Muffet
6. Snow White
7. 3 Little Pigs
8. Jack and The Bean Stalk
9. Cinderella in coach
10. Cinderella and Rags
11. Cinderella and Prince
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10 Anneliese Meier posted
her response to Paul Guzzo's Tampa Bay Times article
at the Save Fairyland group
My letter to the Editor in
response to today's article:
Dear Editor,
Why is it taking a man, who loves Tampa and its
history, to come in and try to save the day when the City
should not be putting these Fairyland statues on the auction
block in the first place?
I only wish your reporter had dug a bit deeper into
this story to reveal how the City of Tampa advertised these
statues as "Historical" and "a Tampa Landmark for 50 years",
yet did not let the Historic Preservation Board have any say
in the matter. Or how the procurement department would not
release any information under a public records request until
the City attorney was asked to check into the matter?
Yes, the figurines are old and need work, but they
represent a significant time of civic growth in Tampa lead by
Mayor Nick Nuccio. Tampa was coming out of the darkness of war
in the late 50's and we had a Mayor who knew that public
spaces were important to growth. These figurines were part a
free attraction that was enjoyed by all the residents of this
town, including the working class, the backbone of Tampa,
which was my family.
The City of Tampa has let far too many historical
landmarks (buildings, sites, objects) be torn down or disposed
of. It is time to put more teeth in Historical Preservation
City Code Section 27. The current Mayor thinks these figurines
are junk and does not want them near his $35 million
Riverfront Park, but I guarantee you, children will love them,
tourists will look for them, and families will visit wherever
they end up. They need to taken off the auction block.
2017-Jan.
11 - Mario commented on Anneliese's post
FULL
DISCLOSURE: I will NOT be attending Thursday's City Council
meeting. We have done all we can do at this point. The City
Council is unable to pressure the mayor to do anything. The
mayor holds all the cards. We do have Mr. Richard Gonzmart
with us now and that helps to level the playing field . For
all the right reasons we will prevail in this mission to
Save Fairyland. Let's all be ready to roll up our sleeves
and go to work restoring and refurbishing these wonderful
reminders of our youth. In the meantime you can help by
offering a donation. We are oh so close to realizing our
fundraising goal. On behalf of Humpty Dumpty and all his
Friends - THANK YOU!
https://www.gofundme.com/save-fairyland
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13 - Ulele Restaurant posted an announcement regarding Richard
attending auction.The man who makes dreams (including his own) come true, Richard
Gonzmart, tomorrow hopes to move a step closer to realizing a more
recent one at a city-authorized auction. The fourth-generation
caretaker plans to bid on the life-sized concrete and fiberglass
nursery rhyme figures that once populated Fairyland, a North Tampa
park near Lowry Park Zoo. |
If successful, he would restore the once-beloved characters
and place them at his Ulele Restaurant next to Water Works Park Tampa
along the Tampa Riverwalk. Gonzmart last year re-imagined the Goody Goody
Burgers restaurant that opened in 1925 and closed in 2005. Re-imagined
and reopened, the restaurant now serves breakfast lunch and dinner in
Tampa’s Hyde Park Village. After this weekend, Gonzmart might just have
saved another Tampa icon.
(Photo at right courtesy of Ulele
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Manheim Tampa, January 14, 2017
Photos by TampaPix
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Manheim graciously set up a complimentary Continental breakfast
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The Fairyland
character figures were not present at Manheim. Instead,
these 12 frames on easels displayed photos of the contents of each
lot. Among the early arrivals were these two men, who turned
out to be our only real competition.
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Run
#700
Humpty Dumpty |
Run
#701
Hickory Dickory Dock |
Run
#703
Little Boy Blue |
Run
#704
Mary Had A Little Lamb |
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#705
Little Miss Muffet |
Run
#706
Snow White |
Run
#707
Three Little Pigs |
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#708
Jack & Bean Stalk |
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Run #709
Cinderella & Carriage |
Run #710
Cinderella in Rags |
Run #711
Cinderella & Prince |
Run #712
Misc. |
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In
an interview with Sara Belsole of Bay News 9, Nichole Schall said, “To own a piece of the Tampanian [sic] history would just be
amazing for us."
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Richard arrived with Rex, and filled out the necessary forms to
bid. |
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Brenda Piniella-Rouse greeting Richard. |
Sara Belsole of Bay News 9 having fun interviewing Richard. |
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Sara Belsole of Bay News 9 having fun interviewing Richard. |
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Richard telling
Sara about his Fairyland memories and what he wants to accomplish
in acquiring the storybook character figures. |
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The
ever-present Michael Kilgore, Columbia Restaurant Group CMO and
Richard's "Right-Hand Man" for all things public.
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Tampa Natives Show host and
discoverer of the Fairyland storybook character figures, Mario
Nuñez |
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Sara Belsole of Bay News 9 getting an earful from Mario. |
Mario brought Sara Belsole of Bay News 9 up to speed on how this
debacle has reached this point. |
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Susan Gifford showing
Brenda photos of one of the Fairyland Little Pigs figures she
acquired many years ago. |
Susan Gifford shows a photo
of one of the Fairyland Little Pigs figures she acquired many
years ago. She bought it from a local business that was using it
as a rooftop display. |
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Michael Kilgore pointing out a detail of Hickory Dickory Dock. |
Brenda Piniella-Rouse in discussion with Richard Gonzmart |
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Dan brought a printed
version of the Save Fairyland group photo, in anticipation
of presenting to Richard after winning the auction. |
Richard and Michael sizing up the prizes. |
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Richard in a moment of solitude with Rex, preparing himself for
whatever may come.
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Several bidders
were present, although only one presented a challenge to
attaining our
goal.
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Three Manheim
representatives worked the auction; this man was the
audio/visual technician and probably also monitored any phone
bidding.
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The bidding began
on the first lot, Run #700 Humpty Dumpty.
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at $1,000 and increased in $100 to $1,000 increments. The
Save Fairyland group members were stunned at the opening bidding
amounts.
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The only real
competition Richard had in the bidding was unresponsive to
acknowledge Richard and oblivious as to whom he was dealing
with. Manheim would not disclose the identity of the
bidders, but Google was not so privacy-conscious.
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It was later
determined that "The Tiger Man" was Randy Stearns, president of
Dade City's "Wild Things," and wildlife and survival expert of a
Zoo and Rescue attraction in Pasco County.
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Richard was
determined to acquire all of the figures, except for the last
"misc." lot.
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Tiger Man consulted
with his "partner" often, and would usually raise the bid by
$1,000 until it was out of his league.
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babbled on, each time ending with
"Sold, number 44." |
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Richard raising the
bid, once again. |
Richard feigned
lack of interest in lot #710 and the auctioneer
replied with "The dog likes it!"
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It was the
determined Jesuit Tiger of Tampa vs. the
Dade City Tiger Man. |
Each time, the
Jesuit Tiger of Tampa came out on top. |
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Richard didn't bid on the
miscellaneous lot which went to Angela Baylis of Forest Hills,
thus ensuring all of Fairyland would remain in Tampa.
Tiger Man bid against her too, but gave up at $1,600. Angela is
an active member of the Save Fairyland group and
plans to do a little restoration
on them and display them in her back yard.
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to Mario Nuñez as he describes the scene with disbelief for what
the bidding went up to.
This is a disgrace,
THIS, is a DISGRRRRACE! |
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This video starts with lot #701 being sold to
"number 44" (Richard) for $2,200. |
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Mario congratulates and thanks Richard for rescuing Fairyland. |
Richard's winning number 0044 tag. |
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Mario signing the poster Brenda and Dan signed and gave to
Richard after the auction. |
Maria
Williams Trippe and Mario. Maria's dad owned the iconic
National Auto Supermarket of which Tampa Natives all fondly
remember the commercials. |
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Fairyland Rescued!
Photo by Sally
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2017-01-14 Gonzmart spends
$28K in bidding war for Fairyland figures, hopes to display them on
Riverwalk
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TAMPA — A nostalgic Tampa restaurant owner spent nearly $30,000 on
Saturday to preserve his most cherished childhood memories by buying
nearly every fiberglass figure left from the Lowry Park Zoo’s old
Fairyland park. No one at the Manheim auction house expected them
to cost that much. Not even the day’s star, Richard Gonzmart, 63. “You
can’t put a price on history,” Gonzmart said after the bidding wars
ended. “I wanted to save the figures and keep them together.”
In total, Gonzmart spent
$28,300 on 11 fairy-tale scenes from the park that dazzled children when
it opened in the 1950s. The only lot he didn’t buy was a group of
miscellaneous figures and pieces that didn’t make up a complete scene or
fairy tale.
Gonzmart came to the
auction house on Saturday morning with a mission. He had already pledged
to buy the figures with plans to restore and display them for free. He
hopes the city will let him put them along the Riverwalk once they’re
restored.
If
not, they will sit near the Riverwalk’s end in the grassy
areas around his restaurant, Ulele. Gonzmart already reopened Hyde
Park favorite Goody Goody last year after it closed in 2005. Fairyland
was razed in 1996 and its storybook figures were left to rot in a city
warehouse near MacDill Air Force Base. In the fall, the city said it
would auction them off.
Most of the two dozen
people at the auction house Saturday morning supported Gonzmart’s plan.
But two men unknown to most attendees gave Gonzmart a run, upping costs
to several thousand dollars during a heated back-and-forth series of
bids. Those men bolted after the auction’s end, and auction
officials would not release their names.
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Mario Nuñez of the Tampa Natives Show and Dan
Perez of TampaPix congratulate and thank Richard for his heroic effort
to rescue the Fairyland storybook character figures. (Tampa Bay
Times photo)
Richard being interviewed by Sara DiNatale,
after the auction. |
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Humpty Dumpty
Hickory Dickory Dock
Little Boy Blue
Little Miss Muffet
Mary Had a Little
Lamb
Snow White
The Three Little Pigs
Jack and the
Beanstalk
Cinderella in coach
Cinderella's rag
scene
Cinderella's prince
scene
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$ 3,000
$ 2,100
$ 1,300
$ 1,200
$ 1,300
$ 2,000
$ 2,000
$ 5,000
$ 8,000
$ 1,000
$ 1,400
$28,300 |
After Gonzmart outbid
the pair for the Little Boy Blue scene at $1,300, a man in the crowd
called out, “You’re not going to beat him today.” He was right. Gonzmart
didn’t back down when Jack and the Beanstalk hit $5,000 or Cinderella’s
carriage scene made it to $8,000. “Money means nothing,” Gonzmart
said. Mario Núñez, host of the
Tampa Natives Show on local cable television, came to the auction as
spectator. He had hoped the city would give the figures to local
historians eager to restore them, but stood behind Gonzmart’s plan.
“This is our legacy,” he said. “This is our history ... this was a
magical place.”
Gonzmart teared up
thinking of the days he would walk the 15-acre park as a child with his
grandparents, going from fairy tale to fairy tale. He said that when he
looked at the figures, he could feel his grandparents still alive. “I
hope my grandkids can look back on them and think about their crazy
grandfather,” he said. “It was never about the money.”
Sara DiNatale at
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2017-01-14 Tampa restaurateur buys Fairyland figures at auction
Bay News 9 By Sara Belsole, Reporter
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iconic Fairyland figures built in the 1950’s at Lowry Park Zoo
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Restaurateur Richard Gonzmart
bid successfully on 11 Fairyland figures
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Figures will be restored, placed
in Ulele Restaurant in Tampa
Gonzmart spent almost $29,000 on
the figures
The pieces,
absent from the zoo since their removal in 1996, were up for auction at
Manheim Auction House Saturday.
"I grew up in Tampa in the 70’s and my folks used to take me to Lowry
Park Zoo and I have such fond memories of Fairyland,” bidder Nichole
Schall said. “To own a piece of the Tampanian history would just be
amazing for us." |
Restaurateur Richard Gonzmart (left) held
the winning bid on 11 Fairyland figures up for auction January
14 at Manheim Auction House Saturday. (Bay News 9 photo) |
Schall had stiff competition among the day's bidders, however. TV
history show "The Tampa Native Show" first learned of the auction and
launched a fundraising campaign to purchase them. “Before the mouse in
Orlando—before Disney—this was our Disney World,” host Mario
Nuñez said.
Restaurateur Richard Gonzmart also came to the auction with the hopes
of bringing home these pieces of Tampa's history. In fact, he was out to
bring them all home. "This takes me back to my childhood when my grandparents would take
me there and birthday parties were celebrated at Fairyland,” Gonzmart
said. “You go over that bridge, the rainbow bridge and you went to that
place where your imagination would roam."
A Facebook post about the auction caught Gonzmart’s attention, and
Nuñez said they were happy to step aside. “He is an angel,” Nuñez said. “He’s got a heart bigger than most
people can imagine.”
Gonzmart is no stranger to restoring Tampa classics. He recently
re-opened Goody Goody, which was originally established in the 1920’s.
He said he hopes to restore the figures and place them at his Ulele
Restaurant along the Tampa Riverwalk.
At the auction, Gonzmart had to outbid a few bidders to get his hands
on 11 of the figures. The Cinderella figurine sold for the most: $8,000.
"I couldn't have slept tonight if I let it go because a $100, $200,”
Gonzmart said.
Gonzmart spent almost $29,000 on the figures. He did not bid on the
miscellaneous lot, which sold to another bidder for $1550.
“This is about preserving it for future generations," said Gonzmart.
"This is history. There’s no price on history."
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praise of Richard, but quite a few expressed disdain for the city's attitude,
namely, that of the mayor,
for his reference to the group's "grand ideas". Some
comments were made in words, some were made
in graphics, some were just a bit too extreme and were removed.
These two were posted by
Mike Stone on Jan. 14 and 16.
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2017-Jan. 14 - The ever-outspoken Fran Constantino:
2017-Jan 5 - This one from Ben Crumpton->
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"My
suggestion to those with all these grand ideas is go to
the auction and bid on them. If they win the auction, then fine, they
can do whatever they want with them, but we don't want them." - Bob
Buckhorn
"That's
why they've been sitting on the junk pile for 25 years." - Bob Buckhorn
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2017-Jan
16 - I took the opportunity to stir the pot at City Hall, along
with a poem... Humpty Dumpty was at City Hall,
Somebody gave the mayor a call,
"He's nothing but junk," Bad Bob did say,
"We'll sell him at auction, Tampa natives will pay." |
Old Spearman exclaimed,
Just doing my job.
No matter if Tampa's history we rob.
We must do it this way,
there's no room for barter.
Bob picks when he chooses
to break city charter.
So Humpty and friends were put up
for a ransom.
Advertised by the city
in brochures quite so handsome.
But the people united
and the troops they did call,
In hope they could prevent Humpty's great fall.
So all over Tampa
the cause was made clear,
To unite in a rescue,
and allay our great fear.
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Then from over the rainbow, Shining
Knight did appear,
To win back our history and mem'ries held dear! |
If you like your history, you can keep your
history. But it's gonna cost you.
 2017-Jan
16 - Marilyn Favata Messina was also inspired to write this epic ode:
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There
once was a Mayor who didn’t care
About saving the history of a city so fair.
Plans to preserve the past were tossed aside
As he responded with remarks considered snide.
“To heck with the opinions of the people.
Their efforts are weak; their actions are feeble.
We’ll sell the History; we’ll sell the past.
Tradition is moot; we can start fresh at last.”
The sale was planned; the location was set.
The Mayor wondered how much the auction would net.
But the people spoke; and the people did care.
They knew what was happening wasn’t fair. |
On the morning of
the auction a hero did appear.
He did not waiver; he did not show fear.
Who was this man who stepped up to the plate?
He showed up early and planned to stay late.
A man of the people with a heart of gold
His bids were strong; his actions bold.
Because of him, our History will still live.
We owe him all the thanks this city can give.
We hope the Mayor knows not to cast us aside.
We all are here for more than just the ride.
Doesn't he realize to achieve higher power
The voters hold the key to the Ivory Tower? |
Many thanks to Richard Gonzmart for his successful efforts in keeping
the statues local!
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2017-Jan 14 - The 2nd issue of
the Tampa Pix Times was published at the Save Fairyland group.
Sir Richard of Gonzmart was created from this TampaPix photo taken in
March, 2009 at the
Bay Area
Renaissance Festival in Tampa.
This member of the "New Riders of the Golden Age" from Warhorse
Productions is "Sir Victor Thorn."
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