In the 1920’s Tampa
had a real estate boom which included the start of an exclusive residential area
in the WestShore area of the Interbay
area. In 1924 Kentuckian WILLIAM WALLER
TRICE, bank vice-president at Citizens, and GIDDINGS E. MABRY, law partner of
Governor Doyle Carlton, formed with Carl David Brorein
and Milton H. Mabry, started the Beach Park Company.One of its entrances still survives on South Lois Avenue
while the BeachPark
headquarters is now the Woman’s Club on South Westshore.