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Escalator at the Anheuser-Busch brewery attraction in Tampa, Florida.

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PC07287

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Collection

Postcard collection

Publication Information

Clearwater, Fla. : Ward Beckett & Co., [Not before 1959].

Physical Description

1 postcard - col. - 9 x 14 cm.

General Note

Numbers on back, bottom center: T-21 & C-21657.

Accompanying note: "'Stairway to the Stars,' longest continuous motor stairway ever built. Carried visitors over the reflection pool to the 86-foot high observation deck on the roof of Anheuser-Busch's twenty-five million dollar Budweiser Brewery for a 'parrot's-eye' view of Busch Gardens."

Escalator at the Anheuser-Busch brewery attraction in Tampa, Florida.

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Escalator at the Anheuser-Busch brewery attraction in Tampa, Florida.

Subject

Reflecting pools

Service industries--Florida--Hillsborough County--Tampa

Tourism--Florida--Hillsborough County--Tampa

Real photo postcards

Attractions--Florida--Hillsborough County--Tampa

Beverage industry--Florida--Hillsborough County--Tampa

Brewing industry--Florida--Hillsborough County--Tampa

Beer industry--Florida--Hillsborough County--Tampa

Beverage processing plants--Florida--Hillsborough County--Tampa

Staircases

Escalators

Breweries--Florida--Hillsborough County--Tampa

Date

1959 (circa)

Identifier

PC07287

Image URL

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Hillsborough County (Fla.)

Tampa (Fla.)

Color

color

Physical Description

1 postcard - col. - 9 x 14 cm.

Series Title

Postcard collection

General Note

Numbers on back, bottom center: T-21 & C-21657.

Subject - Corporate

Anheuser-Busch, inc.

Publication Info

Clearwater, Fla. : Ward Beckett & Co., [Not before 1959].

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Escalator at the Anheuser-Busch brewery attraction in Tampa, Florida. 1959 (circa). State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/259048>, accessed 13 June 2026.

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Escalator at the Anheuser-Busch brewery attraction in Tampa, Florida. 1959 (circa). State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/259048>

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(State Archives of Florida)

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