{"id":40165,"date":"2011-02-04T11:22:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T16:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.porcelainbarnlights.com\/?p=392"},"modified":"2020-07-07T13:06:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T18:06:48","slug":"industrial-porcelain-pendant-lights-in-tampa-cigar-factories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.barnlight.com\/inspiration\/industrial-porcelain-pendant-lights-in-tampa-cigar-factories\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrial Porcelain Pendant Lights in Tampa Cigar Factories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/inspiration\/porcelain-lights-goosenecks-pendants\/ivanhoe-pendant-lighting\/goodrich-sinclair-industrial-porcelain-pendant\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"usf-photos-of-cigar-factory\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/usf-photos-of-cigar-factory.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For decades, the Tampa Bay area was known as the cigar capital of the United States. Vicente Martinez Ybor, a prominent Spanish-born cigar manufacturer moved his business from Cuba, to Key West and finally to a plot of land in Tampa Bay. Through the years, additional cigar-making companies sprouted up throughout the Tampa Bay area and many of their warehouses were lit with industrial <a title=\"porcelain pendant lights\" href=\"\/inspiration\/porcelain-lights-goosenecks-pendants\/ivanhoe-pendant-lighting\/\">porcelain pendant lights<\/a>. As you can see in the photo above, these pendants were strategically placed to provide a directional beam of light over the tables occupied with workers rolling cigars. Toward the end of the 20th century and into the early 2000&#8217;s, increased taxes on tobacco products forced many of Tampa&#8217;s cigar factories to permanently close their doors.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnlight.com\/inspiration\/industrial-porcelain-pendant-lights-in-tampa-cigar-factories\/#more-40165\" class=\"more-link\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, the Tampa Bay area was known as the cigar capital of the United States. Vicente Martinez Ybor, a prominent Spanish-born cigar manufacturer moved his business from Cuba, to Key West and finally to a plot of land in Tampa Bay. Through the years, additional cigar-making companies sprouted up throughout the Tampa Bay area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5305,5438],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnlight.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnlight.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnlight.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnlight.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnlight.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnlight.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66424,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnlight.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40165\/revisions\/66424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnlight.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnlight.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnlight.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnlight.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}