[Col Frank Slade]

I think Chubby Checker is still alive.

[Deplorable American1776]

I'm not sure... Might have to ask the Tampa History Museum if he is.

His Twist was started in Tampa on Central Ave, the Black part of Tampa before desegregation! In the Encore development, there's a Ray Charles Way, Ray Charles lived in Tampa for a time. The Jackson Rooming House (where blacks stayed in Tampa) had alot of blacks staying there - Ella Fitzgerald, Chubby Checker and others.

[Deplorable American1776]

I'm not sure... Might have to ask the Tampa History Museum if he is.

His Twist was started in Tampa on Central Ave, the Black part of Tampa before desegregation! In the Encore development, there's a Ray Charles Way, Ray Charles lived in Tampa for a time. The Jackson Rooming House (where blacks stayed in Tampa) had alot of blacks staying there - Ella Fitzgerald, Chubby Checker and others.