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DescriptionWood carving by Mario Sanchez depicting the corner of Bahama and Fleming streets. Chicken Alley's Ice Cream, Hamburgers & Piruli horse drawn buggy traveling on the brick street. Candy's Taxi also on the street. Caption written by Sanchez reads, 'This scene is how Fleming and Bahama Streets looked up until the 1940s. Bahama is the official name of the street, but ever since 1871 the Cuban population knew it by El Callejon de Poyo, because Jose Dolores Poyl, a Cuban patriot, lived with his family in one of the houses between Southard and Fleming Streets. He edited and printed a Spanish newspaper called El Yara. He also was an Reader in the Vincente Martinez Ybor Cigar Factory before the big fire in 1886. Poyo is a surname and pollo is a chicken and since both words are pronounced almost the same in Spanish, the English speaking people called it Chicken Alley. If someone asked my other, or any old timer where was Bahama Street, they would answer that they did not know, but if you asked them where was El Callejon de Poyo, they would answer that it was between Southard and Eaton Streets'.