Tampa’s fabled Tiny Tap Tavern has finally sold, but don’t expect much to change

There are at least three people who’ve had their ashes spread at Tampa’s Tiny Tap Tavern, and Casey Powell plans on  doing the same when his time comes. But for now, it’s time for him to retire from the seven-days-a-week job of keeping the place up.

The sortied South Tampa dive bar at 105 W. Morrison Ave. has been in the 67-year-old’s family for 50 years, but Powell, who acquired Tiny Tap Tavern from his father in 2004, recently sold it to a new owner.

“I’ve had other offers where people haven’t been sure what they were going to do. And if they had plans to tear it down, then we were done talking,” Powell Powell told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay…

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