90-year-old machines are still used to make cigars in Tampa

Name: 90-year-old machines are still used to make cigars in Tampa
Uploaded: 2019-11-06T13:00:00Z
Duration: 3 min 6 s
Description: When J.C. Newman Cigar Company first opened in the late 1800s, they, like all factory, rolled their cigars by hand. The factory introduced machines to speed up the process in the 1930s. Those same machines are still being used today in the last operating cigar factory in Ybor City.

When J.C. Newman Cigar Company first opened in the late 1800s, they, like all factory, rolled their cigars by hand. The factory introduced machines to speed up the process in the 1930s. Those same machines are still being used today in the last operating cigar factory in Ybor City.

By Charley Belcher

Posted November 6, 2019 11:35am EST