Garcia y Vega cigar factory (Copyright 2010 Tom Ufer All Rights Reserved)
Cigar Brands (Garcia y Vega): Austino, El Mas Noble, La Flor de Alvaro Garcia Longo, Garcia y Vega, La Rosa de Mayo, Duguesita, La Perla Espanola, Flor de Garcia y Vega and Flor de P.F. Carcaba.
(Villazon) Villa de Cuba, El Cerdo, Villazon and La Docilla.
Founded in 1882 by Alvaro Garcia and Jose Vega. Garcia y Vega produced premium, hand rolled cigars. Presently, Garcia y Vega is a US machine made cigar manufactured by Swedish Match. The majority of these machine made cigars use a Dominican grown candela wrapper.
Somewhere between 1969 and 1971, Frank llaneza and Tino Gonzalez moved Villazon from Ybor City to this factory located which is located in West Tampa. It was vacant at the time and they used it to manufacture and store cigars.
In the late 1990's / early 2000's The Oliva Tobacco Company moved into the vacant Garcia y Vega Factory. They are a well known supplier of high quality tobacco to many major cigar manufacturers.
Comments
Finally a cigar manufacturer that I know.
Another good article
Very nice article.
Great slideshow!
Noticed the guys smoking while packing the cigars - wonder if that was a free perk?
good pictures!
Jose Vega was my great grandfather. I would love those pictures. How can I get them?
right click on the images and you can download them to your PC. I found them online at the Hillsborough County Library website and USF's digital collection.
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