Wellsir, seems Tampa has a huge annual parade celebrating its role as a center for pirates back in the good old days when it was cool to rob and plunder. The Gasparilla Parade, staged since 1904 by Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla, honors pirate Jose Gaspar. Jim Mock was the model for this poster. Because it was the day before the Super Bowl, Tampa was expecting about 250,000 this year.
Members dress in pirate gear and kick off the parade with a boat ride.
That was last year. This year, the poster came out and everyone in Tampa spent a week and a half wondering who is this guy. Including the Tampa Tribune, which ran a Jan. 23 story about the mystery. The likeness is that exact. They tipped off the Tribune and a second story ran the next day.