Dr. C. Walkonig moved to Tampa after 25 years of practice in Baltimore and Atlanta, establishing his practice in the City Markets Building in 1927. He had a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy (Ph.G) and a medical degree. Opening at a time of great economic stress, he advertised giving “treatment with medicine furnished at prices to suit the depression of the times”. Many patients paid $1. He moved to this building in 1930.  Walkonig was published in newspapers recommending treatment for Ira King of Mansfield, Ohio, suffering for two weeks from constant hiccoughs. He believed a teaspoon of aromatic spirits of ammonia in a glass of water would do the trick, the same as it had for a man the doctor treated in Atlanta. It didn’t work.  King had his gall bladder removed, and that did the trick. Dr. Walkonig practiced at this location through the mid-1930s.

The replacement building pictured here was the South Carolina-based Carolina Life Insurance office in the late 1950s.  In 1961, they merged with Southland Life Insurance Co. and operated here through the mid-1960s. The Olsen Law Firm is now doing business from this location.

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