Land crabs in your front yard
Hurricane parties
The Doors concert at Dinner Key Auditorium
When 'Saddle Shoes' were a fashion statement
Birch Beer at Royal Castle
Johnnie & Mack by the railroad track, the world's largest, and that's a fact!
Jack O'Brien and Municipal Auto Sales commercials
Western Sunset Bowl
When Don Carter's was the ONLY thing on 137th & Kendall
When you could get a bucket of shrimp at Kentucky Fried Chicken
Miami……See it like a Native
The Coppertone Girl on Biscayne Boulevard
The MacArthur Dairy Boy licking his lips
When there was a canal down the center of Miller Road
"The Dungeon" with M.T. Graves on Saturday afternoon T.V.
Bowl - O - Mat on US 1
St. Timothy's annual carnival
The water tower in South Miami Heights
The Jamaica Inn on Key Biscayne (prime rib on saturday nights)
When Quail Roost Drive was nothing but avocado groves
Big Daddy's Lounge on US1 and Coral Reef Drive
Daisy May's Barbeque on 8th Street
When Black Point was the old shack store and there was nothing but shrimp boats there
A&W Drive-In - served birch beer and the waitresses came out on roller skates
The air raid sirens in South Miami
The Holsum Bakery on US1 and Red Road...can ya still smell it?
Polar Palace on 36th Street
The old skinny rickety bridges to Key West
Mike's Drug Store in the South Miami Heights shopping center
Eureka Park's little orange pumpkin
Five year olds being able to walk to school on your own (I did)
Gen & Wren's (it's the Shack now)
Hurricane Donna
The Flick Coffeehouse on Ponce by the UM
The "dump" at the end of Eureka on Old Cutler Road
W. T. Grants and Grant City (where the Best Buy is now on US1 & Marlin)
"Hey, Culligan Man!"
The waterslide in Florida City
Zayres on US1 in "Pinecrest" where the Home Depot is now
When "Pinecrest" was Sunniland
The Tigertail Lounge in the Grove
When there was a Winn Dixie where Cocowalk is now
When Oak Avenue in the Grove had "head shops"
When Flannigans was the Loggerhead and it had pool tables and didn't serve food
Royal Castles everywhere! Birch beer and belly sliders
When you didn't have to pay to launch your boat at Matheson Hammock
Jai Lai on US1 behind the Bowl - O - Mat
Dixie Drive-In where the big Publix is now on US1
Neisner's in the old Cutler Ridge strip mall
When Mr. & Mrs. Burr owned everything on the west side of Burr Road and Mr. Mixon owned everything on the east side
Camp Choee on Colonial and 117th
Camp Mahachee by Matheson Hammock park
Beefsteak Charlies" on US1 across from Bowl - O - Mat
You could find shells in the water at Matheson Hammock wading beach
Gooney golf at the Colonial Palms Course on US1 & 136th St
Patty Murray on WGTR
Larry King on WIOD
Rick Shaw on WQAM
The Dupont Plaza Hotel on the Miami River
Monroe Station
Jimmy's Hurricane and the Hurrican Cooler
Hot Shoppes and the Orange Freeze, Teen Twist and Big Mo
When Coral Gables was "the" high school
The bowling alley at the end of Cutler Ridge strip mall (where Sears is now)
The little walk-in movie theater in the back of Cutler Ridge's strip mall
Richard's Dept Store
Private camps in the everglades
Pole beans and tomato farms on Kendall Drive(U-Pick-Em)
When the Coconut Grove Arts Festival was free and you could actually buy something there
The Trail Theater on Douglas/8th St
The Tower Theater on 8th St/ 15th Ave
The Pizza Palace on 8th Street and it's "snowball" architecture
Pizza Patio on Bird Road
Roller skating waitresses and car-side service
The Huddle House (at the corner of SW 8th St and 76th Ave before 826 cut it off)
The Coral Way Drive-In down the street from the football stadium high schools played in Concord Shopping Center and Movie Theater
Food Fair, Quick Chex, and Super-X
Anthony Abraham's home in the Gables with the most amazing Christmas decorations
When Kendall Drive was "the road to nowhere"
Colonial Palms Golf Course on US 1 and SW 136th St
When I-95 didn't reach here
When "Miami's Best Pizza" was the original "Little Caesar's"
The Five & Dime Store at Coral Way and 27th Ave
Parodi's Five & Dime Store on 8th Street
The Glorious Delicattessen on Coral Way
Richard Nixon's southern White House on Key Biscayne
When Les Violins was a hot spot
When the people on South Beach were older than the buildings
WCIX
Big Wilson
The original Holsum Bakery Christmas display in South Miami
When Howard Schnellenberger was "king"
The Serpentarium and Bill Haas "milking" those snakes!
The Austrailian Pines that lined the trail on the way to the Miccosoukee Tribe
The Zoo at Crandon Park and it's kiddy rides
The Hurrican Harbour Lounge
The Silver Sands Motel on Key Biscayne
Tahiti Beach for swimming during the day and making out at night
Larry Csonka and Jim Kick
Zayres, Diskay, Woolworth, and Woolco in Westchester and what was then Midway Mall
WFUN and WQAM were "THE" stations to listen to if your car only had an AM radio
If you were lucky enoughto have FM, you lustened to Y-100
Lums and Jahn's were the places to go with your friends after football games
Krispy Kreme accross from the cementary on 8th Street had the BEST doughnuts!
Sambo's in the Gables across form Sears and their patty melts at 3 AM
Sweden House (all you care to eat!) on Dixie Highway
The Flame (also on Dixie)
Fox's Sherron Inn for the prime ribs (still there!)
When Tamiami Park was Tamiami Airport and there were cow pastures across the street
The animated, talking cow in Dressels Dairy's ice cream parlor
Toby the Robot and Scrubby on Skipper Chuck (Zink)
The Copacabana Supper Club
James McDuffie and Neville Johnson
Johnnie Jones and gold plumbing
Mercury Morris
D'Pizza of UM
Lou Saban
Murf the Surf
Arthur Godfrey
A time when Frank Forte and Don Noe weren't on channel 10
Molly Turner and Alec Gibson
Arthur Godfrey Show from Miami Beach
When trains ran parallel to U.S. 1 (at ground level)
The roller skating rink at South Dixie and SW 27th Ave
When the 836 toll was 10 cents
The Miami Marlins and the Ft. Lauderdale Yankees (AA teams)
When FIU was a "Senior College" and the school's nickname was the "Sun Blazers"
The Miami Daily News
Miami Rowing Club
Musa Village, the Seminole Indian Village on NW 27th ave. and the Miami River
K-land on Kendall Drive
The Ft. Lauderdale Strikers
Flipper in the open end-zone at the Orange Bowl
The rotating shark at the entrance to Key Biscayne
The Seaquarium with Hugo the Killer whale
When Crown Liquors got shot up
Cocaine Cowboys
Tent City
Packer Pontiac
Hurricane David and that masking tape that's still on all your windows
Grand Union (the grand union of all good things)
When the Norway was the largest cruise ship in the world
When the Rusty Pelican burned down
Miami Dade Junior College
The Coffee House on Douglas Rd
The Lemon Twist
The Monk's Inn
The French Connection
Monty Trainer's Village Inn
Jordan Marsh
Burdines and the playground on its roof
Peaches Records and Tapes
The Coca Cola Bottling company in the grove
Super Skating Centers and Tropical Skating
CenterAir Florida and Eastern Airlines
Glen Rinker & Ralph Renick
Gator Kicks on Tamiami Trail
When there was a grocery store in Dadeland Mall
The Seahorse at Dadeland Mall
When Dadeland Mall was open!
When "Footy's" name was "Athlete's Foot"
Heiny Wine "The wine that made Medley, Medley"
When the 94th Aero Squadron had good food
The Tropicaire Drive in Theater
When there was a Burdines at the Mayfair mall
When the Mayfair Mall was a drive-in laundry
When Centrust was Dade Federsal Savings
When SunTrust was Sun Bank
The Dadeland Twin Theater
The Riviera Theater, Gables Theater and the Coral Theater
The Coconut Grove PlayHouse
Ivan Kivit's Merry-Go-Round Theater
Gordons Docks
The ColliseumBowling : 1928 Opera House-Boxing - Wrestling - Ice/Roller Skating Rink
Indy car races at Tamiami Park
The Hialeah race track with demolition derbys
When Shorty's BBQ burned down
When the Rickenbacker was a drawbridge - and cost 25 cents
Biscayne Dog Track
Campus Life Haunted House
When the Youth Fair was at K-Land on Kendall Drive
When the Mark IV was the best ride at the youth fair
All the Dairy Farms where Miami International Airport sits today
Uncle Gordon reading the Sunday funnies on the radio (at the Freedom Tower formerly the Miami Daily News Bldg.)
The Skipper Chuck Show with Scrubby and Toby the Robot
Miami Marine Stadium and Hydroplane races
Velvet Creme
Planet Ocean (now Mast Academy)
Monkey Jungle
Parrot Jungle (moved to Watson Island)
The Goodyear Blimp at Watson Island
Chalk's Flying Service
Club OZ
Tom Thumbs in the Grove
When the Mall of the Americas was Midway Mall
Rory Sparrow
Black Caesar's Forge
Marcella's Mia Cucina
Richard's Department Store & Basement - Downtown
Grant's Five and Dime - Downtown
Gesu Cathjolic Church Downtown
Jimmy's Hurricane and the Hurricane Cooler
Hot Shoppes and the Orange Freeze, teen Twist and Big Mo
The Big Wheel
Ice Palace Ice Skating Rink on NW 36 St.
Key West was a long, lonely trip,, and the Key Lime Pie was 'real'
The trips down to the Rod and Reel Club at Jewfish Creek on Key Largo
The trips down to Everglades City
The Red Diamond Italian Restaurant south of the Airport on Lejuene
The El Bolero Restaurant
When La Carreta only had one location
George's Subs on 8th Street and 47th Ave
Wolfie's and the Rascal House on Miami Beach
Drag Races at Amelia Earhart Field
Kelly's Hamburgers Drive-In (later Billy's Drive-In) on 79th St next to the North Bay Marina
Dressels Dairy for ice cream and pony rides on a Sunday afternoon on Milam Dairy Road
Sealtest ice cream parlor near Jimmys Hurricane on Bird rd.
Luskin's High Fidelity
Lyle's Pharmacy
Lindsley Lumber
A.J. Duhe
Victoria and Abbey Hospitals
Mercy Hospital on Biscayne Bay
Malibu Grand Prix
Jackson-Byrons; JByrons; Jacksons
The rides on top of downtown Burdines each holiday season
McCrory's Five and Dime - Downtown
Sam the China Man
Roland Your Hatter in the Seybold Bldg.
Bayfront Auditorium with the Saturday Dances
Bayfront Park and the Public Library there
5th Street Fishing Pier and Charter Boats - Downtown (where Bayside sits today)
FunLand Park on NW 27th Ave
Krome ave. was wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy out in the sticks
Seminole Indian huts out on Tamiami Trail that did not have Parabolic antennas sticking out Pan Am's seaplane hangers (where real live seaplanes took off many times a day) in the Grove Mansene's Spaghetti House
The Studio Restaurant
The Yorkshire
The Hampshire
Leonard La Pena's Steak House
FIRE Station #1 across from the old Courthouse
The Old Miami train station just across the street from the police dept.
Coral Gables Bus station
The Boys Club of Miami on 32nd Ave (before it became Co-Ed)
Dairy Queen's with the curly cone on top and "flying saucer" ice cream sandwiches
A & W root beer joints
Royal Castle burger joints
The tennis courts at Coconut Grove park next to the basketball court
Florida Pharmacy in the Grove AKA the Fagacy
The Light House on Key Biscayne was a simple picnic place w/ NO Seawall
Fair Isle was just that, an island where we snagged mullet and fished
P. B. A. park on NW 14 St.
Miami Senior High before air conditioningBiscayne
Biscayne Cafeteria in the Gables
M and M cafeteria on SW 27 Ave and 8 St
WQAM radio
King Arthur's Court on 36 st
Big Daddy's Drag Races on Kendall and Krove Ave
The Tropicaire Flea market
Allen's Drugs at Red and Bird Road
WINZ radio
Scotty's Grocery in the Grove where tomatoes and artichokes were the size of your hand
When Westchester was "out in the country...way outside of Miami..."
When there was NO FIU
When Miami Coral Park Senior High School was predominantly Jewish
Miles of strawberry fields on Kendall Drive after you passed 107th Avenue
No Town & Country Mall on Kendall Drive
No "West Kendall" at all
The Hamlet bar on Main Hywy
The little drive-in place that sold whisky at South Dixie and 27th Ave
The little bait shop that sold beer at South Dixie and 17th Ave
When Stiltsville was a seldom frequented place on the sand bars
The Lejeune Drive In, where the Marriott is now
When Widow McCoy's in the Grove was the hotspot for live jazz
The Grove Movie Theatre and the midnight "Rocky Horror" shows every weekend
All the funky shops on Grand Avenue before Cocowalk and Mayfair took over
When there was no traffic on the Palmetto Expressway
When Sweetwater was just trailers, small farms and houses on the other side of the canal
When there was NO Midway Mall, International Mall, or Dolphin Mall
Royal Ice Company on Douglas and US1
Great Value grocery store in Cutler Ridge, next to Dad's Hardware
Breezeway Drive-In in Homestead
Shaw's Nursery on US1 and Killian Dr
Poe's Hardware on US1 and Lejeune Road
Rhodes Brothers Club on US1 & 136th
When Luria'sBird Bowl had a gas station
WhenTropical Park was a horse track
Police Athletic League dances at Bird Road and 72nd
When we had TV channels! 4 (CBS), 7 (NBC), 10 (ABC) and then 6 (WCIX)
Bird Bowl & the skating rink
Drink & Sink...all the skating & beer you can drink for $5...
do you know how hard it is to go to the bathroom with skates on ??
The Playboy Clubs...disco dancing...the "bunnies" had little cotton tails...
FULL SERVICE AT GAS STATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ALL the woods we had to mud bog in
Motocrossing on the sand dunes that are now Cocoplum!
Long's Motorcycle Shop on Flagler St.
Taking the bus to shop in the Gables
All the worms on the sidewalks & in the hallways at school after a big rain
Tadpoles in the puddles
Camping at Browns Farm
Bird Road Drive-in...especially when they added "Air-Conditioning"!!
The Circus Restaurant on Bird Road
The Brasserie by the airport
The 1800 Club
The pizza place on 103rd street that showed Little Rascal videos...& had the BEST pizza too!Skiing at the Airport Lakes
The Flea Market at the Bird Road Drive-in
Little Caesar's on US1
The Sportatorium in the middle of nowhere where rock bands came to perform.
Bayfront Park when it had beautiful trees and a great Library
When Miami Beach restaurants and bars closed at 11 PM
When the South Beach scene was skid row and not fashion week
Earl Cashmore's Shell Station on the corner of Eureka and Franjo
The haunted and boarded up Biltmore Hotel
Camping on the levy on Tamiami Trail in the Everglades
Orange Julius in the malls
The Yumbrella in South Miami
Sorrento's Italian Restaurant
The Red Diamond Inn
Autorama at Dinner Key auditorium
The Columbus Hotel, Everglades Hotel and the Colonial Hotel on Biscayne Boulevard
The all you can eat fishfry on fridays at Howard Johnson across from the UM on US1
The Florida East Coast Railroad Station in downtown next to the county courthouse
The Dinner Key Boat Show
The Black Angus Restaurant
................................................................AND SO MUCH MORE!
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 315 of 315I remember those as well. Who can forget the Rosetta Theater in Little River (?) and the Essex Theater in Hialeah. Saw my first theater movie at the Essex. Still a great city. I've been to many but love Miami best.
Warren
The Sportatorium in the middle of nowhere where rock bands came to perform better known these days as Pembroke Pines!
Their families last name was BATES, because I dated their son, Jerry Bates and skated there all the time on weekends 1965, 66, 67. I don't remember his sisters name, but they both had red hair.
Someone mentioned sonething about when Miller Road ended on 112 Ave. There used to be a wooden foot bridge. We used to hang out there all the time and fish. This was before they expanded Miller and connected it to Horse Country. Does anyone remember or have pictures of it?
Someone mentioned sonething about when Miller Road ended on 112 Ave. There used to be a wooden foot bridge. We used to hang out there all the time and fish. This was before they expanded Miller and connected it to Horse Country. Does anyone remember or have pictures of it?
Someone mentioned sonething about when Miller Road ended on 112 Ave. There used to be a wooden foot bridge. We used to hang out there all the time and fish. This was before they expanded Miller and connected it to Horse Country. Does anyone remember or have pictures of it?
What great memories! I lived in Miami from 1959-1977 and 1982-1986. Went to all the Palmetto Schools and the Oaks Kindergarden. Suniland was our main shopping strip. I remember the Dime store and the stationery store. I seem to recall the owner of the stationery store was kind of mean. The pizza place had the best greasy pizza, and Carvel was right next door. For candy treats we used to visit Al's Newsstand on 124th at the highway. There was an A&P Grocery store and a hardware store in the same area. Someone else mentioned the Pie Fair. My sister and I used to go there ALL THE TIME when she was pregnant w/her first child. The Blue Plate Special and coconut cream pie! We used to drive down to Gables by the Sea before it was gated. That's where I learned to drive! Sometimes the crab migrations would make it all the way to our house at 124th and Ludlam. Would occasionally skip school and go over to Matheson Hammock or Crandon Park. Loved the Coconut Grove Playhouse. My mother was an artist, so we always looked forward to the art fair at Viscaya. I go back "home" every few years. It's not the same, but so many places still feel familiar. I will always be a Coppertone baby at heart!
Late '60's......
Jade Garden Billiards, Dixie Hwy South Miami
Sam's Pizza & Bob's Pipe Shop, Red Road, South Miami
Jeffrey D. Evans says if you remember Miami, you MUST remember that the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse was originally on Grenada Avenue just a block to the East of Ponce, where I initially found Ivan Kivitt directing Ted Shell, Nate Shugars, Fran Birch... all the old Merry-Go-Round Playhouse gang, since this was in 1965! Fran was rehearsing the part of the Wicked Witch of the West for Ivan's production of "The Wizard of Oz". I was told I'd come too late to try out for a part, but to come back in a month. Nate was our technical man, running the lights and in charge of set design and carpentry. I began a 4 or 5 year career with the Merry-Go-Round, even when it became an 'adult' Community Theater, expanding and moving to a beautiful brick building on Alcazar Avenue. Can anybody top that?
Jeffrey D. Evans says if you remember Miami, you MUST remember that the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse was originally on Grenada Avenue just a block to the East of Ponce, where I initially found Ivan Kivitt directing Ted Shell, Nate Shugars, Fran Birch... all the old Merry-Go-Round Playhouse gang, since this was in 1965! Fran was rehearsing the part of the Wicked Witch of the West for Ivan's production of "The Wizard of Oz". I was told I'd come too late to try out for a part, but to come back in a month. Nate was our technical man, running the lights and in charge of set design and carpentry. I began a 4 or 5 year career with the Merry-Go-Round, even when it became an 'adult' Community Theater, expanding and moving to a beautiful brick building on Alcazar Avenue. Can anybody top that?
Flynn's Dixie Ribs - best BBQ I've had to this day. There was a fantastic sub shop near the Gables between a cemetery and a funeral home but don't remember the name. Out of this world subs. The Studio Restaurant. Yum! The Planetarium on South Bayshore that did Pink Floyd shows on weekend. Good stuff. More later
Jeff Evans enjoyed his years at the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse and would love to hear from anybody who shared those years. Who remembers Ivan Kivitt's costumer, Connie Kramer, and her house "Witchwood" in the Southwest of Coconut Grove, along Old Cutler Road?
The Studio Restaurant - My parents owned Poinciana Chinaware in Miami. Freddie (don't recall his last name) was going to open The Studio and wanted to buy dishes but didn't have a lot of money and offered my parents a piece of the business. They knew him and that other ventures he'd done hadn't gone well so, rather than take a piece of the business, they gave him credit so he didn't have to pay right away. Of course, when Freddie sold the restaurant many years later, it was for the highest price ever for a restaurant to that time in Miami. The kicker - the new owners had paid Freddie some money down and made payments and they had problems and ended up turning the restaurant back to Freddie, who ran it for another few years before closing for good. The things most people remember: The onion soup; the chocolate mousse on the dessert buffet; the waiters in sailor uniforms.
I can't believe Epicure has closed after so many years, they announced after Hurricane Irma hit the area they would not re-open the store. I was there 2 days before Irma so guess I'm one of the last to get their croissants, black and white cookies and a few other things.
The Studio Restaurant - My parents owned Poinciana Chinaware in Miami. Freddie (don't recall his last name) was going to open The Studio and wanted to buy dishes but didn't have a lot of money and offered my parents a piece of the business. They knew him and that other ventures he'd done hadn't gone well so, rather than take a piece of the business, they gave him credit so he didn't have to pay right away. Of course, when Freddie sold the restaurant many years later, it was for the highest price ever for a restaurant to that time in Miami. The kicker - the new owners had paid Freddie some money down and made payments and they had problems and ended up turning the restaurant back to Freddie, who ran it for another few years before closing for good. The things most people remember: The onion soup; the chocolate mousse on the dessert buffet; the waiters in sailor uniforms.
I can't believe Epicure has closed after so many years, they announced after Hurricane Irma hit the area they would not re-open the store. I was there 2 days before Irma so guess I'm one of the last to get their croissants, black and white cookies and a few other things.
Loved visiting this blog!! For me, some of the places that I will always remember about Miami are:
* George's Sub Shop off 8th St
* La Rosa Bakery
* La Carreta (4 locations when I left Miami)
* I Quattro Quinti Pizza - absolutely loved their pizza and garlic knots!!
* Kinloch Park Elementary and Junior High
* Playing ball there everyday after school until 7 or 8 pm
* Riding the bus everywhere
* Midland Mall
* Dadeland Mall
Thanks for the memories!!
I saw on this website...Miami Memories....that some of you are South Dade High School students/grads. If you are interested in THE annual reunion info please contact me at rico41@aol.com ALL YEARS ARE INVITED. This reunion has been held every year for the passed 15+ years. Huge turnout. Ric Almeroth
Since I am a car guy I have a few to add and embellish on
HC Wilcox Engine Rebuilders on SW 27ave.
Street Racing (NOT big daddy) on Chrome Ave and Kendall Drive
Florida City Speedway
Stock Car racing at "Old" Hollywood Speedway on Pembroke Rd just West of I95
Stock Car racing at the "New" Hollywood Speedway at the Sportatorium Complex
Drag Racing at the Sportatorium
Slot Car Racing at Haas Slot Track right by the Gooney Golf at 136st
Pirates World on Sheridan St in Hollyood
Jerry Sherrod’s Dixie Belle Inn on S. Dixie just South of Bill Haas’ Serpentarium.
Rocket Drive-in with fantastic fried chicken.
Cemetary is the correct spelling.
I was in Miami last week and how it's grown. Lots of glitz and glass but still plenty of reminders of the old days. A great city with something for everyone. I'm so glad to be back in Florida. Lived in Los Angeles and San Francisco but I'll take Miami over both of them.
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I was just curious if the Leslie Morris you say you still miss so much was my best friend too? We went to South Miami Senior in 77-79 and were on the tennis team together. We road around everywhere in her white fiat.....from practices and games, to Lums and the Grove. I miss her so and don't know anyone that remembers her. Thanks and I adore reading your blogs! Susan
Thanks for the memories. Although I left Miami as a teenager these places and people will always be some of the best times of my life.
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No mention of the buzzards on the roof of the courthouse in downtown?
Tommy
It was awesome. Open 24 hrs, and you could get cans of soda to fresh stone crabs. I bartended at big daddy's right next door to it from 1986 to 1998. LOVED THAT AREA. MISS IT.
Hi
I have lived in Miami since 1973....our friends gather nights and we go back in time trying to remember Miami's Nostalgia...Last meeting no one could remember a Spanish Cuisine Restaurant $$$ that was in 8 street SW and 64th Avenue. If someone remembers the name of this restaurant please let me know...thank you in advance.
Could you be referring to Centro Vasco? It was a few blocks from the address you mentioned.
"I have lived in Miami since 1973....our friends gather nights and we go back in time trying to remember Miami's Nostalgia...Last meeting no one could remember a Spanish Cuisine Restaurant $$$ that was in 8 street SW and 64th Avenue. If someone remembers the name of this restaurant please let me know...thank you in advance."
BPB THANK you for answering my question, but no is not Centro Vasco....I remember this one but i can't seem to remember the one in 8 street and 64th Avenue SW....
I am trying to remember in the 1960s and 70s a bar or restaurant or hotel that you would go into an eat and drink and on the walls that would be opening some windows women's swimming are fish that you can look at while you were there I do remember many things that you posted thank you
Thank you for this detailed information! This is some of the highest quality content I’ve ever come across....
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OMG,What a Flashback,Been in Miami since 66",.Riverside School Had Wooden School Rooms.Down from the Lemon Twist was Snoopys Barn Strip Club,later The Horoscope Lounge on 57 ave Nw 7 st. Before 94th Aero Squadron Was built.Fabulous Diamonds.When the Bridge before 94th aero was 2 lane Wood Bridge.The Burger King on 8st and 61 ave,Now Las Palmas Cafe Same Building."The Wall" hang out,off Old Cutler Driving down Old Cutler Rd all Pitch black No Homes.Yambos?all you can eat Off 12ave and 1st.Remember "Officer Friendly" later in life we realized Not so friendly.If we can only bring most of it back.It was a nice ride.Thanks for memories.
The Chicken Unlimited Fast Food in Airpark Plaza.
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Does anyone recall the Biscayne Villas Motel. It was close to a Howard Johnson restaurant. This was back in the 1950's. What's there now,?
How about the pony ring at Cutler Ridge Mall? And the Clydesdales when the would come to town?
Yes, i worked at the Brasserie a few blocks from it..K.C. played there a few times b/4 getting famous.
Jeff Evans comments: You remember Miami if you remember that the original greats at Ivan Kivitt's Merry-Go-Round Playhouse were Ted Shell, Fran Birch, Nate Shugars, Paula Pearson, and Rachel Snyder. If you remember that Ivan's first pianist was Carl Zittrer, who went on to become a great movie composer. Also, if you remember that Rachel Snyder came to be called "Miss Rachel" because she was a nursery-school teacher on the side. Who remembers that Tom Leopold, probably Coral Gables High's greatest comic-actor, went on to become a writer for shows like "Cheers", and "Seinfeld", as well a great friend of Paul Shaffer's? I worked at the Merry-Go-Round with Tom. Who remembers that Ivan's original actors used to do regular stints on "Popeye Playhouse" with Skipper (Chuck) Zinc? Or that his brother, Ted, was a great dancer who appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and did a command performance for Jimmy Carter?? There's so much more to learn.
I grew up in Miami and have lived in Washington DC, Los Angeles, Palm Springs and San Francisco. None of these did I like as much as Miami and I keep getting drawn back. Now a resident of Central Florida, I visit Miami and was there this past week and visited Vizcaya for the first time. I can't believe I never went there. Beautiful place! The city has certainly spread out and grown up but still manages to retain the feel I remember when living there.Some things never change and no other place will feel as much like home.
WOW! What memories... I had forgotten so many of them but remembered almost all of them as I read the list. Thanks for posting. Everytime I'd think of a place to add, I'd come across it later on the list. This is amazing.
I enjoyed your post because I graduated from Killian in 1971. It was a great school back in those days. I remember so many things on this list. I was disappointed when I was looking up the school's the other day that it appears that Killian has really declined. It was a wonderful school for me
Does anyone remember a plant nursery on the Tamiami Trail in the 1960’s, 1970’s and maybe early 1980’s. My aunt (Ruth Nowell) owned a nursery somewhere near the western edge of Miami. I was never fortunate enough to visit, but saw her twice a year when she’d visit her parents in Mississippi. It might have even been named The Tamiami Nursery, but not sure. We would love to try and find photos, find the original location etc just for family documentation. Any info greatly appreciated.
If you have any leads as to where I might do further research, that would be nice also.
Terry
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Kelly's Drive-In, LeJeune Road. Complete with waitresses on skates.
Weekend night at parties Sewer beach, Blimpies on US1, Holsum bakery on red road, Manhattans, Pete and Lenny's, Loggerheads in the Grove, Taurus Lounge in the Grove.
Last name was Bates. My sister knew the family well at Sunland Skating Rink next to Bird Bowl.
Does anyone remember the Wildhog Jamborees?
OMG. Just found this post when I met an older guy that was friends with Bill Haast. Awesome Don't have time to read all til tonight but the Orange Julius and Top of the Cone Ice Cream Dixie and Coral Reef. The bomb. Indian pinball you could tilt every time when last 2 digits were 90 and win a free game.
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I do hope, whoever moderates this site, will remove the spam messages. Also, I hope all the people who are a part of this group will actively avoid doing any business with any of these spammers.
Ah, remember when we didn't have spammers like this...or email...or computers...just heading out on a nice day, stopping at Royal Castle and then heading to the beach! It was a simpler time - People were (mostly) nice, Presidents were intelligent and thoughtful, and people were working to make important social changes. It's a shame the things we wish had changed, like the injustices and inequality in society, haven't become the equality and concern for human life as much as they should and are still being fought for, while the things we wish hadn't changed, like having politicians who were able to (at least sometimes) put the people of the country first instead of their own self-interest, have changed for the worst.
Ludways bill and Ted's
and fun fair
Great memories of old Miami. Who can forget the Castaways Hotel with it’s beautiful pools. The Omni Hotel and Mall. The Omni Mall was the best mall around from 1980 to 1990. The Jordan Marsh Store was the best for it’s day. What a store with it’s restaurants. The cafe in the first floor had the best Cheese Bread toast I have ever had. Christmas at Jordan Marsh was over the top and something to remember.
THANK YOU, MEMORY LANE! An original native of 33156 and 33133
My great grandmother and grandmother were born in the Keys. My mother, me, my kids, and their kids all born and raised in Miami. I grew up on NW 34th st and 32nd Ave. As Miami grew, we moved South and West. I lived in South Miami Heights, Kendall, and finally in Miller Square area. I remember all of these places listed. I was surprised to see you left out Donutland. Just south of Kendall Drive on US1. I'm almost certain it was the first doughnut shop to have a drive thru window. In the early 70s on Friday and Saturday night, my dad made the dough and cut the doughnuts, while I fried and finished them. These were some of my fondest teenage memories!
The Serpentinarium on US1
From the 50s, i remember Ed " mark 'em down" Lane, Jackie Pierce afternoon TV, and a morning cooking show on which Lee Taylor would taste everything but didn't do any cooking
Wow, thank you for reminding me that I had a whole life before I was even 30 years old! A wonderful compilation!
I also went to coconut grove elementary 6th grade in 1986. Fond memories ...few things not mentioned that deserve a shout out ...swensons on us1 across from UM specs music store goombay festival . the day monorail opened n was free for the day.mark twains riverboat playhouse(at least three bdays celebrated there) giraffe at entrance to crandon park zoo n the train ride...
I wanted to add that we lived on nw 34st and 32Ave. I went to Melrose Elementary from 1962 to 1968, which was two blocks East of my home. Two blocks North of Melrose on NW 36st was the world's first Burger King. We celebrated many birthdays there.
The scariest memory was on June 23rd, 1969. Just two blocks north of our house, a Dominica Air Lines plane crashed right down NW 36st. Ten killed and 12 injured (an amazingly low casualty event), as the Cargo plane attempting to return to Miami International Airport came down on a main artery of the NW Miami area.
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Lets not forget the the KB Crandon and Petting zoo along with Woolworth’s 5 &10 store where you could by a Key Biscayne T-Shirt. Where only Drug related isolated shootings took place. Drive By shootings were unheard of. And the Miami Herald was a great source of news delivered to your front door! Thanks for the Memories.
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Wasn't it Bogey's Bar & Racquet Club in front of the golf course on US1 in Cutler Ridge believe they change the few times.....VÅC
Have to mention the Prinz Valdemar on the waterfront and the mezzanine restaurant in the Kress on Flagler. I went to Riverside Elementary and still love Miami. Remember fishing seaweed out of the Bay from the municipal docks in Bayfront Park and finding seahorses in it.
Anyone remember a restaurant called Pig and Whistle? Can't remember where it was.
I remember Parenti's Pizza my dad used to take us there often for pizza. I lived at 760 Sw 9st across the old Belen Jesuit High School on sw 8st. Who remembers Packer Pontiac across Belen? I remember the Twin Gables had the first rocking seats. The omni mall on biscayne had movie theater that's where I saw Saturday Night Fever. I wish we could live those days again. What memories.
For those who remember Ollie's restaurant on Miami Beach - tiny hole in the wall place but the best burgers because of his special seasoning - you can purchase the seasonings! Lum's bought Ollie's recipe but Lum's has also gone the way of the dodo. There are a couple places in South Florida where you can still have an Ollie Burger, but if you want to make it at home, here's where to get the seasonings. By the way, I have no relation to the company other than the fact I buy the seasonings from them to bring me back to those days sitting at Ollie's, watching him cook the burgers as he smoked his cigar (and flicked the ashes on the burgers!). https://ollieburgerspices.com/
PS - Ashes not included!
Fun fair was on the 79th street causeway sunny isles. My mom & Dad use to take me there.
It sure was a paradise, but no more
I remember you and your band well. I was only 14 year old American girl with a Cuban boyfriend. I lived in Hialeah and just couldn't wait for the weekends, coke, antiques, pearly queen, wildwood etc. Dias como hoy, bang bang etc🤗🤗:-)you guys were the best
I honestly think you won't catch much of the magic. It's long gone from county line to let west. Still here never left. This place sucks. Wish I can leave. Crime so high. Miami a scary place.:'(😨
Back in I believe the 1990s, someone local did a song with the lyric "I just wanna go back to Ft. Lauderdale". It was a lush ballad and was popular locally for a time. I've checked YouTube and checked using a number of search engines and I can't find the song or any information about it. Does anyone else remember this and anything about it such as who sang the song?
You've got serious problems. Text is perfect for you.
Glad you left. Don't hurry back.
"Text is perfect for you" that makes a lot of sense. Where'd ya learn that? La Habana Primera escuela de ingles de hialeah del noche?
RPS posted a comment, now deleted thankfully, that was full of vitriol and hate for Cubans in Miami. Funny, if you click on their name and it takes you to their "blogger" link, it says "I am solution focused." No, you are a rage-filled idiot.
My grandparents emigrated to the United States in the early 1900s from Europe to escape persecution. My parents were born in the Northeastern United States. They moved to South Florida in the late 1940s and lived first in Coral Gables, then in Miami Beach where I was born in 1959. I will note we are not Cuban or of Latin heritage.
I was too young to recall when the first wave of Cuban immigrants came to Florida in those years. I do remember my mother telling me how many of the Cuban exiles settled in an area of Miami which was not the best at that time, and how they rebuilt it to become a vibrant community where people of all types could go. I remember when I was young eating at Centro Vasco and other restaurants in the area.
This is a site for those of us who lived in South Florida for many years to reminiscence about people and places from our past and for others who weren't here at that time to learn what life was like back then. While some memories might be a bit negative, such as a restaurant that had really bad food or some local politicians who may not have done the best for the community, I think most of us would agree it is not a place for racism or bigotry.
In reality this Cuban discussion has other sides that the Cubans now are either unaware of or just plain choose not to mention. As a "Gringo" living in Hialeah, the Cuban influx was extremely difficult for the local population. The first Cubans to arrive in Dade County in the early 1960's were generally law-abiding, professional people who had managed to escape Cuba with next to nothing but the clothes on their backs. Their professional standing in Cuba did not stop them from taking any kind of job they could get in order to feed themselves and their families. However, their willingness to work and work hard at any job available soon took it's toll on the locals...who were now unable to find work mainly because the Cubans worked harder and cheaper. As the numbers of Cubans grew...rents increased dramatically making it even more difficult for now unemployed locals to maintain a quality standard of living. Small businesses flourished under new Cuban ownership...and these businesses catered to the new Cuban population....many times to the determent of the locals. Jobs became even more scarce as now both Cuban and American businesses wanted only bi-lingual employees. Most Cubans thrived but many times at the expense of the locals who's standard of living decreased...my family being the ones left out. The political structure became almost all Cuban....anyone with a Spanish surname was automatically elected over a more qualified American...as Americans left and new Cubans originally placed in New York, New Jersey flooded into South Florida. Then in 1980's Castro started the "Mariell (spelling ??) Freedom Flotilla." Castro opened his jails and mental hospitals and South Florida was flooded with criminals and other undesirables. The crime wave was unfounded in South Florida history...where senseless and brutal murders were the norm. My family left for good in the early 1980's. If you are Cuban.....just try for one minute (before you comment) and think how hard it was for local Americans living in South Florida at this time. It was not easy and I feel the pain of that original blogger.
My mom was a waitress at sorrentos
I came across this site while searching for places I ate at, shopped at, visited in Miami while I was a student at UM. I had a job as a server at the Dockside Terrace on Biscayne Bay (MiamiMarina). There was an upscale restaurant directly above it but I dont recall its name. Most of the clientele that ate at the restaurant were from their yachts that were docked at the marina. I recall a scene was filmed at the restaurant as well, "Women in White" with Anthony Zerbe and Kathryn Harrold. I was unable to find out any info on this restaurant (or the one above it) in my search.
If you have any information regarding the Dockside Terrace, I'd love to know about it. Thanks.
I spent my younger years in plays at the Merry Go Round theatre....my name is Chari maiden last name Bromley.
I spent many years in plays at the theater too. My father was good friends with Ivan Kivits. My mother worked every Christmas at Burdines taking pictures of Santa and kids.
Wonderful memories
I especially remembered Skipper Chuck. We used to watch his kiddy show every morning just before walking 3-5 blocks to our neighborhood schools! Walking to school anywhere from less tha 2 miles out!
We thought nothing of it in Carol City.
How about the Golden Glades Drive in Theater in Opa-Locka/ Carol City?
How about JM Fields Department store on 27th Avenue?
Oh, wow!! Shell City had the best foot long hot dogs when I was about 8-10 years old!
Oh, yes! I remember as a child 8-12years old in the 1963 dialing the number; not for the time but just to hear “Buy a boat, pay while you float at Central Bank, the yes bank on 36th street!”😂😂😂😂
Yes, it was called “Shell City” super store; great apples oranges, and the foot long hot dogs!!! I was a kid in the early 1960’s.; born in 1956 in Miami. Lived in Richmond Heights, Opa-Locka , and Carol City ( not Miami Gardens then); graduated from Miami Carol City Sr High School 1974. I live in the Columbus/ Midland, Georgia area now. Retired
Central Bank - 379-8811 for the time, I remember that as well...AND...I worked for the bank while I was in college back in the 1970s. I also remember when Central Bank opened a branch just west of the Palmetto Expressway on 36th Street. They didn't put up a permanent building for a long time, had a couple of trailers. Back then, that was considered way out west, but now you can go west for a few miles until you hit the swamps.
I also was born in Miami in 1956. Went to Melrose Elementary, Richmond Heights Jr High, Killian, then Southwest Senior High. I remember the Shell City that was on nw 7th Ave just north of 36th st. My uncle took us there a lot! I watched as SW Miami grew from farm lands and swamps, to sub-divisions and businesses. Left Miami in 1984. Didn't go back until 2015, post Andrew. So much had changed. The Skyscrapers at Dadeland really threw me for a loop!
Where can I hear the Bahama bread commercial that ends with YOU LIKE ? Anyone
How about Muellers Pet shop on Hialeah drive east of the Rail road tracks.
Black Angus on 49th street.
Figaro's Pizza on 49th street
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EXCELLENCE Shel. Don'o if i eVen knew that The Beatles were at The DEAUVILLE🎶& YES! i went to The MIAMI POP FESTiVaL @ Gulfstream Park, jimi hendriX🛸, etcet, 1968🎼☮️ Johndavid F.
The GRocery Store at DADELAND was a FOOD FAIR. I swiped The Original BLUE&WHITE DADELAND SIGN and had iron my TOWN&TANCH ESTATES Bedroom, on Pine Needle Lane . We got Behind Strawberry Sodas on our Bicycles
at The PARROT JUNGLE Juice Stand on RED ROAD. A BLIND Parrot Lived in a Coral Rock Cut Out above it 🌿🌺 Johndavid☮️
TYPOS on my DADELAND Comment:
I had one of the Original BLUE w/WHITE Letters DADELAND Signs, from N.Kendall DR, in my Bedroom in TOWN&RANCH ESTATES on Pine Needle Lane.
PINECREST only referred to the Elementary School on Red Road then.
The Shopping Center where The FLAME Restaurant, SENN'S 5&10, Cherry COKES @ The Luncheonette,B-THRIFTY/GRAND UNION, The PONY RING,etcet were was called SUNILAND SHOPPING CENTER & had a STANDARD OIL Station on the South end, which became a CHEVRON.
We got Strawberry Nehi Sodas on our Bicycles at the PARROT JUNGLE JUICE Bar, on RED RD. A Blind Parrot roosted about 10ft above it, for Years ✨🌿🌺 Johndavid Fligelman, FL/NM USA☮️
Last year, a new store opened in an former Winn-Dixie space in Plantation. The new grocery store is FOOD FAIR - and it was originally using the Food Fair logo from 50+ years ago (before they changed to "Pantry Pride"). They now are using a different logo and it's officially called "Food Fair Fresh Market" and there are 3 locations in Broward. Seems like full circle for a native like me.
COol to hear the name FOOD FAIR used ☮️
I was born in 1951 at Jackson Memorial and loved growing up in old Miami Beach...
The Lincolm Road dance shell on Monday nights,then afterwards ice cream at the Woolworths on Lincoln Rd.
The Castaways.
Sunny Isles Pier
The Camels in front of the Sahara Hotel.
The 3 day Rock Festival at Gulfstream Park.
Burdines
The Hollywood Beach Hotel.
The best Arbys ever...
The Wreck Bar
All the cute pool boys ..
Pirates World.
The Banana Bread pudding made with Nilla wafers at that luncheonette near Coconut Grove
I wasn't a permanent resident of the Miami area but my girlfriend Becky, and I had a great six month adventure there in 1969. It began at 163rd and Collins Ave. on Miami Beach where we stayed on a docked house boat for awhile and later on at the Castaways. We found our way to Coconut Grove where kind people we met in the park would let us stay at their houses. I remember going into a tavern one quiet afternoon to use the bathroom and recognizing the actor, Wally Cox, who was at a table talking with some business men. "Mister Peepers," I exclaimed to his reply " that's me." I was sixteen years old and Becky was fifteen and we had ran away from home in Missouri. Sweet Judy Blue Eyes and Come Together were number one songs on the radio then. One day we decided to row a boat out to some small islands in Biscayne Bay where a barrage of mosquitos convinced us to return to the mainland. Another evening we were walking in Hialeah and heard a band playing at a nearby school yard. We were surprised to discover Janis Joplin playing outdoors to a small crowd. Janice was holding a bottle of southern comfort and with her face broken out, she looked terrible. I had seen her before in concert at Southern Illinois University. We panhandled all day and asked people for a place to crash as evening approached. We found ourselves at a crash pad with older people who were open about their sexuality but we were both still virgins. I lost my virginity to Becky in Coconut Grove. We had slept together innocently cuddling until she called me into the bedroom where she lay naked. Boy was I slow back then. The police discovered us one day in a posh area of Miami. They asked to see my draft card and having none, I admitted that I was only sixteen. They said that they stopped me because I was in an area where there were no hippy's. I have fond memories of Miami and the time I spent there.
wO! Very grooVy Tale from the guy w/a Girlfriend BECKY, in Miami in 1069☮️🕊️
ey' was there then,not quite Ready for 'girls'yet, til that Summer. I worked in Shipping @ JORDAN MARSH in DADELAND and mostly just looked Forward to STREET RACING my Red '64 GTO🏁 up & down DIXIE HWY All night(SunocO 260 29¢ p/GL), HOT SHOPPES, etcet.TOTAL TilT BLAST💥🚀
. Thee's are The Days .
Johndavid ☮️
Valentis Italian restaurant across from shortish on us1
the bait house on s dixie and 17th, was in 27th ave & s dixie, it was called the yellow bait house, my father use to go there before heading to key biscayne marina to go fishing
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I am 77 years old and was born and raised in Miami so I remember almost all of that and much more. My family built and owned the Turf club and Double deck bar on 7th avenue and 79th street. I didn't see a mention of Edison High school and the traditional homecoming game in the orange bowl between Miami High and Edison. We filled the orange bowl every year and that was for a high school game. That was before Coral Gables even had a football team. I sold rattle snakes to Hast at the Serpentarium for spending money and so many other things that made being raised in Miami a great childhood.
WELL, ya just made me cry - but thanks is was a good cry
Wow!!!!, My brother, my sister and I arrived from New York in 1978 with our parents.
Lived in the heart of Manhattan from 1970 through 1979.
Danced disco here in Miami, at the Forest, near Casablanca.
Danced disco and roller-skated, across the street from MIdway mall.
appeared on TV Dancing on a quick televised shooting, with the Roller-skating rink, dancing to Disco Tango.
Thanks for your sharing, and the real good affordable times.
I was searching online for any info about old time restaurants in South Miami, FL around 1970's. The one I still cannot find any info about was called the Pie Fair and it was located right on the corner of Red Road / old cutler IN South Miami. Upon trying to search for it I came upon this listing of the past places in Florida. Boy does it bring back memories...mostly in tears now because the past hurts when all you know is mostly gone. Now I know what my great aunt meant when she use to talk about the past and cry afterwards. I feel the same exact way now. I grow up out on 112 ave and 93 st. near where the South Jr. College is. My mom and dad were there BEFORE that college was ever built. My dad help build the Dadeland tower of that big blue (D) standing in the packing lot of the Dadeland Mall. His name was Charles C. Kunde..I remember the Gold Triangle store that was right across the street of Kendall Drive...I remember when you went into the Dadeland mall there was a sweet like snak bar there that was called the YUM YUM Tree and they had the most delicious hard candy apple coating on a stick for you to suck on...just minus the apple and the best lime or cherry snow cones you could ever buy!!... I remember going down to the Cutler Ridge Mall down on US1 where inside was the Card Cage store for beautiful porcelain figurines I use to collect as well as the Fenton cat figurines...I still have them today...than there was my favorite shop to go to since I was an artist and that was the Barefoot Mailman as well as Spencer's, Sears, the Swiss Colony for great beef jerky and beef sticks and Morrison Cafeteria to enjoy with my mom and dad and great aunt....When we go to the Dadeland mall my favorite stores there was the Wick-n-Stick....I loved the Vanilla candle scents....there also was a candy store near the roof of the Burdines store where my mom would also get me some cherry toffee chews in milk chocolate....During Christmas time we would always go down to the center of the Dadeland parking lot to see the beautiful tall lit Christmas tree.....After reading these other thoughts from everyone they stop at 2007....and that again makes me sad for my post is just now showing at 2023...I am still here, and remember everything as if it was just yesterday.....life may take away the building and the land that it is on, but it can never take away one's memories...till we forget them ourselves...
YeSs, yet beFore Jeffersons, KMART, Zayres, WalMartT, there was CMA . ..on S. Dixie where Colonial Palms 🌴🌴GOLF & miniature Golf was , (SW 142nd St?) 🏁JDF☮️
Holly Sheeitt! Just happened upon this blog. My head is spinning. I am 70 now, in the Panhandle. Lived in Miami from late 50s to late 70s. Elementary (Fairlawn, Flagami, Fairlawn), Jr (Cutler Ridge), High (Palmetto), MDCC (MDJC).
Lots a crap condensed in to just a few years. It's a wonder I survived!
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