This is a multi-page brochure that is a very strong promotional ad for Miami. There’s not a date included, but from the look and of the structures in the background, I figure mid ’60s. What do you think? Interesting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fishing houses that once lined the Miami coast before the financial needs of others replaced them with concrete and asphalt. Today this is where the MacArthur Causeway cuts across water to Miami Beach. This photo is from ‘Miami: the Way[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s around 1950 in this photo of the Miami train station. The tall building is the Dade County Courthouse. If you follow that down closer to ground level, you’ll see the actual station that’s a bit obscured by steam. 1950[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Below is the front and back of the matchbook. The backside has a list of boxing champions. Digging into this location, I can’t find when this closed, but it did. Currently it’s shuttered and looks like this: This matchbook,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This advertisement is an the kindling to the Florida Boom that would turn into a wildfire of real estate speculations and scams across the state a few years after 1915. During that time there was an effort to especially get[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Air travel was a Very big deal in Dade County from the ’20s into the ’60s. Announcements like this were even more importnat in Dade. Especially for the business community. This advertisement is from the Miami News, July 14th, 1955.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is Miami Beach. To the left is the Algiers Hotel that st Between 25th and 26th street on Collins Avenue. The Algiers facade was designed, as many structures were in Miami Beach, by Morris Lapidus. The architect of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
$15 for a lot! and they “Invite Investigation”! “Hamilton Heights is only 11 days old and over 600 lots have been sold. This is positive proof that it is an exceptional buy.” How easily people with money were conned into[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jackie Gleason and his new home in Miami Beach in 1964: the Miami Civic Auditorium, later renamed The Jackie Gleason Theater. From ‘How Sweet It Is – The Jackie Gleason Story’ by James Bacon. Click here if you would like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s the Hair Design Studio in Coral Gables! This is where a “M. Josef”, as stated on the back of the postcard, is the “Master of the Art of Beauty” and will “Unmask the beauty that is yours”. Can’t beat[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Do you have memories of Farm Stores? Place yours in the comments! Farm Stores is another Florida born and raised company and still with us today. Since 1957 Farm Stores was known for the large spotted cow that was always[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The war was on and a message of diligence, being watchful and giving those protecting America a wide berth was the message during the scary days of WWII. The concern for Florida was the bad guys coming by sea to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…