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You’ve been In South Florida for a while if you remember:
You’ve been In South Florida for a while if you remember:
You’ve been In South Florida for a while if you remember:
Air raid sirens in South Miami every Saturday afternoon at 1:00PM
When it used to rain alot
Lowes Rivera Movie Theater
Breedings Drug Store
Holsum Bakery on US1 and Red Road
Polar Palace on 36th Street
Sunset Drugs
Snow in Miami! (Wednesday, January 19, 1977)
Joe’s News
George Mira
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mira
Al’s News
Ace Music
Hurricane Donna
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_ … cane Donna
The Flick Coffeehouse
The Golden Nugget
Gold Triangle Store
The CMA store
Hurricane Betsy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_ … cane Betsy
The Lords prayer in school
Don Aronow
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald … ald Aronow
Zayres
Carvel's
Shorty's BBQ
The Chesepeke
The Round Table
Rick Shaw on WQAM
The DuPont Plaza Hotel
Jimmy's Hurricane
http://www.pbase.com/donboyd/image/7691 … Hurricane
Fried clams at Howard Johnsons
Johnson Kirby Outboards
The Yorkshire
Tahiti Beach and the "lakes" off the Gables waterway (now Cocoplum)
Hot Shoppes and the Orange Freeze, Teen Twist and Big Mo
When Gables was "the" football team
Wayne Jones Motors
Sam and Carl's
Marshall Majors
Wayne Cochran
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Coch … CC Riders
The "Sunset" movie theater
Coach Nick Coty
Anita Bryant (like her or not)
Lindsey's
Sunniland Music
Land crabs everywhere
Ale House
The Bikini Club, Stiltsville
Hurricane parties (still a dumb idea)
The infamous Doors concert at Dinner Key Auditorium
http://www.doors.com/miami/one.html
Desert boots
Merrill-Stevens
Bobs Western Wear
Birch Beer at Royal Castle
Johnnie & Mack by the railroad track
The Hydrofoil tour boat out of the Miami Seaquarium
Jack O'Brien and Municipal Auto Sales commercials
The Coppertone Girl on Biscayne Boulevard
The Jamaica Inn on Key Biscayne
New England Oyster House
The Rusty Pelican
Paradise Point
A&W Drive-In
Richard's Dept Store
Snagging mullet
OK Feed Store
Gigging mullet
Concord Shopping Center and Movie Theater
Food Fair
The Mutiney at Sailboat Bay
The Fall Spanish mackeral run in Biscayne Bay
Anthony Abraham's home in the Gables Christmas decorations (our neighbor on So Alhambra Circle)
The original Holsum Bakery Christmas display in South Miami
The Serpentarium and Bill Haast
Quick Chex
Fishermans Paradise
The Cuban Missise Crisis
Slot car racing
Emergency air raid drills in elementary school
Zoo at Crandon Park
The SS Bahama Star
The SS Ariadne
The SS Yarmouth Castle
The SS Sunward, Syward, Starward
Silver Sands Motel on Key Biscayne
Tahiti Beach
Nehi Grape Soda
The Flame
RBC Lumber (Renuart, Bailey, Cheeley... spelling???)
Alabama Jacks
Gables Music
Mr. Pete’s, Islamorada
The Bodega
Horatios
Fox's Sherron Inn (still there!)
Murf the Surf
Farm Stores
When freight trains ran next to U.S. 1 (at street level)
The Miami Marlins
The Mitchell 300 fishing reel
K-land
The revolving shark at the entrance to Key Biscayne
Grand Union
The Wreck Bar at the Castaways
The Hasta
The Monk's Inn
Monty Trainer's Village Inn
Jordan Marsh
Burdines
The giant Seahorse at Dadeland Mall (always thought it was a dragon)
When Dadeland Mall was an ‘open air’ mall
The Tropicaire Drive in Theater
Coral Theater
Allegro Music House
Coconut Grove Playhouse
Shoppe in the Grove (owned by us)
Coliseum Bowl
The Image – great rock concerts
When the Rickenbacker was a drawbridge
When the Youth Fair was at K-Land on Kendall Drive
The Skipper Chuck Show
Miami Marine Stadium, boat races and concerts
Specs Music (still around)
The Goodyear Blimp
Vintons
Chalk's Air
Sea Bird boats
Tom Thumb in the Grove
Black Caesar's Forge
National Air Lines
Air Sunshine
Mosquito Spray planes
Marcella's
The Grove Club (played there as a musician)
Jimmy's Hurricane and the Hurricane Cooler (knew Jimmy Ellenberg)
Hot Shoppes
Weaver the Weather Man
Red Diamond Italian Restaurant
Wolfie's
Rascal House
Lindsley Lumber
Lum's
Jackson-Byrons or JByrons
Rocky Graziano’s (my dads favorite restaurant)
Coral Gables Bus station
A & W root beer joints
The Barefoot Mailman
Whap Boards
Fair Isle was just a deserted island with a bridge
Fisher Island was just a deserted island with no bridge
Biscayne Cafeteria in the Gables
WQAM radio
Virginia Beach, the nude beach
King Arthur's Court
The snack shack on Elliot Key
Gilberts Restaurant, Key Largo
The Carriage Club (played there as a musician)
Scotty's Grocery in the Grove
Roma DeAndre’s
The Grove Movie House and the midnight "Rocky Horror" shows
Royal Ice Company
Shaw's Nursery
Poe's Hardware
Rhodes Brothers Club
Big Daddy’s 747 (played there as a musician)
When the only TV channels were 4 (CBS), 7 (NBC), 10 (ABC) and then 6 (WCIX)
The Playboy Club
Playboy Plaza Hotel (played there with The First Impression as a musician)
Flea Market at the Bird Road Drive-in
Flats fishing guide Capt. Bill Curtis (still here)
Seminole Bait Shop, Dinner Key
Charles Gregory "Bebe" Rebozo
Little Caesar's on US1
The Sportatorium in the middle of nowhere where rock bands such as Frank Zappa and the Mothers came to perform
Pirates World where rock bands such as Led Zeppelin came to perform
The Brothers Two (played there as a musician)
Yumbrella in South Miami
Don Shula
Checkmate Lounge (played there as a musician)
Local rock bands:
Bethlehem Asylum, Gold Rush( Will Lee's band)
Red Diamond Inn
Ralph Rennick
Florida East Coast Railroad Station downtown
Dinner Key Boat Show
Jaco Pastorius - We miss you, Jaco
The Uncle Bob Show
Crook & Crook (still there)
Kaleidoscope Restaurant in the Grove
Greenhouse Restaurant in the Grove
Lyles Foremost Liquors
Black Angus Restaurant
Taurus Steak House
Ira Sullivan
Rivera Courts Motel
The charter boat, Sea Ray – Capt. Ray Hathaway
Jim Dooley
Ron Fraser
Gordon's Bait and Tackle
Captains Tavern (still there)
University Bowl
Macs Cycle (still there)
University Inn
This is my lsit; the places, people and things I remember the best from growing up in Coral Gables, Coconut Grove, South Miami and Islamorada... all I can think of for the time being but there is so much more.
Recently added:
Jeffersons
Allen's Drug Store
Beefsteak Charlies
Valenti's
Embers
The Famous
- Geoff
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Re: You’ve been In South Florida for a while if you remember:
That list is all from memory? Pretty incredible if it is...
I was on the Skipper Chuck show for chrissakes!
Used to go to University Bowl quite a bit...and the Round Table too!
My dad used to yell at the cashier at Sam and Carls for short changing him...Oy! 
Did you have Juniors Restaurant on that list? There's a Denny's there now.
Anyway, that list definitely brings back some fond memories. :thumbsup:
- GI-fisher
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Re: You’ve been In South Florida for a while if you remember:
You're both showing your age! Not being a South FL native, there are a few items on that list however, that I know of, remember, or are still there. I guess I'm showing my age too.
- MagicSFK
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Re: You’ve been In South Florida for a while if you remember:
Turning fifty was my least favorite birthday... but I guess one excellent thing about being in your early fifty's is that you are old enough to remember some very cool and unique stuff yet young enough to become accustomed to and welcome the new. The mid-sixties and seventies was a pivotal time and being a teenager in South Florida during that period was priceless!
My list is in based on my personal memories… I recall them all. In the next few months I’ll try to link each item (if any history is available) so we can brush up on our South Florida History.
I think we should start a supplemental list as well starting with Juniors’!
So GI-fisher was on the Skipper Chuck Show... we'll have to hear more about that.
- Geoff
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Re: You’ve been In South Florida for a while if you remember:
LOL! Yes I was, but just in the audience with a bunch of other kids.
Not sure if you remember his side-kick 'Scrubby'...can't believe I remember his freakin' name! :scare:
I thought of a few more for the supplemental list: Valenti's Restaurant on the corner of 72nd Avenue and US1. My uncle was the manager of Jefferson's, which was a department store similar to Montgomery Ward (it may have ultimately become that, I don't remember). Jefferson's was located on 104th St and US1; I think there's a K-mart there now. I'm pretty sure there was also a pony ride place near Shorty's because I went to a few birthday parties there. Let's also not forget Ember's, a fancy schmancy restaurant on Miami Beach, as well as the Famous, which was a kosher restaurant (where the Strand is now or used to be) on Washington Avenue and ~6th. Frank Sinatra used to go there when he would be the ticket at the Jackie Gleason Theatre. Also, Allen's Drug Store on Red and Bird...great diner food. Now I think the S & S diner moved in there and took it over (still good grub). I wonder if Geoff would remember Beefsteak Charlies and Lums?! ???
Gold Triangle was the Sports Authority of its day. They had everything--including some decent fishing gear. ;D
- GI-fisher
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