tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416465374288642397.post966152981981554935..comments2024-03-07T15:39:31.872-08:00Comments on Remembering Old Miami: What I'm remembering todaySwampAngel65http://www.blogger.com/profile/06402145656806012096noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416465374288642397.post-30723469429731544472024-01-22T15:58:48.811-08:002024-01-22T15:58:48.811-08:00The Yumbrella The Yumbrella Sharon Annnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416465374288642397.post-47427517183790442882022-08-08T09:43:01.753-07:002022-08-08T09:43:01.753-07:00Wayne Farris and Richard Whitcomb did the news on ...Wayne Farris and Richard Whitcomb did the news on WCKT channel 7, which was still an NBC affiliate when I was a kid in the '70's. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416465374288642397.post-40749151350130282552022-08-08T08:30:14.441-07:002022-08-08T08:30:14.441-07:00I remember the restaurant, as the father of a guy ...I remember the restaurant, as the father of a guy I knew named Hillerman was either a manager or owner of the place.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416465374288642397.post-89773060883962410852022-08-08T08:22:32.430-07:002022-08-08T08:22:32.430-07:00Kendall Skating Center.Kendall Skating Center.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416465374288642397.post-14434756150950137152022-08-08T08:15:54.771-07:002022-08-08T08:15:54.771-07:00The Yumbrella.The Yumbrella.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416465374288642397.post-68134409895710127032021-03-16T09:06:30.007-07:002021-03-16T09:06:30.007-07:00I was born in baptist hospital on kendall drive in...I was born in baptist hospital on kendall drive in 1969.<br />I grew up in Perrine of off franjo rd.<br />I went to the old Perrine elementary school, Southwood Junior high, and South Ridge Sr. After we moved to Cutler Ridge.<br />I was a teenager in the 80's and I went to concerts at the Sportorium, laser light shows at the planetarium. And we swam in the canals back then because the water was crystal clear and we didn't worry about alligators.<br />We had wild peacocks in the advocado grove behind our house.<br />We shopped at great value or we'd go to the Perrine shopping center to Grand Union.<br />We rode our bikes to Perrine park.<br />We went to the carnival every year at holy rosary.<br />I loved growing up in the Perrine/Cutler Ridge areasAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11102264615450609609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416465374288642397.post-66142471829362876532021-03-16T08:55:18.941-07:002021-03-16T08:55:18.941-07:00I grew up in Perrine off of franjo rd and 182st an...I grew up in Perrine off of franjo rd and 182st and also went to the old Perrine elementary School off US1 and Eureka drive.<br />My 4th grade class was the last one to attend before they tore it down. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11102264615450609609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416465374288642397.post-6890300476400117962020-04-16T13:26:49.756-07:002020-04-16T13:26:49.756-07:00My family moved to N. Miami in 1952, I went to Wil...My family moved to N. Miami in 1952, I went to William Jennings Bryan Elem, and N. Miami Jr Hi. My step-father owned and built Interama bowling lanes. And oversaw the construction of Cloverleaf Lanes. 1959 we moved to the Sunniland area were he owned Bowl O Mat lanes. I graduated from Palmetto High in 1963. I have so many memories of growing up in South Florida.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12901940235331617471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416465374288642397.post-66305820820223943222019-01-11T05:18:10.376-08:002019-01-11T05:18:10.376-08:00Very informative and impressive post you have writ...Very informative and impressive post you have written, this is quite interesting and i have went through it completely, an upgraded information is shared, keep sharing such valuable information. <a href="https://www.worldofsmokenvape.com/" rel="nofollow">Smoke vape shop</a><br />StevenHWickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05864349482360534088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416465374288642397.post-18518078501020739992018-12-20T14:05:09.687-08:002018-12-20T14:05:09.687-08:00Hey live in NC now went to Arvida jr high until 83...Hey live in NC now went to Arvida jr high until 83 then went to Miami Killian I actually walked to Killian till I started driving.I remember getting paddled by Mr Kilmer when I was at Arvida.Spent many weekends at the Falls and eating Pizza at Godfathers across the highway is it still there?Best pizza I ever had!Then we would all go roller skating across from the Falls what was the name of that place?I'm sure the skating rink is long gone.<br /><br />Screwed up the best thing that ever happened to me in 84 her name was DEBBIE.<br /><br /><br />PaulAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416465374288642397.post-25336788536117518022018-05-30T16:55:52.679-07:002018-05-30T16:55:52.679-07:00Anyone remember the Chinese restaurant in the stri...Anyone remember the Chinese restaurant in the strip mall across from Shortys? There was a Carmines Meat Market and a bar called Hooligans in the same mall.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416465374288642397.post-69229864164145509912018-04-29T02:26:26.154-07:002018-04-29T02:26:26.154-07:00I grew up living in Kendall point and my dad owned...I grew up living in Kendall point and my dad owned Hungry Bear subs for years. My brother and I went to K-Land camp every summer and swam in that lake. We would go to gold triangle to get our fishing gear to go fishing in the canal by our house. We would build forts by the canal and hang out all day. Kings creek we would walk to and spend our allowance on candy. Gold triangle and Don Caters was the places. The falls, at night hanging out and Victorian station restaurant at Dade land mall with the train inside the restaurant. Miami was magic back in the 80,90. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05835942819706359759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416465374288642397.post-35446109000710131512017-10-31T07:55:02.134-07:002017-10-31T07:55:02.134-07:00Lived in South Miami, Gables and Miami Springs in ...Lived in South Miami, Gables and Miami Springs in late seventies thru eighties and early nineties. First home was a room rental in private home off Kendall Drive. I worked at Jordan Marsh at Dadeland Mall as a stock boy. The Cocaine Cowboy days were crazy. One day I went to work at Jordan Marsh and there was a Crown Liquor store right next to the employees entrance and I noticed the front window of the liquor store were riddled with bullet holes. Discovered soon enough it was part of the infamous Dadeland Mall drug shoot-up that made news for weeks. Went to Miami-Dade Community College and FIU. Met a fellow who like me, had served in US Army in Germany in mid-seventies who moved from Chicago suburbs to escape the cold winters with his wife and two young kids and he opened a used record, tape store on Dixie Highway in South Miami. I left my Kendall rental and lived with his family for a short while in Cutler Ridge. This fellow Army friend took me one day to Pumpernicks in Suniland Plaza for a meal and more importantly - to see this young woman he met there. I can never thank him enough, as she became my life time companion and wife. She passed in early 2000's and she was my passport to all things Miami as she was active in the early days of the South Beach restoration movement, was a photographer for City Beautiful, the Coral Gables local news paper. She interviewed locals and people of interest such as Esther Williams the famous competitive swimmer. I met the Miami Vice Guys, sports stars when employed at Gable Biltmore Hotel. Met many interesting people at the Hispanic Heritage Festival to include the Latin actor who was in Bladerunner. Was at the first Miami Grand Prix and worked outside the Super Bowl when Bengals played the SF 49's for Gene's caterers. Anyone remember the person who spent many hours most days selling pencils outside the Biscayne Bay Cafeteria on the Miracle Mile? Anyone remember Grove Isle Club? Talk about drug and champagne and craziness personified! I also worked at Grand Bay on Ocean Drive in the Grove. Michael Jackson came in one day and we kept some "special" BBQ in one of our reach-in fridges for guest Sammy Davis Jr. I could go on for hours, but enough about my memories, that is all they are, although someone who reads this may get pangs of sweet memory too. Make mine a sweet Cafe Cubano with a Guava & Cream Cheese pastry. Cheers. Correct: meant to say Grand Bay on Bayshore Drive in Grove - not Ocean Drive which of course was in South Beach.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416465374288642397.post-13875912392542301042017-10-31T07:49:58.027-07:002017-10-31T07:49:58.027-07:00Lived in South Miami, Gables and Miami Springs in ...Lived in South Miami, Gables and Miami Springs in late seventies thru eighties and early nineties. First home was a room rental in private home off Kendall Drive. I worked at Jordan Marsh at Dadeland Mall as a stock boy. The Cocaine Cowboy days were crazy. One day I went to work at Jordan Marsh and there was a Crown Liquor store right next to the employees entrance and I noticed the front window of the liquor store were riddled with bullet holes. Discovered soon enough it was part of the infamous Dadeland Mall drug shoot-up that made news for weeks. Went to Miami-Dade Community College and FIU. Met a fellow who like me, had served in US Army in Germany in mid-seventies who moved from Chicago suburbs to escape the cold winters with his wife and two young kids and he opened a used record, tape store on Dixie Highway in South Miami. I left my Kendall rental and lived with his family for a short while in Cutler Ridge. This fellow Army friend took me one day to Pumpernicks in Suniland Plaza for a meal and more importantly - to see this young woman he met there. I can never thank him enough, as she became my life time companion and wife. She passed in early 2000's and she was my passport to all things Miami as she was active in the early days of the South Beach restoration movement, was a photographer for City Beautiful, the Coral Gables local news paper. She interviewed locals and people of interest such as Esther Williams the famous competitive swimmer. I met the Miami Vice Guys, sports stars when employed at Gable Biltmore Hotel. Met many interesting people at the Hispanic Heritage Festival to include the Latin actor who was in Bladerunner. Was at the first Miami Grand Prix and worked outside the Super Bowl when Bengals played the SF 49's for Gene's caterers. Anyone remember the person who spent many hours most days selling pencils outside the Biscayne Bay Cafeteria on the Miracle Mile? Anyone remember Grove Isle Club? Talk about drug and champagne and craziness personified! I also worked at Grand Bay on Ocean Drive in the Grove. Michael Jackson came in one day and we kept some "special" BBQ in one of our reach-in fridges for guest Sammy Davis Jr. I could go on for hours, but enough about my memories, that is all they are, although someone who reads this may get pangs of sweet memory too. Make mine a sweet Cafe Cubano with a Guava & Cream Cheese pastry. Cheers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416465374288642397.post-1812462568950545252017-10-20T12:53:37.411-07:002017-10-20T12:53:37.411-07:00Wow, wow, wow! Such great memories!! I was born ...Wow, wow, wow! Such great memories!! I was born at Baptist Hospital (69'), lived by the Falls, went to Leewood Elem, FC Martin, Arvida and Killian Sr. High. Remember it all like it was yesterday!! Loved Flippers Game Room and Godfather's Pizza in Mall across from Falls - went there like every Saturday. Played golf at that putt-putt place across from Falls that used to have a drive-in movie theater off Dixie Highway. Kendall Skating Rink next to Scott's Fried Chicken which used to be a very fancy and expensive restaurant - can't remember the name! Loved Hopes Hungry Bear and the pizza place next to it - College Park Pizza? <br /><br />Sure miss all of those days! Moved up to DC area in 1995 and never returned. Taken my kids back to Falls area and my childhood home but just not the same. Remember UTotem? Think we stole bubblegum from there and hassled Carlos the ice cream truck man like every day.<br /><br />How about Hidden Lake and going to the Palmetto Burger King for lunch to fight with those kids!! Also, hanging out after Killian football games at Burger King off Dixie near the Falls. Remember, Seasons at the Falls - they place was like a super expensive Subway!!<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416465374288642397.post-9834146112863655772017-05-07T05:00:53.324-07:002017-05-07T05:00:53.324-07:00I'm about to cry, very nostalgic. I moved to D...I'm about to cry, very nostalgic. I moved to D.C. in 2012 and returned 3 times. I remember the Mexican restaurant in the Falls (forgot the name,) Le Player clothing store in the Falls. Also Douth Miami pharmacy and its cafeteria. And lots more. MiamiLoverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00917213946449279013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416465374288642397.post-29234713057739182562017-02-27T16:27:08.077-08:002017-02-27T16:27:08.077-08:00Greta Memories of Ada Merritt Junior High
https://...Greta Memories of Ada Merritt Junior High<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_LKZ8_5Sy4Protect the Constitutionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02161911953415502953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416465374288642397.post-60078461876466350332016-07-11T14:53:32.465-07:002016-07-11T14:53:32.465-07:00Remember the Barefoot Mailman in Dadeland Mall?Remember the Barefoot Mailman in Dadeland Mall?Miamianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03382772511699475480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416465374288642397.post-7348501147399612562016-07-11T14:52:41.173-07:002016-07-11T14:52:41.173-07:00Anyone remember what restaurant was before La Carr...Anyone remember what restaurant was before La Carreta on Kendall Drive? Miamianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03382772511699475480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416465374288642397.post-60593026041615847952016-07-11T14:51:13.908-07:002016-07-11T14:51:13.908-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Miamianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03382772511699475480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416465374288642397.post-49037187917206255562016-07-03T05:45:54.210-07:002016-07-03T05:45:54.210-07:00La Carreta is still there Kendall and 117 ave. La Carreta is still there Kendall and 117 ave. Miamianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03382772511699475480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416465374288642397.post-87311049818284258792016-06-30T06:58:37.059-07:002016-06-30T06:58:37.059-07:00Where was La Carreta?Where was La Carreta?Mickey Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10102446895571131692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416465374288642397.post-48459517592009985692016-06-30T06:57:48.543-07:002016-06-30T06:57:48.543-07:00Chicken Unlimited at the corner of Kendall Dr. and...Chicken Unlimited at the corner of Kendall Dr. and 97th ave. Loved that place! Born in Miami in 1956 and grew up in Kendall area. Great place and time to grow up. Wouldn't really want to be there now. Live in South Carolina. Kendall was awesome in the 70s! Mickey Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10102446895571131692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416465374288642397.post-56967565000775877332016-06-29T19:35:43.971-07:002016-06-29T19:35:43.971-07:00Does anyone remember Scott's Fried Chicken pla...Does anyone remember Scott's Fried Chicken places... Chicken Unlimited. Miamianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03382772511699475480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416465374288642397.post-41143739403618319852016-06-29T19:33:21.798-07:002016-06-29T19:33:21.798-07:00Does anyone remember the prior restaurant where La...Does anyone remember the prior restaurant where La Carreta on Kendall is?Miamianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03382772511699475480noreply@blogger.com