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Showing posts with label History of Miami. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History of Miami. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 27, 2023

New Year 2024, meet Miami headlines from 1924

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  Miami 1924 - State Archives of Florida/Romer Below is a sampling of headlines from sections of the Miami News-Metropolis of January 1, 1...
Friday, December 16, 2022

Florida HELP WANTED ads through the decades: Funny, sad, silly and dubious

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By Jane Feehan Help wanted newspapers advertisements have changed through the years because of cultural mores or legalities. Notwithstanding...
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Greyhound dog racing gave Miami a new thrill

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      State of Florida Archives By Jane Feehan The first greyhound dog racing track in Florida opened in 1922 amid a rising interest in th...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Arthur Burns "Pappy" Chalk and Chalk's Flying Service, once oldest in the world

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Chalk's seaplane landing 1974  State of Florida Archives   By Jane Feehan The history of his eponymous airline is better known than the ...
Sunday, July 24, 2022

Miami Beach: celebrities and glamour since the 1940s and 50s

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  Delta DC-6 over Miami Beach, 1954 Florida State Archives  By Jane Feehan For many across the U.S. in the 1950s, Miami was the place to be...
Sunday, January 9, 2022

First African American radio station in Miami is ...

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WFEC studio Christened at the Lord Calvert Hotel, Overtown, Miami  circa 1950 Florida State Archives By Jane Feehan Miami radio station WFEC...
Sunday, October 4, 2020

Orange Bowl plan: to extend Miami tourist season

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Coca Cola Float Orange Bowl Parade 1939 Florida State Archives By Jane Feehan Miami’s tourist season used to span six weeks, beginning in F...
Saturday, September 5, 2020

Drilling for oil in South Florida during the 1920s

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Oil drill blaster in the Everglades - 1924 Florida State Archives/Florida Memory By  Jane Feehan The advertisement below from the  Fort Laud...
Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Telling "Truth about Florida" and the land boom ... until the 1926 hurricane calamity

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  Aftermath: Miami garage damage Sept. 18, 1926 Florida State Archives/Nulton (1906-1999) By Jane Feehan Florida’s land boom made Northern b...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Fallout Shelters a Miami Growth Biz in the 1960s

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Shelter sign in NYC The Cold War heated up to nearly white hot during the early 1960s. The Soviet Union resumed testing of A-bombs in ...