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Showing posts with label Miami history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Miami history. 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...
Sunday, October 29, 2023

One of the first registered architects in Florida - August Geiger - his Fort Lauderdale and Miami projects

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1917 advertisement from Directory of City of Miami Beach By Jane Feehan Fort Lauderdale’s first high school, Fort Lauderdale Central, was bu...
Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Marlin catch places Bimini on world stage of big game fishing

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Blue Marlin Mount, State Archives of Florida/ Dale McDonald Circa 1970  By Jane Feehan Known today as the “Big Game Fishing Capital of the W...
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 ...
Saturday, September 3, 2022

Aeromarine Airways launches flying boat service in 1920s: breakfast in Miami, lunch in Nassau, dinner in Palm Beach?

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  Flying boat used by Aeromarine in 1920 Florida State Archives/Florida Memory By Jane Feehan Flying boats. Flying luxury boats. That’s ho...
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...
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Fort Dallas then, today Miami

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Fort Dallas, circa 1890 Florida State Archives   By Jane Feehan First built as a plantation on the mouth of the Miami River in 1844, Fort Da...
Wednesday, January 6, 2021

FDR escapes assassination in Miami; would be assassin dealt justice in six weeks

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Jailed Zangara 1933 Florida State Archives/Florida Memory  By Jane Feehan A look back at the assassination attempt on Franklin Delano Roosev...
Friday, November 13, 2020

South Florida filmmakers held high hopes for local studios in the 1920s

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By Jane Feehan The motion picture industry in the U.S. was launched in the early 1900s by D.W. Griffith and a few other filmmakers. Of accla...
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...
Thursday, October 1, 2020

Hippodrome opens in Miami 1917 - a new venue for film and entertainment

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Hippodrome 1917 Florida State Archives/Hoit By Jane Feehan Miami’s second Hippodrome, a large movie house that replaced the original...
Thursday, September 17, 2020

Murf the Surf: Jewel thief, murderer and violin prodigy

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Star of India Picture taken by Daniel Torres, Jr. Jan.14, 2007,  via Wikimedia Commons By Jane Feehan Florida crime headlines of the 1960s w...
Monday, August 24, 2020

Tampa to Miami on the Tamiami Trail

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1923 Trailblazers Florida State Archives/Florida Memory   By J ane Feehan The Tamiami Trail, linking Tampa and Miami, opened to great fanfar...
Monday, August 10, 2020

Miami launches first Florida TV station and a few long television careers

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                    Below; Early WTVJ News crew:                     *Leslie, Thurston, Tucker                     State of Florida Archives...
Friday, July 17, 2020

Miami's trolley system challenged by hurricanes, cars and parades 1906-1940

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Trolley car in downtown Miami 1926   State Archives of Florida By Jane Feehan Trolley systems had their ups and downs in Miami beginning ...
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 ...
Friday, November 14, 2014

Kalem Company films Miami: "Paradise of the eastern south, the California that is right at home"

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Kalem actors circa 1915 Florida State Archives By Jane Feehan Miami attracted a series of filmmakers in its early days (see label...