Gone But Not Forgotten In Miami (Fort Lauderdale, Miami Beach: schools, taxi, buses)

[jcblanco22]

Originally Posted by Bobadas

Caitzmon

I was a common fixture at Lila's on Calle Ocho. I knew the owner quite well and I still remember their steaks covered in a cloud of straw french fries. I used to go a lot to that place because it was possible to eat and drink a bottle of Paternina Rioja Wine wine for 5 bucks. Later, they closed their restaurant at Calle Ocho and opened a new one in Coral Way, around 87th (I never went there).
Did they close that restaurant?

Bobadas, they actually razed that entire shopping plaza/mini-mall where the Lila's was on Coral Way and 87th Avenue. Home Depot going up there now, I believe.

[Bobadas]

jcblanco

What a pity!! Have you heard about Yayo's Restaurant somewhere around Cuban NW? It was a Cuban smorgasboard. It was incredible.

[jcblanco22]

Originally Posted by Bobadas

jcblanco

What a pity!! Have you heard about Yayo's Restaurant somewhere around Cuban NW? It was a Cuban smorgasboard. It was incredible.

Hey Bobadas, no, I never did hear about Yayo's in all of my years living here. I was primarily familiar with the likes of Versailles, La Carreta, and La Lechonera growing up!

[marimbero]

Does anyone remember Pirates? Any Cuban-American child in the 80's worth his or her salt had a birthday party there. How about the Omni Mall amusement park? I loved the virtual reality ride.

[Bobadas]

jcblanco

I went a lot to Casablanca, Oriental, Saigon, Esquina de Tejas, Badias, Palma de Mallorca, Centro Vasco (during Juanito's tenure). Lechonera had those figures outside. There was also those counters on Cuban supermarkets where they had tow or three specials, very good.

[jcblanco22]

Originally Posted by marimbero

Does anyone remember Pirates? Any Cuban-American child in the 80's worth his or her salt had a birthday party there. How about the Omni Mall amusement park? I loved the virtual reality ride.

Coral Way and about 70th Avenue for Pirates, sure. I think it closed in about '91 or so? Braman Honda has been there for quite a few years now, if I'm not mistaken.

[east215]

Originally Posted by Bobadas

jcblanco

What a pity!! Have you heard about Yayo's Restaurant somewhere around Cuban NW? It was a Cuban smorgasboard. It was incredible.

I remember Yayo's. They had a restaurant on NW 7th St near (I believe) 27th Avenue, and they had another restaurant called "King Yayo's on W. 49th Street in Hialeah, across from Palm Springs Mile Shopping Center.

I used to drive down from Ft Laud at least once a week (it only took 25 mins door-to-door down I-95 - try that now!). Excellent food.

[east215]

Originally Posted by tallrick

That was Hotel Lindsey Hopkins. It was at the top of the way-cool 50's interior school headquarters. It was demolished in the 1980's. The Royal Castle was nearby, and closed shortly after. Another place I liked around there was the 50's style Biscayne Cafeteria. I can look in my 1980 phone book for the addresses.

When I was about 5 y/o (late 60s), Mr Rogers and the the other actors from his show came to Miami and had a show at Channel 2's studios which were in the Lindsey Hopkins Bldg. I remember it so clearly because there was a couple and their kids in front of us. A black family sat down next to them (they were white) and the mother got very loud and abusive, and they (the white people) were thrown out. I remember this like it was yesterday. I don't know what the white people said, but during that time in Miami, I can only imagine. Still, people don't believe me when I tell them Miami was a typical Southern city at one time.

[east215]

Originally Posted by Kathleen1971

It is. I looked for it a while back and thought I must be crazy for remembering it but I know I watched it every morning before school and wanted to be on it so badly. Maybe it will show up on You Tube someday.

I remember the name of the show, but what was the format? I must have been pre-school.

[Ben Around]

Got a blast from the past this morning. On NPR they did a story on a "new" concept, a bicycle designed to carry cargo. Anyone else recall Miami mailmen in the 60s who had specially designed bikes in which they carried the mail for their routes? They were like the sturdy, standard 26 inch fat-tire bikes of the era, except they had a smaller front wheel to accomodate a humongous metal basket in which they carried the mail. They had "US Mail" painted on them. The mailmen looked positively ridiculous in their official blue shorts and pith helmets on their heads, pedaling these contraptions down the sidewalk. But you never saw a fat mailman! I only saw these on city routes, out in the burbs where I lived they used "mailsters", a 3-wheeled motor scooter which were easier to deliver longer routes with rural-style mailboxes out by the street.