Miami - what was! (Hialeah, Hollywood: sales, buy, cinema)
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AC-DC
Iron Maiden
Loverboy
Yes
Van Halen
Ratt
Yngwie Malmsteen
Ozzy
there are more but huh,the tailgate rountine outside the sportatorium has lessoned my memory if 'ya know what I mean.
lol, I was at Washington Square to see Babes in Toyland, and I'm sitting at a table, and I see some guy take a seat at the bar, and a guy with big hair walks up and says "this is my seat"; the first guy says "sorry, no one was sitting here", then the second guy says "do you know who I am? do you know who I am?" The first guy says "no, I don't". "I'm Yngwie Malmsteen. do you know who I am now?" The first guy says, "No?" You had to be there.
I remember seeing Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids before they were famous at Plus 5Five. I also remember going to see hardcore bands like Load and Anger Inc. play there, along with Demonomacy and Jack Off Jill.
I remember going to Cameo Theater back in 1990-ish when Industrial music was popular. Some short lived clubs like Industry and Hole in the Wall on 5th street had some good times. Who could forget the Kitchen Club in Miami beach?
When I used to cut class to go to the beach, I remember how Penrod's started in tiny trailers selling refreshments, and 5 years later they've built an empire (not sure if it's still around). I used to hang out at Bayside Marketplace and walk around for a couple of hours on the weekend. That's where I met my first one night stand
I saw Mike Tyson and Claude Lemieux (New Jersey Devils) at the Clevelander. I also met Gloria Estefan's mother through my friend when she was working at an elementary school.
Good times. Last time I visited Miami was in 2000. It's changed a lot, but I can't say if it's worse or not.
lol, I was at Washington Square to see Babes in Toyland, and I'm sitting at a table, and I see some guy take a seat at the bar, and a guy with big hair walks up and says "this is my seat"; the first guy says "sorry, no one was sitting here", then the second guy says "do you know who I am? do you know who I am?" The first guy says "no, I don't". "I'm Yngwie Malmsteen. do you know who I am now?" The first guy says, "No?" You had to be there.
I remember seeing Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids before they were famous at Plus 5Five. I also remember going to see hardcore bands like Load and Anger Inc. play there, along with Demonomacy and Jack Off Jill.
I remember going to Cameo Theater back in 1990-ish when Industrial music was popular. Some short lived clubs like Industry and Hole in the Wall on 5th street had some good times. Who could forget the Kitchen Club in Miami beach?
When I used to cut class to go to the beach, I remember how Penrod's started in tiny trailers selling refreshments, and 5 years later they've built an empire (not sure if it's still around). I used to hang out at Bayside Marketplace and walk around for a couple of hours on the weekend. That's where I met my first one night stand
I saw Mike Tyson and Claude Lemieux (New Jersey Devils) at the Clevelander. I also met Gloria Estefan's mother through my friend when she was working at an elementary school.
Good times. Last time I visited Miami was in 2000. It's changed a lot, but I can't say if it's worse or not.
-Angel
Penrods is now Nikki Beach. It's an upscale club now...
Oh, the Kitchen Club! Best dance floor ever, down on the lower level with that slow strobe, creating a still photograph of the people dancing ever other second.
Whew! This post is kinda all over the map (that's par for the course for my posts). But, that said, I'm truly grateful I had a wonderful time living in Miami. The mid-eighties were about the end of life there for me, but I have visited since then off and on. The last time I lived in Miami year round was just a year or so after Bernie Kosar was U of M's QB and Neil Rogers was a newer novelty on the airwaves. Those light traffic days in Miami are history. No more walking slowly across Ponce De Leon, no more Anthony Marshall and his bowties in classes at FIU, no more Rick Sanchez on local TV, no more Jordan Marsh at Dadeland, no more Lums restaurant in the Grove. It used to be such fun to go mingle with the Cubans and South Americans on weekends. Cocaine was not a nasty problem yet like it would become. Anyone remember the Dadeland cocaine cowboy shootout? That's about when things were really getting out of control, and the crazy partying at the Hotel Mutiny in the Grove? - the beginning of the end as they say. Too much money and corruption, it permeated through everything. People hardened to a different world. What fun it used to be to learn about different customs, dances, food - it was what we looked forward to all week at work. So much changed. So, so much. People became more aggressive, meaner, Miami got grittier. What went so wrong? Well, I can still get great eats in Miami. I suppose I can still visit Tobacco Road downtown for some blues - no? Stone Crabs are as good as ever. I suppose I can get good chili at the Red Road Diner still - no? Perhaps not. Maybe some of these things have moved on too. The traffic everywhere in Miami these times is ghastly, but traffic is bad also in many other urban areas across the USA. I'll dream of the past of beautiful South Florida women with dark hair and nice tans, events at Vizcaya, shrimping by the bay, a play at Coconut Grove Playhouse, the fellow who lived in the treehouse in the Grove, lying under a palm tree listening to the sound of sailboat rigging tinkling in the breeze at Dinner Key Marina, the taste of an iced coco split open fresh drunk through a straw, laughing with friends at Walter Mercado's silliness on TV, a meal at the Cuban American Cafeteria, waiting for a table at Hy Vong on Eighth Street, a guava & cream cheese pastry with my Pilon Cafe, and on & on. So many good memories. Glad I got them in before life got too expensive, too crowded, and too crazy. Good luck to those left behind, and enjoy the good things that remain. I love my Miami memories, and I'm just fine only visiting these days. I miss my Cuban food!
Brian or anyone that has moved away,
As a diehard sports fan I'm curious: are you still a fan of the UM Hurricanes? I ask because I grew up in S. Florida as well. And have since moved away because of the same reasons everyone else moved away. I've always been one to associate a sports team with the locals. If you don't like the people in an area can you still root for the sports teams? Just curious....feel free to chime in anyone....
As a diehard sports fan I'm curious: are you still a fan of the UM Hurricanes? I ask because I grew up in S. Florida as well. And have since moved away because of the same reasons everyone else moved away. I've always been one to associate a sports team with the locals. If you don't like the people in an area can you still root for the sports teams? Just curious....feel free to chime in anyone....
I became a Gator fan when I attended UF, but I grew up a Hurricanes fan since my father attended UM for part of his education. My whole family pretty much converted to Gator fans since my sister and I both attended. Our Gator fandom was etched in stone when we attended the last UM-UF game at the Orange Bowl a few years ago and watched how awful the Canes fans were at a home game. I doubt it was always that way, but we were all pretty shocked. I'm not much of a pro sports fan, so that's really the only perspective I can offer.
God how I miss it!!! What fun it was growing up in West Miami. Ferrals ice cream, Pan Am, Eastern and National airlines employed about 1/3 of Dade county. Seaquarium, Serpentarium, Parrot Jungle, Monkey Jungle,South Miami Fruit and Spice Park, Crandon Park zoo, Tropicaire and Coral Way Drive in's, Skipper Chuck, "Come on down Little Old Burkee will fit you personally", Tropical Park Race Track, Rock pits off of 87th Ave and about 48th St., Dressler Dairy, Tamiami Airport, Lums, Westchester and Dadeland open air malls, Royal Castle 15 cent burgers with 5 cent birch beer in a frosted mug. You could walk to school. Play with neighborhood kids in your back yard, drink from a hose, mowed lawns for date money, swimming at Shenadoah and Venitan pools, high school football games in the stadium at Coral Way and 67th Ave. Anyone know of any other "You know you are old in Miami if you remember" Moderator cut: Contact via Direct Message
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God how I miss it!!! What fun it was growing up in West Miami. Ferrals ice cream, Pan Am, Eastern and National airlines employed about 1/3 of Dade county. Seaquarium, Serpentarium, Parrot Jungle, Monkey Jungle,South Miami Fruit and Spice Park, Crandon Park zoo, Tropicaire and Coral Way Drive in's, Skipper Chuck, "Come on down Little Old Burkee will fit you personally", Tropical Park Race Track, Rock pits off of 87th Ave and about 48th St., Dressler Dairy, Tamiami Airport, Lums, Westchester and Dadeland open air malls, Royal Castle 15 cent burgers with 5 cent birch beer in a frosted mug. You could walk to school. Play with neighborhood kids in your back yard, drink from a hose, mowed lawns for date money, swimming at Shenadoah and Venitan pools, high school football games in the stadium at Coral Way and 67th Ave. Anyone know of any other "You know you are old in Miami if you remember" Moderator cut: Contact via Direct Message
I remember another commercial from Austin Burke. It must have been in the early 80s "Little Old Burkee loves you all." Wasn't he in the warehouse district? Of course they call it the Design Center now, but we called it the warehouse district. We always went there to get our suits. If we couldn't find anything there we went to "Syms" ("an educated consumer is our best customer"). Good old Sy and Marcy Syms!
In other counties in FL there are still owner-builders... I know cause I'm one
South Florida had some great houses. The 1920-30s Spanish style, the 40s-50s ranch houses, Art deco on then-rundown South Beach, the Miami modern further up on the beach. Now they buy two lots, bulldoze the old homes, and put up gaudy McMansions or tacky over-priced townhouses. It's sad to see old Miami disappear. Before the real estate bubble burst, Little Havana had some of the highest real estate prices in Miami. The further east, the more expensive. Gotta wonder what's gonna happen when the real estate market recovers. 50 years from now someone will say "Remember Little Havana"?, and their kids will say "what's that?". I think it was the mayor of Ft. Lauderdale who said something to the effect that "single family homes are definitely a thing of the past". My friend lives in the Croissant Park area of Lauderdale. She lives in a 3/2 house built in 1951. She's got two story new buildings on either side. No more sun or breezes. It's like Brooklyn with palm trees (nothing against Brooklyn, I lived there), but what works in NY definitely doesn't work in FL. She won't sell out though. She says when the next hurricane hits those houses will be rubble, but her house will last 100 years or more.
Hi! I grew up in this enchanting, colorful city, I used to love going dancing, and it was sooo different going to clubs and discos in the early 70's and 80's,
i remember Honey for the bears, Limelight, the Open Houses at the Columbus Hotel in Downtown Miami, oh man, if only i had a time machine! Who does not remember the cool Barefoot Mailman store in the midway mall? Richards,
Three Sisters, Kress, the two great discounts in Downtown Miami, the one behind Burdines? Man, has Miami changed! for the very worst, even the
look of the people is totally different, I suffer coz I hate hiphop and reggaeton, and that is the only crap you hear in Miami lately, what a curse!
i also had the time of my life when I was one of the large group of extras in the Miami Vice episode of the judge that had a basketball star son, I was totally in love with Miami Vice and everything that was happening in the area
in the early 80s, excluding the cocaine probs of course, but, i tell you,
that was the MIAMI I enjoyed, and will never ever forget.Miami now is
concrete and glass everywhere, really really sad.....
Ah! Honey for the Bears! Remember Casanovas in Hialeah? All week long on Super Q, they would advertise what ever acts or performers were gonna be there that weekend. Super Q played the best dance music south of NY. I am Anglo, and Super Q started my love of Salsa and Merengue. You only hear that on oldies stations now. It's all Reggaeton now - yuk! I live in Massachusetts, and listen to WCMQ-FM online. It plays all the same music as Super Q. Sad part is, it's considered an oldies station. My nephew (age 15) lives in Cooper City, and listens to CMQ. Our lives are his nostalgia. Who woulda thunk it?
Penrods is now Nikki Beach. It's an upscale club now...
Seems like everything in Miami is "upscale". It was alot more fun when it was (as the English say) "downmarket" -lol. You didn't go broke having a night out. Working-class and middle -class people actually had affordable places to go that didn't require you to take out a second mortgage.
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