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06-14-2007, 08:26 AM
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My parents have lived here since the mid 50's. My dad and my mother-in-law talk about the segregated bathrooms and water fountains. My dad took public transportation and would get bummed when he couldn't get a seat in the back of the bus, because they were always taken by black residents.
My husband's grandmother has a picture of her (when she was a young girl) and the church congregation of Allapattah Baptist Church, and not one person in the picture is Black. It was from the 1920's, I think right after the Hurricane in '26.
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06-14-2007, 10:34 AM
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Originally Posted by kelabu
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Co-Sign! My father has told me numerous stories about the segregated days of Miami...I remember as a teen going on the black history tours on the Metrobus...and seeing the remnants of wall that's adjacent to Northwestern Senior High that used to separate the black part of town from the white part of town. |
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06-14-2007, 12:22 PM
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Originally Posted by lauralei2
My parents have lived here since the mid 50's. My dad and my mother-in-law talk about the segregated bathrooms and water fountains. My dad took public transportation and would get bummed when he couldn't get a seat in the back of the bus, because they were always taken by black residents.
My husband's grandmother has a picture of her (when she was a young girl) and the church congregation of Allapattah Baptist Church, and not one person in the picture is Black. It was from the 1920's, I think right after the Hurricane in '26.
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Who said living here in the 1950's was cool , anyhow I would not know as I was not born yet .... yeah the racial issues must have sucked . I do remember the late 1960's and 1970's and those were cool times to live down here . |
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06-14-2007, 12:39 PM
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Grew up in the 70s in Miami. Pretty cool. You got stoned with the hippies in Coconut Grove which was then just the Oak Fed store and roller skates were Cocowalk is now. Oh yeah, the grove's always had that gay bar I always forget the name of.
As far as Virginia Beach, even in the 70's the two groups that used the beach were the nudist and blacks. I'm not black and never had any problems there. 
Hell, the Biltmore was boarded up. Most bars closed at 1:00 a.m. except the gay bars and Tabacco Road. I liked it then. Pretty quiet and melow, less agressiveness.
However, Tallrick, all was not perfect in paradise. Yes, it was better, what can I say?
If you ask people from all over the world over 50, you get the same answer: the world is a much more crowded place today than then. Ce la vie! |
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06-14-2007, 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by BahamaBreeze
Grew up in the 70s in Miami. Pretty cool. You got stoned with the hippies in Coconut Grove which was then just the Oak Fed store and roller skates were Cocowalk is now. Oh yeah, the grove's always had that gay bar I always forget the name of.
As far as Virginia Beach, even in the 70's the two groups that used the beach were the nudist and blacks. I'm not black and never had any problems there.
Hell, the Biltmore was boarded up. Most bars closed at 1:00 a.m. except the gay bars and Tabacco Road. I liked it then. Pretty quiet and melow, less agressiveness.
However, Tallrick, all was not perfect in paradise. Yes, it was better, what can I say?
If you ask people from all over the world over 50, you get the same answer: the world is a much more crowded place today than then. Ce la vie! |
I remember the Biltmore, and sneaked into it more than once. Also there was a gay bar on Bird Road named "uncle Charlies" that we used to stuff potatoes in some of the exhaust pipes of cars in the lot. My friends said "they like that stuff". I even have a T-shirt from the "oak feed store" , I never knew it was gone! My parents also went to some veggie place which I found inedible, the "studio" or something? As I kid I preferred the "sweden house smorgasbord"
Other than segregation it seems like Miami was a lot better in 1957. Is that fun, inexpensive, full of character city gone forever?
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06-14-2007, 09:02 PM
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There is no doubt Miami was way better in the 50's. It was a slow living place, full of tourists, retired people, veterans, quiet town, with tropical bars, hotels, a real paradaise.
Why today is a mess? UNDISCRIMINATED IMMIGRATION from the 60's
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06-15-2007, 05:05 PM
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Originally Posted by eaglecall
There is no doubt Miami was way better in the 50's. It was a slow living place, full of tourists, retired people, veterans, quiet town, with tropical bars, hotels, a real paradaise.
Why today is a mess? UNDISCRIMINATED IMMIGRATION from the 60's
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As opposed to "discriminated immigration " ...... WTF ???  |
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06-15-2007, 07:19 PM
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Don't forget that the segregation included segregation of Jews as well. Bay Harbor wasn't "restricted" while most of the rest of Miami Beach was.
On the plus side, Miami and Miami Beach had trolleys, and the FEC went all the way to Key West. Theatres were gorgeous. THe Gusman in Miami is about all that remains of some great movie palaces. There was even an air conditioned drive-in theatre.
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06-15-2007, 07:37 PM
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There was even an air conditioned drive-in theatre.
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I remember the Coral Way drive in by the (now removed) seaboard railroad tracks.
http://members.aol.com/filmteknik70/diac.htm
It was great being a kid then! What a disappointment Miami is for today's kids. |
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06-16-2007, 03:08 AM
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lol, alota people here would disagree with you too, its real sad.
times changed the mentality didnt |
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