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Old 06-02-2010, 06:39 AM
 
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Does anyone remember the trucks that would come around selling frozen lemonade? They were basically ice cream-type trucks, but they only sold frozen lemonade. The lemonade also came with a lemon wedge.
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Old 06-02-2010, 07:06 AM
 
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Does anyone remember the trucks that would come around selling frozen lemonade? They were basically ice cream-type trucks, but they only sold frozen lemonade. The lemonade also came with a lemon wedge.
There's a guy who sells frozen lemonade in the Grove...he's been there for years...
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Old 06-02-2010, 07:49 AM
 
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Does anyone remember the trucks that would come around selling frozen lemonade? They were basically ice cream-type trucks, but they only sold frozen lemonade. The lemonade also came with a lemon wedge.
Yep, the guy in the Grove is at Kennedy Park if you ever want a frozen lemonade.
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Old 06-07-2010, 08:53 AM
 
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Too bad I'm in Massachusetts. A day in the Grove sounds great. Do they still have those peacocks running around? I haven't been to the Grove since 1985, just before I moved to NYC. I hope they haven't let it get too built-up. That was one of the few neighborhoods in S. Fl where you could actually get around walking. I used to love the foreign films at the Grove Theatre. Some of them were great, but some were just glorified nudies. I don't know who said it, but someone describe those films like this. "If you show them at the Pussycat, they're porn. Slap some subtitles over a bare backside, show them in the Grove, and they become 'art'". BTW - My cousin told me that those trucks were called "Polar Cup" and they were based in Oakland Park (Broward County).
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Old 06-13-2010, 09:09 PM
 
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We moved to Miami in '68, when I was 7 years old; we moved in with my father's uncle, who had a house on 103rd ave and 40th terr. We used to go to the Concord movie theater every week for the double feature. I saw 1,000,000 Years B.C. with Raquel Welch and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Mrs. Miller, ther theater manager got to know us, and she'd always let us sit in the loges on our general admission tickets. (The seats were nicer, and you could smoke.)

On Bird road I remember the Dog House, which became Uncle Belly's, and Arbetter's across the street. Of course I remember the Pizza Palace at Galloway, but the Pizza Patio was better. They had carhop service at the Pizza Patio. I don't remember how good the pizza was there, but they had very good friend chicken, spaghetti and meatballs, and stuffed potatoes.

There was a strip shopping center at Bird & 98th, where my parents owned a drop-off laundry/dry cleaning place, next to Olympia TV and a bait & tackle store. Further down was Luther's Hardware, Dr. Weiss the optometrist, the FranBill luncheonette (owned by a couple from West Virginia), and the Olympia Heights drug store. Pearl's furniture was at the other end.

The Old Hickory was near Tropical Park, on the north side of Bird Road. The guy who ran it reminded me of Uncle Joe on Petticoat Junction.
we were nearly neighbors but I am older.. I was 15 in '69.. I grew up 4400 and 102ct.. you lived by Janie Cruz ( you might have know her butt-hole brother) and Frankie.. of pizza fame. Pearl lived at the end of my street, and I remember all those shops.. you left out Ben Franklins 5 and Dime across Bird, the hobby shop next to Pearls and Paks. A guy I went to school with worked at Luthers and eventually bought it from him. I preferred the Patio too.. my buddy Shanes Dad owned it. He had the first Honda 750 at Southwest. No Purple Cow? We would get rock candy and Turkish taffy at WT Grants and then go into the Concord to watch movies. Got my trumpet at Carrols Music there too. Guaranteed your folks knew my Mom.. Dad was South Miami Detective and got his suits dry cleaned at your folks place. Her name was Mickey.
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Old 06-13-2010, 09:26 PM
 
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Read through the whole thread. Keg South is still open at 12805 SW 136th Ave. A lot of memories from the past that are long gone: the Cameo (heck, all of South Beach and it's grungy 1980's past), Rocky Horror in the Grove, The Studio(chocolate mousse), Castle Park, movie theaters everwhere (Concord, Miller Square, Tropicaire Drive-In, Sunset Theater). One things that I didn't see others metion Parrot Jungle (what a loss). Does anyone remember a place called Potters Field? It's still there off of 87th Ave a little past Miller. It is now fenced in, but it was a place we used to go in high school: spooky and exciting (oh, disrespectful youth). There was also a make-out/party place down in Key Biscayne in a residential neighborhood; it was an open lot with a concrete tank dug out (it was said that they used to keep Flipper there?). Does anyone remeber the name of the sub shop on Bird and 92? close to Olympia Heights. I can't remeber it, my sister worked there and it turned me off to subs for a long time. It wasn't the place but how she smelled after work. Italian dressing and lunch meat!!
Right next to Civil Defense.. had a great cliff that you could jump into the lake from.
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Old 06-13-2010, 09:45 PM
 
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This thread is the one with most comments & indeed one of the best in quality ,in CDF...
So,let's revive it from time to time...
I am interested in hearing from...the elderly commentators in CDF,who may be 2nd or 3rd (...or more ) generation Miamians,if they know approx the era when the islands & the waterfront properties were zoned...

I've read that the rich Vanderbilt bought Fisher Island around 1900...

Any story to narrate to us,about connected or rich guys bying waterfront lots for...$50 ( in ...1900 value) would be nice...
I kinna lose interest after Flaglers railroad arrived because my passion is the pioneer days which ended when his railroad arrived, but I know a lot about Maama and Biscayne Bay in the 1870-80's. My GG Grandfather was Keeper of Biscayne House of Refuge 1882-1883, then the only structure on what we now call Miami Beach. That's when Osbourne and Lum bought up most of the beachfront all the way to Lake Worth to plant coconut groves. My family was friends with the Brickells, Peacocks, Gleason's, Hunt's, Pent's, Oxar's, Wagner's and many more.
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Old 06-14-2010, 05:53 AM
 
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Royal Castle on Ponce in the Gables

Freddie the Clown in the Gables (I think that's what he was called, had birthday parties there)

Skipper Chuck

Grand Union

Jahn's on Miracle Mile (great place to go after Gables football games!)

McCarthur Dairy

Woolworths and McCrorys on The Mile

Velvet Kreme donuts across from UM

Holsum Bakery in S. Miami (went on many a tour from summer camp at the CG Youth Center)

Those are just a few that come to my elderly mind!
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Old 06-14-2010, 04:04 PM
 
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I kinna lose interest after Flaglers railroad arrived because my passion is the pioneer days which ended when his railroad arrived, but I know a lot about Maama and Biscayne Bay in the 1870-80's. My GG Grandfather was Keeper of Biscayne House of Refuge 1882-1883, then the only structure on what we now call Miami Beach. That's when Osbourne and Lum bought up most of the beachfront all the way to Lake Worth to plant coconut groves. My family was friends with the Brickells, Peacocks, Gleason's, Hunt's, Pent's, Oxar's, Wagner's and many more.

If u r not kidding,u may offer us interesting true stories...
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Old 06-14-2010, 06:45 PM
 
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If u r not kidding,u may offer us interesting true stories...
What would you like to know? I have for years portrayed "in period" my GG Grandfather Hannibal Dillingham Pierce and tell lots of stories in the first person. This stuff is my passion and I know quite a lot and love to share it.

My families history has been published in the book Pioneer Life in Southeast Florida by Charles W. Pierce, it's out of print, but still around in hardcopy. It was edited down from an unpublished 690 page memoir called On the Wings of the Wind, by Dr. Donald Curl in 1971.

PLiSF can be found here online as part of the Florida Heritage Collection digital project

Florida Heritage Collection

Chapter 6 On Biscayne Bay
starts on page 151 and chronicles the time they spent at Biscayne House of Refuge.

Online, there is a resource available that I love to peruse; Tequesta Magazine

Tequesta, the journal of the Historical Assocaition of Southern Florida (http://www.hmsf.org/publications/tequesta.htm - broken link)

TONS of stuff about early Florida with an emphasis on south Florida. One of Miami's permier historians Arva Moore Parks has written a number of articles that they have published but one that may be of interest is Miami 1876.. one if the finest one year "snapshots" I have ever read.. it is worth the peruse. Arva gives us a short history and then covers 1876 really well.

http://digitalcollections.fiu.edu/te...75/75_1_04.pdf

On a personal level, I am working on a piece about Barefoot Mailmen that I hope will someday be published in this magazine, making me the third member of my family to be published there. Cheers!
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