1958 newspaper ad for Burdine's

From the Miami News, Aug. 7, 1958.

House for sale in Coral Gables - 1937

From the Miami Daily News, June 6, 1937.

Olympia Theater on Flagler Street - 1953

Olympia Theater on Flagler Street in 1953 showing "Girls of Pleasure Island"

Ad for the Toddle House - 1954

From the Miami Daily News, July 1, 1954.

Ad for the Toddle House on Biscayne Boulevard.

Ad for the Miami Biltmore - 1936

From the Miami Daily News, Dec. 27, 1936.

Ad for the Hotel Fontainebleau's la Ronde Room - 1959

From the Miami News, July 1, 1959.

1937 newspaper ad for Silver Bluff Estates

From the Miami Daily News, May 30, 1937.

Ad for Silver Bluff Estates.

"...high and dry and in the path of the cool trade winds. Located South of Coral Way between S.W. 22nd Ave and S.W. 27th Ave."

Coconut Grove icon, Allan "A.C." Cohen -1982

From the Miami News, May 26, 1982.

Owner of A.C.'s Icees, Allan Cohen, playing Frisbee in Kennedy Park in Coconut Grove 30 years ago.

Key West bait store - 1938

Click to enlarge.

Delta Airlines luggage label - ca. 1953 – 1955.

Delta was the first airline to offer non-stop Chicago to Miami service – “the trunkline to sunshine” route, 1946 and was also the first airline to offer packaged summer vacations to Miami in Summer 1947. The vacation packages, called Delta’s Millionaire Dream Vacations (later Delta Dream Vacations), greatly increased tourism to Miami, and helped change tourism in Florida from mainly the winter months to a year-round activity.

Downtown Miami, 1940s - Flagler Street looking west

Click to enlarge.

Ad for Joe's Old Fashioned Pit Barbecue -1948

From the Miami Daily News, Dec. 23, 1948.

Lake Placid School Coconut Grove

Lake Placid School in Coconut (Cocoanut) Grove. (Formerly the Peacock Inn.) Circa 1900-1915.

Click image to enlarge.

Hawk missiles in the Florida Keys - Cuban missile crisis, Oct. 1962

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, U.S. Army Hawk  anti-aircraft missiles sit,
mounted on launchers and pointed out over the Florida Straits in Key West, Florida, on October 27, 1962. (AP photo)

from the Miami News, Oct 28, 1962. (Click to enlarge)

The Miami News, Oct. 23, 1962.

President Kennedy speaks to the nation about the missile crisis
in a televised address on Oct. 22, 1962.

Ad for Club Monte Carlo - 1949

From the Miami Daily News, April 14, 1949.

Ad for Club Monte Carlo, 700 S.W. 8th St.

"Miami's Top Girl Show"

"Sally Keith - The Original Tassel Girl"

Ad for Zenith 'Circle Screen' TV - 1949

From the Miami Daily News, April 14, 1949.

1949 ad for Zenith "Circle Screen" TV.

"One knob, one twist-there's your station! ... there's your picture! ... complete with sound!"

Looking East on Flagler Street - 1924

Flagler Street looking east with Halcyon and McAllister Hotels on left, 1924.

Classic 1960s Dr. Pepper commercial

Lincoln Road, Miami Beach - 1950s

Click to enlarge.

Vintage Miami postcard, Miami skyline from Venetian Way - ca. 1940s

Click to enlarge.

South Bay Shore Drive, Miami - 1939

Ford Coupe parked on South Bay Shore Drive, Miami - 1939.
Photograph by Charles W. Cushman.

Ad for the Ball and Chain on SW 8th Street - 1957

From the Miami Daily News, Jan. 5, 1957.

Ad for the Ball and Chain at 1513 S.W. 8th Street.

"International Jazz Sensation Chet Baker and his Quintet."