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| Young fans wait for the Beatles to arrive at Miami International Airport on Feb. 13, 1964. The ecstatic girls jumped the rail moments later. (John Walther/Miami Herald) (Click image to enlarge) |
Miami Archives, Feb. 13, 2012: The Beatles visit Miami Beach Feb., 1964
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| 1946 Postcard for Gatti, The Restaurant of Distinction. Click to enlarge. |
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| Miami Daily News April 22, 1926. |
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| Miami Daily News Aug. 22, 1926. |
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| Miami Daily News Dec. 18, 1928. |
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| Miami Daily News Nov. 24, 1955. |
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| via the Library of Congress. Click to enlarge. |
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| Miami International Airport - 1965. (Click here to enlarge.) |
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| MIA Airside in the mid 1970s.The Miami Airport Hotel is seen from Delta's south concourse in the background of a Delta L-1011, a United Boeing 727-200, and United Douglas DC-10. (Click here to enlarge.) |
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| National Airlines Maintenance facility and DC-10s at MIA. This shot shows five Douglas DC-10s belonging to hometown airline National Airlines between flights. National would be taken over by Pan Am in 1979. These images were taken before the 1974 opening of National's famous cantilever hanger. (Click here to enlarge.) |
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| Miami International Airport Aerial - 1976. This rare aerial of Miami International Airport captures the NW20th St Terminal in 1976. At its opening in 1959 and for years after, MIA was the world's largest single terminal. By the mid 1970s, there had been the first major changes to the terminal, including the Flamingo and Dolphin parking garages, and the new Midfield Terminal E for international airlines and Pan Am which is seen under construction here before the connector train was added. Eastern dominated the North concourse, Pan Am was in the middle, while Miami based National planes can be seen in the 4th finger. (Click here to enlarge.) |
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| Road to Cocoanut Grove. Between 1880 and 1901 (Click to enlarge) via the Library of Congress |
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| Miami Daily Metropolis, Jan. 5, 1923. (Click to enlarge) |
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| Jan. 5, 1923. |
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| Miami Daily Metropolis, Jan. 12, 1923. |
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| Jan. 12, 1923. |
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| Sinatra and Ed Sullivan at the Eden Roc, 1964. (Photo by John Dominis / LIFE Magazine) (Click all images to enlarge.) |
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| ORIGINAL CAPTION: Feb. 1965: Frank Sinatra, left, and comedian Joe E. Lewis, 2nd from right, talk together in an elevator lobby at the Eden Roc as several others, including Sinatra's bodyguard Ed Pucci, far right, stand nearby. The long-time friends performed a two-week stand at the hotel during the first two weeks of February. (Photo by John Dominis / LIFE Magazine) |
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| Frank Sinatra in a room at the Eden Roc Hotel, 1965. |
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| Sinatra tosses tosses a tablecloth after yanking it from a cluttered tabletop in a room at the Eden Roc, Feb. 1, 1965. (Photo by John Dominis / LIFE Magazine) |
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| ORIGINAL CAPTION: As onlookers cheer, singer Frank Sinatra stands with a tablecloth in his hand after successfully pulling it out from under the dishes (though more than a few glasses seem to have fallen over) in a room at the Eden Roc hotel, Feb. 1, 1965. Sinatra was at the hotel to perform a two-week stand with long-time friend Joe E. Lewis (not pictured) during the first two weeks of February. (Photo by Jon Dominis / LIFE Magazine) |
Miami Archives: Frank Sinatra's South Florida connection
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| Miami News, Feb. 7, 1965. (Click to enlarge.) |
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| Glenn Curtiss. TIME, Oct. 13, 1924. |
BY ANDRES VIGLUCCI
Poor Glenn Curtiss. The aviation pioneer rivaled, perhaps exceeded, the Wright Brothers in accomplishment. He held the first U.S. pilot's license and the world land-speed record, 136 mph, set on the sands of Ormond Beach on a motorcycle of his design and manufacture. He practically invented and built U.S. naval aviation.
Along the way, Curtiss also found time to develop Hialeah, Opa-locka and Miami Springs.
But he had the misfortune of dying young, at 52 in 1930, and his once-electrifying fame faded.
[...]
Curtiss and a business partner, James Bright, had purchased a 12,000-acre ranch in 1916 where they established an airfield. But they built Hialeah on the land to cash in on the 1920s real estate boom.
Appalled by Hialeah's monotonous sprawl, however, Curtiss undertook careful planning for his next two developments, Opa-locka and the Springs, which he envisioned as a country-club residential paradise. For Miami Springs he fancifully chose the architectural style of southwestern adobe houses; for Opa-locka the theme was Arabian Nights.
His vision, interrupted by the subsequent land crash, never panned out beyond a clutch of surviving signature buildings in each.
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| Miami Daily Metropolis, Feb. 1, 1921. (Click all images to enlarge.) |
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| Prospective buyers tour Hialeah in 1921. |
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| Home under construction in Hialeah, 1922. |
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| Bridge from Hialeah to Miami Springs, 1926. |
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| Hialeah, 1927. |
