Friday, December 26, 2014

Gilda Gray brings the 'shimmy' to the Hollywood Golf and Country Club - 1924


Gilda Gray in Miami - 1925
via Florida Memory

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Miami Daily News, Dec. 24, 1924. 




Miami Daily News, Jan. 10, 1925.


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Miami Daily News, Dec. 13, 1924: Gilda Gray To Be Entertainer at Hollywood

Miami Daily News, Dec. 20, 1924: Gilda Anxious to Arrive Here



Thursday, December 18, 2014

Thursday, December 11, 2014

Miami Beach apartment houses - 1980

Sunrise Court Apartments, 720 Lenox Ave., Miami Beach. 
All photographs by Walter Smalling, via Library of Congress. 
(1980)


Entrance to 1577 16th Street, Miami Beach. 

1030 6th Street, Miami Beach.
(Click images to enlarge.)

Apartment building and courtyard, 7th Street and Lenox Avenue,
Miami Beach. 



Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Soldiers and girls relax on Miami Beach during WW II


Original caption: "Soldiers cavorting with girls - Miami Beach
between 1942 and 1943."
Click image to enlarge.
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Saturday, December 6, 2014

1913 newspaper ads in the Miami Daily Metropolis

From the Miami Daily Metropolis, June 4, 1913.




June 5, 1913.