Saturday, March 30, 2013

Ad for Miami Coca-Cola Bottling Co. - 1940

From the Miami Daily News, April 1, 1940.







Friday, March 29, 2013

Loew's Riviera Theater opens - Feb. 16, 1956

Miami Daily News, Feb. 15, 1956.
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Miami Daily News, Feb. 16, 1956.




Dining out in Miami in 1955

Ads for Miami restaurants from the Miami Daily News, Dec. 28, 1955.


Leonard's La Peña, 7699 Bird Road.
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Pumpernik's, 76th St. and Collins Ave.


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Capt. Tom's, 28 N.W. North River Drive.



April 7, 1950: Review of Capt. Toms in the Miami Daily News.



Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Miami's first drive-in theater opens - Feb. 1938

From the Miami Daily News, Feb. 27, 1938.

Miami's first drive-in theater, the Miami Drive-In Theater, opens in Feb. 1938 at NW 7th Avenue and 79th Street. .

"35 cents per person ... no charge for car."


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1957 newspaper ad for Joe's Stone Crab Restaurant

From the Miami News, Dec. 15, 1957.





Sunday, March 24, 2013

Miami prime time TV shows in 1957



Miami News, Dec. 14, 1957.

Miami News, Dec. 15, 1957.

Miami News, Dec. 19, 1957.



Saturday, March 23, 2013

1922 ad for the Coral Gables real estate company of Dammers & Gillette and Harry A. Burnes

From the Miami Daily Metropolis, Aug. 3, 1922.




Dammers & Gillette and Harry A. Burnes company bus. (1923)