Firestone opens 'World's Largest and Most Modern One Stop Service Station' - July 1, 1929

From the Miami Daily News, June 30, 1929 -
"Firestone Opens Its 'One-Stop' Service Station Monday"

Miami News, March 21, 1987: Firestone's huge car supermarket

Miami Beach's Hotel Biscaya bites the dust - March 15, 1987

The Hotel Biscaya - formerly the Floridian - is brought down on March 15, 1987.

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Miami Daily News, April 17, 1926.

Hotel Biscaya in 1981.
Miami Herald photo by Michel Ducille.

Miami Flying School

Miami Flying School.
Date unknown, but probably late 1920s or early 1930s. 

Vintage 1950's Chevrolet featurette showing Coral Gables and Key Biscayne

1980 Miami Beach in black and white [Part V]

Pool at Senator Hotel, 1201 Collins Ave. (1980)
All photographs by Walter Smalling
via the Library of Congress. 
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Henrosa Hotel, 1435 Collins Ave.

Bancroft Hotel, 1501 Collins Ave. 

Berkeley Shore Hotel and Apartments, 1601 Collins Ave. 

Cardozo Hotel, 1300 Ocean Drive.

Lobby telephone booths, Cardozo Hotel. 

Previous posts:

1980 Miami Beach in black and white [Part I]

1980 Miami Beach in black and white [Part II]

1980 Miami Beach in black and white [Part III]

1980 Miami Beach in black and white [Part IV]

Miami's changing skyline

Miami's skyline...a century of change.

"On the Miami River"
circa 1900
via the Library of Congress.
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1910 - "Biscayne Bay through the cocoanut trees"

1908 - looking east on 12th Street (now Flagler Street) at Avenue D
(now Miami Avenue) in downtown Miami. On the right is E.L. Brady,
Grocers and CW Schmid's
Restaurant, "regular meals and ala carte."

Detail of previous photograph showing grocery 
store delivery wagon.

Skyline, 1939.

Skyline photograhed from Watson Island, late 70's or early 80's.

Skyline from Watson Island, mid-80's.

Present day I-395 eastbound near Biscayne Blvd.

Skyline as seen from Miami Beach, New Years Eve - 2009.

2010.
by Matt Sherman via Flickr.

1937 newspaper ads for Miami Beach restaurants

From the Miami Daily News, Jan. 9, 1937.

Downtown Miami over the years

Various views of Downtown Miami

Flagler Street - 1927

Flagler Street - 1927

Aerial looking west - 1930

Aerial looking northeast - circa 1950's