growing up in florida, there are a number of things we'll always remember:
ac's icies in the parking lot of kennedy park
big daddy's lounge on us1 and coral reef drive
burdines
chalk's flying service and trips to bimini
the coppertone girl on biscayne blvd.
crandon park zoo
dinner key marina
florida aquarium
fox's lounge (one of south miami's best dive bars)
gasparilla
grove fitness (the original one on virginia street)
hugo, the killer whale
hungry sailor (the grove hasn't amounted to much since its closing in 1988)
hurricane parties (we really won't miss these)
keg south (no comment)
land crabs (where did they all go?)
last carrot (when it was next to the hungry sailor)
lums (on the corner of 79th)
main highway in the grove
miami serpentarium (remember bill haaste?)
miami seaquarium
orange bowl
old parrot jungle (now the "pinecrest gardens")
old riviera theater in the gables
old wooden bridges to the keys
señor frogs in the grove (doors finally closed january 2009)
tampa theater
the taurus (closed and then returned to its original location in the grove)
tobacco road
tropicaire drive-in theater
miami…see it like a native (remember the bumper stickers?)
tigertail lounge in the grove (corner of tigertail and 27th)
when the coconut grove arts festival was free (admission is now $7)
when you didn't have to pay to launch your boat at matheson hammock
when oak avenue (donna's old neighborhood) in the grove had "head shops"
when black point had just an old shack store
when the people on south beach were older than the buildings
winn dixie where cocowalk is now
ybor city
zayres on us1 in sunniland (now known as "pinecrest")