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History buffs and former residents: Don Boyd has an absolutely astounding collections of old Miami and Hialeah photos and memorabilia. If you went to Melrose Elementary, are you here? A link is posted on our Old Miami Forum. Take a stroll down memory lane, if you grew up in the area, at the Memories of Old Hialeah, Old Miami and Old South Florida Photo Galleries. People frequently send me nostalgic pieces with memories of the fifties, usually complete with music and cartoons. What we usually remember was through rose-colored glasses - actually recalling when we were young, healthy and strong, had hope, and expectations of a seemingly endless and glorious future ahead - unless we had a really bad childhood and a very good memory. For instance...More >>> "When will it ever end..." Memorial Day brings back this memory for Hilda Graham: "I recall that my friends and I were giving a birthday party for one of the GI's who was going to be twenty one, and as you know, in England that was considered a coming of age party ...More >>> A reader wants to know: did he or she really live in Allapattah? Have the boundaries moved? Also another reader wants old photos of the Live and Let Live Drugstore, Regent Theater, Dade Theater for a Friends Reunion. Can anyone help? Remember "TV Lamps"? I sold dozens of those suckers back in the mid-fifties in Sarasota, but they were the kitschy seashell kind for tourists. There's beautiful examples out there - take a look at Mark Stevens' TV Lamp Site. And many a meal was eaten on TV Trays, sometimes Swanson's TV Dinners, while watching Ed Sullivan, I Love Lucy, Sid Caesar (you recall those too?), and more by the reflected glow of those little lights. The way we were... Captured in snapshots at Square America. New photos added daily. Found this in Recipe du Jour's great newsletter. Walter Mills of Recipe du Jour reminisces about an earlier Florida: I Remember My Life as A Child Gather Memories - A Pennsylvania Christmas by Walter Mills of Recipe du Jour website, also published in their great newsletter. "Before the winds blow it all away..." by Walter Mills of Recipe du Jour. Take a trip to Flamingo Bay with him. A look at Autumn Leaves and children's' games.
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