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Posted: Fri Feb 15th, 2008 11:38 pm |
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| I was born in Coral Gables in 1951 and still live in Miami. My mother was born and raised in Allapattah and I spent my youth at my grandparents home off 44th Street and 12th avenue. I went to Allapattah Baptist CHurch until I was thirteen (although I never really was much of a Baptist and became an Episcopalian). First of all the Baptist Church cited on Flagler Street (downtown) was Central Baptist Church which was actually on NW 5th Street and has just been bought out by, from what I can gather, a non-denominational group with several campuses in Dade County. Allapattah Baptist Church had an Art Deco facade and I must report as of Nov 2007 was torn down and is reduced to a pile of rubble today. It did not have a basement but Central Baptist did. We went to Live and Let Live Drug store, which I remember vividly with its squeaky, uneven wooden floors and a big scale. It was renovated (unfortunately) years ago and lost all its charm. There was a cinema right near it (torn down) where my cousin and I used to go on Saturdays and our admission was RC bottlecaps. There was a Royal Castle across the street from Jackson High School on NW 17th Ave and 36 Street. There were many stores on 36th at the time and I remember buying Easter shoes (the obligatory white patent leather) and getting a pastel colored chick which grew to be a rooster. There were also car dealerships on the western part of 36th street. And Central Bank, owned by Candace Mosler and all the drama that came from her death in the early 60s. The area now is very different and a mixture of black and hispanic.
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Posted: Wed Mar 5th, 2008 01:46 pm |
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Just a note...
The Baptist church on Flagler Street in pre-Castro Little Havana was absolutely named Flagler Street Baptist Church -- a large imposing white structure complete with white pillars, a large flight of stairs, and a tall steeple -- a carbon copy of so many of the old time Baptist Churches all over the South. This church did have a basement, and the graduating kindergarten and pre-schoolers were posed according to sex (boy or girl) and height (tallest in the back, of course...) on the steps of the Church for their graduation pictures. (Wish I still had mine, which was lost long ago during moves around the state.)
My mother was a kindergarten teacher there in the 1950's. She was also a missionary to the Seminole Indians, both at Musa Isle and Tropical Hobbyland.
Flagler Street Baptist Church had quite a long missionary program with the Seminoles, both in Miami, and also on the Dania Reservation. They were instrumental in helping Seminole Indian children to register and attend Miami public schools.
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Joanne
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Posted: Wed Mar 5th, 2008 05:18 pm |
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Here's an old postcard photo of Flagler Street Baptist Church -- Flagler Street Baptist Church, 3501 W. Flagler Street, Miami, Fla. [graphic] (Available online - Florida Memory Project)
Seems the "Steeple" that I remembered as a five year old child belonged to University Baptist Church in Coral Gables, which we also sometimes attended, as well as Sylvania Heights Baptist in West Miami.
There was a very large and ornate Baptist Church in Downtown Miami, which had a domed ceiling, very ornately painted.
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bessnfloyd
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Posted: Wed Mar 5th, 2008 05:40 pm |
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| I never have seen the Baptist Church downtown; I believe it was on Biscayne Blvd, near that house that the author of "Glow Little Glow Worm..." lived. But when I arrived in Miami to work in 1959, my employer took me on a grand tour of Key Biscayne, downtown Miami, Etc. and parked and took me into Gesu Catholic Church as the high point of my tour. Neither of us was Catholic, but it was so spectacular inside that people of other faiths would drop in to pray or meditate on their lunch hours. I wasn't aware that the Baptist Church also had a domed ceiling. Comment, anyone?
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Posted: Wed Mar 5th, 2008 05:54 pm |
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Here's Gesu Catholic
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Posted: Wed Mar 5th, 2008 06:17 pm |
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Miami Central Baptist Church -- 500 NE 1st Ave. The rounded top of church building with arched windows and spire roofed the interior and it's ornately painted domed ceiling.
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Posted: Wed Mar 5th, 2008 06:52 pm |
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| Thanks! Looks like the Baptists outnumbered and outfinanced the Catholics at this point! Beautiful building.
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