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Posted: Sat Dec 9th, 2006 09:00 am |
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From Caroly Braik Jorgensen
I was born in Miami in 1949 at Victoria Hospital, in Miami. I attended Allapattah Elementary School from 1st to 7th grade, and then went to Miami Jackson from 8th to 12th grade when I graduated in 1967. I lived on 29th Terrace between 13 and 14th avenue. 1384 N.W. 29th Terrace. My father had a radio and TV repair shop on 29th street. I remember much of the businesses that were on 36th street.
Can I be of any help in adding to the memories? I also have many related photo's. I was in Color Guard at Jackson, and band, and I have pictures of our house with the palm tree blown down after hurricane Donna, remember that one?
Last edited on Mon Jun 4th, 2007 01:37 am by bessnfloyd
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Posted: Sat Dec 9th, 2006 09:01 am |
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I sure do remember Hurricane Donna. A big mother-in-law's tongue tree (so called because the dried pods stay on forever and rattle in the wind) in back of our old Dade County pine apartment building came down, crashed into the corner of the house taking out the weather-head, and we didn't have electricity for several days. I've boarded up whenever a hurricane threatened ever since. Please send photos and more info.
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Posted: Sat Dec 9th, 2006 09:03 am |
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It was great to see your web page. I have referred several other people to it. They will enjoy it also.
In "49" Victoria (hospital) was old, I have a picture of it in my baby book. Regarding 36th Street, I remember Ross's was across the street from Jackson, that is where we all hung out. The place was run by Bill Ross, on the corner of 36th St. and 18th Avenue. Also, I worked for what was then Jackson-Byrons after school, in the layaway department. Also one of the most booming businesses was Manley's Jewelry, because we were all into charm bracelets., and he was the jewelry store on 36th Street near Jackson-Byrons. There was also a bakery on the corner at 36th and 17th, don't remember the name, just the donuts, especially the lemon. The Royal Castle (on the corner of 17th Ave. and 36th St.), and down the street was a restaurant that we went to have breakfast on a special Sunday afternoon. The Live and Let Live was where we got our prescriptions filled, and of course Dr. Conger took care of most people. Across the street from Jackson's northeast corner of 17th and 36th was another drug store, and on about 37th street on the corner was the music store where you bought band instruments and sheet music, of which I still have some.
Many night I walked home from Jackson after a football game and the band bus took us back to the school from the Orange Bowl, it was pretty safe then. There was a murder in the neighborhood, on about 32nd street, just off 12th avenue, a lady named Ethel Little was brutally murdered, and I do remember the details of that. I have so much more that I could tell you if you are interested. My mother who is still living, worked for the State of Florida., she was a social worker who started the foster care program in Miami for retarded children.
I now live in West Point, Ga., about an hour away from Atlanta.
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Posted: Sat Dec 9th, 2006 09:06 am |
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Victoria was even older when my husband was hospitalized briefly there in the mid-seventies. Shortly after it was turned into a nursing home, and someone told me it has since been torn down. Wouldn't surprise me.
The other drugstore was Rexall's. We always used Live and Let Live like almost everyone else in the area, except when Rexall Drugs had one of their famous "buy one, get one for 1ยข" sales, when we stocked up on necessities for six months.
I wasn't here when the Ethel Little murder occurred; what happened? Does anyone else remember it?
I too have some dog-eared piano music books from that that little corner music store, just south of Lindsley Lumber and Dade Plumbing.
Send photos! Either scan them over the internet, or have copies made at Kinkos or some similar place and send to:
Metcalf - Sneaky Kitchen
2644 NW 22 Court,
Miami, Fl 33142-8405
I would truly love to have them.
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Posted: Fri Jul 13th, 2007 04:34 am |
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is anybody contributing old photo's to share? i must have some back home to scan, we lived at 2901 nw 30th st and many or our relatives families lived there as well.(i am presently out of state). i later taught at robert e. lee.
pic's such as live and let live, lindsley lumber, and the other structures along 36 street would be great?
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Posted: Fri Jul 13th, 2007 04:35 am |
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| ps; does anyone have any pic's of "victoria hospital"? i was born there 1944 and have no luck locating a pic of that building so far.
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Posted: Tue Aug 28th, 2007 02:59 am |
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I was born in 1949 and went to Jackson for 8th and 9th grade. If I had stayed I would have been a 67 grad. I transfered to Miami Springs when it opened. I was on the swim team and we all changed schools. Our coach, Bill Diaz went to Miami Springs too. He went on to become the coach at U of Miami. Did you know Bruce Hoffmann? Penny Estes? Barbara West?
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Posted: Wed Sep 5th, 2007 12:02 am |
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| Maybe you knew my brother Mario Betancourt he also was transferred from Jackson to Springs, he was on the football team, I rememeber going down to the field with my dad to watch them practice.
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Posted: Thu Sep 6th, 2007 02:40 am |
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your last name is familar. Did you have a sister at Jackson? I have to dig my annuals from Springs and Jackson out of the basement. I lived in the Miami High district so I didn't know alot of people if they weren't on the swim teams. I will email you back after I check the pictures out. The name is very familar.
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Posted: Thu Sep 6th, 2007 01:52 pm |
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| No only one brother.
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Posted: Tue Apr 1st, 2008 02:37 pm |
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| I went to Miami Jackson from 1963 to 1965, and I had tried out to be a Swingett, was accepted, and the same day, my mom whisked me off to Michigan, I was always envious of the color guard, and the Swingetts. we were probably not in the same classes as I am a year younger than you. hugs, Donna Spears
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Posted: Tue Apr 1st, 2008 02:39 pm |
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| Oh how could I forget about hurricane Donna lol that is my name. That was a fierce one. We lived on top of a small store, I cant remember the name of it, but it was on the same street as Allapattah, right before the freeway(they were building 95 right before we moved). Does anyone remember Benny D'amico, Carol D'amico, Connie Davenport. Cheryl Alexander.
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