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Posted: Sun Feb 8th, 2004 06:11 am |
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Your webpage (http://www.sneakykitchen.com/Stories/allapattah.htm) about Allapattah is very interesting. I lived at 2508 NW 30th St from age 1 (1943) to age 13 (1955). It was a wonderful neighborhood to grow up in. Melrose Park was across the street from my house and Melrose Elementary was my school. Actually "Melrose" is the subdivision to the west of Allapattah. I remember well things you mention such as the Seminole Indians at the Indian Village near where 27th Avenue and Miami River, and the Aviation Building. This Aviation Building was the home of the Embry-Riddle School of Aviation which still exists at Merritt Island in northern Florida
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bessnfloyd
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Posted: Sun Feb 8th, 2004 06:12 am |
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For those who wonder, Melrose is the rest of the triangle bordered more or less (now) by State road 112 to the north, the point of the Miami River and NW 36 St. near the Miami Jai-Alai just east of NW 42 Ave, and approximately 10th Ave to the east. Some people admit to living in Melrose, but many insist they live in Allapattah. The main reason for the difference is that the west side of NW 27th Ave. is Dade County, except for a narrow strip of City of Miami on both sides of 36th St. reaching out to the Miami International Airport. I don't know how they managed that; it's a true gerrymander.
Some people include the part east of 10th Ave. over to I-95 as Allapattah, but most of that is really Wynwood, and south of the Civic Center one finds the distinct and unusual community of Spring Garden, tapering off into Overtown and downtown Miami. Allapattah used to extend further north until State Road 112 went through, when neighborhoods to the north were cut off, and then included by definition as Brownsville or Liberty City. Some old-timers still refer to their neighborhood as Allapattah, especially a formerly well-to-do black area back in segregation days south of Liberty City and north of what is now State Road 112.
Perhaps Allapattah is a state of mind, and certainly to a degree, all the way from Jai-Alai to I-95, a time warp as well as a Mix to the Max, with its old stucco homes and businesses painted bright colors, now further protected and decorated with fancy Spanish style grillwork. I hate it whenever one of these old places gets run down and bulldozed to make room for a parking lot or apartment house. It's a unique area.
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Posted: Sat Jul 14th, 2007 04:39 pm |
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| bill long: was your father with lindsley lumber then rooney construction? if yes, he was an old friend of my father. we once lived at 2901 nw 30th ave, my father and uncle built it 1940. other relartives the "chews" lived at about 25th & 30th as well.
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