May 9th, 2013
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Curbed Miami got an insider's tour of the recently-vacated, soon-to-be-demolished Miami Herald Building and recorded the visit with a memorable photo gallery/memento mori.
Sean McCaughan has photographed the Herald Building at, or very near, its end; WTVJ's news photogs were on the scene at its very beginning Read More...
Tags: 1961, architecture, building, Curbed Miami, demolition, film, film archives, George Beebe, historic, historic preservation, history, John Knight, Kevin Wynn, Learning From Miami, Miami, Miami Dade College, Miami Herald, Miami Herald Building, Miami Modern, Miami-Dade County, MiMo, Sean McCaughan, topping-off ceremony, video, Wolfson Archives, WTVJ
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April 30th, 2013
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In this WTVJ special report, broadcast in 1964, reporter Gordon Stevens observes that "the South Florida building trend has been straight up." Stevens reports in detail on two new buildings that exemplify Miami's mid-1960s style: the Bacardi Building, on Biscayne Boulevard at Northeast 20th Street, and the Pan American Airways Building on the north perimeter of Miami International Airport Read More...
Tags: 1964, architecture, b-roll, Bacardi Building, Biscayne Boulevard, building, double projection, Edward Durrell Stone, film, film archives, Gordon Stevens, historic, historic preservation, history, Kevin Wynn, Learning From Miami, Miami Dade College, Miami International Airport, Northeast 20th Street, Pan American Airways Building, U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, video, Wolfson Archives
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April 30th, 2013
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They didn't call W. L. Philbrick "the fighting funeral director" for nothing. Philbrick wasn't shy about letting people know what he thought and putting his thoughts into action. He complained about Miami-Dade County's government and tried to get the documentary film Woodstock banned from Coral Gables Read More...
Tags: 1966, 1976, Althea Merrick, architecture, building, Coral Gables, Coral Gables Merrick House, film, film archives, George Merrick, historic, historic preservation, historic sites, history, Kevin Wynn, Learning From Miami, Martha Teichner, Merrick family, Merrick House, Merrick Manor, Miami Dade College, tax exemption, video, W. L. Philbrick, W. L. Philbrick School of Funeral Sciences, Wolfson Archives
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April 30th, 2013
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Tourism is the mainstay of South Florida's economy, and that was as true half a century ago as it is now. In 1963, when WTVJ aired this footage of motels and motel rate signs on Biscayne Boulevard, "tourist season" still meant something: Miami was not yet the year-round snowbird destination we know today Read More...
Tags: 1963, architecture, Biscayne Boulevard, building, Cadillac, destination, film, film archives, historic, historic preservation, history, Kevin Wynn, Learning From Miami, Lorelea, Miami Dade College, MiMo, Motel Row, motels, Shalimar, Siesta, snowbird, South Florida, Tourism, tourist season, video, Wolfson Archives, WTVJ
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April 30th, 2013
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It's a can't-miss Collins Park landmark: The striking geometry of the Plymouth Hotel marks the building, designed by Anton Skislewicz and completed in 1940, as an Art Deco classic. Other Skislewicz designs on South Beach include the distinctive Kenmore Hotel on Washington Avenue and the iconic Breakwater Hotel on Ocean Drive Read More...
Tags: 1940, 1977, Anton Skislewicz, architecture, Art Deco, Bass Museum, Breakwater Hotel, building, Collins Park, film, film archives, GIs, historic, historic preservation, history, Kenmore Hotel, Kevin Wynn, Learning From Miami, Miami Beach Regional Library, Miami City Ballet, Miami Dade College, New World Symphony, Ocean Drive, Plymouth Hotel, restoration, South Beach, video, W Hotel, Washington Avenue, Wolfson Archives, World War II
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April 30th, 2013
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After a dizzying couple of decades as bicyclist, motorcyclist and aviation pioneer, Glenn Curtiss cashed out his stock in the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company and "retired" to Florida, where he started 18 corporations, served on a variety of local commissions, and donated land and water rights; of more immediate interest to LFM, Cutiss co-developed the city of Hialeah with James Bright, a cattleman from Missouri, and all but created the cities of Opa-locka and Miami Springs Read More...
Tags: 1970s, Arabian Nights, architecture, Aviation, aviation pioneer, Bernhardt E. Muller, building, film, film archives, Glenn Curtiss Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, Hialeah, historic, historic preservation, history, James Bright, Kevin Wynn, Learning From Miami, Miami Dade College, Miami Springs, Opa-locka, Opa-Locka Boulevard, Opa-locka City Hall, Pueblo style, Sharazad Boulevard, theme, video, Wolfson Archives
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April 30th, 2013
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Miami Dade College's South Campus, located at Southwest 112th Avenue and 104th Street, was designed to serve 10,000 students. Its location -- fairly remote and undeveloped in the mid-1960s -- was chosen to accommodate future population growth and highway construction, to grow with the surrounding area Read More...
Tags: academic core, architecture, building, campus, data management, film, film archives, historic, historic preservation, history, instructional technology, Kevin Wynn, landscaping, Learning From Miami, Miami Dade College, Miami Dade College South Campus, parking, parking space, South Campus, SW 104th Street, SW 112th Avenue, technology, trees, video, Wolfson Archives
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April 26th, 2013
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Seville's exuberant Giralda -- the bell tower of the city's cathedral, built atop a minaret in the sixteenth century -- has inspired many more recent structures. But beginning in the mid-1920s only Miami could boast three buildings with soaring Giralda-style towers: The Roney Plaza Hotel on Miami Beach, the Miami News Building (now known as Freedom Tower), and the Coral Gables Biltmore Read More...
Tags: 1926, 1968, architecture, bell tower, building, Carl Fisher, cathedral, CBS, Channel 4, Coral Gables Biltmore, demolition, development, Ed Goren, film, film archives, Florida, Freedom Tower, Giralda, historic, historic preservation, history, hotel, Jane Fisher, Kevin Wynn, Learning From Miami, Miami, Miami Beach, Miami Dade College, Miami News Building, Miami-Dade County, minaret, N.B.T. Roney, oceanfront, Pete Chase, Roney Plaza Hotel, Schultze and Weaver, Seville, sixteenth century, South Beach, towers, video, Wolfson Archives, WTVJ
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April 26th, 2013
Learning From Miami's survey of Miami's architectural history reveals several architectural styles that may be familiar, such as Mediterranean Revival, Art Deco and MiMo, also known as Miami Modern -- our region's tropically-spiced variety of the International Style. Looking through the historical record, we sometimes come across peculiar stylistic juxtapositions, as one style overtakes another in popularity Read More...
Tags: 1920s, 1954, 1959, addition, advertisement, architecture, building, Channel 4, Columbus Hotel, film, film archives, glass-enclosed restaurant, historic, historic preservation, history, International Style, Kevin Wynn, Learning From Miami, Mediterranean Revival, Miami, Miami Dade College, Miami Modern, Miami News, Miami-Dade County, MiMo, restaurant, Top O' the Columbus, video, Wolfson Archives, WTVJ
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April 25th, 2013
We almost headlined this clip "Dadeland Mall as You've Never Seen It Before!" But we thought better of it, as some long-timers out there will definitely remember Dadeland as this clip records it on its opening day, October 1, 1960 -- an open-air shopping plaza, offering sixty-two shops and services, with odd-looking animal sculptures scattered here and there Read More...
Tags: 1960, 1960s, architecture, building, Burdine's, CBS, Channel 4, Dadeland, Dadeland Mall, film, film archives, Florida, historic, historic preservation, history, Jordan Marsh, Kevin Wynn, Larry Birger, Learning From Miami, Miami, Miami Dade College, Miami News, Miami-Dade County, opening day, parking lot, sculptures, shoppers, shopping plaza, shops, traffic, video, Wolfson Archives, WTVJ
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