July 12th, 2013
http://youtu.be/eoBLbzAqmu4
Yesterday the Miami City Commission voted to give Friends of the Miami Marine Stadium control of the entire Stadium site, parking lots included, so that the non-profit organization can work up a plan to renovate, expand and re-open the grafitti-covered MiMo landmark.
Pop idol Gloria Estefan helped convince commissioners, speaking by way of a prerecorded video Read More...
Tags: 1960s, 1963, Andres Viglucci, architecture, Biscayne Bay, building, Channel 4, Commodore Ralph Munroe Marine Stadium, Die Fledermaus, film, film archives, Gloria Estefan, Goodyear Blimp, Hilario Candela, historic, historic preservation, history, Kevin Wynn, Key Biscayne, Learning From Miami, Miami, Miami Dade College, Miami Herald, Miami Marine Stadium, Miami Opera Guild, Miami-Dade County, MiMo, Robert King High, video, Wolfson Archives, WTVJ
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May 23rd, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWQMZGL7Rms
Dr. Martin Luther King stayed at Hampton House. He held press conferences there (the Wolfson Archives has film of them). He swam in the pool.
On the night in 1964 when Muhammad Ali won the heavyweight title from Sonny Liston, Ali, Malcolm X and NFL running back Jim Brown all stayed at the Hampton House Read More...
Tags: Althea Gibson, architecture, building, Cassius Clay, Dr. Martin Luther King, film, film archives, Florida Memory, Florida State Library and Archives, Hampton House, heavyweight title, historic, historic preservation, history, Jackie Robinson, Jackie Wilson, Jim Brown, Kevin Wynn, Learning From Miami, Malcolm X, Miami, Miami Dade College, Miami-Dade County, MiMo, motel, Muhammad Ali, promotional film, Ralph Metcalf, segregation, short film, Sonny Liston, The Torch of Friendship, Tourism, video, Wolfson Archives
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May 23rd, 2013
[caption id="attachment_556" align="alignleft" width="300"] The sun sets on One Herald Plaza. Photo: barefootmailman.org .[/caption]
The big building on Biscayne Bay housed a newspaper, an important one, and journalists worked there, so it's not surprising that the Herald's withdrawal from its downtown headquarters is better documented than most corporate relocations Read More...
Tags: 1961, architecture, building, demolition, Eric Barton, historic, historic preservation, history, Kevin Wynn, Learning From Miami, Miami, Miami Dade College, Miami Herald, Miami Herald Building, Miami Modern, Miami-Dade County, MiMo, WLRN
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May 9th, 2013
http://youtu.be/Nea6eIqIhRI
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
http://youtu.be/fU-6mwVI_ss
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 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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuFbCTmeiIw
Cristina Veiga writes about a shift in focus for the renovation of the Miami Beach Convention Center: Both teams bidding on the project will retain the historic auditorium, now known as The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater. The venue, originally known as the Miami Beach Municipal Auditorium and known best for its stint as the home of Jackie Gleason's hit CBS variety show in the 1960s, was slated for demolition in one of the competing redevelopment plans Read More...
Tags: 1960s, 1965, architecture, birthday party, building, CBS, Channel 4, Cristina Veiga, Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater, film, film archives, Florida, Fontainebleau Hotel, historic, historic preservation, history, Jackie Gleason, Jackie Gleason Show, Jimmy Durante, Kevin Wynn, Learning From Miami, Miami, Miami Beach, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach Municipal Auditorium, Miami Dade College, Miami Herald, Miami-Dade County, MiMo, postcard, video, Wolfson Archives, Wolfson Archives’ YouTube channel, WTVJ, YouTube
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