Miami Beach, FL
Our family moved to Miami Beach from Brooklyn, N.Y., for my grandmother’s health. It was 1943 and Dad was with the Navy in the Pacific, so it was Mom, Aunt Rose, sister Bonnie, Grandma and me.
We settled in a one-bedroom, one-bath apartment on Third Street and Jefferson. Our apartment was close...
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Miami Beach, FL
In the 1950s, while I was still a young child, my family moved to Miami Beach from Woodbine, N.J.
When we arrived in Florida, our household was an...
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Miami, FL
It was 1941. I was born at St. Francis Hospital on Miami Beach. My parents had met on the 14th Street beach a few years before.
This story is actually...
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Coral Gables, FL
I was born 70 years ago at Jackson Memorial Hospital. My father had done his surgical training there in the late 1930s, following his mother’s move to...
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Opa-Locka, FL
I was born during a knee-high snowstorm on Feb. 20, 1921 in Pittsburgh. The Bureau of Vital Statistics misread the doctor’s crossed t as two t’s, so...
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Miami, FL
I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1932. I had a wonderful time growing up in Cincinnati, playing outside, flying model airplanes and kites, playing baseball...
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Hialeah, FL
They call Miami “the Magic City,” which is fitting, because it’s always able to reinvent itself.
I was born in Hialeah Hospital in 1981. History...
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Miami Beach, FL
It was February 1964 and Chicago was really cold – a blustery, painful type of cold.
I vividly remember standing on the corner of East Superior Street...
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Coconut Grove, FL
Back during the mid-1950s, my parents migrated from rural Georgia, with five young kids in tow. Seeking a better life with more opportunity for their children...
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Miami Springs, FL
Growing up in Miami Springs during the 1940s was a sunny and happy experience if one was young enough to avoid the anxiety and trauma of World War II....
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