Versailles Restaurant has been the epicenter of the Cuban exile community in South Florida for 50 years, but on a personal level it was also a very significant place for my late husband’s career as a sculptor. His name was Marc Andries Smit and his first commercial piece was purchased by Mr. Felipe Valls, Sr. […]
Jose Sagarribay
Some of my most valued memories as a child is that, as a family, we would go and visit to have lunch at Versailles after church on Sundays. I was always dazzled by the mirrors and obviously the great food. Boliche being my favorite. To this day, I am of the opinion that they serve […]
Erin Cullen Valdes
When Versailles Restaurant opened in 1971, I was ten years old. As an American who was born and raised in Miami, I had never experienced Cuban cuisine. I will never forget the day my father came home from work and said we were going out to dinner at a Cuban restaurant that had just opened. […]
Daniel Pedreira
While I have many memories of visits to Versailles, one of them particularly stands out. In the Spring of 2002, I was a Senior at Coral Gables Senior High School, and my high school prom was celebrated on a Saturday evening in April. The prom itself took place at the Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach. […]
Belinda Leon
Versailles was a place that our parents or grandparents would frequent- not us. They would have a cafecito or something light to eat. As we got older, it was the place to hit at 3 AM after the clubs because you were ravenous and spent and needed something to hit the spot. And then when […]
Vicki Folds
From 1964 until 1984 Toby the Robot was the lovable character on Channel 7’s kid shows and a household name among tens of thousands of South Florida children and families. Toby first appeared on Superheroes with Charlie Baxter as host. Then, as sidekick to Charlie Baxter on Charlie Reads the Comics (Miami Herald comics). After […]
Margarita Falagan
It will be sixty years next November since the PanAm flight that would change our lives forever. They served us tiny ham and cheese sandwiches with the iconic blue PanAm logo that tasted of the future. We moved in with my aunt and uncle and their children into a three-bedroom house on the corner of […]
Timothy Williams
Dodge Island in the 1950s was very much like living on the frontier. We got there by boat and had no neighbors and few visitors. We had no phone service or TV; in fact, we had no electricity at all except a generator that worked for short time when we brought gas from Texaco near […]
Pamela Palma
This story was collected as a part of the 2020 Collecting Initiative Making Lemonade from Covid Lemons with Textile Art By Pamela Palma When Covid hit in March of 2020, I was full throttle into organizing a community project, a monumental textile mural to honor Julia Tuttle, the Mother of Miami, for the 125th anniversary […]
Barbara Fox
Viewpoints on 2020 By Barbara Fox INTRODUCTION 2020 was quite a year; life changed almost overnight because of the pandemic. The newspapers and television were reporting horrifying stories and statistics about a deadly disease that spread in the air. Thousands of people were dying and hospitals were filled to capacity and more. People started […]
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