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This article is by: Gabriela Enamorado and Angela Abdala - November 3, 2020
As a result of the Challenger tragedy, memorials were built across the United States. The grandest and most celebrated was designed by famed Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi, who died a few weeks before the memorial was officially unveiled on December 30, 1988, without seeing his work completed. The double helix-shaped steel and granite sculpture firmly stands in the southwest corner of Bayfront Park in Miami.
Led by famed newscaster Ralph Renick, Miamians joined perpetual maintenance to create the memorial in honor of the seven crew members, including Christa McAuliffe, a high school teacher from Concord, New Hampshire who had been chosen from more than 11,000 applicants to be the first civilian in space.
Why a memorial in Miami? As local historian Professor Paul George said, “A city in Florida needed to do a beautiful, serious memorial to that tragedy in January 1986 because we’re the state that kind of birthed the whole space thing in the United States and beyond. And that’s exactly why Renick thought it would be important to pay tribute to those lives we lost.”
The memorial was funded by donations from Miami-Dade schoolchildren and their families, and the trust fund of Lamar Louise Curry, a social studies Miami Senior High School teacher who made many contributions to Miami. Besides being an only child and never getting married, Lamar inherited from her father a lot of real estate in the Florida Keys and in Miami. She had a lot of love for Miami and its people.
As Paul George said, “she had the time and the desire to help the community and so she had to be one of the moving forces for the idea”. And that’s exactly what she did.
Lamar’s fund along with the donations covers the expenses of the white granite monument that stands at 100 feet, its grassy green garden with several flowers surrounding it, and a stone triangle that lies in front of the sculpture that bears the last names of the victims and a poem dedicated to them.
Although the work of art was built with great precision and dedication, and cost $250,000, (about $790,000 in 2020), skateboarders in Miami have not given it the respect it deserves.
“It was a place where skateboarders liked to skateboard,” said Timothy Schmand, former Executive Director at Bayfront Park Management Trust. “So they would come off the monument and then hit that triangle with their skateboard.”
To this day, the sculpture requires repainting every four to five years. The garden surrounding it needs perpetual maintenance.
Almost three and a half decades after the tragedy, Bayfront Park continues to display a wonderful piece of art in honor of the seven crew members who perished in the accident.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
sfmn.fiu.edu/downtown-miamis-challenger-memorial-the-memo...
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Dade City has a relatively new Kmart with a miniature Sears attached to it.
US 98/301 South, Dade City.
The Colony Hotel, at 736 Ocean Drive, was designed by Henry Hohauser and opened in 1935. One of the most photographed Art Deco hotels along South Beach, the façade of the Colony Hotel is synonymous with the Art Deco roots and influences of Ocean Drive architecture of the 1930’s. The Hotel has been renovated and remodeled extensively over the years without compromising the integrity of the original building.
Hohauser's design--one of his first--features banded teal stripes that separate three floors of large glass windows. The center of the hotel boasts baby blue and navy blue detailing that frame the hotel's large black-on-lilac neon sign, which emphasizes the vertical dimension, even though this is only a three-story hotel. Verticality and horizontality are at odds since the sign is countered by joined ribbon windows on the side bays and continuous eyebrows, both dividing the facade into clear horizontal registers. Neon accents mark the hotel as a nighttime sight.
The Miami Beach Architectural District, also known as Old Miami Beach Historic District, or the more common, Miami Beach Art Deco District, is roughly bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, Alton Road and Collins Canal/Dade Boulevard and 5th Street. With 960 vibrantly colored historic buildings, it contains the largest concentration of 1920s and 1930s resort architecture in the United States.
Miami Beach Architectural District #79000667 (1979)
For many years, the Miami-Dade County Courthouse, at an elevation of 360 feet, was reputed to be the tallest building south of Baltimore.
It was the County's first high-rise and is in the National Register of Historic Places. Efforts to refurbish this magnificent structure and restore it to its original grandeur have been underway since 1981 by Architect James W. Piersol, AIA of M.C Harry Associates Architects of Miami.
The restoration and renovations initially stabilized the terra cotta facade and installed new life safety systems. In 1982, the idea of restoring the lobby to its original distinction was the passion of both Architect James Piersol and engineer Don Youatt, of the Miami-Dade Planning and Development Department. With a little less than half of the funding necessary for the lobby restoration project in hand ($300,000 grant approved by the Legislature in 1996), the Dade County Bar Association acted as the fund-raising umbrella and initiate a drive to raise the remainder needed from lawyers and the general public. A few years later, the same team restored Courtroom 6-1, which had been the site of many infamous trials over the years.
Today, the Miami-Dade County Courthouse provides offices, chambers, and courtrooms for the clerks and judiciary assigned to both the Circuit and County Civil Court and the Family Court.
When county government was established following the Civil War, public records were so sparse they could be carried in a carpetbag and most probably were. Therefore, the "courthouse" was wherever the county's chief office holder decided to do business.
In 1890, Dade County's first courthouse stood in the town of Juno, Florida some ten miles north of West Palm Beach. At that time, Dade County covered more territory than it does today, stretching from Bahia Honda Key, in the middle Keys, up to the St. Lucie River, near present-day Port St. Lucie.
Juno was chosen as the "county seat" because of its strategic location at the southern terminus of the Jupiter-Juno railroad. Juno also held the northern terminus of the boat and connecting the stagecoach line to Miami. The courthouse remained in Juno (now no longer in existence) until 1899 when it was moved to Miami down the inland waterway on a barge and was placed on the banks of the Miami River, east of the old Miami Avenue bridge.
The building was two-story wooden frame construction, housing offices and jail cells on the ground floor and a courtroom on the second floor. It has a Neoclassical design, in 1904 this building was replaced by a new courthouse building situated on Flagler Street (then known as Twelfth Street). It was a magnificent building constructed of limestone, having an elegant red-domed top, at the cost of $47,000. It was anticipated that this courthouse would serve the city for at least fifty years; however, no one was prepared for the rapid growth Miami experienced during this period, and by 1924, only twenty years later, there was serious talk of the need for a larger courthouse.
In the early 1920s, architect A. Ten Eyck Brown entered a design competition for Atlanta City Hall, which was rejected. He then made the plans available to Dade County, and City and County officials readily approved them. It was decided by the officials to build the new courthouse at the same location as the existing one on Flagler Street. Construction began in 1925, with workers erecting the new building around the existing structure, which was then dismantled. Community leaders and citizens alike voiced excitement over the new 28 stories "skyscraper" that would soon dominate the skyline.
Unexpectedly, construction was halted when the building reached ten stories. It was discovered that the "high-rise" was sinking into the spongy ground. Engineers consulted with an architect from Mexico City, who had encountered a similar problem while building the city's opera house. The consultant determined that the foundation pilings were not set deep enough. To correct the problem, cement supports were poured, which take up much of the space in the building's basement file room even to this day.
The courthouse was finally completed in 1928 at the cost of $4 million (USD 2013 $54.5 million). Initially, it served as both the Dade County Courthouse and the Miami City Hall. Jail cells occupied the top nine floors because these heights offered "maximum security" and were considered escape-proof. In 1934, a prisoner housed on the twenty-first floor picked the lock of his jail cell window and used a fire hose to lower himself to freedom. In the years following, more than 70 prisoners escaped from this so-called "secure" prison.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami-Dade_County_Courthouse
www.emporis.com/buildings/122294/miami-dade-county-courth...
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The historical Freedom Tower building in Miami, Florida was designed by Schultze and Weaver. It is currently being used as a contemporary art museum and a central office to different disciplines in the arts associated with Miami Dade College.
The octagonal tower of the building, featuring Spanish Plateresque detail, was inspired by the Cathedral Tower at Sevilla Cathedral in Seville, Spain.
The Freedom Tower was originally constructed as the headquarters for the Miami Daily News.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the year 1979.
Freedom Tower was made into the reception center for Cuban refugees from 1962 until 1974.
The Freedom Tower was renovated in May, 2002 to become a museum honoring the Cuban Americans that imgrated to the USA from Cuba fleeing communism.
This was one of the last creatures we saw before leaving Fairchild TBG and heading to the airport for our homeward journey. This image is of a breeding male and female. It's yet another non-native reptile [native to Africa] that has escaped into the wild and is thriving in Florida. This is the West African subspecies. It is unclear if it adversely affects the native fauna - one hopes not as it is certainly a colourful addition to the State! Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA. 2013-05-31. N.B. Other pics in comments of a male.
Miami Beach, FL (Miami-Dade County)
South Beach, also nicknamed SoBe, is a neighborhood in the city of Miami Beach, Florida, United States, located due east of Miami city proper between Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. The area encompasses Miami Beach south of Dade Boulevard.
This area was the first section of Miami Beach to be developed, starting in the 1910s, due to the development efforts of Carl G. Fisher, the Lummus Brothers, and John S. Collins, the latter of whose construction of the Collins Bridge provided the first vital land link between mainland Miami and the beaches.
The area has gone through numerous artificial and natural changes over the years, including a booming regional economy, increased tourism, and the 1926 hurricane, which destroyed much of the area. As of 2010, 39,186 people lived in South Beach. (1)
References (1) Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Beach
The reenactor portraying Major Dade, for which the Dade Battle is known, leads a column of infantry into an ambush. The Second Seminole War started on December 28,1835, as a column of 107 soldiers led by Major Dade was ambushed by Seminole Indian warriors at the Dade Battle in Sumter County, Florida, USA. The Seminole Indians were resisting removal to a reservation. '06 Dade Battle Reenactment at The Dade Battlefield Historic State Park in Bushnell, Florida.
Name: MIAMI DADE TRANSIT
Manufacturer: NORTH AMERICAN BUS INDUSTRIES (NABI)
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Model: 2009 40LFW HEV (DIESEL/ELECTRIC HYBRID)
Number: 09112
Route: 150
Destination Sign: MIAMI BEACH/AIRPORT FLYER
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Numbered: 09101-09113
Motor: CUMMINS ISL
Transmision: ALLISON E40 HYBRID SYSTEM
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Place: N.W. 25th St & 38th Ct. MIAMI FLORIDA
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Photo by: Trevor Logan Jr