“I find something new, and I learn something new every day.”
The past year has been very exciting, as not only have two good-sized packages of original photographs of and from the terrible September 17th and 18th 1926 Miami hurricane arrived here at The Bramson Archive, but, and in addition, several incredible pieces relating to the Centennial histories of cities which I am currently working on.
In addition to a stunning glossy photograph taken in 1925 of the original Miami Springs bank, the first and only postcard which I have ever seen of the “Hotel Country Club, Country Club Estates” (today’s Miami Springs) with “Country Club Estates, Fla. Feb. 23, 1929” as the cancellation has turned up. Along with that, another postcard has arrived with the Country Club Estates wording but showing it as “Hialeah, Fla.,” which, of course, it wasn’t. Along with those a beautiful Curtiss Aerocar advertising piece from a shoe manufacturer has come in showing their Aerocar (Glenn Curtiss invented and manufactured the Aerocar in Opa Locka and Coral Gables) which they used to both deliver and show their various footwear. Finally, an original 8 x 10” photo from the Miami Herald, this of the architect’s rendering of the North Shore Jewish Center (now Temple Menorah) on Miami Beach, complete with the Herald story from the paper, glued to the back of the photo.
Image Caption: A waiter is taking a lunch order on the dining room terrace facing the pool at the Sherry Frontenac Hotel on Collins Avenue.
Submitted by: Seth Bramson, The Bramson Archive
