I am 57 and I too, remember the train at Crandon Park....I grew up in West Palm and always loved going to MiamE as a child...I still love MiamE today...I proudly displayed a "Miami's for Me" bumper sticker in the 1980's when people wrote the city off...The sticker's colors were pink and chartruese...bright and garish as MiamE should be...
Probably Miami (and Coral Gables) at its peak, quality of life wise. Look at the wide open spaces, light traffic, & civility. All fantastically long gone, never to return, only to be seen in movies like this.
My mom, a Caucasian originally from Kentucky, lived in Miami in the 1940s and "my-AM-mee" was always how she pronounced it, and how I learned to pronounce it when I was growing up. She hated it when people used the "uh" on the end!
@alexyomero76 "Miam-uhh" and "Miami-ahh" pronounciations were common by African Americans and Caucasian whites living in Miami pre 1980. It also was and still is indicative of heavy Southern drawl accents, usually people from the Deep South...who still refer to it still today as "Miami-uhh". People from the Northeast generally used Miam-ee. However the influx of Cubans post 1980 and their speech patterns and accents actually molded the current dominant pronouncing of it as Miami-ee...
@StoneCold75 COOL! Thanks for that complete information. Actually I was raised in Southern California , early 60's and I remember everyone calling it Miam-ee.. Actually I remember my favorite show at the time Flipper and that is the way they called it on the show Right?
What a fabulous video of Coral Gables past. See the original Parrot Jungle, U of M , Crandon Park with the train, fabulous old cars and Miracle Mile & fashions of the past. Coral Gables our "Heart's Desire" and a fabulous place to live, to work and to play! Pat Parker, Coral Gables August, 2011
Ad time must have been cheap in the 50's.
ejdf870 2 weeks ago
I am 57 and I too, remember the train at Crandon Park....I grew up in West Palm and always loved going to MiamE as a child...I still love MiamE today...I proudly displayed a "Miami's for Me" bumper sticker in the 1980's when people wrote the city off...The sticker's colors were pink and chartruese...bright and garish as MiamE should be...
imsixftsix 4 months ago
Probably Miami (and Coral Gables) at its peak, quality of life wise. Look at the wide open spaces, light traffic, & civility. All fantastically long gone, never to return, only to be seen in movies like this.
kolbpilot 8 months ago
My mom, a Caucasian originally from Kentucky, lived in Miami in the 1940s and "my-AM-mee" was always how she pronounced it, and how I learned to pronounce it when I was growing up. She hated it when people used the "uh" on the end!
knlhamo 9 months ago
Can anyone tell me why he says "Miamiuhh" ??????????
alexyomero76 11 months ago
@alexyomero76 "Miam-uhh" and "Miami-ahh" pronounciations were common by African Americans and Caucasian whites living in Miami pre 1980. It also was and still is indicative of heavy Southern drawl accents, usually people from the Deep South...who still refer to it still today as "Miami-uhh". People from the Northeast generally used Miam-ee. However the influx of Cubans post 1980 and their speech patterns and accents actually molded the current dominant pronouncing of it as Miami-ee...
StoneCold75 10 months ago
@StoneCold75 COOL! Thanks for that complete information. Actually I was raised in Southern California , early 60's and I remember everyone calling it Miam-ee.. Actually I remember my favorite show at the time Flipper and that is the way they called it on the show Right?
alexyomero76 10 months ago
The car featured is a 1949 not a 1950. Small difference but just the same it's not the 1950.
flourburger 1 year ago
I never heard someone said "Miami-uhh" before. I'm used to people saying "Miamiee". After watching this, I find myself saying "Miami-uhh" now!! ;-)
aussie13girl5 1 year ago
Too funny! Most of the video was not in Coral Gables...lol...very interesting though. Miami at it's finest!
slowhand3333 1 year ago
What a fabulous video of Coral Gables past. See the original Parrot Jungle, U of M , Crandon Park with the train, fabulous old cars and Miracle Mile & fashions of the past. Coral Gables our "Heart's Desire" and a fabulous place to live, to work and to play! Pat Parker, Coral Gables August, 2011
PatKlockParker 1 year ago
Oh my Lord, what memories this evokes, especially the train at Crandon
Musclevideofreak 1 year ago
oh wow...the train at the zoo. I remember that!
palito32 1 year ago
Miam-uh!
GablesFoundation 1 year ago
Did he say "giving the visitor the bird" at 2:04? I guess we do that a different way today...
stratorat79 1 year ago
@stratorat79 I noticed that statement! I thought it either meant something else back then or that it was a risqué thing to say during that period.
thebakerman1 1 year ago