That Calle Ocho is enjoying an unparalleled renaissance—with much more to come—is a given. And its most enduring element, the magnificent Tower Theater, whose origins...
Category - Miami History
Cultural ambassador and Miami tour guide Anneliese Morales continues to share her passion with both locals and tourists daily by connecting people to the neighborhood...
Now we come to Shenandoah as we close out this historic overview, in four installments, of Little Havana. “Shenandoah” is the name applied to the old Miami neighborhood...
Two Early East Little Havana Neighborhoods South of Today’s Calle Ocho In previous installments of this column, we learned that part of today’s Little Havana lying north...
Early Riverside took a great leap forward in the 1920s amid Greater Miami’s real estate boom, which transformed a frontier town into an emerging metropolitan area. In...
Before there was a Little Havana there was a Riverside. In fact, my first eight years on the planet were spent in an apartment at 1235 S.W. 4th Street, north of Calle...