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2009 Google Earth / Charles D. Carter

2009 - a Google Earth image showing all the former Army missile sites in Dade County starting in 1962

Dade County, Florida


Thank you to Charles D. Carter, who was stationed at the original Nike Hercules missile launch site (east of Red Road) in Carol City, for contributing this image showing where all the missiles batteries were starting in November 1962. Charles has a very informative website on South Florida's missile sites at:
http://www.Nike252.org and he can be contacted at NikeHistorian@Nike252.org


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Guest 05-Nov-2011 09:23
It was Burt's Bait & Tackle, 20264 Old Cutler Rd., Cutler Ridge FL. I'm not if it's still there or not...maybe someone will know..
Guest 05-Nov-2011 08:53
I remember that Hawk Missile site there on 87th Avenue in Cutler Ridge, just south of Old Cutler Road. Back then 87th Avenue was a dirt road. Mt. Trashmore wasn't built 'til many years later. All there was down there was Black Point, where all the shrimp boats docked. There was a bar and some kind of an old crane or hoist for lifting boats, and I think there might have been an A & W Root Beer next door to the bar. There were probably a half-dozen or more old dilapidated boats laying around the area that had been wrecked beyond repair by hurricanes and just left there to rot. Further down from the dock, toward where the channel led out to the bay, there was another, smaller bar; it was in an old trailer. I sure wish I had pictures of all that, 'cause the memories of it get a bit "fuzzier" with each passing year. Back then Black Point was totally different than it is today. But that's how it was down there back in the mid through late 1960's and early 1970's, long before the county took it over and everything down there went commercial. I liked it better in the old days. We used to ride down there in our '54 Bel Air to fish. We'd always take an ice chest, with beer for Dad and Mtn Dew for me. On our way we'd stop on Old Cutler Rd. and buy live shrimp. I think the store was called Bert's Bait & Tackle. It was there on Old Cutler for YEARS.