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1971 - Looking south on NW 67 Avenue (Ludlam Road) into Miami Lakes from just south of the Palmetto Expressway

Just north of Miami Lakes, Florida


Part of a large stone sign stating "Miami Lakes" is visible on the right side. The Miami Lakes Riding Academy was about 1/4 miles down the road on the left side where folks could board their horses or rent horses by the hour for riding.

Despite the large Miami Lakes sign, and the fact that their legal property description did not have "Miami Lakes Section" in it, probably 95% of people who moved into developments north of the Palmetto Expressway and east of Palm Springs North in the mid-80's and after somehow thought they lived in Miami Lakes too. This is something akin to people in Kendall claiming they live in Coral Gables.


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Ray25-Apr-2008 01:34
Lots of TV reporters are in need of a map. So many times they say "West Miami" when they mean "West Dade" (OK, West Miami Dade) or "South Miami" when they mean "South Miami Dade". If any news actually DID happen in the real West Miami, that WOULD be news.
Carol 21-Jan-2008 02:22
January 1973 The Dolphins had a perfect season, George Foreman won the heavy weight Championship of the World and I met my ex-husband at the Castaways Motel during winter break from college. My current boyfriend said he was an owner at some point of the Wreck Bar. I doubt that is true. There are a lot of memories. Carol
Don Boyd19-Nov-2007 04:09
Again you're right Diane. The local TV stations have misidentified numerous areas north of Miami Lakes as being in Miami Lakes so many times it's ridiculous, along with the Miami Herald. It's really great publicity for the development's and town's name when they are reporting hit and runs, rapes, armed robberies, shootings, etc. and it's not in Miami Lakes. The town government needs to send maps out to the media showing where Miami Lakes is and where it isn't. Don
Diane 19-Nov-2007 00:39
The media and the businesses in the area, among others, are part of the problem. A few years ago, I was in a store that is on Miami Gardens Drive, in the area between Carol City and the Country Club; those of us who grew up in the area consider it Carol City. I asked why it was so expensive and the store clerk smugly told me that it was because "this is Miami Lakes". Please.

A few months ago, a Channel 10 news anchor in front of Carol City's Lake Stevens Elementary signed off by saying, "[so-and-so], Channel 10 news in Miami Lakes". I emailed the station and the mayor of Miami Lakes who contacted them to rectify the error.
Don Boyd18-Nov-2007 06:42
You're correct, Diane, and I clarified my statement. It's the folks who moved north of the Palmetto, and east of Palm Springs North, in the 80's and afterwards who think and say they live in Miami Lakes. This idiocy continues to this day, all the way up to the Dade-Broward line and west to I-75.
Diane 18-Nov-2007 06:13
It's so cool to see these pictures on this site. I do take exception to your comments on this particular photo, however. When we moved to the area in 1971, there were only two developments north of the Palmetto - PSN and the Country Club. There was only one elementary school and because of this and the fact that we were in such an isolated area, everyone knew everyone else. Nobody, but nobody in this area ever "thought they lived in Miami Lakes". If you're talking about later on in the 90s or even today, you might be right. It simply wasn't the case at the time that these photos are alleged to have been taken.

At any rate, it was a very nice area in which to grow up. The very fact that we were so isolated, made for a warmer, friendlier and more familiar atmosphere. Many of the people that grew up in the area and are no longer there are still in contact today.
Jeanne 29-Jun-2007 17:25
My grandfather helped to build the Palmetto Expressway...that was a real growing spurt for Miami. Alas, it was also the end of the easy going time I remember as a kid.