1930 to 1939 Miami Area Historical Photos Gallery - click on image to view Photo Gallery by Don Boyd at pbase.com

1930 to 1939 Miami Area Historical Photos Gallery - click on image to view

Most of these photos are from the Florida State Archives but some are from contributors whose names are mentioned under the photos. Please also visit the "Downtown" Gallery for more images from this time period: < https://pbase.com/donboyd/memories_downtown

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Hopefully you will enjoy seeing the many old images on this page and in the many other historical photo galleries on this website. Perhaps the images and comments have brought back many fond memories of good times for you in the past and have helped you jog your memory of places and people you may have forgotten.

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1930 - Dade County Agricultural High School, N. W. 2nd Avenue, Miami	1930 - Aerial of downtown Miami and the mouth of the Miami River	1930 - Aerial of downtown Miami, looking south	1930 - Aerial of downtown Miami, looking west	1930 - Aerial of downtown Miami, looking northwest
1930 - Aerial of downtown Miami, looking north	1930 - Aerial of downtown Miami, looking east-northeast	1930 - The Roney Plaza Hotel on Miami Beach	1930 - The Goodyear Blimp Defender at Miami Municipal Airport	1930 - Miami Senior High School
1930 - Robert E. Lee Junior High School in Miami	1930s - Miami Beach bathing beauty	1930 - a home at 3146 Prairie Avenue, Miami Beach	1930 - a home on Miami Beach, address unknown	1930 - St. Patrick's Catholic Church on Miami Beach
Prior to 1931 - Florida East Coast Railway steam locomotive engine 124	1931 - Derby Day at Hialeah Park, "Saratoga of the South"	1933 - Lincoln Road on Miami Beach	1933 - All American Air Races at Miami Municipal Airport	1934 - President Roosevelt's motorcade on Biscayne Bouelvard in Miami
1934 - the Goodyear Blimp on Watson Island with the County Causeway and Port of Miami in the background	1934 - looking north on NE 2nd Avenue at 79th Street in Little River with the Rosetta Theatre on the right side	1935 - the boys dormitory under construction at the Kendall Home for Children (aka Dade County Children's Home)	1935 - the boys dormitory after completion at the Kendall Home for Children (aka Dade County Children's Home)	1935 - Cecil Curry's parents home on N. E. 66th Street
1930s - Seminole Indian hunters at the Musa Isle Indian Village	1930s - Biltmore Hotel and fountain in Coral Gables	1930's - the downtown Miami skyline from Biscayne Bay	1930's - The Coliseum in Coral Gables when Douglas Road had trees next to it	1930s - Fowey Rocks Lighthouse Keeper Hamilton "Hamp" Sharpe Perry
1930s - Fowey Rocks Lighthouse Keeper Hamilton "Hamp" Sharpe Perry and his wife Carrie Bell Conley Perry	News article about Hamilton "Hamp" Sharpe Perry, lighthouse keeper of Fowey Rocks Light from the 1920s until early 1940s	1930's - Fowey Rocks Lighthouse where Hamilton "Hamp" Sharpe Perry served as lighthouse keeper	1930's - Fowey Rocks Lighthouse Keeper Hamilton "Hamp" Sharpe Perry polishing the Fowey Rocks Light Fresnel Lens	The Fresnel lens from Fowey Rocks Light where Hamilton "Hamp" Sharpe Perry served as lighthouse keeper
1930's - Washington Avenue looking north from Biscayne Street	1930s? - North Miami Trailer Park with North Dade Aviation Station across the street (bottom)	1930s? - Villa Augusta on NE 14th Street, Miami	1930's - an early automobile at Arch Creek in northern Dade County	1930's - the mouth of Miami River
1936 - Burl Grey's younger brother in front of his dad's 1931 Graham car, 2123 NW 44 Street, Miami	1936 - aerial view of Miami and Miami Senior High School	1936 - map of Greater Miami, Miami Beach and Biscayne Bay	1938 - some of Miami's finest gents and ladies toasting at the Calvert Club in Stiltsville	1938 - Frank McCall's home, kidnapper of baby "Skeegie" Cash, back when we had pine trees all over
Late 1930's - a Standard Wholesale Grocery Company truck from Miami on the Tamiami Trail (see text below)	Late 1930's - aerial view of Miami Beach with the Miami Beach dog track in foreground	Late 1930's - Port of Miami and downtown Miami	1939 - Breakwater Hotel on South Beach	1939 - the Perrine Liquor Store, operating out of an old trolley car
1939 - Howard Johnson's Restaurant on Biscayne Boulevard

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lawrence barbara		06-Oct-2023 19:42
i grew up living in the house located at 222 77th street in miami beach. if anyone has any information about this property, i would appreciate having it. thank you

John Austin Chambliss		03-Nov-2013 17:24
I meant to ask if you have photo's or anyone reading has. Someone may want to share. I mentioned that Ed came up stairs from underground in the Florida City site and the researcher mentioned that he had never hears of Ed living underground. I remember vividly as I was only 5 or 6 years old and never seen a person that lived underground. I remember that the stairs were to my left as we entered each time we visited

John Austin Chambliss		03-Nov-2013 17:20
I lived in Homestead from 1933 to 1940. My cousin, Leon Chambliss, was the go to person for photography, radio, television, boat building, etc. He made many photos. I mentioned on the Coral Castle web site that our family visited with Ed often & a person from Australia emailed me to see if I had photos as he was researching and many would benefit. We were very poor and I have only a few photos of the Keys. A relative Jim Anstis of WPB gave Leons's photos to a sister.

Denise		24-Dec-2012 07:35
I was in the middle of a story...is this an appropriate place to do such?...when something went wrong and lost everything. About the Little River neighborhood already going down in the late 1970's when I arrived. I can tell a portion of the 79th St Hotel remains today but I do not know what it was called when it was built possibly in the 1930's? The Sheffman's owned it back then. I can remember my customers that came in daily and what they drank, glasses they preferred, how they sat when I was a bartender at The Little Riviera then owner by George Stidham, a former jockey who lived in Miami Springs and would sometimes drive in and park his white Silver Cloud Rolls Royce outside. Every Kentucky Derby Day he always had a big party...As for the hotel, it was my understanding that the 3rd floor where I resided used to be a ballroom. There were stairs that were tiled that led from the street but even back in the 70s, there were wrought iron gates chained and padlocked. There was also a bar called The Track and Shore and an Italian guy owned it and I was not much in there as it seemed I worked all the time at night, I'd hear the word 'bookie' thrown around once in a while. At The Little Riviera Lila and Bonnie were the two day shift bartenders. Lila's husband stayed around for most of her shift as he didn't trust the neighborhood. I understood. She kept her hair dyed black, wore fake lashes and had beautiful blue eyes and though I never saw her hair down, I supposed it was rather long. I remember going in to relieve her one hot August day and she was crying. I asked her what was wrong. "Elvis died today." Silly me is shedding tears as I write this as now, I still have his "Aloha From Hawaii" album but at the age of 18, I thought he was 'old' so I wasn't affected as Lila was. Now, as I've had the opportunity to see so many videos of him on YouTube..ah..the internet can be so wonderful and so evil at the same time...Now that I know more of him, the shock to hear that he thought nobody would remember him, I shed tears now as I just had a birthday and am now 56. Many of my regulars were of that age and many much older, Perhaps you can tell me if I should leave more stories elsewhere? It would be amazing if someone is still alive and remember, those that were a bit younger. My former boyfriend who was 35 just turned 70 back in June. And when I saw your name, I about bust a gut as my first husband's name is Don Boyd! Life is funny...

Don Boyd		14-Sep-2012 12:53
Will, possibly in the backlog of photos yet to scan and if so I will add it to the site. Mike, I know I don't have any in the backlog but perhaps someday someone will send me some and I'll upload them. Don .

Will		14-Sep-2012 03:30
Great site! Any photos of the Oleander Hotel on 260 Euclid Avenue circa 1937?

mike		12-Aug-2012 13:11
looking for old stiltsville photos mike

Alice Harp		12-Jan-2012 18:20
I think Hanilton (Hamp) Perry was my Grandmother's brother. My Grandmother was Lillie M. Perry and married John Bryan Franklin. Then later married John Besant.

Alice Harp		12-Jan-2012 18:19
I think Hanilton (Hamp) Perry was my Grandmother's brother. My Grandmother was Lillie M. Perry and married John Bryan Franklin. Then later married John Besant.

Don Boyd		27-Oct-2011 01:49
Some NORTH MIAMI history: Originally the town of "Arch Creek", the area was incorporated as the "Town of Miami Shores", which was renamed the "Town of North Miami" in 1931. Then in 1953, the town was renamed the "City of North Miami." Seven miles (11 km) of Atlantic Oceanfront beach land property from the Broward County line southward to Surfside were removed from the town limits as a result of a 1931 Florida Supreme Court decision. The 1926 hurricane ended plans for a causeway to deliver municipal services to that area of town. With no services being received, the beach area instituted a lengthy court lawsuit to separate and form their own community. The wealthy Shoreland Company, located to the south of the Town, lobbied the 1931 Florida Legislature to officially grant their huge development the name "Village of Miami Shores". The Legislature did so. It also passed an official act abolishing "Town of Miami Shores" as a name. The next step was for the local population to choose a new name. The municipality was renamed The Town of North Miami. During the Depression years, in 1933, Mrs. Cecille Sevier and Mrs. Ella S. Klefeker became the first two women elected to the Town Council. The 1940s census stated that 1,973 inhabitants lived in the "Town of North Miami". At the end of World War II in 1945, the large and constant influx of former military veterans and their young families changed the face of North Miami by ushering in a great growth period. Homebuilding, road building, shops, stores, and office business construction now continued for decades almost without stopping. By 1951 it was reported nationally that North Miami was one of the fastest growing towns in the United States. During this time, the growing community needed a high school, so in 1951 construction started for North Miami High School. In August 1954, North Miami High School opened its doors for the children of the growing community. Partially to meet this challenge of fast growth, the voters of North Miami in 1952 voted to adopt a new charter and a new name. The new charter, enacted as an official statute of the Florida Legislature on May 27, 1953 provided for the establishment of a full-time administrative head (City Manager form of government) to carry out the policies of the elected Mayor/Council. The new and present name officially introduced on this date - the City of North Miami

mARVIN mOBLEY		28-Feb-2011 17:37
Today is Feb. 28, 2011. I was born in a small frame home on NE 2nd ave in 1933. Grew up in Allapattah, but attended Miami Jackson, Coconut Grove Jr High, Miami Tech but finished school in a country school in Alva, 12 miles east of Ft. Myers......Spent my summers and Christmas vacations on Cape Fla, with Mr. Paul Pent, caretaker for the James Deering estate.....Lots more to say, it'll have to wait, got places to go today...........MARVIN L MOBLEY...........AKA MLM

Roberta Perry Hughes		21-Dec-2007 22:12
Don...Just a P.S., here, re: Fowey Rocks Light. Families did not live, in the Light, with the Keep. Only the Keep, & the Assistants, lived there, & were out there for weeks, even months, at a time. Their families lived on the Mainland, in Miami. My grandparents had 4 school age children, when he first went to work at Fowey Rocks, & a toddler or two. They had a total of 9 children, in all, of which my father was the eldest.

Roberta Perry Hughes		21-Dec-2007 21:05
Don...Thank you, so very much, for allowing my grandparents to be an integral part of the history of a Miami landmark (Fowey Rocks Lighthouse). My cousin, Mary Perry Johnson, sent me photocopies of most of these images. (Out father's were brothers). I am so very proud of this family history, & so grateful to Mary, for having shared these photocopies with me, so that I could share them with everyone. BTW...the parents, grandparents, aunt, brother, nephew, & twin son & daughter, of Hamilton Sharpe Perry, are all interred in Cocoplum Cemetery, which is also in the Galleries. Again, my heartfelt thanks to you, for allowing my grandfather to shine. Roberta, proud granddaughter of "Hamp" Perry, Keeper of the Light, at Fowey Rocks, ca. 1920's-1939, & beyond.

Don Boyd		31-Jul-2007 06:28
Patsy: perhaps if you posted those names in the Hialeah photo gallery someone would notice the names and respond since they were Hialeah folks. I did not know any of them due to living further north and west in Hialeah and the time frame was later. Good luck in your search and thanks for posting your memories. Don

Guest		24-Jul-2007 16:19
What a delight! How I ache for the good old days when I attended Hialeah School in Hialeah, and for those boys and girls that I loved so much. Those were the best years of my life, and I am 82 years old. I would truly love to communicate with some of those friends, but have lost contact. The last year that I attended school there was the 6th grade and I believe it was in the year 1937. I am still in good health, but the old memory is not as reliable as it once was. My husband and I moved back to Hialeah after he was discharged from the Air Force, having served during WWII. He worked at the Hialeah Race Track for almost ten years. Our home was on 16th Street, about four blocks from the race track. We will never forget the wonderful friends we met while living there, but unfortunately lost contact with everyone after we moved back to Alabama in 1954. Thanks for posting the beautiful photos. It really brought back memories. Patsy W. Sledge

Don Boyd		02-Jul-2007 16:55
These are images from the Florida State archives and I'm not making prints. You can contact the state archives and see if they offer prints for sale. Don

Guest		02-Jul-2007 08:09
thank you for opening my eyes to a world of how it all started. how can i purchase some of these images and frame them in my office?

Jay Pons		14-Jun-2007 13:38
Just want to say tahk you for sharing these pictures. i am a 1979 graduate of Miami High. It was great seeing Miami High how it was and the other City of Miami pictures. thank you to all that shared the pictures.

Guest		08-Jun-2007 20:00
Loved the pictures. I lived in Miami until 1953, what a nice town it was. I went to school at Jackson in Allapatah and lived near 46 st. and 32 ave. It was a beautiful town to grow up in, truly an age of innocence. Doris D. JBL3939016@aol.com

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