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Florida Float in Fiesta Parade …
This is the state of Florida’s float in the 1959 Fiesta of Five Flags Parade. I wonder whose bright idea it was to dress up a bunch of ten year olds as oranges and have them march 3 or 4 miles up and down Palafox Street in 100 degree heat. The state must have been broke back in 1959, also. Tallahassee could not even spring for a car to tow the float, so they just got a couple of Boy Scouts to pull the float! If anyone remembers any of this, please let us hear from you … especially if you might have been one of the oranges walking up and Palafox Street or one of the Boy Scouts. If those Scouts did not get a towing merit badge out of this, they were robbed! Thanks for looking … Frank
Miami Beach in the 1960’s …
I posted a photo similar to this one earlier, but I looked at this negative and it looked a little sharper and clearer, so I just decided to post it again ( I have found some more negative strips taken in Miami during the 1950’s and have been working them up, so check back ) . This is the FountainBleau Hotel in Miami Beach. I think I can see Sammy, Dino and Frank in one of those windows looking out over the boulevard, maybe looking out for Meyer Lansky or one of his other men. You can never be to sure back in the 1950’s … Las Vegas was still new and was not drawing the crowds that Miami was back then. And besides, if the action was not happening here, you could just hop over to Havana and keep the party going. Thanks for looking … Frank
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