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By Seth H. Bramson This “column” will be a bit different from all of my previous columns here on Mr. Berkwitt’s wonderful website. Some of you might agree, and some might not, but, and in either case, whether you do or don’t, please express your feelings as the ladies and gentlemen you are, with no […]
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A Bit of Personal Commentary on the Miami Herald & More…
August 2nd, 2019 
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July 26th, 2019 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson As previously discussed herein, The Bramson Archive is the largest collection of Florida East Coast Railway and Florida transportation memorabilia in the world: it is larger than the state museum’s and any of the various university museum’s collections (of like items, of course, not their entire collections) and larger than the […]
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July 14th, 2019 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson In the last two columns we noted several items which are the oldest in existence in terms of both Miami/Dade County memorabilia and railroadiana and I imagine that, when you, our dear readers, become aware that this writer is America’s senior collector (this past May began our 61st year of collecting […]
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July 5th, 2019 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson In our last column we discussed two pieces of Miami memorabilia and one remarkable piece of railroadiana that are the oldest known in and of the genres noted: the oldest piece of marked Miamiana, the 1823 hand-written abstract for the 94,100 acres of Miami and the oldest known marked piece of […]
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June 27th, 2019 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson It was either last year (2018) or earlier this year that this column focused on the beginnings of what today is The Bramson Archive, the largest collection of Florida East Coast Railway and Florida transportation memorabilia in the world (it is larger than the state museum’s collection [of like items, of […]
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June 18th, 2019 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson Greetings again, all! Our tsurris over the last few weeks is likely fodder for another column, and, indeed, we will get to that in an upcoming issue, but, for the moment, it is important that we continue with our discussion of the two entities named in the title. I could understand […]
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May 29th, 2019 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson As noted in our submission of several days ago the situation regarding both of the transit entities noted above has been and continues to be nothing but shameful. And why, you ask? The answer, seriously, is quite simple: In the transit industry, as in so many other industries, the management (not […]
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May 20th, 2019 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson First, I must express my personal mea culpa to Mr. Berkwitt as well as to all of you. I considered it a great honor to have been asked by Mr. B. to write a regular column and for some weeks was able to maintain the twice-a-week schedule. Unhappily (don’t want to […]
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April 26th, 2019 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson Because I have such unique insights and experience of and in both management in general and of rail transit in particular, the unique qualifications which I have regarding the failure of the two rail operations named in the title is something that would be taken seriously if those who have run […]
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April 3rd, 2019 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson When the idea of a rail rapid transit “system” for then-Dade County was originally conceived the county was divided up into about eight “Public Involvement Districts” and I was elected President of the Miami Beach District. At the time I was—at least it appeared that way—the only person in the Beach […]
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March 15th, 2019 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson In our last column we discussed Miami’s MetroFAIL, the rapid transit part of Miami-Dade’s transit mostly bus organization, the operation of which borders on disgraceful. In that column we explained the whys, how’s and wherefores of that minor league part of Greater Miami’s utterly shameful transit division. I did, however, “save […]
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March 6th, 2019 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson Greater Miami, at one time, had an absolutely outstanding street and electric railway system with three separately managed and run companies operating them, one each on Miami Beach, in Miami and in Coral Gables, with two of its lines operating into downtown Miami. The sordid tale of the destruction of those […]
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February 25th, 2019 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson For the past two issues this column has given brief histories of the Miami and Coral Gables streetcar systems. This week, the focus turns to Miami Beach, where, indeed, from December 8, 1920 until October 17, 1939, trolleys operated to and from Miami and on several lines on Miami Beach. Edward […]
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February 15th, 2019 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson Although almost all of the articles that have appeared in this column have dealt with a special moment in the passage of time in Greater Miami’s history it is possible that the era of the street and electric railways in Greater Miami—the time of the trolley—may, indeed, have been the most […]
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February 12th, 2019 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson To paraphrase a wonderful New York Globe editorial from the very early years of the 20th century, “Yes, totteleh, there were trolley cars in Miami! And Coral Gables! And Miami Beach!” Indeed, for some 35 glorious years, streetcars or trolley cars, today returning to cities throughout America under the updated moniker […]
Posted in COLUMNS BY SETH H. BRAMSON Tags: A Special Moment In Time: The Time Of The Trolley: Part I Comments Off on A Special Moment In Time: The Time Of The Trolley: Part IA Special Moment In Time: “Wait’ll We Get The Big One!”
February 1st, 2019 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson As I noted in my last column, there are no few front running phonies, dumb clucks, muppets, minkees, mutts, marooks and out and out MO-rons who love to tell us to “just wait’ll we get ‘the big one,’!” and as was mentioned, my reply, although not necessarily in these words, is […]
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January 27th, 2019 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson Over the past two columns, readers of Mr. Berkwitt’s website have learned of the first four of the five terrible events that made 1926 one of the two (along with 1896) most memorable, and to some extent, legendary years in Greater Miami’s illustrious and glorious history. Just by surviving those events, […]
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January 25th, 2019 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson As was noted in our last column, 1926, which business and commercial interests would legitimately assume would simply be a continuation of the several great “boom” years preceding it, were distressed when the four-masted Danish sailing freighter Prinz Valdemar capsized in the turning basin at the mouth of the Miami harbor […]
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January 22nd, 2019 Bad Brad Posted in COLUMNS BY SETH H. BRAMSON Tags: Author Seth Bramson Personal Appearance on January 23rd Comments Off on Author Seth Bramson Personal Appearance on January 23rdA Special Moment In Time: The Five Terrible Events Of 1926
January 21st, 2019 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson As our readers have learned in this over the past several weeks, the year 1896 was truly the crucible year for the then becoming-a-city-that-year community, one that was so tiny that, prior to Henry Flagler’s commitment to extend the railroad to the shores of Biscayne Bay and to build one of […]
Posted in COLUMNS BY SETH H. BRAMSON, ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Tags: A Special Moment In Time: The Five Terrible Events Of 1926 Comments Off on A Special Moment In Time: The Five Terrible Events Of 1926A Special Moment In Time: The Bathing Casinos Part III
January 17th, 2019 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson As was noted in this column previously, there were a total of five bathing casinos, only one of which—the Harvey Baker Graves owned Sunny Isles Casino—had open gaming. The first of the bathing casinos was the Avery Smith and James C. Warr-owned Ocean Beach later Smith’s Casino, located just north of […]
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January 10th, 2019 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson “Gambling?!! There’s gambling going on here?!! This place is to be closed immediately!” “Your winnings Captain Reynaud.” “Thank you!” That was one of the great scenes from Casablanca, where, of course, a kiss was but a kiss, and a sigh was but a sigh, among the fundamental things we do, as […]
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January 7th, 2019 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson As has been noted in several of my Miami Beach histories, particularly “Miami Beach” in Arcadia’s “Images of America” series and “Sunshine, Stone Crabs and Cheesecake: The Story of Miami Beach,” published by The History Press in October of 2009, there is good reason to believe that, while Carl Fisher and […]
A Special Moment In Time: There Was A Real Steve Hannagan!
January 3rd, 2019 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson Through the years and in the books about the city, nowhere near enough has ever been made of and about the man who was truly behind Carl Fisher’s and Jim Allison’s success in promoting a place called Miami Beach, that man’s name being Steve Hannagan. But so little is known about […]
A Bit of Personal Commentary: Part II
By Seth H. Bramson Last “issue” we discussed the nonsense regarding the slobbering sycophants who think having the anything but legitimate sportscasters in this town constantly refer to “your Miami Heat” or “your Miami Dolphins” or “your baseball (or hockey) team” is perfectly acceptable, when in truth and fact, it is anything but, and we […]