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By Seth H. Bramson Before I share with our readers the latest two fortuitous and bordering on incredible finds and purchases, several related comments are in order. As some of those who follow Mr. Berkwitt’s great website may know, I am America’s senior collector of Florida East Coast Railway, Florida transportation memorabilia, Miami memorabilia and […]
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The Saving of Our Local History Continues…
November 27th, 2019 
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October 19th, 2019 Bad Brad Submitted to the Editor by Seth H. Bramson While the article in the October, 2019 Biscayne Times titled “Biscayne, Bay of Sunken Dreams,” might have been interesting, it was, sadly and unhappily, riddled with numerous errors. The 1925 Shoreland Company map shows the Mid-Bay Causeway as “The Drive of the Campanil I., the separated “I” […]
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October 12th, 2019 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson As we concluded our last adventure by wishing all of our friends and readers of the Jewish faith a happy and healthy Jewish New Year, so we start today’s visit by doing almost the same, hoping you had a fine one and saying (writing) “as we say in South Florida, ‘good […]
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September 29th, 2019 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson In our previous discussion, we noted how—most of the time, anyway—how terrific it was to have had the pleasure and privilege of working at the Fontainebleau for four years, from December ’62 to and through very early September ’66, when I left for Cornell, and then returning for Christmas vacation of […]
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September 27th, 2019 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson We concluded our last exciting episode with what occurred when I was “tested” for my honesty by Fontainebleau security officer Wager Sharpe, and, as noted in said installment I passed the test with “flying colors.” As far as the hotel’s security people went that would stand me in good stead as […]
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September 23rd, 2019 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson While not meaning to keep you all on pins and needles, breathlessly awaiting “the next chapter” in the Fontainebleau/Cornell saga, we will discuss the four years at Fontainebleau first (because they were first!) and then go on to the three years at one of America’s greatest bastions of higher education. As […]
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September 2nd, 2019 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson We concluded our last visit with a reminiscence of our terrible days at 1/2SU, and other than pledging TEP, meeting some great guys, and meeting and dating a lovely young woman by the name of Molly Alderson, it was close to horrific there. You couldn’t even get a bagel in that […]
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August 30th, 2019 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson On the GROWING UP ON MIAMI BEACH list recently, one of the members, below a great picture of a man diving from the high board at the Fontainebleau, wrote that she had warm memories of Inga, the ice skating instructor at the hotel. Inge (“e” on the end of her name, […]
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August 13th, 2019 Bad Brad 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 […]
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August 2nd, 2019 Bad Brad 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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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 […]
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A Bit Of Personal Commentary Part IX
By Seth H. Bramson When last we left off (the issue prior to the letter to the editor of Biscayne Times regarding the errors in the article dealing with the history of the Venetian and Mid-Bay Causeways) the discussion was regarding the “nice Italian girl from Bay Ridge Brooklyn” who, while I was mad for, […]