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By Seth H. Bramson There are so very many revered names in the history of Greater Miami, from the Weiss family of Joe’s Stone Crab Restaurant to the Galbut family of Miami Beach, to the Traurigs and the Hechts (Flagler Dog Track) and the Pallots, Julia Tuttle, Mary and William Brickell, Everest and John Sewell, […]
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A Very Special Moment In Time: It All Began With “Cheesecake”—Seriously!—Part I
December 5th, 2018 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson “Our town,” Miami Beach— one of the world’s greatest resorts and one of the most utterly corrupt cities in North America—has had more words written about its history than any other city of its size in America. The story is so incredible, so fascinating, so intriguing and so replete with so […]
A Very Special Moment In Time: The Legend Begins
November 27th, 2018 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson Although the exact date has been lost in the mists of the intervening 106 years, it appears that one Joe Weiss, with wife Jenny and son Jesse in tow, arrived on the shores of Biscayne Bay sometime in 1912. It is evident that they stepped on to the sands of the […]
A Special Moment In Time: Brown’s May Not Have Been The First Inn On Miami Beach!
November 22nd, 2018 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson The “conventional wisdom” dealing with Miami Beach’s history has, for almost the entire history of the city, held that the first hotel on Miami Beach was Brown’s, on south Ocean Drive. The only problem with that “c w” may be that the U. S. Lifesaving Service’s Biscayne House of Refuge, located […]
A Special Moment In Time Miami’s Crucible Year: Part II
November 16th, 2018 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson As noted in our previous column, 1896 was the single most important year in the history of the tiny unincorporated village on the shores of Biscayne Bay as it transitioned to becoming a city without the intermediate steps of villagehood or township. The previous article introduced the first two events that […]
A Special Moment In Time… 1896: Miami’s Most Crucial Year
November 12th, 2018 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson There are certain years in certain cities that can be defined as “crucible” years, meaning that those years were either the single most important in and to the history of that particular town or city or one of several that fit that definition. Chicago, for example, will always be defined by […]
The Beginning of Real Progress on Both Sides of the Bay
November 7th, 2018 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson As you and we noted last time, Field and Osborn were bitterly disappointed with the loss of almost their entire coconut crop to “the varmints” and determined that it was time to sell, which they did, to an elderly Quaker and his son-in-law, who bought the mangrove sandbar island from them. […]
The Three Seminole Wars, The Naming of a County And The Whites Begin To Arrive – Part II
November 7th, 2018 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson Our last column brought us up to the late 1880s or early 1890s, when Elnathan Field and Ezra Osborne “lost their shirts” attempting to cultivate coconuts in the sand of the mangrove sandbar island on the east side of Biscayne Bay and we closed by noting that they had returned to […]
The Three Seminole Wars, The Naming of a County And The Whites Begin To Arrive — Part II
November 2nd, 2018 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson Our last column brought us up to the late 1880s or early 1890s, when Elnathan Field and Ezra Osborne “lost their shirts” attempting to cultivate coconuts in the sand of the mangrove sandbar island on the east side of Biscayne Bay and we closed by noting that they had returned to […]
And So It (Our History) Begins!
November 1st, 2018 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson As we told you (wrote, actually!) we have essentially concluded the discussion of the various South Florida local and Florida transportation history books which we have written, those in addition to more than 300 articles, including seven in refereed or juried publications. (My dear and beloved brother got Dad’s artistic talent […]
A Late In Life Burst Of Creativity Part VII
October 19th, 2018 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson You may remember that, in our last column, we noted the fact that there are five more books in various stages of development and/or production, and we named two. We will name the other three for you but it looks like there is another one coming, as it appears that our […]
A Late In Life Burst of Creativity – Part VI
October 16th, 2018 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson First, a very necessary mea culpa: in our last column we noted that the biography of our former Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice, Gerald Kogan, was written and published with all profits above the cost of production being donated to his daughter’s ovarian cancer research fund at the University of Alabama, […]
A Late In Life Burst Of Creativity — Part V
October 14th, 2018 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson As noted in our immediately previous column, we stated that we would bring our readers up to date on the five books which followed the Homestead Centennial history. From there we moved on to the Surfside history, in Arcadia’s “Images of Modern America” series, for which the Surfside Town Council so […]
A Late In Life Burst Of Creativity—Part IV
October 11th, 2018 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson As noted in our previous column, the Centennial of the arrival of the first train in Key West on January 22, 1912 was rapidly approaching and the Key West Art and Historical Society, not wanting a novel as the Flagler Museum had been hoodwinked into backing, but, rather, a real and […]
A Late In Life Burst Of Creativity Part III
October 5th, 2018 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson Unfortunately, the Miami historic community is rife with jealousy and several nasty and vicious for no reason people who will not be honored by having their names appear in this column are at the top of the hall of shame list. In any case, and as reported in the previous column, […]
A Late In Life Burst of Creativity!
September 28th, 2018 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson Over the past several columns we have noted that, following the collaboration with our good friend, Professor Gregg Turner, in writing and captioning “The Plant System of Railroads, Steamships and Hotels,” I had what I smilingly refer to as “a late in life burst of creativity.” By now I’m certain (well, […]
1996: The FEC Railway/Miami Centennial
September 26th, 2018 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson In 1986 Myrna and I published “Miami’s 90th Anniversary Calendar,” meant to be the very first publication—ten years in advance of the great event—related to that sparkling moment in Miami history which would take place on the weekend of July 28th, 1996, exactly one hundred years to the day after Miami […]
I Chased Her For Three Years Until She Caught Me—Part IV
September 21st, 2018 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson As noted in the previous column, “Speedway to Sunshine: The Story of the Florida East Coast Railway” was published by Boston Mills Press in Canada, in 1984 and the 3000 hard cover copies sold out by August of 1985, that with no FEC Railway Society or internet. I had offered the […]
I Chased Her For Three Years Until She Caught Me & Comic Legend Alan King Remembers—Part III
September 18th, 2018 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson As we discussed in my last column, I left New York, the Gaslight Club and all the joyousness of “the City” in February of 1978 to come back to the big orange in order to join the late, great Lloyd Apple as partners with the Thal Brothers and Catering Directors at […]
I Chased Her For 3 Years Until She Caught Me (Henny Youngman & Alan King Story) —Part II
September 14th, 2018 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson We closed the last column with a note regarding fidelity and honorable behavior in a marriage and that has been the hallmark of mine and Myrna’s, our love being shared with Myrna’s children, Ben and Sara, my beloved brother and his daughter, my niece, Dara, and, of course, my two grandsons, […]
I Chased Her for Three Years Until She Caught Me – And Speedway to Sunshine Was Published in 1984
September 12th, 2018 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson As we noted in my last column, I met the truly great love of my life in 1973, while I was managing Lloyd’s of the Maison Grande, unquestionably and absolutely the most magnificent restaurant this town, even with all the nouveau dreck and Americanized continental phony Italian places opening, has ever […]
The Bramson Archive Gets Larger & Larger Part VI
September 6th, 2018 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson Before we continue, a few (or more) words to express my aggravation of and from the last several days. Suddenly, last Thursday morning August 30th, we were fresh out of computer…and telephone…and television. Myrna had already left for work and I had to leave for school so figured I would handle […]
The Bramson Archive Gets Larger & Larger Part V
September 5th, 2018 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson We will certainly continue from where we left off last time in a moment, but before we do I have to give a “Tip of the Hatlo Hat” (you have to be in my age area to remember the great one-panel comic which appeared in what was once a great newspaper […]
The Bramson Archive Gets Larger & Larger Part IV
August 28th, 2018 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson It was, indeed, an exciting time for the Bramson brothers, with me leaving for Cornell early in September of ’66, Bennett preparing for his last year at Nautilus and me in love with “a nice Italian girl from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn” who turned out not to be so nice. Leaving Miami […]
The Bramson Archive Gets Larger and Larger Part III
August 26th, 2018 Bad Brad By Seth H. Bramson The collection kept growing, the material flowing in as I made a number of trips during the FEC strike up and down the east coast of Florida, visiting the company’s general offices in St. Augustine fairly regularly. Eventually the railroad’s executive vice president, R. W. Wyckoff, issued an order that I […]
