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<\/a>By Seth H. Bramson<\/strong><\/p>\nIn 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\u2019s senior collector (this past May began our 61st year of collecting all this junque!) of Florida East Coast Railway, Florida transportation memorabilia, Miami memorabilia and Floridiana it becomes easier to understand the factual validity of such legitimate claims.<\/p>\n
However, as the great expression (originally used in the Popeil\u2019s Pocket Fisherman ads) goes, \u201cBut wait! There\u2019s more!\u201d and, indeed, there is \u201cmore\u201d for the FEC Railway and Florida transportation memorabilia collections are the largest in the world: they are larger than the state museum\u2019s collection (of like items, of course, not the museum\u2019s entire collection) and larger than the Flagler Museum\u2019s collection, again, of like items, of course. <\/p>\n
But in addition to those two superlatives we maintain, here in The Bramson Archive, the largest private collection (private as opposed to the museums) of Miami memorabilia and Floridiana in the country, a collection which, in no few areas can rightfully lay claim to being the largest such that exists in either public or private hands.<\/p>\n
Areas in which that superlative applies include Greater Miami hotel, motel, tourist court, cabins and roadside inns booklets, advertising flyers and brochures as well as Greater Miami (Dade County) postcards: six boxes of Miami Beach including two boxes of hotels, A\u2014L and M\u2014Z, seven boxes of Miami postcards and that is nothing but Miami, within the City of Miami only, one box each of Coral Gables\u2014South Miami, 33154 (Bal Harbour, Bay Harbor Islands, Indian Creek Village and Surfside including Haulover and Sunny Isles Beach), the Curtis\u2014Bright Cities (Hialeah, Miami Springs and Opa Locka), Northeast Miami Dade including El Portal, Biscayne Park, Miami Shores, North Miami, NMB, Ojus, Aventura and the unincorporated areas in-between, one box of \u201cthe rest of the county plus one smaller box of Coconut Grove. All of that, however, does not included the Greater Miami area airline, railroad, bus, boat and trolley postcards, those in their specialized category areas.<\/p>\n
There are several other superlatives, also, and particularly (and this segment of the collection acknowledged as the largest in public or private hands in America by the new American Museum of Jewish History in Philadelphia) the \u201crestricted clientele\u201d collection. One of my thirteen talks is \u201cThe History of Discrimination in South Florida\u201d and that is one of my two \u201cadult show and tell talks\u201d to which I bring the booklets, brochures, photographs, postcards, documents and signs as well as other items which provide examples and documentation relating to the subject, a talk which is approximately half Jim Crow and segregation and half restricted clientele. It is in both that talk and the \u201cDebunking the Greater Miami Myths\u201d talk that I factually and with documentation debunk a number of the totally without basis in truth or fact nonsensical fables, fairy tales, fol-de-rol and utterly nonsensical myths (or as we would say in French, bubbemissehs) dealing with that topic, including such totally false old wive\u2019s tales suc as \u201cOh, Jews were not allowed to buy property north of Fifth Street on Miami Beach until after 1920\u201d which is total fabrication and \u201cI remember the signs that said \u2018No Jews\/No Dogs\u2019\u201d which, simply put, never existed. (Now don\u2019t get hysterical! I will explain further in the next paragraph)<\/p>\n
There were, on Miami Beach, no more than five hotels that did have signs that read \u201cNo Jews.\u201d IF they did have a sign that read \u201cNo Dogs\u201d it was at least twenty feet away. And, just to make it very, very clear, the words \u201cNo Jews\u201d never, ever appeared on any Miami Beach or South Florida hotels advertising pieces. They used a wide variety of couched terminology, but never, \u201cNo Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n
Next issue, then, we will tell you about some of the unique phraseology that let those of \u201cthe Hebrew race\u201d know they weren\u2019t welcome, so stay tuned, dear readers and we will enlighten you further on the topic.<\/p>\n
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