Lighthouse Seafood Restaurant - Miami Beach
Located across the Haulover Inlet from Bal Harbour, customers would select live fish or turtles from tanks maintained on the property, according to historian Seth Bramson in his book Miami Beach...
View ArticleLeon & Eddie's - Palm Beach
The New York City version, founded in 1932 by Leon Enken and Eddie Davis following the repeal of Prohibition, hosted gangsters and crooners and became one of the "most famous drinking and...
View ArticleLum's - Fort Lauderdale
Founded in Miami Beach in 1956 by Stuart and Clifford S. Perlman, Lum's was a hot dog [steamed in beer!] restaurant that grew to four locations by 1961 and 400 by 1969, the same year the company was...
View ArticleHoward Johnson's - Miami
Located at 100 Biscayne Boulevard, the downtown site of the current 63-story Marquis Miami condominium, this Howard Johnson restaurant and hotel was built in 1938 and existed until 1963, when it was...
View ArticleKristine's - Lake Worth
You can no longer dine at Kristine's, an Art Deco remnant on South Dixie Highway in Lake Worth, but you can go to the Blue Front barbeque, which now occupies the unique structure. It was built in...
View ArticleBetty's Restaurant - Miami
Located at 1440 Biscayne Blvd., the restaurant's sign featured a caricature of a red and blue-clad hostess, presumably Betty, while matchbooks and postcard promoted its "Lobo Lounge" with a cartoon...
View ArticleDagwood's - Miami Beach
Open until 2 a.m., Dagwood's was a diner and bakery that boasted of "a luxurious feeling in an informal atmosphere" located "in the heart of famous Motel Row."
View ArticleFamous Restaurant - Lake Worth
According to the book, Art Deco of the Palm Beaches, published by Arcadia Publishing, Famous Restaurant's interior stayed similar to the postcard until the 1980s, when it was remodeled into a Palm...
View ArticleFord's Restaurant - Davie
Ford's Restaurant was located next to Davie Hardware & Supply Co. This photo was taken in 1951. It's not known whether the Ford Motor Co. had something to say about the appropriation of its logo...
View ArticleFred's Place - Card Sound Road
Fred's Place was one of four small businesses lining the community that sprouted up along the causeway built in the 1920s to connect the mainland to North Key Largo. After a shorter road was built on...
View ArticleLe Parisien - Miami Beach
According to the postcard, Le Parisien at 474 Arthur Godfrey Road [41st Street] in Miami Beach was "the only authentic French restaurant in Miami Beach," at least when this photo was taken. State...
View ArticleLog Cabin Tea Room - West Palm Beach
Duncan Hines -- yes, that was an actual person -- reported this restaurant served fried chicken and waffles in his 1938 road-trip dining guide, Adventures in Good Eating. According to the website Live...
View ArticleLuzianne Cafe - West Palm Beach
Ostensibly located at 220 Clematis St., the Florida Memory entry for this restaurant includes no date, and scant information exists elsewhere suggesting this restaurant didn't last long. An eBay...
View ArticleParham's - Miami Beach
Popular in the 1950s, Parham's signage advertised soda, restaurant, bar-b-q. Yum. Those must have really been happy days at the corner of 73rd Street and Collins Avenue. One of its postcards touted...
View ArticlePatio Delray - Delray Beach
State records list two companies called Patio Delray. One became a corporation in 1941 and was dissolved in 1946. Another, owned by Charles G. Hering, became a corporate entity in 1954. A Sun Sentinel...
View ArticleShangri-La Restaurant - Miami
An undated postcard for this restaurant, at 15 N.E. 3rd Ave., calls it "Miami's most beautiful Chinese Restaurant," adding it's "where the elite meet." In an essay for HistoryMiami, Ritta Hogan...
View ArticleTamiami Cafe - Miami
Not much information is available about this restaurant, other than a notation on the Florida Memory website that the photo was taken in the 1920s. This was Prohibition time, so note the glasses of...
View ArticleThe Deck - Fort Lauderdale
Historian Susan Gillis wrote in her book, Fort Lauderdale: The Venice of America, that Fred Beck's "The Deck" restaurant featured live entertainment and was popular in the 1940s among trainees of the...
View ArticleThe Orient - Tequesta
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Tse pose with their new Cadillac in front of The Orient lounge and restaurant at Lighthouse Plaza in Tequesta in 1973, according to the Florida Memory site. There's no information...
View ArticleThe Steak House - Miami Beach
Created in 1946, The Steak House apparently did not enjoy a long run. It's corporate charter was dissolved in 1953, state records show.
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