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Beverly Hills Cafe was on Sunset, east of Red. Great place. Still miss that bread.

I preferred Texas Taco Factory over Taco Rico, but I ordered from both while I was in law school. The stand-alone building on the south end used to be a Pizza Hut (and we used to hit the pizza buffet there all the time when I was an undergrad) and the spot in the little shopping strip to the...

Appreciate your memories. I would just say, I was not the one who posted the picture of the married dorms being torn down, another poster did, but I remember it well. I started at UM in 1986 when those apartments were still in use, and I had a work study job for the Housing Department where I...

I think that Mexican place had a couple of names. Texas Taco Factory was one? Before that, it was Great Sub Connection. Then there was the stand-alone building to the left of it, that was a Pizza Hut that still had the pizza buffet back in the mid 80s. Used to hit that place with the Eaton...

Oh, yeah, Crown Liquor is just a part of the landscape, been there forever. Same with the Publix on Monza. And Bagel Emporium. Good lord, I loved that place. When I was in law school, multiple different student organizations would order bags of Bagel Emporium each week, to try to get the...

No problem, I definitely understand that so many buildings have changed owners. Here's what the US-1/Red Road intersection used to be...people would go over to Wendy's (W), they were open late, or to Specs (SP) to buy records or concert tickets. The Swensons was in the same building as the old...

The UM apartments were "supposed to be" temporary. They were built post-WWII to handle the influx of students on the GI Bill. UM did end up installing window-mounted A/Cs in all of the apartments, and you'd have to go to the housing office to get replacement filters. They had 2 basic designs...

Not sure of the time frame you are talking about, but after Hurricane Andrew tore up the aviary at MetroZoo, a ton of the birds relocated to UM. We had a flock of green parrots who lived in the law school quadrangle. Because of their coloration, you wouldn't really see them in the trees, but...

Riviera used to be the primary movie spot. Saw many movies there. There was a small place on Miracle Mile, they closed it in the mid-to-late 80s. When Cocowalk was built in the late 80s/early 90s, they put in a big theater, and that became the primary spot for movies, and Riviera slowly died.

All those places still exist, but there may be different businesses there now. Burger King is now a noodles market. D'Pizza and Velvet Creme and Miami Heroes have turned into a Starbucks and a Thai/Japanese place. Blockbuster is now a CVS. Specs is, what, a Papa Johns, but Swensons JUST...

Yeah, and it's things like this that have caused my frustration with UM and the BOT. We, as students, lived there, we knew the problems. We joined Student Government, we created platforms that included "pedestrian bridge" as something we wanted to accomplish. And nothing got done for 25...

Yeah, that was 1990, right? I was in Student Government at the time, we tried really hard to get UM to agree to building a pedestrian overpass. Only took, what, 25 years? At least times have changed, and the UM Administration actually cares about on-campus safety now. Back in the 80s/90s, we...

The commuter lots? Yeah, there weren't a lot of trees over there, if any. I think Bosie Foote tried to plant some trees in those lots, and they didn't make it.

Holy cow, one of my fraternity brothers is in the back row of that Eric Adams memorial photo.

Good lord, you're bringing back the Vietnam flashbacks now... That first picture was like the view from my dorm for my first three years. I lived in Eaton, 2nd floor, right above that side entrance door that went out towards the Student Union, so I looked directly over towards the pool. I...

7th floor of Mahoney-Pearson had the extra high ceilings. Loved living up there, you could build a loft and have plenty of space for you and your female guest(s). 1st floor of Mahoney-Pearson sucked, you had to go up that half-flight of stairs. You didn't even get the move-in-move-out benefit...

Hurricane Andrew could have hit UM head-on, and the only part of campus left undamaged would have been Hecht-Stanford and the furniture inside of Hecht-Stanford.

That apartment building in the back-right side of the picture is where Marlin Barnes lived (I lived there during my final undergrad year, which might have been when that picture was taken).

Good times. Man, I was so glad I never was put in the Towers, once I had a chance to compare them to (renovated) Eaton and (eventually renovated) Mahoney-Pearson. Those desks and drawers were screwed into the wall, as I recall. We pranked a guy in Eaton by moving EVERYTHING of his into the...

****, you took that with your iPhone in 1992? Kidding. Nice picture. That was when they were building the new (then) Wellness Center.