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Off-Topic Dadeland Shorty"s to be demolished...

JD08 said:
This is the Florida way. Tear down, replace, modernize. Take the character out of everything if it manages to survive the change.
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I never connected Dixie Hwy with having 'character," but your point is well taken!
 
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From my "before the fire" mid-1960s perspective (when I was at UM), the Shorty's sides were better than the meat but ... it was close to campus and I ate there a lot.

The Hot Shoppes at Bird & Dixie Hwy and, less often, Jimmy's at Bird & Douglas were also staples.

For Game nights at the OB (there were no games played in sunlight back then), we'd hit the Red Diamond Inn at LeJeune & NW 2nd for what passed in Miami for Italian food (their "specialty" was Spaghetti).
 
major kong said:
Sad. Old Miami restaurants all but gone - Wolfies, East Coast Fisheries, Mike Gordons, Taurus and now Shortys. I'm old, but some change sure ain't for the better.
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Tyler's was another popular chain of Miami restaurants back in the 60s and 70s. There was one in downtown Coral Gables and another near the Riviera Theater in South Miami.

And then, of course, the ubiquitous Royal Castle chain. Musta had a hundred stores in So Fla selling those small burgers. Sorta like what became Sliders in today's parlance.
 
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hotshot said:
From my "before the fire" mid-1960s perspective (when I was at UM), the Shorty's sides were better than the meat but ... it was close to campus and I ate there a lot.

The Hot Shoppes at Bird & Dixie Hwy and, less often, Jimmy's at Bird & Douglas were also staples.

For Game nights at the OB (there were no games played in sunlight back then), we'd hit the Red Diamond Inn at LeJeune & NW 2nd for what passed in Miami for Italian food (their "specialty" was Spaghetti).
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For game nights at the Orange Bowl, I always stopped at George's Subs on 8th street. They had the most outrageously good italian subs, you could eat. The perfect thing to bring into the stadium with you.
 
Alaskan Cane said:
For game nights at the Orange Bowl, I always stopped at George's Subs on 8th street. They had the most outrageously good italian subs, you could eat. The perfect thing to bring into the stadium with you.
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A much better choice. I don't even think there were Subs back in the 60s. At least not easily available in So Fla.
 
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