History of Bayfront Park – Part 1 of 2
Prior to becoming a park, the eastern edge of downtown Miami was of a jagged coastline consisting of docks, the FEC fair building and Elser Pier. Early Miami residents looked…
Bayfront Park
The Decades: 1950 – 1959
The 1950s represented a decade of tremendous growth for South Florida. It also presented a lot of issues that lingered from pre-war Miami. The biggest issue was the growth of…
Attempted Assassination of FDR in Bayfront Park
Following the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt as President of the United States in November of 1932, there was a four month period before the president-elect took the oath of…