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This was taken from the novelisation of the Pilot Episode entitled Miami Vice: Florida Burn’ written by Stephen Grave.. I always joked that Miami Vice and Scarface were in the same universe, or if it ever gets rebooted, make it a same universe thing and call it the CCU (Cocaine Cinematic Universe) but it looks like it was all well and official even back then.. nice to have it confirmed.

They filmed this car drive where Crockett and Tubbs listen to the tape at the same stretch like in the pilot, the NCR sign is clearly seen in the background and NCR was at 2915 Biscayne Bvd (building still stands but NCR has moved out). Watching the drive they started around 3300 block of Biscayne driving southbound (there were some blocks with hardly any buildings) and crossed the NCR sign at one point. The arches we seen briefly AFTER the U-turn at 1751 Biscayne (Les Violins Club) were NOT the same as in the pilot. I am searching for the unsolved Rockhouse Club (Meeting with Desmond) site and they could have filmed it near the drive location, as this was filmed the same evening after the dive bar and the rockhouse club scenes.

Since we added 3 newly identified locations that weren't on CGlide's page (Sam's house, Cafe Under the Tree, and fake beach villa in Crandon park) I thought I'd go ahead and summarize the locations like I did in the Mean Season post. I omit locations that are unknown and "uninteresting" which we could never put on the map anyway, like airboating in the middle of nowhere in the Everglades or sailing somewhere in the ocean. Intro pan Coopertown, 22700 US-41, Miami Intro pan Tamiami Trail Shops, 13760 SW 8th St, Miami Intro pan, a neighborhood Unidentified Intro pan Old Cutler Bay Intro pan Downtown from Biscayne Blvd Intro pan Brickell near 8th St Intro pan Brickell Key towards the bay Intro pan Gables Estates Blue Bay high school Ransom Everglades High School, 3575 Main Hwy, Miami Van Ryan mansion Star Island, 40 W Star Island Dr, Miami Beach Sam's house Coconut Grove, 4156 Crawford Ave, Miami Police department Coral Gables city hall, 405 Biltmore Way, Coral Gables Lawyer's office Retail plaza in Opa-locka, 353 Opa-locka Blvd Blue Bay Yacht Club Coral Reef Yacht Club, 2484 S Bayshore Dr, Miami Smilin' Jack's Fish Camp bar Jimbo's Place, Virginia Key Car crash Unidentified Courthouse Miami-Dade County Courthouse, 73 W Flagler St, Miami Courthouse Dyer Federal Building And Courthouse, 300 NE 1st Ave, Miami Driving from the courthouse Rickenbacker Causeway Cafe Under the Tree Cafe Under the Tree, 103 Perviz Ave, Opa-locka Glades Motel Jimbo's Place, Virginia Key ??? SunTrust bank SunTrust bank, 501 E Las Olas Blvd, Fort Lauderdale Suzie murder Virginia Key Dumping the body Unidentified Island beach Crandon beach Lawyer scene Unidentified So as I was going through all that referencing CGlide's page, I just can't wrap my head around the Glades motel at Jimbo's. Maybe you guys can help me out as I suspect Jimbo's has been researched in and out before for MV. We first see Jimbo's used when Sam goes to this dive bar: He then walks out of that building and looks at a motel across the road - the Glades motel: In another scene the two are connected in one shot (the bar is in the compound on the right): Later we even get a view from inside the motel, showing the compound across: CGlide puts it all togeher on a relatively new satellite image with the white rectangle as the bar and the motel in blue (in pink is Suzie's trailer): With all of it being here on Virginia Key: What I can't understand though - was that motel built as a set?? Because I cannot identify it on historic aerials from the time. 1999: Jimbo's place moved from Miami to this location in 1954 (and closed in 2012), as per this video, which provides a nice overview of the compound. There is a sign in the video saying 'Rooms' pointing somewhere but I'm not sure if that lodging reference was to the motel. Here is a great article describing the place - no motel mention. Confusingly, this 2007 article places the whole Jimbo's compound into a different Virginia Key area, at the bridge to Key Biscayne. I would really appreciate if somebody has a view on how/where this hotel was over there.

After the Santa Monica location seen in “ Free Verse “ and “ Asian Cut “ — I went to the Los Angeles neighborhood area of Burbank on Friday and to 2901 West Alameda Avenue. Did the best I could inside the small studio complex. We see this set up shot in Season 3s “ Stone’ s War “. This came from another 1980s show and I think was used in “ Dynasty “ and “ Murder She Wrote”. from “ Stone’s War “ —- My shots 19th April, 2024– Burbank

Bad Day At Black Rock

With Kurt Russell, add Breakdown - another thriller I liked. And of course Overboard, an 80s comedy classic!

I watched The Mean Season(1985) starrin Kurt Russel. Nothing special at the end for me. But of course it takes place Miami area so interesting watch from that point of view. 10/6 for me but just because I like thrillers. I am not really into Kurt Russels filmography but I guess I have some movies to watch because except Tango & Cash(1989), Tombstone(1993) and Death Proof(2007) im not familiar with his work. Tombstone(1993) was the best among those. As I saw with John Carpenter they have some collaborations through the 80s but to be honest I am not significantly interested in those (action is not my fav genre) and thanks to his marriage with Goldie Hawn they starred together in 2joints as well in the 80s. Executive Decision(1996) and Unlawful Entry(1992) look interesting. So they might follow on my watchlist.

How about this classic?

Yes, that must have been a set, as we have never encountered any such big structure anywhere at Jimbo´s from our previous location hunts for MV that only took place a few years before Wild Things was filmed. I even remember that one building there was a leftover from a legendary low budget alien movie in the 70s (I think @miamijimf provided that intel), so this place was known for some productions building sets there.

"Fruit of the Poison Tree", Part 2 aka, "the fifth Burnett episode" He doesn't even look at Gina in his dream. He never has a single flashback about her, over the course of months, not that we can tell. Ever wonder why? Sonny is obviously very isolated for the Burnett episodes, including in his own mind. Gina may be even more isolated for this one; even though she's supposedly in contact with OCB, she's still clearly living very much in her own world with her own fake identity, right up until Sonny and Rico arrive just late enough. (Sonny also has to wear a bunch of dark things in this episode because someone has made off with his pure-white shtick.) "Poison Tree" has an almost-identical opening to "Hostile Takeover" (you can guess which's which): Gina's dress actually shows up at Celeste's party, on a blonde woman with a face we don't see, before we even and right after we see Celeste: And now it's time for the person who set this up to pay. A little hard to know if that's a jacket and t-shirt or dark shirt and tie, at first glance. A little hard to tell which "pretty boy" she's pointing the gun at, for symbolic reasons... Forgiveness? Maybe. But whether there's one or two or however many Sonnys, you can't see his face. Celeste is blonde, but there are multiple occasions her hair is made to appear black, either by wearing something over or near it. See the white flowers on the bottle Sonny's drinking out of...? ("Who are you?", indeed...) So– he never calls Gina "baby", before "Poison Tree"... but he does call Celeste that, a couple of times. With all the references to the arc in the episode, Sonny may not be Burnett anymore, but it probably makes sense that some things from that period are carrying back over. Especially with his chain of calling Gina "Caroline" and calling Celeste "Caitie"... especially if it's heavily implied some part of him was always viewing Celeste as somebody other than that, too. Why is Gina absent from the Burnett episodes? She's not. She's present on a different level. (Then she gets one of her own.)

As to the very last location in the movei, unidentified, CGlide skipped it altogether, though it's after credits, so maybe he had a different version of the movie (in which the lawyer wouldn't be in on it). It's not the easiest one, because it must be again a Miami-Dade location pretending to be some island. With goats roaming the beach! A quick guess would be Crandon park again, but not sure.

Thanks for the kind words Tom. but no one was hurt, and we weren't traumatized by it. my dad had a good situation back then, and the prejudice wasn't unbearable. on a side note i still remember the model of the rental car. it was a super, mega awesome Chevy Beretta. a really nice comfy american car @Paul Veresthe documentary about Anthon Samuel was really powerful. Thanks for sharing

Sorry that happened to your family! But unfortunately this and even worse was a frequent occurrence back in the late 80s. I personally remember from my time in Miami several fatal incidents with European tourists who received their rental cars at the airport and drove to Miami Beach, but took the wrong exit and ended in Overtown or other dangerous areas. There they mostly stopped, rolled down the windows and asked for directions. That was often enough to trigger a robbery, car theft or even worse. I remember that Miami reacted by removing rental tags on license plates, adding big „To Miami Beach“ signs and patrol cars on all crucial routes from the airport. That was big news on TV at that time. Luckily I never had any trouble. Maybe because I blended in with the neighborhood, spoke American accent and avoided bad areas. But being too fearful and deeming all others as potential risks can also create unjustified prejudice. I remember walking with a friend 2 miles to the Metrorail station in South Miami as no cabs there and we had not enough cab money to spend anyway. On our route a bunch of afroamerican guys played basketball in a front yard of a modest house and we started getting nervous walking by when they recognized us and started talking to us. But they only cordially invited us to join the game (we declined politely with a joke as they were all >6,5“ tall and we looked like hobbits against them). Later I was ashamed of my immediate preconditioned thought they would attack us, simply based on the initial vibe of the situation. But it was hard to tell at that time who had good intentions. In recent years most areas of Miami got much safer and overall crime rates plummeted. I spent lots of time there with my family in the last 20 years and we never had any nasty situations.

4994 Hammock Lake Dr in Hammock Lakes, Gables Estates \ South Miami featured in the teaser “ Deliver Us From Evil “ - I visited this gated community last week just south from Coconut Grove, Coral Gables and off the Old Cutler Highway. Miami Vice shot around this area a number of times in Season 4 and 5. Enjoy the snaps I took to mirror and more what we see in this fine episode which aired in the Spring of 1988.

Another thread for a Miami-set movie, this time instead of "filming locations" I decided to call it "film & locations" so it's clear the discussion of the film itself is also welcome. @airtommy , @miamijimf you showed interest in this movie before and my understanding is CGlide's site doesn't have it. I generally liked the movie, but I'll like anything filmed in Miami and I'll like anything with Kurt Russell, so this was easy. It is a really great movie locations-wise. Some Miami movies are either full of just "mainstream" locations everybody knows, and sometimes don't show the city at all. But this one, just like for example The Specialist, has some great locations which fall into the goldilocks zone of looking findable and interesting at the same time. I think Miami movies deserve their own threads and not just quick comments in this thread, so we can thoroughly get on locations if we wanted. Don't mean to be making these threads CGlidesque by trying to go each location from the start of the movie. Rather, a leisurely stroll here and there when the mood strikes. @miamijimf in your comment elsewhere from 2015 you mentioned a Coral Gables house, I assume this one. I just found it. To me the most useful shot was this: I have some intuition for Coral Gables and this street immediately gave me the vibes of the central areas between the Granada and Country Club sections. I also through of the University Drive and even more so of Old Cutler Road, but ruled those out quickly and focused on Almeria Ave and Columbus Blvd. Of course the playground in the back of this shot was really helpful too: It's 2416 Columbus Blvd, further confirmed by the numbers around the door. Here is a note about this home (shot from another angle): https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/165833

List refresh! Victim 1 murder - Bill Baggs beach Miami Journal parking lot - Brickell Bay Dr & Brickell Key Dr Miami Journal production room and offices - Miami Herald Building, 1 Herald Plaza Victim 1 family house - 2416 Columbus Blvd Malcolm's girlfriend workplace - Coral Gables Prep Academy, 105 Minorca Ave (also call #6) Malcolm's house - unidentified Villain's house - S River Dr and SW 1st St, next to the draw bridge (call #1, from his home) Justice Building - Gerstein Justice Building, 1351 NW 12th St (south side) Payphone - unidentified and most certainly unidentifiable (call #2), very frequent car passing in front of him, some lawn/hedge visible in between Psychologist's office - 777 Brickell Miami Journal parking lot - 1st Presbyterian Church, 609 Brickell Ave Bar where journalists hang out - Tobacco Road, 626 South Miami Ave Payphone - unidentified and most certainly unidentifiable (call #3), vast open space in front, possibly Freedom Tower and Miami Herald building seen in distance Victims 2-3's house - 651 NE 69th St Payphone - Shorecrest Hotel, 1545 Collins Ave (call #4) Dinner - Joe's Stone Crab, 11 Washington Ave Payphone - Orange Bowl Stadium, 1501 NW 3rd St (call #5) Victim 4 - Matheson Hammock Police department - Miami Police Department HQ, 400 NW 2nd Ave Trailer park - 2750 NW S River Dr (Paradise Trailer Park) Malcolm driving sequence - SW 2nd St & SW North River Dr (identified down in a later post) Malcolm jumps a draw bridge - SW 1st St draw bridge Malcolm runs across traffic - Brickell Ave & SE 15th St (identified down in a later post) Malcolm runs by parked cars - must be the same location, going west on SE 15th St, by the stone hedge Payphone - Coopertown Airboat, 22700 US Hwy 41 (call #7) Victim 5 - unidentified and most certainly unidentifiable

I think the new building looks great, though not a fan of all that parking, but with no viable public transit system in the county that's just hard to get around. This proposed design looks incredibly better fitting the neighborhood than what was built few years ago just a block away: In Opa-locka's zoning, the southeast lots of this assemblage are designated downtown mixed use, while the north area is designated civic (publicly-owned and/or operated property, including parks and recreation and open space). So it looks like they are ultimately giving up that civic space which could be, for example, a park, but the city has seen nothing but decline for decades so it's hard to be picky when it comes to development. The developer doesn't own the blue area and will be leasing it from the city which is in desperate need of revenue. It's all part of the new plan to revitalize the city starting with downtown, which does include 2 new parks! With lots of mixed-use and mixed-income buildings, one can hope the holistic plan will bring some progress and relief to this poverty-stricken community. They're not knocking down any Moorish architecture, and the rest has little historical value so I personally don't see a lot of damage in going from single story to higher buildings as long as the plan is cohesive - the new urbanism (@pahonu) principles from which the plan feeds require higher density to enable commercial activation and pedestrian appeal. And I mean... probably anything is better than this (current Barracks area):

Anybody wants to take this one?