airtommy Posted March 11, 2020 Report Share Posted March 11, 2020 35 minutes ago, Mr. Vigilante said: Love Ft. Lauderdale, but the airport is an absolute nightmare. The one time I was there I had to outside in the oppressive heat for 15-30 minutes waiting for a shuttle bus. It didn't feel "first world". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt5 Posted March 11, 2020 Report Share Posted March 11, 2020 (edited) 59 minutes ago, Mr. Vigilante said: Nice shot! Was just there. Love Ft. Lauderdale, but the airport is an absolute nightmare. So bad we are considering flying to Tampa and driving over next trip. Thankyou - yes I hear that, bear with it give it another chance - Fort Lauderdale airport does improve and makes life easier than flying into MIA. Ever since the shooting at FL airport and six people were shot dead a few years ago it has had big delays unfortunately. Edited March 11, 2020 by Matt5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Vigilante Posted March 11, 2020 Report Share Posted March 11, 2020 18 minutes ago, Matt5 said: Thankyou - yes I hear that, bear with it give it another chance - Fort Lauderdale airport does improve and makes life easier than flying into MIA. Ever since the shooting at FL airport and six people were shot dead a few years ago it has had big delays unfortunately. I actually forgot about that. It's not really anyone's fault, I think it's probably just too small to accommodate everyone. Nashville's airport is starting to suffer from this. So many people have moved here and we have a super small airport. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pahonu Posted March 12, 2020 Report Share Posted March 12, 2020 (edited) 11 hours ago, miamijimf said: A large marina not seen very often. The SW corner of the Beach with the MacArthur and Fisher Island in View. Not to be contrarian Jim, but that looks like maybe 300 slips, and by west coast standards at least, that’s not a large marina at all. Marina Del Rey in LA has 5000 slips and the two public marinas in Long Beach, where I live, Shorline and Alamitos Bay, have 1500 and 2000 slips respectively. The small private marina I live in, Marina Pacifica has about 200 slips. Edited March 12, 2020 by pahonu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamijimf Posted March 12, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2020 (edited) This is one of the best pics I have seen of the area - Deco Drive, a part of SoBe, and some of the Miami skyline etc. You can also see the Tiffany hotel on the right with the spire, reminiscent of the Senator, as well as the tall Blackstone Apartments (due West) at 800 Washington Ave. In One Way Ticket after Sagot shifts into reverse and goes back to taunt Switek & Trudy the Blackstone is visible. Edited March 12, 2020 by miamijimf 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Vigilante Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 2 hours ago, miamijimf said: This is one of the best pics I have seen of the area - Deco Drive, a part of SoBe, and some of the Miami skyline etc. You can also see the Tiffany hotel on the right with the spire, reminiscent of the Senator, as well as the tall Blackstone Apartments (due West) at 800 Washington Ave. In One Way Ticket after Sagot shifts into reverse and goes back to taunt Switek & Trudy the Blackstone is visible. Beautiful! I need an entire wall of this image somewhere in my house!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pahonu Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 3 hours ago, miamijimf said: This is one of the best pics I have seen of the area - Deco Drive, a part of SoBe, and some of the Miami skyline etc. You can also see the Tiffany hotel on the right with the spire, reminiscent of the Senator, as well as the tall Blackstone Apartments (due West) at 800 Washington Ave. In One Way Ticket after Sagot shifts into reverse and goes back to taunt Switek & Trudy the Blackstone is visible. That’s a really cool shot! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kladdagh Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 11 hours ago, miamijimf said: This is one of the best pics I have seen of the area - Deco Drive, a part of SoBe, and some of the Miami skyline etc. You can also see the Tiffany hotel on the right with the spire, reminiscent of the Senator, as well as the tall Blackstone Apartments (due West) at 800 Washington Ave. In One Way Ticket after Sagot shifts into reverse and goes back to taunt Switek & Trudy the Blackstone is visible. The colors are Amazing !!! Thanks for sharing this beauty 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamijimf Posted March 14, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2020 (edited) Nice view of the Miami Tower decked out in blue. Not the tallest anymore it is still considered Miami's premier building. It's progress can be seen on several Vice episodes from various angles. It can be first seen under construction in August of 1984 when it was about 15 floors tall in Season One’s ‘Calderone’s Return’ a.k.a. Hit List. Jimmy, a friend, was an iron worker who was on the Tower's construction crew. You see it in December 1986, completed and lit up at night in blue decorated with Christmas Season snowflakes, in ‘Duty and Honor’ a.k.a. The Savage. Edited March 14, 2020 by miamijimf 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Vigilante Posted March 14, 2020 Report Share Posted March 14, 2020 Awesome building! Didn't Gloria Estefan shoot a video on the roof there?? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamijimf Posted March 14, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2020 (edited) 44 minutes ago, Mr. Vigilante said: Awesome building! Didn't Gloria Estefan shoot a video on the roof there?? Yes with clips from The Specialist. Edited March 14, 2020 by miamijimf 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airtommy Posted March 17, 2020 Report Share Posted March 17, 2020 Miami Mayor Francis Suarez Tests Positive for Coronavirus https://www.miaminewtimes.com/music/coronavirus-in-miami-how-nightlife-promoters-have-been-affected-by-the-pandemic-11596888 Quote It’s now day four since I’ve tested positive for COVID-19, and here’s how I’m feeling. Hopefully, through my experience, I can continue to put a face to this virus and reduce the anxiety many people are experiencing. I feel good. I feel a slight congestion. No fever, no coughing, no body aches, so I’m very pleased with how I feel, very happy. https://wsvn.com/news/local/miami-mayor-gives-update-on-coronavirus-self-quarantine/ https://twitter.com/FrancisSuarez/status/1239574578147373057 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt5 Posted March 18, 2020 Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 From April 2017 before the demolish of the Miami Herald building (“Cool Runnin’”). Sadly three years later this lot still stands empty with no development even planned. We also see the building in a few episodes of the show and the final trailer of the Miami Vice 2006 movie but from above the Macarthur Cswy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamijimf Posted March 18, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 (edited) 8 hours ago, Matt5 said: From April 2017 before the demolish of the Miami Herald building (“Cool Runnin’”). Sadly three years later this lot still stands empty with no development even planned. We also see the building in a few episodes of the show and the final trailer of the Miami Vice 2006 movie but from above the Macarthur Cswy. After it was abandoned but before it was demolished you get a look inside the Miami Herald Building. See Burn Notice series finale "Reckoning." Edited March 18, 2020 by miamijimf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt5 Posted March 19, 2020 Report Share Posted March 19, 2020 13 hours ago, miamijimf said: After it was abandoned but before it was demolished you get a look inside the Miami Herald Building. See Burn Notice series finale "Reckoning." Good to know Jim Thankyou x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt5 Posted March 19, 2020 Report Share Posted March 19, 2020 A current day interesting view of the Rickenbacker Cswy and Brickell\Downtown like we saw in “Lombard” and “Baseballs of Death” as well as a general closing credit shot. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
summer84 Posted March 19, 2020 Report Share Posted March 19, 2020 9 hours ago, Matt5 said: A current day interesting view of the Rickenbacker Cswy and Brickell\Downtown like we saw in “Lombard” and “Baseballs of Death” as well as a general closing credit shot. Wow! Great overview! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt5 Posted March 19, 2020 Report Share Posted March 19, 2020 3 hours ago, summer84 said: Wow! Great overview! Thankyou! Unusual to see this angle which we only see a few times in the show. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamijimf Posted March 22, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 Here's Brickell Key and the highrises along Brickell Ave including the tall Panorama Building. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt5 Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 (edited) Please stay safe all Florida friends - Miami -Dade has hit 600 cases and many deaths not as high as NY but rapidly growing. NY is struggling. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/news.yahoo.com/amphtml/spring-break-over-miami-beach-194008977.html Edited March 22, 2020 by Matt5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TylerDurden389 Posted March 24, 2020 Report Share Posted March 24, 2020 On 3/11/2020 at 5:31 PM, Mr. Vigilante said: Nice shot! Was just there. Love Ft. Lauderdale, but the airport is an absolute nightmare. So bad we are considering flying to Tampa and driving over next trip. Fly in through West Palm Beach's airport instead. It'll probably cost a bit more for flights, but it's a much smaller airport, and you get in and out a lot quicker. Also, you'll only have to drive about 60 miles south to get to Miami, as opposed to like 200 miles from Tampa, lol. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpaul1 Posted March 24, 2020 Report Share Posted March 24, 2020 (edited) On 2/20/2020 at 3:20 PM, Matt5 said: Current day Port of Miami looking to Downtown and Brickell on a rainy day. Well it is the rainy season! Seen in “Heart of Darkness”, “Tale of the Goat”, “By Hooker By Crook”, “God’s Work”, “Like a Hurricane” and the 2006 Miami Vice movie to name a few. that's a great, and rare shot! On 2/20/2020 at 9:28 PM, miamijimf said: Cursor down for some amazing and recent pics of downtown. Three key Vice sites are included. https://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=477774&page=308 On 2/22/2020 at 4:32 AM, miamijimf said: From the internet. Former Miamians reminiscing about life in the 80s and explaining why they moved away. Sounds like Vice episodes. Circa 1980s. Does anyone remember the house on/near Killian Parkway that blew up? It was a hit ordered by Griselda Blanco on a member of a drug cartel, and 200 sticks of dynamite were used. It was around SW 100 ave. I remember a house on the corner of SW 66th St and 84th Ave. It blew up when someone was making drugs with ether. A 55 gal drum. It blew out the windows, lifted the roof and damaged surrounding homes. I lived on 82ave and 65th St. The guy ran through my yard and I caught up with him. He was shirtless and all of his skin was peeling. He ran to the 874 Xpressway. That's one of the reasons I left Miami on a hundred and 7th Avenue in 1980 a machine gun and the car driving down the road very fast shooting at another car and hit all kinds of buildings. The 7-Eleven the flower show the most side damage. It hit a restaurant but didn't kill anyone there but they were killing each other left and right. I was out in my yard I lived on 105th Court and thought it was Thunder. It was machine guns, I moved to Orlando I also remember a car blew up at the intersection of SW 87th Ave and Miller. It happened on a weekday morning around 5:00! I understand it was a hit! The car ended up hitting someone’s wall. you're a monument jim. Edited March 24, 2020 by jpaul1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamijimf Posted March 24, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2020 Thanks jpaul, I think. Rico has never heard that compliment before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airtommy Posted March 26, 2020 Report Share Posted March 26, 2020 When MV was being filmed in the 1980s, Key Biscayne and Virginia Key were covered with Australian pine trees. They looked quite nice. But they are a menace to the environment. They drop a natural herbicide that kills most of the native vegetation. You can see that the ground is almost totally free of vegetation. This is very abnormal in South Florida. They also drop spiny seedpods that make walking on the beach impossible without shoes. This tree is an aggressive invasive species that is damaging the natural habitat throughout South Florida. Quote the sterile monoculture they form has replaced the normal ecosystem of plants and animals that used to inhabit beaches and many other areas. Our loggerhead turtles, green sea turtles and American crocodiles have lost nesting sites on sandy beaches above the high tide line where "pines" have colonized. Farther inland the "pines" have displaced marsh rabbits, gopher tortoises, and many bird species that depend upon the native plants that were out-competed. http://fnpsblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/australian-pine-one-of-floridas-least.html Being non-native, these trees cannot survive tropical storms. Hurricane Andrew wiped them out on Key Biscayne in 1992. After that event, Florida decided to restore some of Key Biscayne's natural wetlands. This is a good article on the history of Key Biscayne and the plan to restore the mangroves: https://www.miamirealestateguy.com/history-of-bill-baggs-cape-florida-state-park-on-key-biscayne/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt5 Posted March 28, 2020 Report Share Posted March 28, 2020 A lovely video of Key Biscayne and Soldier Key (Line of Fire, Cuba Libre). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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