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quilted Modern Fast, Safe Transportationpleated '
designed Provided For Miami Beach Visitors
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ger. The Today's fabulous City of Miami theles. by November 14, by the up-to-date transportation
standard Beach, served by 93 sleek, modern 1928, the tracks bad been re-laid system.
r Flying buses is a far cry from the Miami and the cars again operated A ride over to the Beach in
Iuarters, Beach of 1920 with its rather bar- across the Causeway. the old days took the tourist
the do ren sands, only two hotels and a
tails yea few miles of track traversed b The trolleys, supplemented by almost an hour from Miami to
ttee, the y the few buses on the Beach proper. about the location of the Roney
ch were
five little trolley cars, which consisted of some 32-pas- Plana hotel, bat today for the
of Servs The forerunner of what has •senger Fageols and a couple of Mese fare he can get there In
tigh and been recognised as one of the 21-passenger Yellow Coaches, con- about 23 minutes, with buses
nd Hay- most modern transportation syn• Untied to serve the fast-growing leaving every few minutes.
heatrical terns In the country today was vacation land until October. 1939, While contending with greatly
of the • small trolley Une started Dec. when the street cars were replaced Increased traffic during the winter
says, and 18, 1520, by Carl C. Fisher, one by 15 of what were then consld- season and drivers from prac-
thington, of the early developers of Miami ered the most modern buses, with Ucally every state In the union
Reach, a seating capacity of 23 paseen- and Canada, Railway co. bus driv-
lew uni- That system, operating five germ. The old trolley lines were era have maintained a fine safety
Tucson, single-end trolley cars, ran across taken down, rails were covered or record.
taken out, and the more flexible no company recently re.
ifnhrldge the County Causeway from Flag-
ten, Mo.; ler st. to Fifth st. and Alton rd., all-bus system was put in open- ee4ved •warts from the Amen-
o, Texas, north along Alton rd. to Dade lion. can Transit•man. for its achieve-
to fields blvd., along Dade blvd. to 23rd at. In April, 1941, William D. mens la waffle and passenger
in prog- and Park ave., thence south along Fawley, the present owner, a aaf'ly among transit companies
Park ave. and Washington ave. to former'United States ambas:•s• to 'he I'. S. and Canada of like
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Second at, east to Collins ave., dor to the republics of Brasil iwpi_Iatlon, a• well as a special
TILE TO south to First at. and from First and Peru, purchased the bus elation for the greatest redo('
IRICAN at. back to Alton rd. and down to co m pan y from the Florldi ( lion In accidents of any transit
Fifth where it Intersected the line Power & Light co., and bougt-t tou'p•ny In that group.
I from Miami. 13 new Ford buses to forth,t Numbered on its employe roster
1 The Miami Beach Railway co. at modernise transportation on of some 190 people are 15 men
. at that time employed about 25 Miami Reach. Fawley continued to have been with The Miami
- men, some 12 of whom were trot- to enlarge the system to keep Reach Railway co. for 25 years or
ley operators, the remainder being pace with the expanding mei- loncer. This latter group Includes
divided between maintenance and inanity, which had grown frogs T. E. Lewis, vice-president and
miscellaneous employes. 630 people in 1920 to some general manager, and D. L. Wal.
, 48,000 permanent residents ht lace, general superintendent of
These little street cars served presentansportation. These men have
time, tr
the early Miami Beach resident seen both Miami Beach and its
and visitors who, according to Today The Miami Beach tall-
way transportation system e x pa n d
;; a pioneer employe, often had to way co. operates a fleet of 93 from the sandy wester covered by
h ride with pine branches In their clean,modern buses, most of them ave trolley cars to the present
hands to brush away the hordes seating 40 passengers, which run densely bttllt stretch of several
• of mosquitoes• the operators from Its Miami terminal at Flat-miles of ocean beach served by
even resorting to smudge pots ler st. and Third ave. over three nearly a hundred modern buses.
to keep the peat. away. causeways to the Beach. It carries
At that time there was nothing t a thousands of sightseeing tour-
ag.„ but a sandy stretch of land dotted lets u well as workers5tba thelengthOn 0 i i y.3^ r') f
with a few coconut trees north of ed dr islan(f to Sast., t the �1 • i,..,- «..1 .,,,! ,1 r e 1^h
( i� Dade blvd., except for the Fisher hundreds of brilliant, modernistic •�F
photels which are the backbone of I, ;ODA .suet i c(,c r,.
` „Abdo., barns at 41st st. and Chase ave., the community's economy, the 8i''(
, c r f
where tools, stock and equlptAent 4
growth of which hu been aided 0 t i/�'i fr4�„, '•
were stored. The only hotels of
any size were the Lincoln and the �
Flamingo. FOR SALE er LEASE LUDMAN
In March, 1124, the Florida wATIN/NHT /1INN11NED NUS
Power & Light co. had acquired E puNNllf. 1 BAIN3 UJin(I(1I1tP P►( 4 ,141
,.. the stock of The Miami Beach %MTU Mg Si howl 1E[II
.. Railway co. in connection with Its $ Mews w sus mewl..
purchase of the electric property 'Aso. ansa' value Mr
ss 4Ai' ,I64
from Carl Fisher and began opera owns R 142$ w $64453
ating the trolley system. In Janu- '
ary, 1928, 12 large new trolley ___•,,_
1 ears were bought. the County �'
Causeway was double-trackedpeand INSU
these cars were o rated together n� 0 ,
with three little 17-passenger �� / I
buses purchased about 1925, which
ran to points on the Beach not / & � t" .ti• -
covered by the trolley system. �� i i4
Kp' " MIAMI MACH. L J
These fine new transportation �'
iaraarsiw •maw.wt- gammas--..w. - ..- . -- ------ ",-;:ii:
everything else In the area from
the September. *Mk her-
BAY FRONT BUNGALOW'
ricane, which washed out the 2- be
track on the Causeway fres Issue this sew walled
I smell 140rrp1-bedc+.n� MoAD
Just east of Palm Island to the Delays kitahea, walls• I. yard. 1405 H. SISCAYNI POINT ROAD.
that fits curve where the (talk 'Wail PRICE PS N
Service Is located. Motors were t?l'?ca line chews M AHoi•tmose NMY.eee Pens
i cabana 1I submerged is call waaev and
had to be dried cut in eveaell 534/357 "KALE" PROTECTED 46-426/
.hidnoff) alley wires were dews, bat
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