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20-DEC-2014 Don Boyd

December 2014 - Mary and retired Hialeah High School coach Chuck Mrazovich at the Ranch House restaurant in Hialeah

1548 W. 84th Street, Hialeah, Florida view map


I hadn't seen Mary and Chuck for about a year, when Brothers of Brooklyn Restaurant closed at the Royal Oaks Shopping Center in Miami Lakes. Mary worked at Hialeah High School for many years and Chuck was the great basketball coach. They both retired from Hialeah High and still live in west Hialeah just south of Miami Lakes. Chuck was performing in a three piece band at the Ranch House (the sole remaining Ranch House) playing Christmas music for the patrons.

The Brothers of Brooklyn restaurant was a favorite gathering spot for the "gringos" who haven't moved out of the county for points further north like so many have done since the 1960's. I've had breakfast there with Eric Olson, Nelson Hernandez and retired Hialeah High coach/athletic director Mike Feduniak there on many Saturdays spanning 13 or 14 years and occasionally Chuck and Mary would be there. I also had lunches there numerous times after mid-day doctor appointments. Brother of Brooklyn was run by Chris and Donna with servers Leigh and Jackie and John assisted them. They had to close the restaurant due to their rent almost doubling because of a new shopping center owner who is apparently overly greedy. The space went vacant for over a year so that wasn't a brilliant business decision on the part of the new owner(s). It was only recently that I heard a new restaurant will be opening there. They better have a lot of business in order to pay the astronomical rent for the space unless the new owner(s) have become less greedy due to all the vacant space in the shopping center.

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