1952 - Burl Grey's boat at a dock where the Miami Herald later built on the bay photo

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1952 (maybe earlier)	Burl Grey

1952 - Burl Grey's boat at a dock where the Miami Herald later built on the bay

14th Street Causeway, Miami, Florida

According to Burl, this tiny marina was located next to the 14th Street Causeway (now MacArthur Causeway) on the north side where the Miami Herald building was constructed year later. This was a 16-foot Chris Craft runabout hull that he installed a Lincoln Zephyr 12-cylinder engine into.

Photo courtesy of Burl Grey at http://www.burlgrey.com

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Jeff		17-Sep-2007 20:49
Take notice of the small "E.B. Elliot Co." sign in the upper right hand corner of the picture... This was one of a number of billboards that lined the bayside property between the County Causeway and the Venetian Causeway on the future Miami Herald site; facing East as traffic headed to the mainland. Jantzen Swimsuits, Admiral Television and Cliquot Club Ginger Ale were three I recall seeing in old photos of the area...

Burl Grey		24-Jul-2007 19:50
Burl Grey here saying the operator of this little marina was "Barney", something like "Barney's boats". My younger brother remembered that name.

Burl Grey		30-May-2007 16:08
Data on this picture from the ower, Burl Grey. If anyone knows about the old auto's Lincoln Zephyer with 12 cylinder engines... they will recognize the gear shift lever. I bought an old car and transplanted the entire engine including the clutch and gears. It's placed a little too far toward the front of the boat creating a problem when I tried to get it going. It was hard to get it out of first gear because the forward motion would spin the prop in the opposite direction so that shifting into second gear was almost impossible. I tied the boat too tight at high tide and when the tide went out it wrecked the boat which I then abandonded... A stupid thing to do from the beginning :-) But great fun!

Don Boyd		28-May-2007 19:16
My mistake Burl - now it's fixed. Thanks. Don

Burl Grey		28-May-2007 19:03
Don, I may have misslet you on that because it was on the North side of the MacArthur causeway which is 14th Street, (not the Venetian causeway which is a block or so North.