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1963 - Scotty's Drive-In Restaurant at 16301 Collins Avenue (A1A), Sunny Isles

16301 Collins Avenue (A1A), Sunny Isles, Dade County


There are other photos of the famous Scotty's in the 1961 time frame of this gallery that were taken from an episode of "Miami Undercover", a television show filmed in Miami and Miami Beach. You can view the entire episode of "The Thrush" at:
http://www.archive.org/details/MiamiUndercoverTheThrush

Thanks to Terry Bocskey for updating the hot link to the video.


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Anne 30-Mar-2023 22:11
Hey, just thought I’d say what a joy it was for us, OSU college students, to work at Scotty’s Drive-In Restaurant during our summer vacations 1967, 1968. Two of us were hostesses and eventually inside waitresses, while I was a car hop outside and loved meeting and serving all the vacationing customers. In addition to all the fab food, the Orange Freezes were popular to cool down with, besides shakes. Carrying the trays that attached to a partially rolled down window was tricky but made the drive in experience. I don’t think cars had air conditioning yet… Most drive-in spots were under a cover and the sea breeze was refreshing. We worked straight for tips only and most customers made our work worthwhile… no minimum wage but changes were starting for career servers. Driving “Seaboard” call in, deliver orders meant hopping into the delivery car, knowing motel location, finding the room, getting cash payment (did charge cards exist..) was way ahead using food delivery service. 3HB, 2-KM, 1TomLetMayo, 1FFbasket, 3OrgFrz…great menu, great cooks, great food, great prices, great service, great time… but moved on to loving teaching, serving kids’ development. Anne
STUART BLUM 10-Nov-2018 22:32
Hi granddaughter of Barney Richards and daughter of Rolly...my dad, Jerry Blum was Barney's first cousin. I remember Barney and Rolly from the 60's very fondly. We lived in NMB and I also remember Scotty's from when I was a very young boy! Stuart Blum
Paul 14-Jun-2017 15:11
My parents ate at Scotty's on their honeymoon in 1958. I know because they took the menu as a souvenir. We still have it. At their 50th anniversary, we put it on display, along with a lot of memorabilia related to their marriage and the kids they would eventually have. I'm one of those children. So cool to look at the menu with all the coffee ring stains on it. Even has the phone number listed as "WI 7-4811". It says, "On the ocean at 163rd Street". My mother has now passed, but Scotty's played a part in that honeymoon and they never forgot it. It must have been a special place. I'm sorry I'll never have the pleasure of visiting there.
Guest 03-Nov-2016 00:29
My name is Theresa Mintz, and my mother Faye Mintz was a waitress in the early 60's. I still have her name tag in the shape of a Scotty dog. Mr. Bookbinder came to visit my parents in the 70's and he had gifts for me and my brother. I wish there were pictures of my mom back then.
Guest 31-Jan-2015 09:17
Julie, lol, it appears there are great many stories about Scottys, the least of which was that Grandpa Barney owned it way back when....??
Guest 06-Aug-2014 14:13
What a small world. My grandfather, Barney Richards built Scotty's back in the 1940's. My father, Rolllin Richards used to work there while attending law school at the University of Miami.
Guest 13-Jun-2014 02:50
Hello Phyllis, I hope you read this..Its Coby,well my mother (the bookeeper) worked at
Scottys and I hung out at the beach when I was a young kid. Julius made some evil hot dogs. I yearn for the the grilled buttered buns.
Susie 01-Apr-2014 20:10
Hi Phyllis. I've tried to find you on facebook. Would love to buy you a hot fudge sundae somewhere. I live in hollywood. I,m still sad when I drive down Collins and it's not there. So many awesome memories. I remember George and Bill like they were family from growing up there.
Guest 17-Jan-2014 03:53
Jeff, Muriel was my Aunt and the wife of my Uncle , the brother of George . They brothers were partners from the late 1950's thru the early 1970's . n I am the younger daughter of George .
Don Boyd02-Dec-2013 07:51
Seth, I didn't know about the Burdine's on Biscayne until I obtained the photos a week or so before you called. Miami's history is like a jigsaw puzzle where a somewhat complete picture of the area is formed by thousands of old images that help to make up the total picture.

Best regards!

Don
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Seth H. Bramson 01-Dec-2013 19:31
As with so much of Don's material, absolutely wonderful. Hello, Jeff, my friend, and, Don, again, want everybody to know how helpfuly you were to me when I did the Burdine's book (BURDINE'S: SUNSHINE FASHIONS AND THE FLORIDA STORE) as Don furnished me with several great photos of the short lived Biscayne Blvd. Burdine's store which, until Don enlightened me, I was unaware of.
Jeff 27-Nov-2013 07:27
Muriel Bookbinder was once kind enough to let me make a copy negative of a color shot of Scotty's back before my collection became part of Seth and Myrna Bramson's archive... I don't know if she was George's widow or not...
Guest 10-Mar-2011 05:29
I sure do Susie , wow what great Memories . Are you here in South Florida , we have to talk !!!
Guest 08-Mar-2011 14:02
We watched the episode of Miami Undercover with my mom. She was working on the curb. There was also an episode of Surfside 6 shot there. I'm trying to find it.
Phyllis, do you still live in South Florida..Susie
Don Boyd22-Dec-2010 06:19
I'm glad to see all the responses to this photo, especially from the daughters of the owners and servers. I just added more photos of Scotty's in the 1961 time frame in this same Restaurants gallery that were taken from the 1961 "The Thrush" episode of "Miami Undercover" that some nice guest posted on here. Thank you, guest, for tipping us off about the TV show.

The link to view the entire episode of the show is at:
http://ia700101.us.archive.org/20/items/MiamiUndercoverTheThrush/MiamiUndercover-theThrush.ogv

Don
Guest 21-Dec-2010 00:27
I found the video and watched it. :)
Guest 21-Dec-2010 00:25
Thank you so much for bringing back this memory of my dad and uncle's restaurant. I am the younger daughter of one of the owner's of Scotty's .
Guest 15-Dec-2010 20:29
It is posted at
wwwDOTarchiveDOTorgSLASHdetailsSLASHMiamiUndercoverTheThrush
Guest 12-Dec-2010 11:04
This place was featured in the pilot episode of a syndicated series shot in Miami Beach in 1961 called "Miami Undercover" starring Lee Bowman and Rocky Graziano. The show opening featured a young Larry King as a disc jockey (which he really was in Miami in 1961). Search the Internet Archives for Miami Undercover and you'll find this episode, called "Thrush". Great show and great scene at Scotty's!
Guest 15-Jan-2010 16:43
The premier, pre make out place to dine. Great everything. We'd even brave it during the thousands of crabs on the street season. Of course the dead crab smell did not enhance those perfect burgers.
Peggy Green
Guest 19-Sep-2009 22:33
I remember your mother Dorothy. She was so nice and such a great waitress. I am George's younger daughter Phyllis.
DaveD 19-Aug-2009 03:43
they were dorothy brown and her daughters , pat and charlene brown. your dad would let us park in the lot behind the restaurant to use the beach.
Guest 26-Apr-2009 13:36
what were the names of your family that worked for my dad
DaveD 05-Apr-2009 20:11
a couple of my family worked there in the mid 60's when owned by george bookbinder, loved the beach and sunny isles pier nearby.
Guest 08-Jun-2008 05:20
I am the younger daughter of George . Is Susie , Julie's duaghter???
Guest 07-Jun-2008 22:11
Who posted that their dad and uncle owned it. My mom worked there from the day it opened till the day it closed. I used to hang out at the beach with the owners daughter and eat hot fudge sundays. Then I worked my way thru college there serving curb and driving the take out car.
Susie
Guest 03-May-2008 16:18
Lots of great memories of dates where we drove over the causeway from Hialeah to the "Beach" on balmy Miami nights to grab a burger at Scotty's during the '60s. Those were the days......
Guest 23-Mar-2008 19:10
My dad and uncle owned this place in the 50's and 60's. I worked there after graduating college for a while. It was a hectic operation with curb service, dining room, pick up window and delivery to all of the motels on the strip known as "Motel Row". I particularly enjoyed working with the car hops.
John Lasseter14-Mar-2008 11:29
I would have been one of those boys driving around looking to meet girls. Only problem was that I was too shy to stop... :)
Diane 27-Feb-2008 01:38
Around 1967 my girlfriends and I used to scout out Scotty's to try to meet guys. We would slowly drive in one side and go all the way around and drive out the other side to see if there were any "potentials". I don't remember ever going inside!
Guest 22-Nov-2007 00:11
my Father and his brother were partners. I as a child helped the preparation chef Julius in the kitchen. As I got older I worked there over school vacations in every capacity. In my teen years I would bring my friends there for some great hamburgers and milk shakes. Our restauranr had dining room service, curb service and delivery service through Motel Row now known as Sunny Isles. Such fond memories of those days before the high rise condos were built. As a family we ate dinner there just about everynight. My dad and his brother had wonderful employees in those days. . In the early 70's the neighborhood changed and Scottys became something else until the building was demolished and now the Condo "Oceana" is on the property of the our family's famous "FOOT LONG HOTDOGS"
Heather Javenes 05-Oct-2007 14:45
The owner after Bill Breezy was my Grandfather Joseph George Bookbinder. I have very fond memories of Scotty's from when I was a little girl in the 70's. I remember hanging out playing the pinball machines but I was too little so I needed to stand on a chair in order to play. The popcorn machine was my favorie, grandpa would always let me help myself and never stop me from taking too much. (Which I always did) Scotty's was just a great hang out in the day. The food was great and the people were regulars.
Jeff 17-Jul-2007 02:17
Scotty's opened in the late 40's and was owned by Bill Breezy. He sold it to a fellow named Bookbinder, who [in turn] sold it to two of his brothers. It was in operation from about 1949 through 1973 when it became a Hum-Dinger hamburger franchise, then an Arthur Treacher's franchise. A few years later it was demolished.

Scotty's was located just South of the Castaways on Collins Avenue in Sunny Isles.