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1957 - the Northwest corner of Miami International Airport

Miami International Airport, Florida


NW 36 Street did not go over the canal. Dressel's Dairy is visible in the upper center of the photo and was a very popular place to go for families on weekends. Home in Virginia Gardens have already been constructed north of 36th Street.


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Don Boyd18-Jun-2008 02:39
Hi Steve, thank you for that interesting tidbit because I've never heard of Broken Skull Airport. I'll do some more checking around on this.

Don
Steve McDonald 18-Jun-2008 02:25
Hi Don, Funny what one sees when going through your website. I so thoroughly enjoy reviewing this stuff and get excited to find an extinct photo ocasionally. This is such a photo and I suspect it is earlier than 1957. Follow along my description of this photo to see something of which there probably is not another photo anywhere. Note the intersection of Runways 9L and 12 in the lower part of the photo. These runways intersected way west of Red Road after the airport was expanded westward. Runway 12 is an extension from the old Army AirCorps Field and not a part of the original 36th St. Airport. But that is not what caught my eye. Follow the diagonal taxiway that leads away from 9L northwestward into the area later nicknamed "corrosion corner." The other end of that diagonal taxiway ends on an east-west grungy looking piece of tarmac and an area of buildings. That is the old Broken Skull Airport off Milam Road. Including my Dad, I knew people who flew off Broken Skull back in the 30's. When Broken Skull was operational, 36th Street Airport was totally east of Red Road and so the two really did not particularly interfere with each other.