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Don Boyd | all galleries >> Memories of Old Hialeah, Old Miami and Old South Florida Photo Galleries - largest non-Facebook collection on the internet >> Miami Area Tourist and Local ATTRACTIONS Historical Photos Gallery - All Years - click on image to view > 1950's ? - Miami Beach Kennel Club
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1950's ? From a postcard

1950's ? - Miami Beach Kennel Club

South Beach, Miami Beach, Florida


This view is looking west and Government Cut is on the left - it almost looks like the Atlantic.


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Barry Diamond 09-Jul-2009 02:56
I wonder if the grandstand was moved. This is how I remember the track, but the postcard of fishing boats heading west on Government Cut in the '40's shows the Dog Track/Grandstand on the Atlantic side facinf West. Were there two grandstands in later years?
Guest 02-Jul-2009 23:31
I was a patron in 1957-58. Working at the Southern Bell ATT Telephone Office on Miami Beach. A date took me to my first (and last) dog race. I lost my paycheck (bad enough), but the real sadness was over what was happening to the dogs. A man sitting next to me told me that some dogs died on the track from a burst heart. I never returned.
Don Boyd11-Feb-2009 14:38
Hi Rachelle, yes, it's been gone for a couple of decades now. There are now giant condos on this site all the way from the beach westward. There is a recent photo of this area, taken from the old South Beach, athttp://www.pbase.com/donboyd/image/99163520 in the 70's and later gallery.

Don
Rachelle S. F. 11-Feb-2009 07:32
I went here on a date with my boyfriend after it opened in the late fifties. Is that gone now?