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Hitting All the High Notes

  • January 18, 2023
  • John Dolen
James A. Dallas Sr. – Jimmie to his friends – loved music, valued education and built community. If you’ve had occasion to take the Brightline train and use the adjacent…
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The Big Blow

  • December 29, 2022
  • John Dolen
Not long after we on the southeast coast of Florida were breathing a sigh of relief as Hurricane Ian missed us, our reprieve turned to horror as destruction on the…
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Welcome to the Show

  • October 28, 2022
  • John Dolen
Today’s Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show is a multi-day spectacle. Its earliest iterations were distinctly more humble affairs. The first year that Fort Lauderdale and the term “boat show” were…
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Oceanfront Property

  • October 13, 2022
  • John Dolen
After starting out a river town, Fort Lauderdale became a beach town – but it didn’t happen overnight. It’s not good when a man invests in a Fort Lauderdale Beach…
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The Swindle and the Sand

  • September 29, 2022
  • John Dolen
It might surprise current residents to know that in the early days of Fort Lauderdale, the beaches – our prized treasure – had little appeal to settlers. The beaches were…
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The Woman Who Saw the Future

  • August 25, 2022
  • John Dolen
Fort Lauderdale was not yet a town, and what would become Miami barely existed, but Mary Brickell saw the potential for her own vast landholdings and the rest of the…
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New York vs. New River, Champs Elysses vs. Sanitary Mule

  • August 1, 2022
  • John Dolen
Fort Lauderdale wasn’t always a big city; in earlier times, we offered simpler delights. If there were a competition for “Latest-Blooming Metropolis in the World,” Fort Lauderdale would certainly be…
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Bombers, Bush and the Bermuda Triangle

  • June 23, 2022
  • John Dolen
The place that is now our international airport was put to a different use in World War II. In the 1920s, Fort Lauderdale swelled from a population of 2,300 to…
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Rubin Stacy, Remembered

  • May 19, 2022
  • FLMag Staff
Some wrongs can never be made right. But on a street in Fort Lauderdale, a name is remembered. This February, a crowd gathered near Davie Boulevard and SW 31st Street.…
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The Good Ol’ Boys’ Hacienda

  • April 27, 2022
  • John Dolen
Red Crise’s Hacienda Village sounds like something out of a Hiaasen novel. It wasn’t. Slow Down. Pull Over. You’re in Hacienda Village. A deliciously fitting headline told the story for…

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