Old Lauderdale

When we did our shopping on Las Olas and Andrews. Before there was The Galleria, Sawgrass Mills and Amazon, the free-standing department store reigned. Fort Lauderdale’s first, the Pioneer Department…

Seminole history includes both tragedy and triumph. Blow, blow Seminole Wind Blow like you’re never gonna blow again I’m calling to you like a long-lost friend… Blow, blow from the…

Bars don’t define our city, but they are an important part of our story. In 1939, Club Brownie’s paid a large advance to a New York promoter to get the…

Visiting our historic buildings on foot. In 1912, our fair city suffered a devastating fire that burned the business district to the ground. Fourteen years later, it was hit by…

Our city has been blessed with men of vision. The crowds that line up for Father’s Day at the Cheesecake Factory on Las Olas are steps away from where our…

Here, water and land have long had a fluid relationship. Quietly flowed the New and Middle rivers, like something out of a Russian novel, until the Army engineers arrived. They…

The choices may have been limited in the old days, but people took quickly to dining out. Ah, the selections: turkey or roast beef with sides of boiled spinach, buttered…

Most of the buildings that housed the city’s first lodgings no longer exist. Construction of our first hotel begun in 1905 by Edwin T. King for Philemon Bryan, a railroad…