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Update Magazine — Volume 2

Vol. 2, no 1 (October 1974)
Downtown Miami

Marking Time, by Wayne E. Withers. [first telephone exchange]
Picturing Our Past, by S. J. Boldrick. [Miami Avenue and Flagler Street]
Pioneer Pictures, by Dorothy Dean Davidson
Burdine’s, by Gene Rider.
How Guavonia Became Coral Gables, by Mary C. Dorsey.
New in the Library, by Thelma Peters.
House Built to Last Centuries, by Hampton Dunn. [Villa Serena]
History’s a Mystery, by Thelma Peters. (crossword puzzle)

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Vol. 2, no. 2 (December, 1974)
That's Entertainment

Director’s Desk, by Randy Nimnicht.
Picturing Our Past, by S. J. Boldrick. [Cinderella Ballroom]
Ladies, Kindly Remove Your Hats or Miami’s Pre-boom Theatres, by Thelma Peters.
Those Were the Days, by Peppy Fields
Twenty-five Years of Television Pioneering, by G. S. Nyne.
Miami Night Life, 1944-1950: End of an Era, [by] George Bourke [and] Leslie Turner.
Opera in the Swimming Pool, by Mary C. Dorsey.
Black Entertainment 1908-1919, by Dorothy Fields.
History’s a Mystery, by Thelma Peters. (crossword puzzle)
Marking Time, by Wayne E. Withers. [Julia Tuttle]
Munroe Over Miami, by Kirk Munroe.

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Vol. 2, no. 3 (February 1975)
The Rumrunners

Reflections on Local Black History, by Dorothy Fields. [Black Archives]
Picturing Our Past, by S. J. Boldrick. [prohibition]
The Story From the Other Side, as told to Jerry Pardue.
Another Boom in the Nineteen Twenties, condensed from Tequesta by Dr. Charlton Tebeau.
The Rumrunning Era, by Capt. Victor Bullock (as told to Thelma Peters)
History’s a Mystery, by Thelma Peters. (crossword puzzle)

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Vol. 2, no. 4 (April, 1975)
The Grand Openings

Picturing Our Past, by S. J. Boldrick. [Seaboard Railway]
Opening Night at the Capitol Theatre, by Dick Lehman.
Pomp and Circumstance—The Royal Palm Hotel, by Thelma Peters.
The Wooden Way to Miami Beach, by Marty Grafton. [Collins Bridge]
The Opening of Rail Service to Miami and Key West, by Seth Bramson.
The Biltmore Debuts, by Prunella Wood.
Opening Day at Hialeah Race Course, by Jerry Pardue.

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Vol. 2, no. 5 (June 1975)
Miami's Marine Scene

Director’s Desk, by Randy F. Nimnicht.
The Port of Miami, by RAdm I. J. Stephens
The Biscayne House of Refuge, by Thelma Peters.
Marking Time [Biscayne House of Refuge]
The United States Naval Station at Key West, by John R. Hope.
The Ship That Stopped the Boom, by Samuel J. Boldrick.
Reflections on Local Black History: Stevedores, by Dorothy J. Fields.
Picturing Our Past, by S. J. Boldrick. [ships]
History’s a Mystery, by Larry Winebrenner. (crossword puzzle)

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Vol. 2, no. 6 (August 1975)
Hurricane

Director’s Desk, by Randy F. Nimnicht.
Hurricanes—I Hate Them!, By Jack Roberts.
Mister Hurricane, by E. V. W. Jones. [Grady Norton]
Picturing Our Past, by S. J. Boldrick.
Hurricane Honeymoon, by Thelma Peters. [1926 hurricane on Bimini]
The Hurricane in Florida Fiction, by Stuart B. McIver.
The Disastrous 1928 Lake Okeechobee Hurricane, by Patsy West.
Last Train to Key West, by Jerry Pardue. [1935 hurricane]

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