I lived there in the late 70s and 80s . Yes they were old but i didn't care .Efficiencies were cheap the beach was great . Parking was easy yes everything was old but so what. Now they're making for the rich. I thought i was going to retire there. Now no way!
So true! Back in 1984 I was 14 and after my dad got cancer we went through a rough financial spot and had to move out of Maracaibo Park in Westchester to a cheaper area. We moved to 221 Collins Ave in Miami Beach. The rent was $50.00 a week for a large studio with a full kitchen and all utilities included, I would say it was about 500 sq ft. It was not safe at night but it was OK during the daytime, I had the beach a block away a great escape at a time I needed it the most. Honestly the older folks were OK I actually enjoyed talking to some of them about their younger years.
Why insanity, because they were mostly elderly people on the streets of SOBE, was fine, also everything was accessible, now is overpriced and full of criminal tourist, from the worst ghettos of the nation.
@@shannonmartin107 So hiphop and street violence equates to African American? The commenter wasn't lying when he made those assertions. South beach has become a dump with shootings and fights all over.
Yes i remember vividly the 80’s into the very early 90’s - so crazy i can remember most of the hotels were filled with older folks.. they would have their chairs out on the sidewalk. It was really a gentle time… Really miss those days. The Warsaw ballroom was just one of the best gems along with Torpedo ..
Tony, Ralph and Arcadio Maldonado's fruity store. But it was called Richards. They also had that big yellow truck. Now it's located at 124 NE 2nd Ave in Downtown and only Ralph runs it, it's still called Richards.
Richards at 124 NE 2nd ave. was sold 3-years ago and is now called Soul Fresh. The former owner Richard, no longer works there. Also, Richards Fruit Stand on Washington Ave. in Miami Beach back in the 1980s was not located at 1361 Washington ave. It was on the East side of the street but not at that address. I think it was a little further down either on the 1200 or 1300 block of Washington Ave.
@@moviemagg I've been friends with Jr and the family since I was a kid. Still friends till this day, though we really don't talk that much anymore since we grew up and have our families. We chat once in a while.
@@moviemagg His name was Tony. He bought the Richards fruit store in the early 80's when it was on Washington and 6th Street. Then he moved further up washington two times till finally to downtown.
610 WIOD, Neil was a nice guy, I maintained his satellite equipment in Sunrise. very different personality off radio. he was the best thing on radio back in the day. just so you know, many of his shows have been uploaded to yourtube. many of those audio skits are still hilarious.
@@agriperma Neil would hang out in a bar on Dixie Highway in South Miami. He'd smoke constantly and read the newspaper in a corner, alone and people knew not to get near him and ask questions.
People talk about hoodlums today but weren’t there a lot of drug dealers in the beach back in the day? From what I’ve heard it was cheap and many young Cubans moved in, some who happened to be criminals
They’re trying to equate criminality with black ppl. South Beach and Miami at large was filled with Cuban, Colombian, and white drug traffickers, sellers, and hit men back when this was filmed. They’re acting like the integration of black ppl turned South Beach into a cesspool, when in reality it’s always been a cesspool.
There’s always crime lurking everywhere and good and bad people. Overall, Sobe was good people and tranquil and social. Crime and the lowclass was not as rampart and consecutive as today. Drugs started creeping in like cocaine yes. The Cubans made Miami as well but unfortunately as many do not know, it wasn’t necessarily Cubans who were coming in living the American dream and assimilating with American values and culture that made it ghetto or drug infested. At that time Fidel Castro took advantage and let go the criminals from their prisons and sent them here as a fuck you to America and clean up their island. The crime here in the 80’s was between these low lives from Cubas prison, the ghetto Colombians and the ghetto Americans in the area that wanted to partake.
I never got to witness the dying embers of Frank, Dean and Sammy's Las Vegas. But I did the Miami Beach of Arthru Godfrey, Jackie Gleason and Wolfie Cohen. And for that alone, I am extremely and eternally grateful...
lmao at the pissed off old people, and the crazy lady. I was born in 1995 but i've lived in Miami my whole life, in Kendall near Pinecrest. Who knew there were so many old people in miami beach! reminds me of Fort Myers. Nothing but hoodlums and hobos now
@@geoffreyphipps2718 Decent people in Miami Beach you say? That's like looking for a needle in a haystack. You take your life in your hands if you go down there on a Friday or Saturday night. You ever watch the TV Show called The Walking Dead? Just take a walk down Washington Ave. one evening and you will see what I mean.
@@moviemagg i lived in south beach for 5 years...mivwd back to nyc to take care of my father...he died earlier this year so im returning in a few months. I guess everyone has different experiences...my South Beach experience was great!
@@geoffreyphipps2718 Sorry for your loss. You are correct. Everyone see's things in their own way. I grew up on the Beach back in the 60s and 70s when it was a great town. Visitors from out of town used to come down with their familes and children and it was a safe place to live. If you go to Ocean Drive after the sun sets all you see is people buying and selling drugs, pimps and hookers and lots of gang bangers starting fights and looking for trouble. Also a lot of people driving their sports cars at high rates of speed and blasting foul Hiphop and Rap music from their car radios with every other word being the N-word just to name a few. UGH! Make's South Beach seem like a real Getto.
I hate when they say "spring break" when they talk about the savages who shoot & destroy South Beach. The word "break" implies these are students on break, when in reality what they are, are thug savages who can't be reasoned with. They have no business being in any school or around civilized society.
Lol this was prior to SB few years later the land of the BEATIFUL PEOPLE..AFTER THE OLD ONES TIME WAS UP. REVAMP..EARLY 90S SAW ALL HOTELS THE EDERLY LIVED AT BEING BOUGHT AND THEM THROWN OUT.
![A Day in New York 1940s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/IjwyUAtACTI/mqdefault.jpg)
So south beach looked like a nursing home in the 80s?
Yes, you would not even believe the vibe back then. Most of your neighbors would be elderly.. it was actually a fantastic place to be
@@tgreen617 it would not have been a fantastic place if it was just old people. I can go to the villages for that.
You have no idea how great it was. Clubs were underground rent was cheap and you could live like a king.
Yup. It was a different world back then
Thanks for the video upload, great memories of growing up on South beach in better days.
Wish you had more.
Crazy this is now 35yrs old damn
That old Cuban woman was NOT having it lol
I lived there in the late 70s and 80s . Yes they were old but i didn't care .Efficiencies were cheap the beach was great . Parking was easy yes everything was old but so what. Now they're making for the rich. I thought i was going to retire there. Now no way!
So true! Back in 1984 I was 14 and after my dad got cancer we went through a rough financial spot and had to move out of Maracaibo Park in Westchester to a cheaper area. We moved to 221 Collins Ave in Miami Beach. The rent was $50.00 a week for a large studio with a full kitchen and all utilities included, I would say it was about 500 sq ft. It was not safe at night but it was OK during the daytime, I had the beach a block away a great escape at a time I needed it the most. Honestly the older folks were OK I actually enjoyed talking to some of them about their younger years.
I lived on the beach since 1997 till 3 years ago. I miss it already and seeing it in the 80s makes me want to move back.
@@mds1969 Did you know a kid they called Tony R?
@@tonyrmusic Sorry, no. Although we moved to South Beach I took the bus to go to Coral Park Sr high so I really never made any friends my age.
@@mds1969 Oh ok. You missed out on alot, they has some really good kids back then. You couldn't go 2 blocks without bumping into a friend.
Why insanity, because they were mostly elderly people on the streets of SOBE, was fine, also everything was accessible, now is overpriced and full of criminal tourist, from the worst ghettos of the nation.
Back in the day, colored had to be off the beach at sundown.
Unless they could prove they had a job.
Maybe....
You were the original Surveillance Camera Man lol
Cuban lady at the end is mad AF!!!😂🤣😂
Wow. Is that Washington Ave??? I moved there in '96, after the completion of renovations.
The beach peaked in the mid 90s anyways. It still had that Euro, party, high fashion vibe. Now it’s just hip hop and street violence.
@@shannonmartin107 knock yourself out Jack. I’m not white either dickhead.
@@shannonmartin107 So hiphop and street violence equates to African American? The commenter wasn't lying when he made those assertions. South beach has become a dump with shootings and fights all over.
Yes i remember vividly the 80’s into the very early 90’s - so crazy i can remember most of the hotels were filled with older folks.. they would have their chairs out on the sidewalk. It was really a gentle time… Really miss those days. The Warsaw ballroom was just one of the best gems along with Torpedo ..
Tony, Ralph and Arcadio Maldonado's fruity store.
But it was called Richards. They also had that big yellow truck.
Now it's located at 124 NE 2nd Ave in Downtown and only Ralph runs it, it's still called Richards.
Would you happen to know what street number Richards Fruit Store was located at on Washington Ave?
@@moviemagg 1361 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139, before that it was on 6th Street and Washington, but that was the early 80's
Richards at 124 NE 2nd ave. was sold 3-years ago and is now called Soul Fresh. The former owner Richard, no longer works there. Also, Richards Fruit Stand on Washington Ave. in Miami Beach back in the 1980s was not located at 1361 Washington ave. It was on the East side of the street but not at that address. I think it was a little further down either on the 1200 or 1300 block of Washington Ave.
@@moviemagg I've been friends with Jr and the family since I was a kid. Still friends till this day, though we really don't talk that much anymore since we grew up and have our families. We chat once in a while.
@@moviemagg His name was Tony. He bought the Richards fruit store in the early 80's when it was on Washington and 6th Street. Then he moved further up washington two times till finally to downtown.
them old people are not hear anymore.
I’m sure most of those all the people that was filmed, are gone now. Especially the angry Cuban lady who didn’t want her picture taken.
I remember south beach like that . Ocean dr was full of old people .
Yea, and now it's full of gangsta's and homeless people.
@@moviemagg Out of the frying pan into the fire. Miami was always a shithole.
The 90s and early 00s are remembered for when Miami clubs and football peaked! Been a hip hop dump this decade
Integration.
Bring back the Jim Crow Laws.
@@stuartlee6622 smoking on that stuart pack
It became a hiphop dump because rappers became more famous and started shooting videos in miami.
The whole world came here in the 90's and model shoots everywhere. Now shootings,filth and crazy homeless
90s SoBe was the spot. It's a urban decay dustopia now. Fat, ugly chicks with weaves have replaced the models.
The median age back then was 250...NEIL GOD!!!!
610 WIOD, Neil was a nice guy, I maintained his satellite equipment in Sunrise. very different personality off radio. he was the best thing on radio back in the day. just so you know, many of his shows have been uploaded to yourtube. many of those audio skits are still hilarious.
Median age was death
Median age was death.
@@agriperma Neil would hang out in a bar on Dixie Highway in South Miami. He'd smoke constantly and read the newspaper in a corner, alone and people knew not to get near him and ask questions.
People talk about hoodlums today but weren’t there a lot of drug dealers in the beach back in the day? From what I’ve heard it was cheap and many young Cubans moved in, some who happened to be criminals
They’re trying to equate criminality with black ppl. South Beach and Miami at large was filled with Cuban, Colombian, and white drug traffickers, sellers, and hit men back when this was filmed. They’re acting like the integration of black ppl turned South Beach into a cesspool, when in reality it’s always been a cesspool.
There’s always crime lurking everywhere and good and bad people. Overall, Sobe was good people and tranquil and social. Crime and the lowclass was not as rampart and consecutive as today. Drugs started creeping in like cocaine yes. The Cubans made Miami as well but unfortunately as many do not know, it wasn’t necessarily Cubans who were coming in living the American dream and assimilating with American values and culture that made it ghetto or drug infested. At that time Fidel Castro took advantage and let go the criminals from their prisons and sent them here as a fuck you to America and clean up their island. The crime here in the 80’s was between these low lives from Cubas prison, the ghetto Colombians and the ghetto Americans in the area that wanted to partake.
Wish I could go back.
The day the movie Scarface came out the place changed forever .
I was living in Ocean Drive 8th. It was one of the places they were filming Scarface .
To think all those elderly people are dead today.
Keep in mind that since this was 1986, the person filming this had the big shoulder mounted camera. 😂
No he did not because I'm the guy who filmed this. It was a small handheld camcorder.......
Maybe not the shoulder ones but the early 80’s did not have the small ones yet and you still had to hold it up high 😂
Many of these folks did not appreciate getting filmed. I wonder why
Search for First Amendment Auditors SGV News and discover that today people still don't want to be filmed
Wow @ 4:25 - Today you can’t find one person to say those words. Unbelievable we’re we have come.
I bet it was tough finding a free handicap spot.
I never got to witness the dying embers of Frank, Dean and Sammy's Las Vegas. But I did the Miami Beach of Arthru Godfrey, Jackie Gleason and Wolfie Cohen. And for that alone, I am extremely and eternally grateful...
this dude would have 100k followers these days lol
I would gladly take that SOBE over today's SOBE any time
lmao at the pissed off old people, and the crazy lady. I was born in 1995 but i've lived in Miami my whole life, in Kendall near Pinecrest. Who knew there were so many old people in miami beach! reminds me of Fort Myers. Nothing but hoodlums and hobos now
You are correct. Sadly today SouthBeach is a Getto. It's the new Harlem.
There's still decent people there... just younger
@@geoffreyphipps2718 Decent people in Miami Beach you say? That's like looking for a needle in a haystack. You take your life in your hands if you go down there on a Friday or Saturday night. You ever watch the TV Show called The Walking Dead? Just take a walk down Washington Ave. one evening and you will see what I mean.
@@moviemagg i lived in south beach for 5 years...mivwd back to nyc to take care of my father...he died earlier this year so im returning in a few months. I guess everyone has different experiences...my South Beach experience was great!
@@geoffreyphipps2718 Sorry for your loss. You are correct. Everyone see's things in their own way. I grew up on the Beach back in the 60s and 70s when it was a great town. Visitors from out of town used to come down with their familes and children and it was a safe place to live. If you go to Ocean Drive after the sun sets all you see is people buying and selling drugs, pimps and hookers and lots of gang bangers starting fights and looking for trouble. Also a lot of people driving their sports cars at high rates of speed and blasting foul Hiphop and Rap music from their car radios with every other word being the N-word just to name a few. UGH! Make's South Beach seem like a real Getto.
Today in 2022 it's insane spring breakers and Memorial Day Urban Beach Week revelers. 🍹🍺 🏖
Blax
I hate when they say "spring break" when they talk about the savages who shoot & destroy South Beach. The word "break" implies these are students on break, when in reality what they are, are thug savages who can't be reasoned with. They have no business being in any school or around civilized society.
lol, look at tony 4:09
Is this the lost episode of The Walking Dead?
No, the prequel.
Lol this was prior to SB few years later the land of the BEATIFUL PEOPLE..AFTER THE OLD ONES TIME WAS UP. REVAMP..EARLY 90S SAW ALL HOTELS THE EDERLY LIVED AT BEING BOUGHT AND THEM THROWN OUT.
When Miami Beach was beautiful
Thank you URBAN weekends/spring breaks for destroying a once enjoyable South Beach. 👍🏼
Yea, and now it looks like a zoo........
this looks more like outer Brooklyn or even the Bronx, than the Miami Beach I know now!!!!!!
Old people?
@@thedirtybubble9613 LOL well a little, but also the energy and the look of the storefronts and sidewalk.
nothings changed it seems
? I thougt the man in the beginnng was picking up c rocks😮
Why only old age people 😮
All the young people were busy in school or at work at that hour. Does that answer your question......
Cameraman seems like a creep
Can't stand inaccurate video titles.
people are weird in America, why?
Freedom affords you the right to be weird.
@@thedirtybubble9613lol you ain't free 😂
Todas esas señoras ya No Existen EPD ya
How terrible it is what healthy fruit without GMO can do with the human mind and human body.
cutie at 1:30
huh?
@@Squicx dude looks like a lady ;3
HI
HAHAH 4:23 !!!
“Te he dicho que no”!
I told you no
She was right
Miedo. Miedo