![]() Except for these landmarks, the Grove was a series of heavily vegetated little streets lined with old Florida slash pine bungalows built by the original Bahamian settlers back in the 1920’s. Scornavacca had his art studio down the alleyway between the Pharmacy and St Stephen’s school which I attended for one year when it opened in 1959. If you had a few extra bucks you went to have a few drinks at the Old Grove Pub, got dinner at the Taurus Steakhouse on Main Highway and went to see “Hair” or “Equus” at the Playhouse just down the street. Peacock Park and the old Public Library stood just south of the main drag as it does today, running down to the bay. In the center of town was the Peacock family ship’s chandlery where Cocowalk now stands and the Florida Pharmacy catty corner to it where we all went to the luncheon counter to have breakfast. I had just gotten a job for the county government as a photographer that barely paid me enough money to live but included a car so I was set.īack then, the Grove was a pretty funky old fishing village and all the old Miamians would warn you not to drive through it lest you got shanghaied by some shady character. ![]() I shared the flat with a college buddy from UM that worked selling buttons for his uncle in New Jersey. The complex was a big one acre property with four duplexes surrounded by beautiful vegetation that sat just above the bay looking down on Monty Traynor’s old place and the Dinner key marina. As with everyone else in the Grove she was a lovable eccentric. ![]() It was owned by an old doll that had been a bit player in the movies back in the 20’s and 30’s and was a ringer for the Norma Desmond character in “Sunset Boulevard”. Back in the late 60’s I lived in a duplex apartment complex on Aviation Avenue in the Grove. It just hit me that this was the old Flick coffeehouse that I used to go to in the 60’s to see all the great musicians that lived in Coconut Grove back then. There were some interesting things in the shop, just avoid the coffee and don't sit at a table for 4 if only 2 of you.Funny, but what got me going on this riff was a Friday afternoon stopover to the Titanic Brewery by the University of Miami fopr a brew or two with my buddies the other day. Normally don't give bad reviews, but the whole experience was poor. We felt to complain, would be met with disdain from owner, so left. The coffee that arrived was in large mugs and could not taste coffee, more like milky water.Ĭould not drink, so left. Ordered specifically for smallest cups to make sure we could taste coffee. No almond milk, not a big issue, however just for the record, almond milk available in Streaky Bay, Quorn, Venus Bay, and Melrose among other small towns. Ordered 2 small cupchino with almond milk. a Basil Fawlty episode she was told she can't sit at a table for 4, so got moved to a table for 2. We were only patrons wanting to have a coffee sitting down.Īlmost like. While waiting to order a coffee my wife sat a table with 4 seats. ![]() Must have gotten this place on a bad day.įirstly I understand Covid needs precautions to be taken.
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