You can consider yourself a Miami native if...

As we all know most people that live in Miami actually came from somewhere else. So there aren't a lot of true "natives" among us. But some of us have been here a long time, in my case 28 years. And a lot has changed in that time. I thought it would be fun to highlight some things I remember from my first days in Miami. So in a "sort of" tribute to Jeff Foxworthy...

You can consider yourself a Miami Native if you remember:

• When Kendall Drive was “the road to nowhere”
• When I-95 didn’t reach all the way down here (without interruption)
  
• When “Miami’s Best Pizza” was the original “Little Caesar’s”
• When Les Violins was a hot spot
• The Copacabana Supper Club
• When the people on South Beach were older than the buildings
• James McDuffie and Neville Johnson
• Johnnie Jones and gold plumbing
• D’Pizza of UM
• Lou Saban
• WCIX
• Big Wilson
• K-102, I-95, and the original Zeta 4
• A time when Frank Forte and Don Noe weren’t on channel 10
• Glen Rinker & Ralph Renick
• When trains ran parallel to U.S. 1 (at ground level)
• When the 836 toll was 10 cents
• The Miami Marlins and the Ft. Lauderdale Yankees
• When FIU was a “Senior College” and the school’s nickname was the “Sun Blazers”
• The Miami News
• Miami Rowing Club
• Gator Kicks on Tamiami Trail
• K-land
• The Miami Toros and The Ft. Lauderdale Strikers
• Flipper in the open end-zone at the Orange Bowl
• When there was a grocery store in Dadeland Mall
• When Crown Liquors got shot up
• Cocaine Cowboys
• The Mariel Boatlift
• Tent City
• Packer Pontiac
• Hurricane David and that masking tape that’s still on all your windows
• When Ana Azcuy married “Kid Curry”
• When “Footy’s” name was “Athlete’s Foot”
• Heiny Wine “The wine that made Medley, Medley”
• Grand Union
• When the Norway was the largest cruise ship in the world
• When the 94th Aero Squadron had good food
• When the Rusty Pelican burned down
• The Tropicaire Drive in Theater
• Miami Dade Junior College
• When there was a Burdines at the Mayfair mall
• Centrust
• The Lemon Twist
• The Monk’s Inn
• The French Connection
• Monty Trainer’s Village Inn
• El Cid
• The Mutiny
• Ensign Bitters
• The Limelight
• Lums
• Jordan Marsh
• When SunTrust was Sun Bank
• Peaches Records and Tapes
• The Dadeland Twin Theater, The Riviera Theater, and Plitt Gables Theater
• Super Skating Centers and Tropical Skating Center
• Air Florida and Eastern Airlines
• Indy car races at Tamiami Park
• When Shorty’s burned down
• When the Rickenbacker was a drawbridge
• When La Carreta only had one location
• Biscayne Dog Track
• Campus Life Haunted House
• When the Mark IV was the best ride at the youth fair
• The Skipper Chuck Show and the Sunday Funnies
• Miami Marine Stadium and Hydroplane races
• Hugo the whale
• Velvet Creme
• Planet Ocean
• Luskin’s High Fidelity
• Club OZ
• When the Mall of the Americas was Midway Mall
• Lindsley Lumber
• A.J. Duhe
• Victoria and Abbey Hospitals
• Malibu Grand Prix and Castle Park
• Chicken Unlimited
• JByrons