The Progressive Miami Boat Show is moving from the Miami Beach Convention Center to the Miami Marine Stadium Park, now under restoration. The Stadium is on Virginia Key. Visitors attending may come by car or by boat. The following is a short one minute video on the boat show. The City of Miami has spent [...]
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Miami Marine Stadium upon completion in 1963 on Virginia Key, Miami, Fla.
An architectural jewel designed by 28-year-old Hilario Candela, the Stadium was used for decades for concerts,boat races, even boxing matches, for crowds at a maximum number of 6,566 until it fell into disuse and functional deterioration. As of this writing, a preservation group has formed to restore and renovate the Stadium for its original uses [...]
1959 Gold Coast Marathon on the Intracoastal Waterway
1959 Gold Coast Marathon on the Intracoastal Waterway Russell Fraser, Jr., racing an outboard motorboat in the 1959 Gold Coast Marathon on the Intracoastal Waterway between Miami and West Palm Beach and the return to Miami the next day. Some hydroplanes among the scores of boats of every class reached speeds approaching a hundred miles [...]
