Memories of Homestead, FL

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With seeing my niece from South Florida it has brought back a lot of memories for me of all the years we lived there.

In my very young years my family moved back and forth from Alabama to South Florida. We were in the Homestead area in the earlier years and I remember my sis and I went to the movies sometimes in Homestead, when I was 8-9 and my sister 3 years younger.

We finally settled in Perrine in 1952 when I was 11 years old.
(Perrine is approx. 15 miles north of Homestead.)


I found this old post card of Homestead in Mom's things. There is no date on it but it seems to be in the same approx. time frame of our moving back to south Fl....judging by the cars in the picture!

( I don't know cars but Charles tells me he sees cars up to 1952 in this card)

Homestead didn't change much from our first visits when I was 4 years old- and up to age 9- and our visits several years later.

When we lived in Perrine, as teenagers- my sister and I would sometimes ride the greyhound bus to Homestead...make a day of it-have lunch and go to the Seminole Movie theatre! ;0 and we liked to take pictures in the picture booths! This is from 2 such trips we made to Homestead!






I'm sure Homestead is not at all the way it was all those years ago!

South Florida, in the 40s- 50s was a tropical paradise!


Love,
Junie