Tag Archives: miami beach

Heaven or Hell

March 3, 2024 – 7:34 am

Two old men are living in Miami Beach. Their hotel is undergoing renovations. The entire neighborhood has been transformed by young trendies. Izzy and Moishe sit on the terrace of the Breezemore Hotel and watch the parade of millenials. They are feeling their age and Izzy says, “You know Moishe, we’ve had a good life, […]

By Peter | Posted in Florida, Humor | Also tagged , , , | Comments (0)

MIAMI BEACH BLIND by Peter Nolan Smith

January 7, 2020 – 3:16 am

Florida’s Ten Thousand Islands In the winter of 1975 I hitchhiked west from Miami Beach along Alligator Alley. Rides weren?t easy, but finally a fruit farmer from Naples gave me a lift through the southern tip of the Everglades. Nothing, but swamp lined the four-lane highway. No snowbirds from the Northeast or Canada wanted to […]

By Peter | Posted in 70s, hitchhiking, semi-fiction, Travel | Also tagged , , | Comments (0)

MIAMI VICE

February 3, 2018 – 3:06 am

I never bothered to see MIAMI VICE. The movie. Guns, girls, and crime. Tubbs and Crockett. I had been to that Miami Beach; Wolfie’s Deli, Little Havana, the Ace of Spades Bar, cocaine, cheap hotels, and fast boats. My friend found a kilo of blow on the beach and gave it to the local drug […]

By Peter | Posted in Movies / TV | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

THE PRETTIEST GIRL IN MAINE by Peter Nolan Smith on Kindle

July 6, 2014 – 7:02 pm

In the winter of 1991 a British friend and I drove north from a snowless New York to find winter. Our trip took us through New England to the end of US 1 at Fort Kent, Maine. The river was frozen solid and the snow was chest deep. I wanted to forge on to Canada, […]

By Peter | Posted in 90s, Driving, maine, photo-romans, semi-fiction | Also tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Heaven or Hell

November 16, 2012 – 6:56 pm

Two old men are living in Miami Beach. Their hotel is undergoing renovations. The entire neighborhood has been transformed by young people. Izzy and Moishe sit on the terrace of the Breezemore Hotel and watch the parade of revelers. They are feeling their age and Izzy says, “You know Moishe, we’ve had a good life, […]

By Peter | Posted in Florida, Humor | Also tagged , | Comments (0)