![]() ![]() Over the years I got the impression that Miami Springs is a self-contained community with its own character, where you can obtain many of the goods and services you frequently need without leaving and a lot of the residents know each other: the teens socializing and doing school work at the Starbucks across from the Parkway Shops would run into others with whom they are familiar, though they had not necessarily planned to meet there at the annual Independence Day Parade many of the spectators and participants seemed already acquainted… I felt it a shame that the Circle Theater was no longer operating to make the contribution to this communal experience that it must have in its day. Some sort of Building Department permit posted on one of the doors for what seemed like years informed me that this had been the Circle Theater, though not much changed.ĭuring a historic tour of the city, I learned that the Clune/Stadnik building and the Parkway Shops, as well as a few others within the municipality’s limits, the Curtiss Mansion in particular, were constructed in Pueblo Revival style, inspired by the architecture of New Mexico. In the 2000’s I’d stop by and check on the empty cinema when enjoying Miami Springs events such as the River Cities Festival. ![]() and at the end discovered, oh, the entrance to a defunct cinema! At the time the glass doors were not covered with paper and I could peer through to identify the remains of a concession stand across a dusty lobby, like I’m a movie theater archaeologist. ![]() I felt attracted to the look of the Clune/Stadnik building, then the adjacent Parkway Shops, at which I was drawn in to this store-lined hallway that beckoned me to see where it leads…. I first visited Miami Springs sometime in the 1990’s, where I was surprised to encounter a downtown environment with somewhat of a hometown feeling different from the rest of Miami-Dade County, arranged around a traffic circle and continuing on the streets radiating from it. ![]() (Check out some old photos and comments from people sharing memories.) “Farewell to the Circle Theater in Miami Springs” Facebook page from the Miami Springs Historical Society. “Going, Going, Gone” (A page of demolition process photos on .) The Circle Theater was demolished, along with the Parkway Shops building in front of it that included the hallway leading up to the theater’s entrance, starting the final week of December 2019: ![]()
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