Bay Front Park completed in 1928 at ta cost of $2,500,000. It is a haven of dense tropical foliage and blooming plants with many varieties of palms. Almost the entire area, 62 acres, is reclaimed land. It has a band shell where, throughout the year, concerts draw large crowds. Beautiful Biscayne Boulevard starts at this point.
Miami Beach, Fla., March 8, 1937
3/6/37
Hello girls,
Having a swell time. Wish you all could be here with us. Its very hot here today.
Love, Helen
Misses Tillie, Anna and Evelyn
300 W. Madison St.
Baltimore, Md.
Helen’s having such a swell time that she forgot to get this card to the post office for two whole days!
SInce there are no surnames on this very old postcard, it's hard to find the identity of the sender or the recipients, who if they were children in 1936, could possibly still be living today. The property at 300 W. Madison St. is across from the Maryland General Hospital, and could possibly be one of the two older buildings, but Baltimore County online records do not go back that far. Plus, if the buildings were apartments, rather than single family structures, there would be no rental records accessible from my laptop.
However, Bayfront Park is still around, and its Klipsch Amphitheater (which is the second replacement for the original structure) has hosted concerts by Manu Chau, Gloria Estefan, and the annual Miami JazzFest in November. The entire park was renamed in the 1980's for Mildred and Claude Pepper, the long tenured Democratic congressman from south Florida.
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