Miami Systems history

To aid her in her quest, Miami was hit by a severe freeze in the winter of 1894 which had no effect on her crops.

By April 1896, the railroad tracks reached Miami and in July a meeting was held to incorporate the city.

The first form of a trolley in the youthful city appeared in 1906.

Miami would not experience trolley service again until 1915, when a battery-operated trolley on rails went from the location of what is now the Marlin’s Ballpark (formerly the Orange Bowl), north on Avenue B (today’s NE Second Avenue), to Thirty Sixth Street.

On January 7, 1922, the first streetcar using overhead wires began Miami’s electric trolley system.

Coral Gables Trolley Line in 1925

Trolley Car through the Palm Trees over Flagler Street Bridge in 1926

Trolley in downtown Miami in 1927

The last classic American trolleys were designed in a meeting of the nations trolley CEO’s in the 1930’s.

However, it was really the November 4, 1935, hurricane that marked the beginning of the end of the last trolley system in Miami.

In 1939, the streetcar service to Miami Beach, via what was then known as the County Causeway (later renamed the MacArthur Causeway), ended.

Even the Orange Bowl Committee was excited to hear of the removal of trolleys in the fall of 1940.

The war ended and many of these servicemen returned to Miami pushing another development boom by 1950.

W.B. Gray and opened in 1955.

Enduring three Seminole wars, the Mexican-American War, United States takeover in restitution for damages incurred during the Spanish-American War, and the mass influx of Cuban refugees beginning in 1959, Miami has grown into an international city with a population of nearly 380,000 people.

With the unfortunate failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961 and the unsatisfactory agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis, resident Cubans thought less of their newly adopted United States government.

According to L.J. Prince, chair of the systems analysis department in a memo written to the other Miami University chairs in 1963, “In an attempt to utilize the potential of the rapidly developing computer, industry has resorted to stop-gap measures that have… failed to produce desired results.

The Miami Dolphins, an NFL franchise, selected the dolphin as their mascot from more than 19,000 entries in 1965 for its intelligence and irresistible, built-in grin.

The cancer center’s rich history dates back to 1973, when it was known as the Comprehensive Cancer Center for the State of Florida.

In 1974, the first Cancer Control Research Program for the State of Florida was initiated at the cancer center by Doctor Jack Healey.

The Regional Cancer Information Service office, funded by the National Cancer Institute, was established at Sylvester in 1976.

Founded in 1983, the Miami Children’s Museum is located on Watson Island.

In 1986, philanthropist Harcourt Sylvester Jr. pledged $27.5 million to benefit cancer programs at the medical school.

After three years of construction, the 117,500 square-foot cancer center opened its doors in June 1992.

While her campaign received national attention, she also successfully led a campaign to outlaw adoptions by gays The law was eventually repealed in Dade County some 20 years later in 1998, along with the reinstatement of the law forbidding discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Drawing such attention from President Bill Clinton and federal agents in a case that resulted in the return of Elian and his father to Haiti in 2000.

The City of Coral Gables instituted a 7 trolley car fleet to service the city so that pedestrians can get around Coral Gables without the hassles of traffic congestion and parking. It wasn’t until November of 2003 that Trolley Service made a comeback in South Florida.

New Miami Trolley Bus in 2012

Sylvester was designated a Cancer Center of Excellence by the State of Florida in March 2015, one of only four in the state.