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unusual facts about South Florida


JL Audio

By the early 1980s, Speaker Warehouse had become known as a place to go for high-end audio in South Florida.


Bal Harbour Shops

He abandoned the conventional enclosed air-conditioned mall concept, firing architect Victor Gruen, and hiring the South Florida architectural firm Herbert H. Johnson & Associates.

Bo Griffin

Griffin was a host on several South Florida radio stations, including Power 96 and Hot 105FM, as well as a stint on WSPA-FM as morning host from 2005-2007 in her hometown of Greenville.

Bobby Gonzalez

As the 11th seed in the 2009 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament, they defeated 14th-seed South Florida 68–54 for their first win in the conference tournament in six years.

Bradie James

He was the sixth middle/inside linebacker taken, behind Nick Barnett of Oregon State, Kawika Mitchell of South Florida, Gerald Hayes of Pittsburgh, Cie Grant of Ohio State, and Angelo Crowell of Virginia.

Leon County Emergency Medical Services

Most recently, members of the Special Operations Unit have been deployed to Mississippi following Hurricane Katrina and to South Florida following the devastating 2005 Atlantic hurricane season there.

Marlins Television Network

From 1993 to 2005, the Marlins Television Network aired games to homes not only in South Florida but to other parts of Florida.

Nathan Boynton

His failing health caused him to seek a warmer climate; Boynton visited South Florida in 1897 with Congressman William S. Linton.

Phi Delta Slam

Phi Delta Slam appeared with the South Florida based Coastal Championship Wrestling promotion throughout 2004.

Rex Hadnot

He had a season-high 19 knockdown blocks against Southern Miss, and also had double-digit knockdown blocks against Cincinnati (12), South Florida (17) and Louisville (11).

Skipper Chuck

Skipper Chuck was the host of a popular local children's television series called Popeye Playhouse, which aired weekday mornings on the American television station WTVJ in South Florida from 1957 until 1979.

Stanley B. Goldenberg

Goldenberg's interest and experience in hurricane disaster preparedness was greatly increased when his South Florida home was destroyed as he and his family experienced the full force of Category 5 Hurricane Andrew in 1992.

Steve Slaton

In the 5th game of the season, Slaton, for the 3rd year in a row, was held under 100 yards rushing by South Florida - finishing the game with just 55 yards on 13 carries as WVU suffered their first loss of the season.

Syrian American Council

As of April 10, 2013, SAC has 21 chapters across the U.S. in Chicago, Orlando, Los Angeles, Northern California, Washington, D.C./Virginia, Dearborn, New Jersey, Georgia, Indianapolis, Panama City, West Virginia, North Carolina, San Diego, Tampa, South Florida, Flint, Dallas, Houston, Austin, Raleigh, and Detroit.

Vickiel Vaughn

He earned his first collegiate stop with a solo tackle against South Florida.


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2007 Auburn Tigers football team

Quarterback Matt Grothe threw a 14-yard touchdown pass to receiver Jesse Hester in overtime to lead South Florida to a 26–23 upset win over Auburn.

All Children's Hospital

The University of South Florida's Dean of Medicine Andor Szentivanyi recruited Robert A. Good and increased USF's presence at All Children's to mollify opposition to a Tampa Children's Hospital.

Alvah Chapman, Jr.

He had headed the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, the Miami Coalition for a Drug-Free Community, Goodwill Industries of South Florida, the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, Miami Citizens Against Crime, the Orange Bowl Committee, a committee to build the Miami Performing Arts Center and the local United Way.

Bill Baggs

Baggs regularly talked with South Florida CIA case officers, such as David Atlee Phillips and E. Howard Hunt, on various topics related to the intrigues among South Florida anti-Castro Cuban exiles.

Bob Coy

In 1985, Bob and his wife, Diane, moved to South Florida and began Calvary Chapel of Fort Lauderdale.

Chihchun Chi-sun Lee

Dr. Lee is originally from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and is currently on the faculty of the University of South Florida, in Tampa, USA, She received a doctoral degree from the University of Michigan, two masters’ degrees from Ohio University, and a bachelor’s degree from Soochow University in Taiwan.

Craig Forman

"Great Entrepreneurs" was produced in association with WPBT WPBT in south Florida.

Cynthia L. Stacey

Her work is influenced by her youth, which she spent at the Musa Isle Indian Village, a traditional Seminole Indian village on the Miami River in South Florida where she was adopted and raised.

Dadeland

Rapid transit service into Downtown Miami commenced with the completion of the Miami Metrorail in 1984, providing rail service to suburban commuters in southern Dade into Miami and greater South Florida's central business district.

David Avellan

After meeting Lloyd Irvin, the Avellan brothers were able to translate the simple gym mentality into a larger scale business operation, and the Freestyle Fighting Academy has become the biggest Mixed Martial Arts gym in South Florida with multiple locations, classes, and students.

Edmund Skellings

In 1973, Skellings became Director of the International Institute of Creative Communication at Florida International University which brought poetry in the schools programs to over 100,000 children in South Florida.

Farris Hassan

Associated with the Interfaith Outreach Group are South Florida's Temple Beth Emet, El Azhar Islamic School, and Pine Crest School.

Florida Keys

Hurricane Katrina, which went on to devastate parts of Louisiana and Mississippi, moved through south Florida in August 2005 and tracked southwest past Key West, causing minor damage and flooding.

Freedom's Flight

Rescued by Richard "Kudo" Couto of the South Florida Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), Freedom was nursed back to health.

Garcinia prainiana

The fruit is cultivated in Southeast Asia, by a few backyard growers in South Florida, and at the Whitman Rare Fruit Pavilion of Florida's Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden.

Gloria Romero

Gloria Romero Roses (born 1971), Colombia-born American Democratic political figure and real estate executive in South Florida

Hannah Kahn

Hannah had been successful in bringing national poets, such as Anthony Hecht, Gwendolyn Brooks, Yehuda Amichai, Dana Gioia, Maxine Kumin, John Haag, Carolyn Kizer and others to read and lecture in South Florida, and the foundation continues that effort.

IDB Miami 2008 Host Committee

Representing South Florida’s economic dynamism and commitment to the Western Hemisphere, the Host Committee is composed of local and national leaders in banking, telecom, media, infrastructure, and government who share a profound commitment to social and economic development in the Americas.

Jack Gantos

-- our "South Florida" may be too specific? --> and the Caribbean, he began collecting anecdotes in grade school, realizing that everyday stories were the basis of great literature.

Jack Ramsay

The games were broadcast from South Florida's Sunshine Network (now Sun Sports), Fox Sports Florida, and sometimes local Miami station WBFS (then a UPN affiliate).

Jim Weekley

A past chairman of the Monroe County Democratic Party, Weekley serves on the South Florida Regional Planning Council and was chairman in 1997 and 1998.

John Anton

John P. Anton (born 1920), professor of Greek philosophy and culture at the University of South Florida

John Calvin Jureit

The improved strength of the Gang-Nail plate was evidenced in 1992 when Hurricane Andrew destroyed many homes in South Florida.

John D. Altenburg

As the Staff Judge Advocate, XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg he deployed to south Florida in 1992 for humanitarian relief operations after Hurricane Andrew.

John Offerdahl

Offerdahl had a series of bagel restaurants in South Florida which were purchased by Boston Market, later turning into Einstein Brothers bagels.

Johnny Donovan

"And now, from sunny south Florida, it's Open Line Friday." (previously: "Live from the EIB southern command in sunny south Florida, via New York City, it's Open Line Friday.")

Jorge Sedano

The first was 10am-1pm (where he beat South Florida ratings king Neil Rogers) and Noon - 3pm, where he was the lead in to the Dan Le Batard show.

Joseph Adler

He previously directed at many South Florida theatres including Coconut Grove Playhouse, New Theatre, Area Stage, Hollywood Boulevard Theatre, Players Theatre, Ruth Foreman Theatre, Florida Shakespeare Theatre, City Theatre, Hollywood Playhouse and Shores Performing Arts.

Labrisomus guppyi

Labrisomus guppyi, the Mimic blenny, is a species of labrisomid blenny native to the western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea from south Florida to Fernando de Noronha where it inhabits such areas as reefs, near shore areas with rock or rubble covered in algae and beds of seagrass.

Lex Hester

In 1991, Jacksonville's newly elected Mayor Ed Austin hired Hester to return to Jacksonville, in spite of recession offering him a substantial 42% raise in his previous salary to match the pay he had been receiving in South Florida.

Liz Whitney Tippett

The Liz Whitney Tippett Foundation supports numerous causes such American as Best Buddies International, Children's Organ Transplant Association, Baptist Health South Florida Foundation, Parkinson's Disease Foundation, University of Miami, Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, and Push America.

Longwood, Florida

In 1965, the City served as a film site and backdrop, representing a fictional south Florida town adjacent to a Seminole Indian tribe reservation in the Universal Studios film, Johnny Tiger.

Michael Putney

Since 1981, Putney has broadcast for WPLG, channel 10, an ABC network affiliated television station, located in Miami, Florida, as host of "This Week In South Florida with Michael Putney."

Mormon Helping Hands

The logos were used in 1992 in South Florida after Hurricane Andrew ravaged the city of Homestead and other parts of Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America

By the end of 2011, NACA had produced 58 “Save The Dream Tour” events, having visited especially hard-hit areas such as Chicago, Washington DC, Atlanta, South Florida and Los Angeles more than once.

Ramon E. Rasco

From 1999 to 2002, he served on the South Florida board of Union Planters Bank.

Randy Wayne White

A resident of Southwest Florida since 1972, he currently lives on Pine Island, Florida, where he is active in South Florida civic affairs and with the restaurant Doc Ford's Sanibel Rum Bar & Grill on nearby Sanibel Island.

Rat trick

The "year of the rat" in south Florida reached a fever pitch as the Panthers made their only trip to the Stanley Cup Finals.

Skate Rider

It would notably become the first magazine to publish a photo of Alan Gelfand before he became a famous public figure, the South Florida skater associated with the creation of the Ollie (skateboarding trick).

Snooty

After he was brought to the South Florida Museum for the 1949 De Soto Heritage Festival, he was housed in a 30,000 gallon round tank at the Bradenton Municipal Pier, also the original home of the South Florida Museum and Bradenton's local radio station WTRL (now WWPR).

Stan Bahnsen

He also works with 640 AM, a south Florida radio station that broadcasts Yankee games.

The Orchid Thief

The Orchid Thief is a 1998 non-fiction book by American journalist and author Susan Orlean, based on her investigation of the 1994 arrest of John Laroche and a group of Seminoles in south Florida for poaching rare orchids in the Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve.

Tirumakudal Narsipur

Dr N.V.Ramanuja Iyengar - Cardiologist - Miami, USA - Actively associated with building the Shiva Vishnu Temple of South Florida as Chairman of the temple trust in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

WEDR

1963 -- The WEDR call letters have been in South Florida since 1963 when the station's then owner Ed Rivers acquired them from an AM radio station in Birmingham, Alabama.