Yes — this was a real night out in the ’80s. Crowds packed bars like Summer’s on the Beach in Fort Lauderdale to watch live bear wrestling! It didn’t last though. Growing outrage, animal cruelty crackdowns and tougher laws shut it down, ending one of Florida’s wildest eras.
While making movies back in the 1990’s, Mickey Rourke was training with the best at the famed 5th St. Gym in Miami Beach.
A fire ripped through the Carnival Ecstasy in the summer of 1998, sending smoke billowing across the Miami skyline.
In 1994, young women started turning up dead along the Tamiami Trail and fear spread across South Florida. The man behind it — Rory Conde — was ultimately caught and convicted, but decades later, he’s still awaiting resentencing.
Take a listen down memory lane of the old Channel 10 jingle.
Who remembers the talk radio wars of the 80’s? The era of Neil Rogers, Steve Kane, Al Rantel, Sandy Payton and more.