It’s hard to believe it now, given the condition of the Miami Marine Stadium - an abandoned shell on Virginia Key’s waterfront - - but this was once touted as one of our community’s preeminent entertainment venues.
"The Miami Marine Stadium is a unique public facility with few counterparts anywhere in the world...a masterfully designed waterfront outdoor stadium with full visibility...offering a beautiful skyline view of Great Miami and Miami Beach over the sparkling waters of Biscayne Bay."
That world lives on in the Florida Collection of the Miami Dade Public Library in a marketing brochure that, judging from the photos of the (modest) bikini-clad ladies, was circulated in the late 1960's.
“Days and Nights” the stadium pulses, according to the marketing materials that boast of a floating stage with acoustical shell anchored 30 feet from the grandstand, strategically placed loudspeakers that are part of “one of the finest outdoor sound systems in the country,” and a built-in concession balcony in the grandstand.
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