The Colonnade
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Colonnade Building - 1940s
In November of 1926, the magnificent Colonnade building on Miracle Mile was completed by famed architect Phineas Paist. Now the Hotel Colonnade, the building was originally designed as a sales center for Coral Gables, and became the center of the shopping district. Since then it has housed a pilot training facility, a movie studio and a World War II parachute factory. This image comes from the early 1940s.
In 1940
World War II was underway in Europe
The movies Citizen Kane and Dumbo were filmed
Hemingway published For Whom the Bell Tolls
Franklin Roosevelt was president
Campbells Tomato Soup cost 25 cents for 3 cans
Colonnade Building - 2018
