When Kendall Was New

WTVJ's Alan Mendelson visits the "booming new Kendall area" and finds an up-and-coming, upscale collection of neighborhoods that is not without growing pains. Chief among them: More retail stores than residents to shop in them.
Once the new Kendallites showed up and bought new Kendall homes priced from 100,000-135,000 dollars, retailers could look forward to customers who earned an average of $23,000 -- five thousand dollars more than the county average.
Mendelson's exploration of Kendall includes interviews with Doug Wiles of "Real Estate Digest" and and retailers Joy Cohen and Philip Nidetz.
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This clip is derived from news video in the WTVJ Collection. Accession number 333-03; airdate February 26, 1981.

[@suppleleaves]

YES FINALLY MY GOD I’VE FOUND SOME MILDLY HISTORICAL FOOTAGE OF WHERE I LIVE, I’M SO GLAD I FOUND SOMETHING!!! (I’m only 15, but I’m a huge history lover and wanted to go a bit more local this time). Thanks so so so much for preserving this!!!

[@wolfsonarchive]

Glad you enjoyed it! If you search "Kendall" at out online catalog - wolfsonapps.org/search/ - you'll find a lot more!

[@deepstate3358]

i lived in kendall from 2005 -2007 I'm not originally from Florida and boy do i tell you i loved it! On the weekends i would go shopping at dadeland mall and eat out t all of the great restaurants in Kendall. Oh and OJ Simpson lived down the street from Killian Highschool. i saw him once in front of killian highschool waiting at a red light.

[@user-hh4hc2lt6e]

Did u find more kendall specific stuff? I looked for over an hour

[@kleynerpaiva2064]

I lived in miami from 1988 up to 1999. Came to Brazil and went back in 2004 and lived 2 more years. I can tell you that things changed a lot

[@reillygolfpro]

My home from 1973-2015. I remember how clean that mall was !

[@fireresq7]

Wow. I remember when Kendall was a “far away” mystical land!

[@alexoffduty4813]

Viejo!!!!

[@delta0921]

I remember the strawberry field's where Kendall Town & Country mall was built back in the early 80s. There were so many farms on Kendall Drive back then, all of them got swallowed up by developers.

[@steveboyd2759]

I was just thinking the exact same thing about the Town & Country mall being a U pick farm.

[@Polarcupcheck]

Same shit everywhere, dude. 441 was all farmland in the 80's until the very late 90's. Now, I won't ever go out there. It is sad, and they had a pick your own strawberry farm out there, which I never got to do.

[@Polarcupcheck]

Pantry Pride. I remember that and Don Carter's Kendall Lanes.

[@delta0921]

Ha funny you mentioned Don Carter's. I was at Don Carter's lanes when they opened it. It was the greatest bowling alley for it's time, I think they had 36 lanes split on each side with the pool tables in the middle. It was so popular and was packed all the time.

[@Polarcupcheck]

@@delta0921 Sounds like the same setup as Don Carter's Tamarac. Tamarac was the place to be for a while. I never bowled at Kendall. I bowled competitively up until my 20's, but I never went to Kendall. Pretty much everything else you can imagine. Paula Carter's, AMF Davie, Hallandale Holiday Lanes, Hollywood Bowl, Forum Lanes, DC Tamarac, DC Saw Grass, Holiday Springs (Coral Springs), Brunswick Margate (first bowling center I ever saw), and another ghetto lanes south of Commercial Blvd...and all around the state. Considering the U.S., now, it feels like a priveledge to have had that lifestyle back then, and I wasn't rich.

[@screwtewb]

0:07 not sure, but might be Kendale Lakes Plaza near K-Mart.
0:10 Sentry Drugs at 13724 SW 84th St.
0:12 RadioShack at 12550 N Kendall Dr.
1:12 Pantry Pride - probably 13001 N Kendall Dr.

[@reillygolfpro]

Kendale Lakes Mall was the first mall they showed.. Pantry Pride was in the mall across from where Flanagans is now. The McDonalds is still there as well.

[@RobertoLopezstudyis]

Kendell was still in its infancy! How times have changed! The area was quit and with no crime at all. It was the joy of living there back then.

[@videosuperhighway7655]

I recognized some of the places 🤩

[@thedirtybubble9613]

Hard to believe this is 1981 it looks like 1961.

[@nedmarc]

Is that Kendall Lakes Mall?

[@wolfsonarchive]

Hmmmmmmm...Could be...

[@reillygolfpro]

Yes. The first mall they showed