Every once in awhile I catch a show on PBS about the old Coconut Grove, the Grove from the 1950s and 1960s. There are a few different shows including the one where they talk about Jim Morrison and the Doors at that infamous concert at the Dinner Key Auditorium in 1969. I only bring this up because it’s fun to reminisce.
The episodes I like the best is when they show old movies of the area and talk about what it was like. Some of the people being interviewed, I know today, so it’s interesting to note that after all these years, they are still here in the village.
The stories go that it was mostly a winter home for artists and musicians, some quite famous, whose songs we all know today. They would all live in Greenwich Village in NYC and when it got cold in the winter, they would hop in cars and come down here. They would just do it on a whim.
