Celebrate Pan Am at TV launch party

The new TV show Pan Am on ABC, based on the airline starts next Sunday night, September 25. The show follows the airline, mostly stewardesses in the 1960s. Coconut Grove will be celebrating the premier with a reception and viewing party put on by the BID.

As you may know, our own City Hall was an original Pan Am Airline terminal, in the early days of flying, the planes landed in the water, not on runways and the water at Dinner Key, was the landing and take-off place for Pan Am. Those large hangers you see around the area, including The Fresh Market, were actually Pan Am airplane hangers and if you've ever been inside City Hall, you'll recognize the chambers as being a terminal hall where tickets were bought and sold and where people embarked and arrived into Miami.

That huge globe that you see in the old photo above is still in the Grove. It is not at City Hall, the former terminal, but it's right in the lobby of the Miami Science Museum when you enter.

This was one of the world's largest airports at the time and the main traffic hub between North and South America including Cuba and the Caribbean.

You can tour the original terminal at City Hall, History Miami historian Dr. Paul George will lead the tour with a trolly that will leave the Peacock Garden at 7 pm.

The reception is at Peacock Garden Cafe (2889 McFarlane Road) at 8 pm on Sunday and the tv show debuts at 10 pm, and that will be shown. Cost is $25 per person and tickets are limited.

It should be a fun, historical night in the Grove. For tickets, please go online to the Eventbrite site here and for more info, you may call 305-461-5506.