All wrapped up for the holidays

One of the oldest buildings in the Grove, is always the prettiest, espeically around the holidays. H&H Jewels on Main Highway is all decked out in a big red bow, sort of like Cartier does in NYC. The building of course, was the original Coconut Grove Bank building in the late 1800s.

I was at a party on Fuller Street recently and I was showing folks this old photo in the Arva Moore Parks book on Coconut Grove and oddly enough the next day, I was standing outside H&H Jewels and a tourist pulls up and askes me where the Coconut Grove Bank is. I thought he meant the historic building itself, I pointed to it, but it turns out he was looking for a current bank because he wanted to use the ATM.