Some old-timers never upgraded. Marjory Stoneman Douglas' tiny cottage, on Stewart Avenue in south Coconut Grove, looks lost and abandoned in the midst of gargantuan, gated houses. The state plans to restore it and open it as a museum by this time next year. The Coconut Grove Playhouse on Main Highway faces The Barnacle State Historic Site. Locals and tourists frequent the playhouse for Broadway shows and other offerings.
Kids come in from outside.
The Grove has become a mall, a place to hang out, to see movies. He says a friend of his foresaw the change when CocoWalk opened in 1990. He concedes that if he were a tourist, he would check out CocoWalk and Streets of Mayfair. Then he would drive south on Main Highway to look at the thick tree canopy shading Mediterranean-style houses. Then, he would go to The Barnacle, the oldest house on its original site in Dade County.