My sister Susan and I drove down to Boca Raton this past Tuesday afternoon and made a stop at Mizner Park, an outdoor shopping district with high-end shops and restaurants in a park-like setting. Susan, my mother Mary and I visited this place a number of times years ago. Unlike Las Olas Riverfront, once located along the Riverwalk in Fort Lauderdale, which was another favorite spot back then that is now just a memory, Mizner Park seems just the same as it was. Granted, there was hardly anyone there this past Tuesday, but it is, after all, August, and the heat index is well above 100 every day. And, of course, it was a weekday afternoon, and so I am sure it will be much more robust during the season.
I took the photograph on the right back in October of 1994 on one of those visits. As I recall, we sometimes dined at a restaurant called Cap's Place, located in Lighthouse Point, south of Boca, and would spent time at Mizner Park before heading to dinner. This restaurant is located on an island, and you board a boat at the restaurant's dock that ferries you over there, which is always a fun experience. Cap's Place used to be a speakeasy during Prohibition, and is quite well-known in the area. I remember reading in a travel magazine that a chatty bartender told the author that Winston Churchill, John F. Kennedy, and Marilyn Monroe have all dined there, but not at the same time. Or so he said.
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