Shopping or eating at the Miami airport? See what that used to look like
By Miami Herald Archives
Airport terminals today can look like main street or the mall. High-end stores. Brand-name restaurants and bars.
But it wasn’t always that way.
The Miami terminals featured dingy discount stores, and the food choice sometimes came down to a cafeteria without much flavor.
Let’s take a look at some of those earlier years, through the Miami Herald archives when the businesses at MIA look different and as they made way for ones you still see today.
A shop at Miami International Airport in the 1970s. Albert Coya Miami Herald File
Food choices at Miami International Airport. Albert Coya Miami Herald
A VIP lounge at MIA. Miami Herald File
A men’s shop at the Miami airport in the 1970s. Bob East Miami Herald
Passengers could ship citrus home from this Miami airport store. Bob East Miami Herald File
A traveler buys insurance from a kiosk at MIA. Albert Coya Miami Herald File
In 1999, one of several T-shirt shops at Miami International Airport. Miami Herald File
In 1995, a new duty-free boutique at Miami International Airport. The store featured 11 French and Italian lines, with nigh-end merchandise including a $25,000 Cartier watch. David Bergman Miami Herald File
In 1999, cigars for sale at a Miami International Airport newsstand. Marice Cohn Band Miami Herald File
In 2001, boutiques with $10 watches, glasses, belts and even "designer scarves" along the concourse at Miami International Airport. Jared Lazarus Miami Herald File
Scarves for sale in 2001 at MIA. Jared Lazarus Miami Herald File
A generic gift shop at MIA in the 1970s. Battle Vaughan Miami Herald File
In 2002, travelers stop for a beer at the bar in Chilis Too in Terminal G. Ronna Gradus Miami Herald File
In 2007, some of the new food options in the recently built and functioning part of the D extention of the Miami airport. Miami Herald File
.In 1996, Rolando Pereira, general manager of La Carreta holds up a black bean burger at the MIA location. Jeffery A. alter Miami Herald File
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