Ninety-Nine Pictures Of Girls On The Wall, Ninety-Nine Pictures Of Girls...

Well, maybe not ninety-nine, but quite a few, for sure. A whole bunch of years worth of Miss North Miami grace the walls of The North Miami Chamber of Commerce building at N.E. 131st. St. and West Dixie Highway.

In this photograph the pictures are largely obscured by glare on the glass. I shot this photo of myself taking a picture by using two cameras. One to actually use, the other serving as a prop.

From the late 1960's until the mid 1980's I photographed the pageant every year. I sometimes wonder what happened to the girls. One of them, Sandra Santiago, went on to star in the hit Miami Vice TV show as the lead female detective, but now with Miami Vice gone ? Who knows...