Brazilian pepper was the pervasive invasive in the 1980s when I moved to this area. Now there are iguanas. Fewer “square groupers” wash ashore on summer nights; instead more sea turtles make the annual trek up the beach. Then sometime during the past
nostalgia (3)
Ellie and Bob Smela, who opened Ellie’s ’50s Diner in 1990, are retiring. The restaurant will close July 10. That’s Ellie depicted on the sign, sporting a poodle skirt. Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Ellie’s ’50s Diner is closing after 32 y
Summoning the past
with a concrete cruise along the old road
Australian pines flank A1A in Gulf Stream in 1944.
Courtesy of the Historical Society of Palm Beach County
Boca Ratone by the Sea, a 1923 gas station/dance hall/ fish camp on A1A where the
