![]() ![]() In 1918, Joe and Jennie bought a bungalow near the casino, on Biscayne Street. Collins Avenue was not really a street-it was sort of a trail with ruts in it. We came down by train I was six years old when we arrived. He sent for my mother and myself-she had this brat on her hands. The women used to have the long bathing suits with the stockings.that was 1913. According to JoAnn, Joe’s granddaughter, "You'd come over and rent lockers to change your clothes to use the ocean or use the pool. That was the beginning of the restaurant that was the seed for Joe’s. Oddly enough, he could breathe there." So, he stayed and started running a lunch stand at Smith's bathing casino. So he took the ferry boat that used to go to Miami Beach. ![]() Some seventy years later, Jesse recalled the move: "My dad borrowed fifty dollars on his life insurance policy, left my mother and me in New York, and came to Florida.He stayed in Miami one night, and he couldn't breathe. Joe was a waiter, and Jennie cooked in small restaurants. Joe and his wife, Jennie, both Hungarian-born, were living in New York, where their son Jesse was born in 1907. Joseph Weiss-the "Joe" of Joe's Stone Crab-came to Miami in 1913, when his doctors told him that the only help for his asthma would be a change of climate. ![]()
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