Where did you grow up? See a photo of North Miami, Florida. Want to share yours with us?

[Radio_Lady]

After I was born in Pittsburgh, we moved to Miami Beach when I was three years old. We lived in the squalid Washington Avenue which has become the modern-day Art Deco area, but my hometown from the 1940s to the 1960s was North Miami.

I also lived in Opa Locka, Florida briefly from 1969-1972 with my ex-husband and our daughter who was born in NYC. Our son was born in Miami in 1969, but ultimately, their father and I divorced. I left Florida forever in May 1972, and have not returned there except for short visits.

Are any of you close by?

The photo is on the website of Scott Galvin. Scott is (or was in 2006) a city councilman. That's the position that my father, Leonard Kimball, held in the 1950s. Dad was a lawyer in the town, and also became the Vice Mayor of the town, and later, a judge.

I haven't been back to my hometown since I graduated college, worked briefly for Channel 10 in production, and then left to go to NYC to find fame and fortune in 1962. My parents ultimately sold their home and moved to a rental apartment in North Miami Beach, Florida. My husband and I visited through the years, and we ultimate saw Dad the year before he died in 1988. I still remember his soulful query if we would come to Florida We were there last in 1991, after Mother passed away. I am an only child and had to do my duty as the only heir. But I had to get a lawyer to untangle the mess. It's interesting that neither Dad nor Mom, who were very attractive and meticulous, never left a will for some reason. They died "intestate" -- and I will never know why.

Mommy, Daddy and me, their only child (1940s)
(Don't you just love that painted palm tree?)