![]() And it wasn't only wise guys who were drawn to the glitter and glamour of what is today a sleepy and underdeveloped bedroom community of 8,159 inhabitants situated in the heart of Biscayne Bay. The "they" to whom Chief Mitchell referred were the mobsters who frequented the restaurants and bars of North Bay Village in the 1950s and 1960s, when the archipelago of manmade islands inserted between the mainland and Miami Beach's Normandy Isle was a très chic outpost in Dade County for fine dining and drinking. "It was the tenth recent bombing here in gang terrorism that North Bay Village Police Chief Earl Mitchell said goes back to the '20s when they would do anything to emphasize a threat." ![]() "A bomb knocked in the rear of Happy's Stork Lounge on the 79th Street Causeway early today while hoodlum Anthony (Big Tony) Esperti was sitting at the bar with his girlfriend," began the account, which bore the byline of William Tucker. ![]() "Miami Tavern Bombed," blared the headline on the front page of the final edition of the September 22, 1967, Miami News. ![]()
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