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Coconut Grove FC$ c7a
Merchant's Association
3043 Grand Avenue, Coconut Crove. Florida 33133 (305) 444-5997
May 20, 1980
Dear Fellow Merchants:
At the present moment I am extremely proud. to be a part of Coconut Grove.
My business; my livelihood; and my home; all are untouched by the insan-
ity that has been raqinq in Miami for the past few days.
And so are yours.
Not one window was broken; not one business torched or looted ... east of
McDonald.
Coconut Grove has long been an area where various disparate groups could
co -exist in harmny, yet we in the village center - Past Grove if you will -
owe a great debt today to our neiqhbors in West Grove.
The few hoodlums, many not from the Grove, who were on our streets during
these bleak days were far outnumbered by the responsible black citizens who
took to the streets, at no small risk to their ovm safety, to act as calming
influences on the few. Pest (,rove residents were, and are, just as sick at
heart and angry about the McDuffie incident, or the IA -Fleur case, etc., as
blacks everywhere in Dade County - but they did not lash out in a frenzy of
looting and destruction.
T#Te must now open the doors to our friends - and they are our friends - living
west of McDonald. They care about Coconut Grove, and have proved it!
I wish to suggest the establishment of an interest -free loan fund, to be ad-
ministered by a group of local citizens, in conjunction wit)- the PAC (People
Against Crime), Council and the Black Businessmen's Association, to help the
businesses that suffered damage in I�Iest Grove re -(-)pen their doors.
This is the time - no more cheap talk - no more tokenism.
h 00W_
Coconut Grove
Merchant's Association
3043 Grand Avenue, Coconut Grove, Florida 33133. (305) 444-5997
It is an inexpensive way for you to say "thank you" to your fellow Coconut Grove
residents and business people. If you can provide $100.00, or whatever you can
afford, to be used as a loan fund that will be repaid when the repairs can be
done and the businesses are operating again, you will be saying to the world, in
more than words, that Coconut Grove is safe to visit and shop in; you will be say-
ing to the world that Coconut drove takes care of its own.
Please - fill out the attached form and send it to me. This may be the most
important thing you have done in years.
We invite the participation of the Chamber of Ccmmeree, area residents, and many other
concerned persons.
The Coconut Grove Merchant's Association will start things off with a t 250.00
rt'�[tt�dtrnent.
Dfvid Tackt-t
President
Coconut Grove PI-r-hant's Assoc.
Owner; ComPlum Restaurant
34 0 [Main Highway
CT Avalos
Secretary/Treasurer
Coconut Grove Merchant's Assoc.
Owner; Dade Cycle
P.S. - If each merchant in the Grove provides $100.00 to the fund, the total will be
nearly $20,000.00.
Opk
Coconut Grove rC$C7@
Merchant's Association
3043 Grand Avenue, Coconut Grove, Florida 33133. (305) 444-5997
I will provide .for the interest -
free loan fund to hel.-) our ors in �V'est ,rove
start over in their buc-iness.
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