Hialeah article - Baltimore Sun

[Cajungator26]

This is interesting considering the disagreements we had on the other Hialeah thread concerning the area surrounding Hialeah:

De Francis said: "Unfortunately, the area of South Florida deteriorated around Hialeah. In the face of that, Mr. Brunetti was not willing to make the capital investment in Hialeah as we did in Gulfstream and Churchill did at Calder.

"I used to go to Hialeah," said Michael Williams, 57, a South Florida resident who now goes to Gulfstream. "I lived a couple blocks from there in the 1970s. It was the best, most beautiful place in the world to go. There were thousands of people there. But then the neighborhood changed and it became hard to live there. ... But even after I moved, I kept going down. I'd take the train. On the last day it was open I was there. I don't think there were more than 1,000 people."