"I think I’ll come by and have a corned beef sandwich."
-- Junior Biggers
Junior Biggers watched the last Jewish deli in Hialeah go from bustling to run down and circle all the way back to ironically run down.
In 65 years there, he’s seen it all change.
He watched the neighborhood around Stephen’s Deli in east Hialeah go from Jewish garment district to hopeful arts district — complete with craft beer brewery. From the place a Black U.S. Air Force logistics officer like him could get only a dishwashing job in 1957 Miami to being the only person who remembered how to carve the house-made pastrami by hand.
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