‘National Airlines, “Airline of the Stars”, announces the departure of their flight NA 106 to La Guardia Field, New York. Will all passengers please proceed to gate number seven. All aboard, please.’ Goldfinger, Chapter one James Bond is in Miami Airport awaiting his Transamerica flight to New York, when he hears the above announcement of … Read more
JAMES BOND, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death. Goldfinger, Chapter One Goldfinger begins with James Bond at the Miami Airport, drinking bourbon following an unpleasant assignment in Mexico. There has been an airport on the current site of Miami International … Read more
In Goldfinger, James Bond, who had been jonesing for a slice of the easy life, is given his wish, for a night at least, by Mr Junius Du Pont, who is hoping that 007 can help him out with a problem. When Bond accepts, they head out to dinner. They drew up at a white-painted, … Read more
Gandy Bridge is a six-mile bridge connecting Tampa with St Petersburg. James Bond drives across the bridge from St Petersburg to Tampa after his second meeting with The Robber in Live and Let Die. The original bridge was constructed in 1924 and this was the one on which Bond traveled. Three years after the novel … Read more
In Live and Let Die, James Bond and Felix Leiter make their Florida headquarters on Treasure Island, at a place called The Everglades. Treasure Island is next to St. Petersburg, and has been a popular beach area for many years. Bond describes how he and Solitaire arrived there: they were checked at the intersection of … Read more
James Bond briefly visits the city of Jacksonville in Live and Let Die, when he and Solitaire hop off the Silver Phantom train to avoid Mr Big’s men. The station they would’ve entered at that time would’ve been the Union Terminal, which at one time was the largest railroad station in the south. The platform … Read more