Do you remember when 84 used to intersect 441 and there was no highway there?
Nope, I'm a youngin. I moved down roundabout 1999.
There was the Grand Prix arcade that was the epicenter of video game playing back in the early 80's.
The first location - the "largest arcade in the world" was quite impressive but in the new loc they built a roller coaster, bungee jumping, paintball, another go-kart track (nascar style) and a gigantor putt-putt golf course.
I suspect you might also remember the Six Flags Atlantis waterpark that was at the current locale of the Oakwood shopping plaza on the other side of stirling. My wifes father was a foreman at that site, he did steel-fab.
Place had about 2000 video games and was open 24 hours.
The new location was known as "grand prix Dania" and later "Grand Prix Race-a-rama", and was also open 24 hours a day. They have 2 arcade rooms now, neither as big as the original, but due to the decline in arcade gaming, still holds the title.
It is far from dead, Boomers bought it out in the mid-2000's, it is definitely still in operation but is no longer 24 hours.
Oh and back to traffic and interchanges. The current plan is to add "express lanes" along the median of the ever-backed up I-595, and reconfigure teh dangerous (I've personally seen 2 18 wheelers and a tanker full of gasoline go off the road going from SR84 onto tpike NB) short ridiculous weave into a more manageable braid (and hopefully less lethal) within the next 5 years. SR84 will again intersect 441 and continue from Port Everglades "all the way" out to the 869/sawgrass and I-75/alligator alley!
When my wifes family moved down with just about everybody else from jersey/new york in the 70's, she says that the roads were dirt, the atlantic/441 intersection had nothing but a streetlight and huge fields. My other buddy who grew up in margate says that he was the first house in his neighborhood. It's completely built out now. I can't imagine what it was like back then.
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