For clarification, 31st Street is MLK Ave
31st Avenue...
When that Swap Shop first opened in the 70’s it was a cool place. My parents went in on a booth with the family across the street. Both families did crafts they wanted to sell. It was all very wholesome back then.
It’s NW 31st Ave/MLK Blvd, the next light south is Oakland Park Blvd, East on OPB a mile or so is I-95.
The next major E/W cross street north of OPB is Commercial Blvd.
Until 5 yrs ago I had a condo for 20 yrs in a walled development a couple of hundred yds east of that flea market, it was close to work, but there were Ft. Apache aspects to living there.
Bow tie, suited NOI guys used to pass out propaganda at the OPD/MLK intersection, well, not to me, wrong pigmentation.
You could hear the automatic fire on New Year’s Eve north of the big canal as the native revelry echoed, lol.
For all that it was a good location until I became an old fart, fantastic restaurants, shopping, great bars and entertainment and 10 minutes to the beach.