CALLE OCHO MIAMI - Eighth Street Miami

This guide to Calle Ocho, Eighth Street in Miami's Little Havana, opens at Maximo Gomez Park, the domino tables Cuban exiles built from an empty parking lot after the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. You'll hear how the games there doubled as strategy sessions among men who had lost their homeland, and the strict rules, age fifty-five and a membership card, that now govern who can sit down. From there the guide follows the street east toward its bronze Walk of Fame. Listen for the crack of dominoes against the tables as you pass.