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Ungava at Lauderdale Marina, 1950

Bob Cox on Ungava, 1948 15th Street, 1950

family are also residents of Rio Vista with their home Twenty-eight years later, after the Hurst family had moved
located on the New River. on, Bob Cox, Ted Drum and the other Cox family
members took full ownership of the restaurant in 2006.
In April and May of this year, Drum Realty sold two
waterfront properties in the southeast Fort Lauderdale The Fisheries has since gone on to win numerous awards
and has reclaimed its reputation as one of Fort
area, one in Harbor Beach, the other in Rio Vista. Kelly
Drum was the listing agent on both sales. The Rio Vista Lauderdale’s best dining places, all by offering excellent
food and family fun on the waterfront, not to mention the
residence was that of Jamie Stiles, widow of downtown
Fort Lauderdale developer Terry Stiles. Her home, located best waterway views in South Florida.
on a prominent point lot on SE 10th Street and the Bob Cox, who was Mayor of Fort Lauderdale from 1986-
Intracoastal Waterway, was listed for $13.2 million. 1991, passed away in 2013 at age 95, having worked
nearly up until the very end at his beloved Lauderdale
Kelly Drum is also president of 15th Street Fisheries, the
Marina. Today, his legacy lives on in the waterfront
family’s own legendary seafood restaurant located inside
Lauderdale Marina. The award-winning eatery was landmark he founded and also in his family’s related
businesses located on the property, each a special part of
opened in 1978 by hospitality professor Michael Hurst, as
a tenant on the property, in the iconic building erected by the greater Rio Vista community. Cox Landing, a
waterway boat launch facility on the south side of 15th
The Shipyard in 1977.

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