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By late 1970s and early ‘80s, Miami Beach, after its first heyday from the 1930s through the ‘60s, was a place in transition. Let’s see what it looked like from the Miami Herald Archives ...
The Miami Beach Art Deco Museum describes the Miami building boom as coming mostly during the second phase of the architectural movement known as Streamline Moderne, a style that was “buttressed by the belief that times would get better, and was infused with the optimistic futurism extolled at American’s World Fairs of the 1930s.” [4]
English: Locator map of Miami Beach — Miami-Dade County, Florida. Created using coordinate data from US Census Bureau , modified in accordance with incorporation data from 2000-2005 in Adobe Illustrator.
The island of Indian Creek was said to have been created in the 1900s, due to excavation of drainage for Biscayne Bay and was an uninhabited and underdeveloped mangrove forest until 1928, when the country club and housing lots were established after a group of Midwestern businessmen bought the island as a real estate venture. [6]
Motel Row, in what is now Sunny Isles Beach, gave families an affordable place to stay. During the day, kids frolicked by the pool. At night, parents crowded into the lobby theater to catch a ...
The Miami airport is a city today. A mall, too. And a train hub. While Broward’s airport isn’t as large, it can be a maze, too, with stores, restaurants and multiple terminals.
John S. Collins, founding developer of Miami Beach The opening of Collins Bridge in 1913, the longest wooden bridge in the world at the time Carl G. Fisher in 1909 An aerial view of the Flamingo Hotel, c. 1922 Roller skating waitresses at Roney Plaza Hotel in Miami Beach in 1939 Only a few beach areas were open to Jews in 1947 when Temple Emanu-El was built Temple Menorah was developed from an ...
An architectural rendering shows a 1950s monumental mosaic mural that was saved from destruction in 2015 by Miami Beach preservationists at its planned new home at a South Beach fire station that ...