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Miami Beach w/ Century of Style
Since Carl Fisher built the bridge to the small barrier island off the southeast Florida coast, Miami Beach has always been a most stylish of international cities.
Hot Hot Hot.
Miami Beach
CLAMBAKE
ELVIS
JERRY LEWIS
“The Bellboy” (Fontainebleau Hotel)
“Tony Rome”
FRANK SINATRA
RAT PACK
Eva Gardner
EDEN ROC
“When The Beach Was Hot”
THE BELLBOY 1960
FOUNTAINEBLEAU (HOTEL)
“Goldfinger”
Jackie Gleason
Wayne Cochran
Arthur Godfrey
Morris Lapidus
MIAMI BEACH
Julia Tuttle
Carl Fisher
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Delano Hotel
Collins Avenue
16TH ST.
Loews Miami Beach Hotel
Royal Palm (South Beach)
Art Deco
Before the Neon and Pastel Fashion
15TH ST.
Ocean Drive
The Front Porch Cafe
Z Ocean (Crown Plaza Hotels)
14TH PLACE
The Betsy
Ocean Plaza (Hilton Vacations)
McAlpin (Hilton Vacations)
The Crescent
The Penguin
Pulse South Beach (Marriott Vacation Club)
Winter Haven
14TH ST.
Ocean Drive Gallery
The Netherlands (Condominium)
Surf Style (Tourist Shop)
The Cavalier
The Cardozo
13TH ST.
The Carlyle
The Leslie
The Tides
12TH ST.
Hotel Victor
THE VERSACE MANSION
11TH ST.
Casillas Cigars
The Strand
Congress Hotel
The Clevelander
10TH ST.
Edison
Breakwater
Havana 1957 (Cuban Restaurant)
Ocean Blue Hostel
Mango’s Tropical Cafe
9TH ST.
The Pelican
LARIO’s On The Beach (The Estefan’s Place)
NEWS CAFE (Versace’s Breakfast Spot)
8TH ST.
The Starlite
The Boulevard
The Colony
The Beacon
Avalon
7TH ST.
Majestic
The Celino
CJ’s Crab Shack
6TH ST.
The Fritz
The Bentley
5TH ST.
CAUSEWAY
Crossing Biscayne Bay to Miami
South of Fifth
THE CENTURY HOTEL
Good Italian, Hip-Hop Ferraris, and the art of hard-sale valet.
100 YEARS OF A BEACH FOR MIAMI
A Most Famous Barrier Island
TROPICAL
A Coconut Palm-lined Pineapple plantation
At first, NO BRIDGE to connect it to the mainland.
The Collins Bridge
1913 – The Collins Bridge, the first bridge connecting Miami Beach with Miami opened on this date. It was built by early south Florida land developer John S. Collins and partially financed by Carl G. Fisher.
The Port of Miami
Fisher Island
THE CENTURY HOTEL
ART DECO WEEKEND
100 Years Of Miami Beach
1899
1900
1910
1920
1930
1940
1950
1960
1970
Collins Avenue Depression
GINO’S
Peep Show
Brian Smith/Photographer
Candy Kokuris & The Leaners
Laura Kelly, Andrew & Gail, Steve Pines & Nancy Cromar (The Architects), Dan (The Bird of Paradise), Peter Rabino & Friend/Fiancee, (Easter birthdays), Collective Soul vs. Phish, Karen Rabino, The Miami Light Project (Gineen?), Lincoln Road, Century Theater, Diamanda Galas, Spalding Grey (Sharks), Stephen Bauer (Starfish Dinner) converted house South Philadelphia Avenue, ALTON DRIVE, 1111 @ Lincoln Road (Morris Lapidus/Architect), Sambuuca, Design District Graffiti Wars, Marlon Pacheco (New Times Illustration) Dragon Tattoo Shooter, Graffiti Backdrop for Century Theater performance of the B-Boy Breakdancing crew, made famous in the movie, “FLASHDANCE,” “M” Downtown Metro Entrance/Scupture, Miami New Times (Best Of “M”s), Al Pachino “SCARFACE,” Steven Bauer, City Light Project, JP Faber, Hunter Reno, Cigar & Coctail, Vincent, Pere?, The Dancer Elaine & The Surfer Husband?, Venetian Causeway, Alton Road, Ambrosia (Russian) Pizza, Bayside Miami Beach, Mondrian Hotel, #8 Burgers, Santana, identified by Shazzam, Will Smith “Miami,” Martin Lawrence “Bad Boys,” Jaime Foxx, Collin Farrell
MAC’s CLUB DEUCE
1980
MIAMI VICE
Cocaine
Brickell Avenue
TOBACCO ROAD
The Miami River
Julia Tuttle
Julia Tuttle Causeway
Arthur Godfrey Road / Causeway / 42nd Street & Collins Ave.
Mid Beach
Fontainebleau
Eden Roc
Casablanca
North Beach
Residential Deco
Bay Island Village
82nd St (JFK) Causeway
North Bay Islands
The Oggi Cafe
Surfside
Bal Harbor
HAULOVER INLET
HAULOVER (TOPLESS) BEACH
Sunny Isles
162nd St
Blue Note Records
North Miami
Criteria Studios
Tom Dowd: The Language of Music
Roger Nichols (I invented it/Steely Dan)
Al Di Meola
Van Dyke Cafe (Lincoln Road)
Macarena w/pop singer friend
w/ Augutin (Russian) singer
Miami River
MAC’s CLUB DEUCE
WPA POST OFFICE
City Hall
Bass Museum
1990
VERSACE
MADONNA “SEX”
PRINCE/GLAMSLAM
WASHINGTON AVE
Marylin Manson
Washington Square
Gallery Of The Unkown Artist
The Strand
THE DINER
Erotica Museum
Gallery Of The Unkown Artist
CAMEO THEATER
Madonnas, The Strip Club
Rich Jeni
Dana Gould
SOBE POP
GOLDFINGER
EDEN ROC
AVA GARDNER
DOROTHY DANDRIDGE
ELLA FITZGERALD
NAT KING COLE
AFTER HOURS
OVERTOWN
MIAMI RECORDS
MURPH THE SURF
MARIEL CUBA
COCAINE COWBOYS
“SCARFACE”
Steven Bauer
Miami Light Project/
Lincoln Road/
Century Theater/
Spalding Gray
Diamanda Galas
B-Boy Breakdancers / “FLASHDANCE”
Ocean Drive Magazine
The Krylon Wars
Power Studio “Good” Graffiti Writers
vs. The Miami Light Project
Marlon Pacheco
One of the “Bad” Graffiti Writers, well known in Miami’s “underground” community.
Dragon Tattoo Shooting (Miami New Times Illustration)
Steven Bauer
MARIEL, CUBA
Fidel Castro empties his prisons, and exiles the most violent of Cuban criminals, forcing them onto overcrowded boats, rafts, and other pieces of debris, called a vessel, for their ability to float.
COCAINE
CUBA vs. COLUMBIA
[1983] — Building Bridges with Cocaine / Cuba vs. Columbia
“SCARFACE”
COCAINE CLASSIC
“Say hello to my little friend.”
Al Pachino
Steven Bauer (Miami’s finest)
Miami Light Project (Karen Rabino)
Starfish Residential Restaurant (after show dining)
Pennsylvania Ave.
MIAMI VICE
Miami Beach Renaissance #1
Out of old age and poverty, and into Pastel Pop Mania.
White Linen Jackets, soft colored shirts, alligator shoes, and no socks.
Wearing a three-day stubble, smoking filterless Camels, and shooting off excessive amounts of ammo,
MAKING MIAMI LOOK COOL.
b/ Dave Barry
“PARADISE LOST”
[ 1990 ] — SOUTH BEACH RENAISSANCE
VERSACE
MADONNA “SEX”
PRINCE
CANE
MAXIMUM BOB
WEEKI WACHEE
TOWERS THAT COOL,