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Showing posts with label Miami Beach history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Miami Beach history. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Barons of early Miami Beach: oil, tires, baked beans and beachside manses (or before the Fontainebleau Hotel)

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  Snowden Place 1923 Florida State Archives/ Florida Memory - Hoi t By Jane Feehan It’s hard to imagine Miami Beach in the days before it wa...
Sunday, July 24, 2022

Miami Beach: celebrities and glamour since the 1940s and 50s

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  Delta DC-6 over Miami Beach, 1954 Florida State Archives  By Jane Feehan For many across the U.S. in the 1950s, Miami was the place to be...
Monday, January 4, 2021

Morris Lapidus: Architect with a sense of fun ... ahead of his time?

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Fontainebleau today  Creative Commons Wikipedia  By Jane Feehan Once mocked by critics, architect Morris Lapidus (1902-2001) designed 250 ho...
Friday, June 19, 2020

Art Deco and Miami Beach's revival

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Aerial view of Art Deco area  -  Florida State Archives In May 1979 one square mile was designated “Old Miami Beach,” a historic preser...
Thursday, June 18, 2020

Miami Beach's first oceanside grand - Roney Plaza Hotel

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Roney Plaza Hotel, circa 1930 - Florida State Archives/Florida Memory B y Jane Feehan The Roney Plaza Hotel opened in February, 1926. Built ...
Thursday, December 27, 2018

Lincoln Road Mall - where time caught up with architect Morris Lapidus

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Original Lapidus geometric feature as seen today By Jane Feehan During the 1920s, early Miami Beach developer—and promoter—Carl ...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

A profitable alliance: Boxing and Frankie Carbo

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By Jane Feehan Miami Beach boxing promoter Chris Dundee denied doing business with mobster Frankie Carbo, but admitted he first met ...
Monday, August 3, 2015

Brothers Dundee, the 5th Street Gym, and boxing's best days in Miami Beach

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By Jane Feehan Angelo Dundee at Rourke -Powell fight 199 1 Florida State Archives I was hooked on boxing as a kid after seeing World Hea...
Thursday, November 6, 2014

Al Capone and "Capone Island" Deerfield Beach: facts and folklore

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Capone in 1930 (FBI) see below * By Jane Feehan Al Capone folklore in Florida is nearly as ubiquitous as that of George Washington...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

The Liston-Clay fight in Miami Beach, a star is born

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Feb. 25, 1964 Florida State Archives By Jane Feehan It was announced in December 1963 that a matchup between boxing champ Sonny Liston an...
Thursday, January 23, 2014

Ben "Bugsy" Siegel, Virginia Hill and Miami Beach

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1928 By Jane Feehan Ben “Bugsy” Siegel (b. 1906) was shot dead in the rented Beverly Hills home of girlfriend Virginia H...
Monday, October 7, 2013

Miami Beach sweeps TV land in 1955 with "Today," "Tonight" and ...

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Eden Roc today; Fontainebleau adjacent (south) By Jane Feehan Tourism was already a growth industry in Miami Beach be...
Sunday, July 21, 2013

Florida and Flamingos – not so much

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Flamingos Florida State Archives postcard collection  By Jane Feehan For years flamingos* have been associated with Florida but accor...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Discrimination on Miami Beach and the first kosher hotel

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Nemo Hotel  Collins and 1st  Miami Beach   By Jane Feehan During the 1920s, Miami Beach’s first boom era, covenants in la...
Sunday, June 9, 2013

New Jersey link to SOFLA palm trees and a failed Miami Beach biz

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Coconut palm State of Florida Archives By Jane Feehan Coconut palm trees are not indigenous to Florida; there were high hopes in the 188...