MIAMI BEACH, TODAY AND YESTERDAY: CENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONS AND GLIMPSES OF THE CITY’S EARLY HISTORY
• April 22, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in Uncategorized
Tags: 1920s, Andrea Bocelli, Barry Gibb, Boulevard Hotel (Miami Beach), cafetarias, Carl G. Fisher (1874-1939), concerts, Flamingo Hotel (Miami Beach), Fontainebleau Hotel (Miami Beach), Gloria Estefan, Great Depression, Hurricanes, J. N. Lummus, Jackie Gleason, Jane Fisher, John Stiles Collins, Land booms, Land busts, Lincoln Road, Lincoln Road Theater, Mediterranean-influenced architecture, Miami Beach Centennial celebrations, Mike Douglas show (North Shore Community Center, millionaires, Nautilus Hotel (Miami Beach), New World Center, nouveau riche, Ocean Beach Development Company, Palm Beach, Projection projects, real estate developers, Redfish Media, socialites, the Great Hurricane of 1926, Thomas Pancoast, Wallcasts
RETURN IN TIME TO THE LINCOLN HOTEL, MIAMI BEACH, LATE JANUARY, 1921
• October 24, 2012 • 4 CommentsPosted in architecture, photography, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1921, boosterism, Carl G. Fisher (1874-1939), Collins Bridge, electric streetcars, Flamingo Hotel (Miami Beach), golf courses, horseback riding, J. E. Lummus, J. N. Lummus, January 1921, John Stiles Collins (1837-1928), Jungle Island speakeasy and gambling establishment, Lincoln Hotel, Lincoln Road (Miami Beach), Lummus brothers, luxury hotels, Miami Beach (Florida), Miami Beach Casino, Miami Beach developers, Miami Beach Improvement Company, photograph albums, polo grounds, President-elect Warren G. Harding, Senator A. B. Cummins, socialites, Thomas J. Pancoast, tourism, winter resorts
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