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I have some of those postcards. I vacationed there as a child in the late 60s.

Grew up in MB in the 50's and 60's; Beach High 64. I didn't know it, but it was a Paradise. The city park network was a jewel -- Normandy Isle forever! Worked in the hotels, worked at a surf shop and rented out surfboards on South Beach. Loved the Art Deco vibe as it developed. Still wish I had my mother's 56 Chevy!

Great video! I paused it very often so I could analize better the pictures. Good job anonymous!

Castaways, Dunes the Holiday Inn on 87th was next door to the condos that collapsed in Surfside the Marco Polo (still there), the Sarah (still there) the Waiki all places I stayed and saw destroyed by high rise condos that no are empty and block the sun at the beach after 11.

1:19, My parent's loved Wolfie's.

Some great memories there. Great to see again! Thanks!

Pretty much right on with all those hotel cards, just didn't see, Lums steamed in beer hot dogs... that is my 1 take from Miami Beach, that I have 100 times tried to duplicate and can't!!

Wondering why there are no photos of the South Beach dog track or the pier that got washed away during a hurricane. This had to be the seventies or was it eighties? II remember as a 12 year old spending many nights watching the fishing off that pier. One time it was about 9:30 pm this one fellow who was in his twenties and was a regular caught a shark. I never will forget watching him real in this smaller shark maybe four or five feet.Those times were magical experiencing them then! Would love to see some more photos from those times.

This was the place to grow up before the Cubans turned it into a deSPICable environment.

Mai Kai is in Fort Lauderdale not Miami Beach.

I was in Miami Beach 2000. Not planning on returning. I've been to Wolfies, Rascal House, Motel Rpw and Deco area. I have many postcards I can reflect on. + I have my memory to count on.

Should have used the album "For Lovers Only" by the great one Jackie Gleason to accompany this video.

I grew up on Miami Beach in the 1950s and 60s. I left for college in 1971. Miami Beach during those decades was a safe and magical place. After school, you could walk a few blocks and be on the beach til dinner time. The winter months brought millions of snowbirds but during the summer, "The Beach" went back to being a more sleepy small town with mostly locals and of course lots of retirees. Miami Beach had only one high school with around 2,000 students. My parents always had season tickets for the Coconut Grove Playhouse. I was in high school when I saw the musical "Hair.". The Fountainbleau hotel was the epitome of cool and the Eden Roc was pure elegance. I was an usher at The Jackie Gleason Show which was filmed "live from Miami Beach." I have fond memories of Wolfie's 21 and the bucket of pickles on the tables. The best hamburgers in the world were from Ollies. I remember the houseboat where they filmed "Surfside 6" right across the street from the Fountainbleau where the stars would hang out in the Boom Boom Room and the Poodle Lounge. The hotel had an indoor ice skating rink! Those were the days. I went back to "The Beach" recently and was saddened to see what it has turned into. To be fair... all was not "magic" for certain groups. I remember our cleaning lady had to be on the bus by dark as Miami Beach was still a sundown town into the early 50s although that hung around into the 1960s.

I want it to go back to this. Quiet, the way it is in the mornings before all the idiot tourists come out. I love Miami Beach.

Nothing like it in this country anymore...

I absolutely love Miami Beach. Can’t stand the tourists, but I love the locals. It’s such a beautiful community.

Not all pictures from Miami Beach other than that great video!

What an amazing place to live back then.

I AM NOW 73 Y/0. I VISITED MIAMI SEVERAL TIMES. IN MAY, 1971..AFTER GRADUATING THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA..I MOVED AWAY IN JULY OF 1978 AND RETURNED IN MAY OF 1979. I MOVED AWAY IN 1983. ALTOGETHER, I LIVED IN THE MIAMI AREA FOR MORE THAN TWELVE YEARS. THE MIAMI AREA HAS BEEN IN DECLINE SINCE THE GLORY DAYS PRIOR TO 1974.

At 7:28 is the Fontainebleau Hotel under construction. That's where Jerry Lewis filmed his movie _The Bellboy_ in 1960.

In the 50s my parents took us down & we stayed in the Delido Hotel. I remember the lobby & it had 3 elevators with blonde, brunette & redhead operators. No kidding. I remember the 1st one had a rear door which went directly to the pool & beach. Have no idea if it still exists or not. Tried to google & came up with another name so not sure. Anyway as the song says Thanks for the memories. Really were the good old days

Wow! I grew up in Miami and spent the wild years of my 20s in Miami Beach in the 1990s. Lived the first 30 years of my life in Little Havana, so I'm no stranger to the splendors of my hometown and its environs. But geez, this drives all of it home like never before... I would have never imagined the splendor of the days before my time there as vividly as depicted in these photos and postcards. Infinite thanks!

Great memories

It's a shame that all of this is now under water due to global warming...

IT WAS ALL SO LOVELY AND PEACEFUL. I WISH WE COULD GET SOME OF THE STORES BACK , LIKE JORDAN MARSH, BURDINES, THREE SISTERS, LERNER SHOPS. I SURE MISS THEM.

Awww! Thank youuuuu🤴❤❤💖💜😻😍😍❤‍🔥

nowadays fat ugly people walking by and homosexuals screwing up the scenery all days

Old south beach forever. Not this spring break nightmare it's become.

It's hard to believe South Beach was once the poorest area in the country, then later became a drug haven and the art deco was almost torn down. Read Gerald Posner's Miami Babylon book!

It is a great company. They taught me a lot to get me where I am today! I owe a great big thanks to Mr. Jim, Doug, and LeighAnn! Also to the Crew Chiefs! THANK YOU STONER & an Associates!!!🙌🏼🙏🏼💪🏼

Loved it and with the music

Cool memories of my time in Miami Beach (1952-1964). One thing in the video surprised me by its omission. No pics of what is perhaps the most iconic building in Miami Beach, The Fountainbleu.

Anybody remember Bea's Bar close to Castaways?

Wow what a flashlight I'm totally happy I grew up in Miami in that era I miss the rascal House. And as a kid it was a full-time job pool hopping all those hotels and so many pool the number 12 bus from North Miami

WOW! I could smell the beach air as I looked at the resorts on Collins Ave in North Miami Beach. What great memories. I saw the mural at Curries! Then you showed the whole restaurant. What a special place! We were in awe of places like THE DUNES, THE CASTAWAYS, THE AZTEC, and of course the huge hotels further south on Collins Ave. We stayed at THE OLYMPIA at 15701 Collins Ave. which was probably one of the least expensive motels on Collins, but it was paradise to our Pittsburgh family. We stayed there every year from 1960 to 1971. Thanks for the great video!

I wanna see those gay pajamas they mentioned in the song! 😆😅🤣😂👍

Thanks for the memories...beach high grad ‘64 🇺🇸

Another city the left destroyed with their lunatic policies.

Grew up on south beach...definitely was a walk down memory lane 😎

Wow, The trolleys running up and down Lincoln Road really brought back memories.

In those days we said, No Se Habla Espanol and it was a beautiful thing.

My great grandfather Joseph Kaplan owned the Cadillac hotel in the fifties with a house across from the hotel . Seventies were tough but it came back in the 1980s.

My happiest memories are there

i moved in , on 97th ave in 1965 its all to cool to relive this wow . the LORD was good to me in the life ive had

I moved down to Florida as a kid in 1965 with my family and we rented a house just off Biscayne Blvd. around 86th street, in the Miami Shores area. When I got older and could drive I would cruise down Collins Ave. and marvel at the decorative beach hotels.

I remember the time i went to a ball game crazy times

Work In Casablanca for many years!

Great memories never again 😎

I was at the Seaquarium (2:20) many times, same for Pumperniks (2:45) on Collins Ave., and Wolfie's (3:36), between 1964-67. I saw a live Jackie Gleason Show (The Great One, 6:30) taping in 1966, at the place now named The Fillmore, but after he died it was named in his honor, The Jackie Gleason Theater of the Performing Arts. I was sad to hear of the recent bankruptcy of Jordan Marsh (6:37). I really miss those days. A Burger King Whopper cost only 40 cents, but that was when 90% silver coins were minted (through 1964) and in circulation,, plus the dollar was redeemable in gold, keeping prices low, until Nixon's order allowing massive inflation of the paper "money" on Aug. 15, 1971, that paid for the war, among other welfare and warfare. Few knew the significance of Aug. 15, 1971, still hurting the poor and working class today.

Magic city!!