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!
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 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.
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.
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.
Great video! My mother and father moved to Florida when I was three years old. I lived there for almost 30 years, and finally went back to temperate climates (New York, Boston and now, Portland, Oregon). Still have memories of old Miami Beach and the city of North Miami, Florida, where my Dad was a councilman, vice-Mayor and municipal judge. In memory of Leonard L, Kimball (b. 1911-d.1988) who would have been 100 years old this year 11/11/1911.
Amen Caroline, we lived in Hialeah back in the 1970's and in the Paint and Body business. The Cubans swam over and started undercutting our prices with horrendous third world quality, we would estimate a repair with new sheet metal as needed but the Cubano's would fill the dents up with Bondo at half the price. Hialeah is a sheet hole compared to our standards but lovely if you came from communist country like Cuba.
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!
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
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!
I am 52 and we used to stay at the Colonial Inn every August back in the mid to late '70's. I used to have a blast hooking up with the same kids every year. All the motels are gone along with the famous Rascal House. They even had a Nathans and an x-rated movie theatre across from motel row on Collins ave. Now there are these humongous, soulless condos along with strip mall after strip mall. Biscayne Blvd, the same thing. There use to be biker bars and topless joints all along Biscayne blvd back in the day. They took all the character out of the area similar to what they are doing in NYC. sad.
@@rebel6809 ..haha,ok Are you the original comment? Did you change your name or something? Are you the same person? Anyway, hope you're having an amazing day/night, whatever it is for you!🤟😁✌
:) My father was the General Manager of the National Hotel from 1985-1994. I lived there during the sad time of 1980-82. I remember almost all the Lincoln Road stores were closed. I remember the hoopla when developers wanted to re-develop the Art Deco district. Has Miami Vice TV show not come along the whole Art Deco district would be gone now. Sad to hear the Carillon hot mutilated by re-developers.
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.
0:23-0:27 5th Street Gym. In 1993 I was visiting on Military Leave, when they tore it down. I got two pieces of the wall and the Miami Herald article. This past weekend, I was visiting family and friends there. My good friend who lives in the Grove, showed me the piece I gave him. Good video.
Castaways had their junk boat moored on the inter coastal. As a kid I wanted to be old enough to go onboard. I have family pictures of us standing in front of the camels at the Sahara, a surrey in front of another motel,I wanted to get back there to take a picture as some of the statuary/motels are still there.
Brian Older, I thought Mai Kai was in Ft. Lauderdale! One summer vacation in the mid-sixties, Dad took us to eat there as a special treat. True to my Tennessee country roots, I wailed that there were grubworms in my food --(they were bamboo shoots!) -- but I was having none of it. I'm sure Dad was disappointed in his young daughters at the time, and he was only trying to make special memories. We were staying at the Aztec Motel, another iconic establishment long gone. I remember being amazed at hotel after hotel along the beach. Other than my memorable MaiKai moronic meltdown, it was a fantastic trip. Oh, and in the days of dressing up in our Sunday best to fly Eastern Airlines, too. What wonderful memories!
I was born in 1956, my family would vacation in Miami and stay down the street from the Castaways at a motel called the Golden Arrow. What fun times it was back then. I remember walking across the street to the beach side and eating Danish Pastries at a hotel. We had cousin who worked for Eastern Airlines back then that lived in Hialeah. I have posted a film on the GoldenArrow on here.
Just saw this video for the first time, yes what memories my family used to stay at the Newport Hotel, saw Louie Prima in the Rib room when I was about 5 or 6 years old, it was a great time, I remember there was an arcade down from the Rascal House that had trampolines. I`m a little younger than you but glad I experienced it.
I have to tell you, its so sad what happened to Miami in 79' Jimmy Carter, my dad says that the mvie scarface bring justice to what it was like. He grew up then. I love hearing stories about the old Miami. Its really part of me. And i love it and you would be surprised to know about my family there. Good storirs
Classic of a guy named "Holy Joe" - beach preacher with a tag of 1976 (Feb? with the 2?) showing I guess that there were spring breakers (or just young folks) as shown as late/early as the Bicentennial year.
I grew up in MB during 50s and 60s and it was alive and much fun..except in summer when most hotels closed down! But there was one thing you didn't want to be in MB then: Black. Segregation and abuse were widespread. I can remeber Black people had to enter some stores only by the back door. I kid you not. You'll notice that all old films or photos of fun MB never had any Black people in them unless servants, gardeners, or low level laborers. Never enjoying this paradise. In 15 years of going to MB beaches, maybe 250 visits, I can remember one time seeing a Black family there. One time.
@@fringestream990 exactly lol thats what i was going to say they turned miami in a shit hole go to the beach ocean drive on 4 of july if you dare it looks like you are in Africa
Take it up or down a notch: Blacks had to be off the island by dark. Entertainers like Sammy Davis stayed in black hotels on the mainland. Had friends that would go to black clubs late night to see major performers perform after they finished on the beach.
Thinking back now, my mom was great friends with Belle Barth! In 1957 mother was a girl singer at Bill Jordan' Bar of Music..and hung out with Sonny Capone, at his restaurant, 'Sonny's Grotto" on Collins Avenue, I think. Also, the Bombay Lounge - she worked for Manny and Freddy Schein (sp?, sorry). We lived at Gold Coast Apartments, and went to Biscayne Elementary....Sometimes we'd go for burgers at a place called THE PAMPERED PUP. Memories, gadzooks..I was 9 year old..!!
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.
Really sorry for all the older people that spent everything they had to retire in Miami only to have it turn to shit. Because they're kind of trapped. Well most have probably long since passed away.
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
Except for Dean Martin's, There is not a place shown i did not at least enter once! My grandfather was the manager of the Delano...would that he were now!!!
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!!
I remember the Castaways Motel when i would visit Miami Beach back around 69,70 I never got to stay there After moving To the west Ft.Laud area in 76 it was all gone How mane blocks did the Castaways take up??
I was USCG stationed down there 84-88. I was born 1951:) DO you recall woman dressed kind of Jane Mansfieldish....slit skirt...blond...heavily made up. Used to sit in the bars...the Doll House on Washington for one...listen to Sweet Dreams by Patsy Kline....and cry....and cry. some French outfit filming Canada Dry commercial saw her. SHE"S THE ONE. filmed commercial in Macs CLub Deuce ....big bar fight...she sat at the bar oblivious and in anguish:):):)
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.
I'm really going to date myself with this but...do you remember when Miami was called "The Playground of the World"? And the whole city changed during 'tourist season'? Good memories. Thanks =)
There was a hotel near 41st & Collins that only catered to women. This was 1970. So daughters would not be hassled, 'girls' could be safely sent on vacation.. But they had an interior restaurant that one could use. Odd to be 15 and in a dining room with 50 young women. No men. At the other extreme, Eden Roc had a small, gender separated elevated section in 60s for "full" tanning.
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.
Your title says Memories of Old Miami Beach buy you've got several photo's taken in and around Miami in this montage. You should change the title to say Miami and Miami Beach.
Some great memories there. Great to see again! Thanks!
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!
Awww! Thank youuuuu🤴❤❤💖💜😻😍😍❤🔥
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 grew up in North Miami
The CASTAWAYS AT NIGHT WAS BEAUTIFUL
@@tmartinez1948 We were content to just walk past it. My Mom loved Polynisian decor so it was heaven to her - night or day.
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.
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.
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.
Old south beach forever. Not this spring break nightmare it's become.
At 7:28 is the Fontainebleau Hotel under construction. That's where Jerry Lewis filmed his movie _The Bellboy_ in 1960.
The Firestone mansion is in the front of the hotel before it was completed.
Great video! My mother and father moved to Florida when I was three years old. I lived there for almost 30 years, and finally went back to temperate climates (New York, Boston and now, Portland, Oregon). Still have memories of old Miami Beach and the city of North Miami, Florida, where my Dad was a councilman, vice-Mayor and municipal judge. In memory of Leonard L, Kimball (b. 1911-d.1988) who would have been 100 years old this year 11/11/1911.
I remember your father
1:02 I was there in 1975. Stayed at 4:11. Wow,, Great memories.
In those days we said, No Se Habla Espanol and it was a beautiful thing.
Amen Caroline, we lived in Hialeah back in the 1970's and in the Paint and Body business. The Cubans swam over and started undercutting our prices with horrendous third world quality, we would estimate a repair with new sheet metal as needed but the Cubano's would fill the dents up with Bondo at half the price. Hialeah is a sheet hole compared to our standards but lovely if you came from communist country like Cuba.
@@MrYAMAHA32177 I here ya I grew up in Hialeah 55 thru 77 No Habla Espanol still have family there bummer
I wish I was in the old days of Miami Beach growing up right now! Those were the good old days!
It was paradise but we didn't realize it. Now all we have are memories !
Are you alive
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!
What a beautiful video 🌞💙 70’s 80’s were amazing. Precious moments lived.
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
1:19, My parent's loved Wolfie's.
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!
Those were the good old days of being in Miami Beach during those wonderful years!
I am 52 and we used to stay at the Colonial Inn every August back in the mid to late '70's. I used to have a blast hooking up with the same kids every year. All the motels are gone along with the famous Rascal House. They even had a Nathans and an x-rated movie theatre across from motel row on Collins ave. Now there are these humongous, soulless condos along with strip mall after strip mall. Biscayne Blvd, the same thing. There use to be biker bars and topless joints all along Biscayne blvd back in the day. They took all the character out of the area similar to what they are doing in NYC. sad.
It looks more like Caracas now...
You're 58 now, 🤣
@@wesleyAlan9179 true😂
@@rebel6809
...59 now,lol
@@rebel6809 ..haha,ok
Are you the original comment? Did you change your name or something? Are you the same person? Anyway, hope you're having an amazing day/night, whatever it is for you!🤟😁✌
Grew up on south beach...definitely was a walk down memory lane 😎
:) My father was the General Manager of the National Hotel from 1985-1994. I lived there during the sad time of 1980-82. I remember almost all the Lincoln Road stores were closed. I remember the hoopla when developers wanted to re-develop the Art Deco district. Has Miami Vice TV show not come along the whole Art Deco district would be gone now. Sad to hear the Carillon hot mutilated by re-developers.
Hlo man are you there
Mohamed Ali !!!! Waowwww 😉
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.
I remember Wolfies dill pickles!
0:23-0:27 5th Street Gym. In 1993 I was visiting on Military Leave, when they tore it down. I got two pieces of the wall and the Miami Herald article. This past weekend, I was visiting family and friends there. My good friend who lives in the Grove, showed me the piece I gave him. Good video.
I grew up in Miami and remember Holy Joe at South beach in 1963, 64, 65 and on when we'd go surfing on Sundays....
Then you would remember gardner surfboards
@@joegardner3083 so that's your family?? Just curios I'm out of Neptune/Atlantic beach, way to the north.
@@waltersobchak7275 yes, go to facebook type in bud gardner surfboards, the older brother went surfing for the last time.
I still can't believe that Wolfie's is gone.
Wolfies restaurant what a shame it was an institution along with Rascal house.
@@belingonza318 whats wolfie
Back in 1975 used to work a the Castaway hotel : Le Petit Québec on Collin street great time ever :) :) :) Great Memories :)
Castaways had their junk boat moored on the inter coastal. As a kid I wanted to be old enough to go onboard.
I have family pictures of us standing in front of the camels at the Sahara, a surrey in front of another motel,I wanted to get back there to take a picture as some of the statuary/motels are still there.
Brian Older, I thought Mai Kai was in Ft. Lauderdale! One summer vacation in the mid-sixties, Dad took us to eat there as a special treat. True to my Tennessee country roots, I wailed that there were grubworms in my food --(they were bamboo shoots!) -- but I was having none of it. I'm sure Dad was disappointed in his young daughters at the time, and he was only trying to make special memories. We were staying at the Aztec Motel, another iconic establishment long gone. I remember being amazed at hotel after hotel along the beach. Other than my memorable MaiKai moronic meltdown, it was a fantastic trip. Oh, and in the days of dressing up in our Sunday best to fly Eastern Airlines, too. What wonderful memories!
Mai Kai was and is in Ft Lauderdale, still I know because I pass it every day on my way to work !!
@@robinsteinmetz5613 closed now... :(
I couldn't find records of a Mai Kai in Miami Beach either.... there is one on us1 fort Lauderdale though, closed with plans to reopen.
I was born in 1956, my family would vacation in Miami and stay down the street from the Castaways at a motel called the Golden Arrow. What fun times it was back then. I remember walking across the street to the beach side and eating Danish Pastries at a hotel. We had cousin who worked for Eastern Airlines back then that lived in Hialeah. I have posted a film on the GoldenArrow on here.
Hlo
Just saw this video for the first time, yes what memories my family used to stay at the Newport Hotel, saw Louie Prima in the Rib room when I was about 5 or 6 years old, it was a great time, I remember there was an arcade down from the Rascal House that had trampolines. I`m a little younger than you but glad I experienced it.
I have to tell you, its so sad what happened to Miami in 79'
Jimmy Carter, my dad says that the mvie scarface bring justice to what it was like. He grew up then. I love hearing stories about the old Miami. Its really part of me. And i love it and you would be surprised to know about my family there. Good storirs
Great memories
Classic of a guy named "Holy Joe" - beach preacher with a tag of 1976 (Feb? with the 2?) showing I guess that there were spring breakers (or just young folks) as shown as late/early as the Bicentennial year.
michaelcarlebach DOT com with a site with much better pic of the one shown here!
I grew up in MB during 50s and 60s and it was alive and much fun..except in summer when most hotels closed down! But there was one thing you didn't want to be in MB then: Black. Segregation and abuse were widespread. I can remeber Black people had to enter some stores only by the back door. I kid you not. You'll notice that all old films or photos of fun MB never had any Black people in them unless servants, gardeners, or low level laborers. Never enjoying this paradise. In 15 years of going to MB beaches, maybe 250 visits, I can remember one time seeing a Black family there. One time.
What's your point
And ironically nowadays there’s plenty of black people there and it’s just like any inner city ghetto
@@fringestream990 exactly lol thats what i was going to say they turned miami in a shit hole go to the beach ocean drive on 4 of july if you dare it looks like you are in Africa
@@fringestream990 racist punk
Take it up or down a notch: Blacks had to be off the island by dark. Entertainers like Sammy Davis stayed in black hotels on the mainland. Had friends that would go to black clubs late night to see major performers perform after they finished on the beach.
I have some of those postcards. I vacationed there as a child in the late 60s.
The Mai Kai is in Fort Lauderdale !
Thinking back now, my mom was great friends with Belle Barth! In 1957 mother was a girl singer at Bill Jordan' Bar of Music..and hung out with Sonny Capone, at his restaurant, 'Sonny's Grotto" on Collins Avenue, I think. Also, the Bombay Lounge - she worked for Manny and Freddy Schein (sp?, sorry). We lived at Gold Coast Apartments, and went to Biscayne Elementary....Sometimes we'd go for burgers at a place called THE PAMPERED PUP. Memories, gadzooks..I was 9 year old..!!
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.
6:28 The Great One!
Yup. Fascinating guy.
Really sorry for all the older people that spent everything they had to retire in Miami only to have it turn to shit. Because they're kind of trapped. Well most have probably long since passed away.
Omg...the Newport lounge... debbie Weiner... the Newport Louge sunnyisles motel... awesome memories
Yup. Al dimiola Great days
that was the 5th street gym on the beach
Magic city!!
Work In Casablanca for many years!
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
Should have used the album "For Lovers Only" by the great one Jackie Gleason to accompany this video.
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.
Except for Dean Martin's, There is not a place shown i did not at least enter once! My grandfather was the manager of the Delano...would that he were now!!!
there was a radio show....Keeper of the Keys...a capella doo wop ....songs that were hits in ONE of the NYC buroughs:)
ever hear that show?
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!!
Where did you find these terrific photos?
Nothing like it in this country anymore...
Anybody remember Bea's Bar close to Castaways?
He was around all over Miami Beach until the mid 70s. wonder what happened to him...
Hlo man
I remember the Castaways Motel when i would visit Miami Beach back around 69,70 I never got to stay there After moving To the west Ft.Laud area in 76 it was all gone How mane blocks did the Castaways take up??
I worked the pool at the Castaways back in 1974-75.
belle barth's pub in the coronet hotel on Collins and 20th.
Not all pictures from Miami Beach other than that great video!
I was USCG stationed down there 84-88. I was born 1951:)
DO you recall woman dressed kind of Jane Mansfieldish....slit skirt...blond...heavily made up.
Used to sit in the bars...the Doll House on Washington for one...listen to Sweet Dreams by Patsy Kline....and cry....and cry.
some French outfit filming Canada Dry commercial saw her. SHE"S THE ONE. filmed commercial in Macs CLub Deuce ....big bar fight...she sat at the bar oblivious and in anguish:):):)
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.
That's why every fast food like McDonald's (15 cents) and many other businesses had the price built into the signage. That's how slowly prices raised.
I'm really going to date myself with this but...do you remember when Miami was called "The Playground of the World"? And the whole city changed during 'tourist season'?
Good memories. Thanks =)
Jakie Gleason opened his weekly show with the famous words "From the sun and fun capital of the world, Miami Beach, it's The Jackie Gleason Show".
There was a hotel near 41st & Collins that only catered to women. This was 1970. So daughters would not be hassled, 'girls' could be safely sent on vacation.. But they had an interior restaurant that one could use. Odd to be 15 and in a dining room with 50 young women. No men. At the other extreme, Eden Roc had a small, gender separated elevated section in 60s for "full" tanning.
Wow wish I could have seen miami like this I was born not till 1990
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.
I wanna see those gay pajamas they mentioned in the song! 😆😅🤣😂👍
omg look at lincoln road
Wow our beaches look nothing like this.......I mean nothing. We got the shaft on that deal.
Bunch of bad-guys there now,huh?
I wanna visit one day
@@wesleyAlan9179 I’m in Jax not Miami
@@waltersobchak7275 oh ok, sorry!! 😁
Your title says Memories of Old Miami Beach buy you've got several photo's taken in and around Miami in this montage. You should change the title to say Miami and Miami Beach.
a e s t h e t i c
It's a shame that all of this is now under water due to global warming...
Not yet, of course, but give it 100 - 130 years.
Your sarcasm is duly noted... as is your poor education & ignorance of science! Yaayy! 😂🤡
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.