Leslie Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida (Postcard Series)

Wolfie's Restaurant & Sandwich Shop, Miami Beach (Postcard Series)

1:10 and 1:48

Famous in its day.  (Restaurant-ing through history, 3/27/2011)

Luxurious Hotel Row Looking South on Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida (Postcard Series)

One of the first luxury resorts in Miami Beach, the Saxony Hotel opened in 1948.

Shhh... Here's A New Rendering Of The Hush Hush Faena Saxony.  (Curbed Miami, 12/12/12)





Collins Avenue magazine

Somerset Hotel in Miami Beach (Postcard Series

Now Marjory Stoneman Douglas Ocean Beach Park

Hotel Gaylord, Miami Beach

Gone and unlamented, apparently.

Looks more like a CSI Miami Weekend.

The Shorecrest, Miami Beach (Postcard Series)

Miami Twice.  Two art deco hotels combine as Miami Beach's first African-American-owned resort. (12/2/2002)

Excerpt:    The new 422-room resort opened on the site of the historic Royal Palm Hotel and Shorecrest Hotel, both built in the 1930s. In their heydays, the Royal Palm and Shorecrest were two of the most successful, sophisticated hotels on the beach.

Simone Hotel, 321 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, Fla. (Postcard Series)

Lost Miami Beach

Enrique Norton's Oceanfront Lo-Rise South of Fifth, Approved

They'll be built on the former site of the Simone Hotel, an historic art deco gem which was disastrouly "demolished by neglect" back in 2010.

Colony of kitten halts demolition of Miami Beach hotel.  (The Palm Beach Post, 8/13/2010)

Aerial View of Miami Beach, with Miami in the Background (Postcard Series)

A view that looks much different today.

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