When the pace of Miami becomes too much to take, why not escape to Israel with some of the best airfares around. Continue Reading

With the art scene in Miami exploding, it’s no surprise that so many art walks and gallery nights have come to life in South Florida. Continue Reading

The Miami Beach Art Deco District is a one-square-mile area that contains roughly 1,000 buildings which were constructed during the 1930s. The Miami Design Preservation League conducts daily walking tours of the Art Deco District and their guides provide a wealth of information along the way. Continue Reading

There is a wide range of architecture that’s often attributed to “Art Deco,” but the fact is, Miami Beach has several distinct styles of architecture, not the least of which are “Streamline Moderne” and “Nautical Moderne.” Continue Reading

My, how things change. Here’s an excerpt from a Miami Beach advertising brochure from 1939 that seemed to place a rather large emphasis on fishing… Continue Reading

Pilgrims to the Cities of the Sun have a choice of several “magic carpet” modes of travel. If you’re in a hurry you can take off any evening on regularly scheduled airliners from New York or Chicago and fly the entire distance overnight. By rail, it’s only 28 hours from New York to the golden sands of South Beach, 35 hours from Boston and 42 hours from Chicago on through trains with air-conditioned equipment. Continue Reading

Host to some 6,000,000 guests annually, Miami Beach attracts vacationers every month of the year from every part of the United States, Canada and Latin America. Here are lodgings for 175,000 visitors in 380 hotels and 2,700 apartment buildings, all within a few minutes of ocean beaches, golf courses, fine shops, restaurants, deep-sea fishing, night clubs and numerous spectators ranging from horse racing to football Continue Reading

Miami and Miami Beach are some 1300 miles nearer the equator than the famous resorts of the Mediterranean Riviera and about 600 miles further south than Los Angeles, California. The average. temperature here for December, January and February is 58 degrees, as compared with 50 degrees on the Riviera Continue Reading

Here’s how Miami Beach was described in a travel brochure from 1939… Continue Reading