Bramson - Miami Beach
Here you can read online Bramson - Miami Beach full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. City: Charleston;SC;Miami Beach (Fla.);Florida;Miami Beach, year: 2005;2011, publisher: Arcadia Publishing, genre: Non-fiction. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:
Romance novel
Science fiction
Adventure
Detective
Science
History
Home and family
Prose
Art
Politics
Computer
Non-fiction
Religion
Business
Children
Humor
Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.
- Book:Miami Beach
- Author:
- Publisher:Arcadia Publishing
- Genre:
- Year:2005;2011
- City:Charleston;SC;Miami Beach (Fla.);Florida;Miami Beach
- Rating:5 / 5
- Favourites:Add to favourites
- Your mark:
Miami Beach: summary, description and annotation
We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "Miami Beach" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.
Bramson: author's other books
Who wrote Miami Beach? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.
Miami Beach — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work
Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Miami Beach" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.
Font size:
Interval:
Bookmark:
The difference between this book and every other book ever done on the history of Miami or Miami Beach is that this book has used, almost entirely and with only a very few exceptions, photographs from private collections, and I think and believe it has been greatly enriched by using family photographs and views, most never before seen outside the confines of the owners homes and certainly never before published.
With great gratitude, I thank the following: Judge Irving and Hazel Cypen, for allowing me access to their hundreds and hundreds of photographs; Joyce Grossman, who shared the photograph of her familys drug store on Miami Beach with me; Joy Van Wye Malakoff, who let me go through box after box of family photographs beginning with the familys arrival in 1924; Bookie and David Rogers, for their graciousness in providing several images; Mitchell Rosen, who allowed me to use two very rare scenes from his collection; David Schoenfeld, who said, I cant do enough to help; Gail and Mario Talucci, who never hesitated to let me go through the stuff; Gregg Turner, my Plant System book coauthor, whose insights, wisdom, patience, and support never failed me; Joan Kandel Worton, who loaned several fine Miami Beach images; my friends and classmates from our great class of 1962 at Miami Beach High School, the members of the Greater North Miami Historical Society, and the Miami Memorabilia Collectors Club; and so very many others who warmly encouraged me throughout. To one and all, thank you.
(Unless specifically credited otherwise, all photographs herein are from the authors collection.)
Among the promotional tools that Fisher publicist Steve Hanagan would use was golf, which, in Miami Beachs tropical climate, could be played in shirt sleeves year-round. Bay Shore Country Club was the beachs premiere course and is still a favorite of the duffers today.
Find more books like this at
www.imagesofamerica.com
Search for your hometown history, your old
stomping grounds, and even your favorite sports team.
It was certainly not an auspicious start for what would eventually become the worlds most desirable vacation resort, for the spit of sand at the southeast corner of the Florida coast was inhospitable, devoid of anything even resembling lodgings and, except by water, completely inaccessible.
It was the idea of farming that began the development of the island. The initial planting of choice was the coconut, but when Ezra Osborn and Elnathan T. Field realized that they could not and would not become rich by farming, they elected to sell their acreage to others. Those others had different plans.
Henry Morrison Flagler, of Standard Oil, built much, if not most, of the east coast of Florida, and Flagler is credited with founding both Palm Beach and Miami. It was his foresight, faith, and belief in the future of the Florida east coast that would inspire all who followed.
Although a magnificent monument to him and his great and immortal works was built in his honor on an island in Biscayne Bay, Flagler never ventured across that bay. When he died in 1913, Miami Beach was two years away from incorporation. The building and development of what was to become the most desirable resort destination in America was left to a hardy group of men from diverse backgrounds and businesses, all of whom had total faith in their ability to complete the incredible work that they were about to start.
The names of those pioneers, from Lum, Field, and Osborn to Pancoast, Levi, Chase, Dammers, and the Lummus brothers, must be enshrined in history, but one name, above all, was responsible for all that would follow, and that person, that name, was Carl Graham Fisher.
The Ocean Beach Realty Company was one of Fishers early development and land sales subsidiaries. To sell Alton Beach/Ocean Beach/Miami Beach, the ocean and bay had to be dredged and the sea and bay literally filled in. Here the dredge Davis is pumping in some of the three million cubic yards of fill that would eventually form a tropical paradise.
From an old family album, this adventuresome group is enjoying Ocean Beach to its fullest, likely on the sand behind Smiths Casino at what is now First Street and Ocean Drive but was then simply The Casino. Reached only by ferry from Miami and then a healthy hike over a dirt trail from the bay side to the ocean, Ocean Beach had cooling sea breezes and pleasant Atlantic waters that would make the trek worthwhile.
The casinos were not gambling casinos but rather bathing casinos. In this very early view of Smiths, we see the high diving board on which only the most daring (and the young swains attempting to impress their young women) would dive from the top.
John H. Levi, who would later be mayor of Miami Beach, became Fishers confidante and ramrod as Miami Beach was being built. Levi, who had been a yacht salesman, met Fisher during a boating excursion and told him about the island in the sun.
As the island was filled, the coconut trees left over from the original plantings began to grow and became a symbol of both Miami and the beach. In this Ocean Beach Realty Company view from the south end of the beach looking west from the casino, the dredge (likely the Davis ) is still hard at work pumping sand from the bay.
Prior to the opening of the Collins Bridge in 1913, those wishing to enjoy a day in East Miami (as it was known for a short time) or at the beach would embark from Elsers Pier at the foot of Twelfth Street (now Flagler Street) in Miami and enjoy crossing Biscayne Bay aboard the Mauritania or the Lusitania , as the ferries was so grandiosely named. Beachgoers arrived at this long pier at the foot of what is now Biscayne Street, Miami Beachs southernmost street. They would then walk across the trail to the beach where they could eventually take their pick of Smiths, Hardies, or Cooks Casinos.
Font size:
Interval:
Bookmark:
Similar books «Miami Beach»
Look at similar books to Miami Beach. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.
Discussion, reviews of the book Miami Beach and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.