Miami Beach's Collins Ave (ca. 1950s)

Vintage color photo from the 1950s of Collins Avenue looking north at 20th Street. Visible are the old Greystone Hotel and the Five O'Clock Club.

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Collins Avenue and 20th Street in 2015.

Vintage 1930s and '40s Miami Beach postcards

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Palm shaded Meridian Avenue

A daily scene, Miami Beach, Florida

Ocean Drive

Hotels along Collins Avenue

Collins Ave looking south from 17th Street

Frolicking on the sands

Nov. 18, 1963: President Kennedy visits Miami

President John Kennedy and Senator George Smathers
greet well-wishers at Miami International Airport, Nov. 18, 1963.
Photo by Joe Rimkus - Miami News.

Forty eight years ago, on Nov. 18, 1963, President John F. Kennedy flew into Miami to give a speech before the Inter-American Press Association at the Americana Hotel in Bal Harbour.

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On Nov. 22, 1963 - four days after his Miami visit - the President flew to Dallas to give another speech.

Ad for Lincoln Road, Miami Beach - 1958

From the Miami News, Aug. 17, 1958.

Ad for Lincoln Road, Miami Beach. "Where MORE of everything means MOST for your MONEY!"

Sheldon's Drugs, Miami Beach - 1961

Biscayne Bay early, 1900s

"Sunset, Biscayne Bay."
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Biscayne Bay.
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Washington Avenue on Miami Beach in the 1930s and 40s

Washington Avenue, 1935.

Washington Avenue, 1940.

Miami's Venetian Hotel

1940s postcard showing Venetian Hotel.
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The Venetian Hotel was located at 1445 North Bayshore Drive at what is now a parking lot for the Miami Herald.

Venetian Hotel, 1934.

Miami Daily News, Jan. 18, 1926.

Cotton Club robbery on Miami Beach, Jan. 7, 1957

from the Miami Daily News, Jan. 7, 1957

-ad from the Miami Daily News, Dec. 17, 1957

Ad for Miami Photo Supply Co. - 1935

From the Miami Daily News, Jan. 16, 1935.