Hotel Halcyon - 1920s

from the Miami Daily Metropolis, Dec. 27, 1921.

The Hotel Halcyon at the corner of 12th Street and Ave B;
now Flagler St. & 2nd Avenue. (1924)

Miami's 'filthy' streets in 1912

In January of 1912, a Miami visitor sent a letter to the editors of the Miami Daily Metropolis complaining of "peanut hulls, orange skins and trash of every kind on Twelfth street [now Flagler Street] Sunday mornings."

Miami Daily Metropolis, Jan. 22, 1912.

Vintage Miami Beach postcards - Lake Pancoast and Algiers Hotel, 1950s

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Life in Miami in the 50s and 60s...riding bikes without hemets and drinking from a garden hose...

Vintage 1930s and '40s postcards showing the Venetian Causeway

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Ad for Florida Motor Lines - 1935

From the Miami Daily News, July 9, 1935.

Ad for Florida Motor Lines buses: "AIR CONDITIONED by Mother Nature."

1940s travelogue: Fun in Florida

1922 newspaper ad for Miami Beach real estate

From the Miami Daily Metropolis, Dec. 29, 1922.

carl fisher, miami beach, real estate, land boom, 1920s