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Ocean Drive, South Beach Miami
Here’s a leftover shot form our trip last week.
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Ocean Hotel
South Beach Miami
Around what year do you think this was built?
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Wish Restaurant At The Hotel South Beach Miami
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Sign Of The Day- Sum Yum Gai Washington Street South Beach Miami
Yep, this is a real sign on a real Chinese food joint in South Beach.
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Fashion Victim Clothing
There were countless stores along Washington Street and around South beach selling this type of club wear fashion. Certain young guys can pull it off in the right setting but to me 99.9 percent of the guys wearing clothes like this are tragic fashion victims. The kind of fashion victims like the guys in the eighties that wore parachute pants and had flock of seagull haircuts.
The absolute worst though is when you see forty year old white guys trying to pull this look off. Every time we would walk by one I’d squeeze The Mrs’ hand and she would know exactly what I was thinking- “Fashion Victim”
Note to all you guys out there- Flaps on the back of your jeans pockets and rhinestones=bad. Don’t be another victim.
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South Beach Alley
One Block From Some Of The Most beautiful Places To Be. I guess to some people it may be beautiful too, like the Birdseye Plant.
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Ocean Drive Cigars
See the guy standing on the roof? He looked like a character straight out of The Sopranos.
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Outdoor Dining On Ocean Drive
I was reading a book about the revitalization of South Beach and it said a big part of that revitalization was the widening of the sidewalks to accommodate the outdoor dining. The Block Parties last summer were a testament to how great a scene it was when we allowed the restaurants this ability.
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Lobsters In South Beach
It was good to see many of the restaurants had lobsters . What was even bettter was that they were leading with them as specials for not a ton of money. One fancy outdoor cafe had a lobster dinner for $15.99 While a low price isn’t great for fishermen, it’sgood that the product is getting good visability so when the economic downturn les up people and chefs still have lobster on thier brain.
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Sign Of The Day -South Beach Edit
Now here’s a store that really appreciates it’s customers.
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Ocean Drive Walk South Beach Miami Video
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South Beach Miami
I love the architecture here. Probably because I’m a sucker for symmetry.
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South Beach Miami
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The Van Ness Hotel South Beach Miami
I had no idea that Peter and Vickie were living so large! Hey Pete, you’re buyin the pizza at the next Block Party meeting!
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Penguin Hotel
When I started to come here in the early 90s the renovation boom had just kicked off. I remember going through some open houses for hotel-condo conversions which were selling for $60,000. What I didn’t remember back then was the sheer number of hotels in the Art Deco district. There are probably twenty more going through revitilization as we speak and many many have already undergone transformations. I was reading a book about the early 90s revitilization and it was quoted as saying that rooms on Ocean Drive in 1976 could be had for $5. That was of course when you would not have wanted to be here and it was a dangerous place.
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The Whitelaw Hotel Lobby South Beach, Miami
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it’s tough to get an idea of the scale of this sofa and chairs from this picture. I wish the Mrs was sitting in them so you could get an idea of hof massive they were.
This picture does not represent the proper light in the room but it really was beautiful in a funky eclectic sort of way.
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The Whitelaw Hotel Lobby
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I can’t attest for the rooms as I didn’t get past the lobby, but the decor was sexy as hell. Those Victorian style chairs were way oversized. I’ve never seen such bold statements in decor in person. The only thing that might have come close was Graceland as far as over the top design in a small space.
It’s not demure, it’s not understated, they went for it in a big way. This probably wouldn’t work in too many places but it works here in South Beach.
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The Whitelaw Hotel, South Beach Miami
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The Whitelaw Hotel looks pretty nondescript from the outside but once you step foot inside it’s a visual feast.
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