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MDPL member, Nancy Usatschew has generously donated her family’s vintage photographs and articles about her uncle Tony Zukas. In the 1930s – 1940’s, he performed
The Coleman House at 36 Montford Ave. (where the Chamber of Commerce now sits) was a cause célèbre in the late 1970s when its owner,
On May 14th, 1979, the Miami Beach Art Deco District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, as the nation’s first urban 20th century
The ROYAL PALM HOTEL at 1545 Collins Avenue was designed in 1939 by Donald G. Smith as a four-story resort. It was expanded to seven
The Biscaya Hotel was a Mediterranean ten story structure (built in 1925 originally as The Floridian Hotel, which replaced the Miami Beach Aquarium) located on
1940’s Postcard of McCrory’s Department Store located on the southeast corner of Washington Avenue and Espanola Way in Miami Beach. The commercial architect William F.