Author: MDPL Staff

The Royal Palm Hotel in Miami

April 27, 2020 No Comments
Read Time: 2 mins This hotel was a large resort built by railroad magnate Henry Flagler in Miami. Opened in 1897, the Royal Palm Hotel was one of the first hotels in the Miami area. It sat on the north
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Original Andy Sweet photographs

April 21, 2020 No Comments
Read Time: 2 mins Andy Sweet was a gifted photographer who from 1977-1982, documented the residents of South Beach through his camera lens. In 1982 his life was tragically cut short when he was
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Discriminatory Language of the 1940’s

April 21, 2020 No Comments
Read Time: < 1 min Shown are two archival 1947 magazine ads for The Cromwell and The Pancoast Hotels. These ads referred to “Selected Clientele”and “Carefully Restricted Clientele”, and offering “Congenial Companionship”. These catchphrases all
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1950s ad for The Essex House Hotel

April 20, 2020 No Comments
Read Time: 2 mins   The Essex House Hotel at 1001 Collins Avenue, is considered one of Henry Hohauser’s best designs. Built in 1938, the hotel has the streamlined shape of a ship, with
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Lincoln Center Hotel

April 20, 2020 No Comments
Read Time: < 1 min 1940’s Postcard of the Lincoln Center Hotel at 630 Lincoln Road and the corner of Euclid Avenue. The Lincoln Center Hotel was designed in 1937 by famed architect Igor Polevitzky
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Last Call to Save The Senator!

April 20, 2020 No Comments
Read Time: < 1 min 1988 Flyer “LAST CALL TO SAVE THE SENATOR!” at Miami Beach City Hall on Convention Center Drive on June 1st. BE THERE TO WITNESS THE FINAL MEETING….Join us at our
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Miami Beach Dog Track

April 16, 2020 No Comments
Read Time: 2 mins MDPL archival postcard of Miami Beach Dog Track circa 1930’s-1940’s. Located at the southern tip of South Beach on 1st and Ocean Drive, it brought an exciting cosmopolitan spark to Miami
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Andy Sweet Archives

April 14, 2020 No Comments
Read Time: 2 mins In January of 2020, MDPL contributed their digitized Andy Sweet archival files to the National Gallery of Arts, in conjunction with the Sweet’s family archives. Andy Sweet was a gifted
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Wolfie’s and Rascal House

April 13, 2020 No Comments
Read Time: 2 mins Wolfie Cohen’s Rascal House was the brainchild of Wilfred “Wolfie” Cohen, who started his foodie career as a busboy in the Catskills. In the late 1930’s, he moved to Miami
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