Miami Memories: A Midcentury Journey (Schiffer Books) - Softcover
Be transported back to a Golden Era in Miami history. Nearly 250 mid-century postcards portray bikini-clad tourists, tropical cabana nightclubs, and beaches crowded with basking vacationers, along with the private yachts, the fragrant orange groves, and the colorful flamingos, flowers, and neon splendor of the region.\nArchitecture fans, preservationists, and historians will delight in these views of the city and its fabulous hotel resorts developed in the 1920s and \30s. These tourist destinations embodied the Tropical Deco style -- an aesthetic that combined streamlined Art Deco with the exotic elements that were locally inspired. These images also illustrate the re-birth of streamlining in the 1950s, and the creation of the city\s treasured MiMo or Miami Modern style. Many of these treasured architectural landmarks are now lost to further development. \nThe "Miami Magic" that drew the rich and famous then, still caters to droves of Americans and Europeans who flock there by land, sea, and air. Here is a fantastic mini-history of the city and its allure.
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Mary L. Martin heads Mary Martin Postcards, a three-generation family business that is the largest postcard operation in the world. In addition to a warehouse facility in Perryville, Maryland, the company is a presence at postcard shows worldwide, and produces many shows, including the United State\s largest postcard show in York, Pennsylvania, in November. Tina Skinner is a professional editor and writer who enjoys hauling her family to exotic places in the pursuit of "research." Nathaniel Wolfgang-Price is a starving artist who aspires to write the great American novel (or short story, or poem, or whatever he can get away with).
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- PublisherSchiffer
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0764321765
- ISBN 13 9780764321764
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages112
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