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Article: Where art deco is in: South Beach!(Geographic overview)
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- PSA Journal
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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To visit South Beach (the southern most end of Florida's beautiful seven-mile-long Miami Beach) is to immediately immerse oneself in a cacophony of stimulating sights, smells, and sounds. Miami Beach has become internationally renowned as "America's Riviera"--a cosmopolitan island city that separates pristine Biscayne Bay from the blue Atlantic.
In the 1980s and 90s considerable capital investment made possible a refurbished South Beach as the Art Deco Historical District. The district is chock full of high end shopping spots, art galleries, and clubs and cafes that take one back to the mid-twentieth century. Miami Beach has always been an international Mecca ...