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Article: South Beach and 'Miami Vice'; past and present blend into one
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- August 6, 2006
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - South Beach was once a place where crime kept
residents indoors at night and retirees lined porches. Forlorn hotels
stood mostly vacant, and a popular outdoor mall was reduced to a
desolate strip where bums slept.
Those were the days before "Miami Vice."
The TV show's popularity from 1984 to 1989 coincided with the
early days of the rebirth of Miami Beach's southern end - and helped
it along. Today, South Beach is known for trendy restaurants and
nightclubs, brightly painted hotels packed with tourists, upscale
fashion and expensive restaurants.
The new "Miami Vice" movie, which opens July 28, is set in the
present, not the past. But the film is bound to remind some ...