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History of Miami Beach Video

Bob Vila gives the viewer a brief history of Miami Beach from its humble beginnings in plantation farming in the 1880s to its rise as a tourist Mecca and elite winter destination in the 1920s. Miami has grown from the farm envisioned by Quaker farmer John Collins into the playground for the rich and famous imagined by developer Carl Fisher. Bob takes a waterfront tour of Miami and looks north from South Beach along Biscayne Bay past the soaring skyscrapers and million dollar condominiums being built today to the mid-rise residential structures of the 60s and 70s.

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	NOW PLAYING History of Miami Beach Bob Vila gives the viewer a brief history of Miami Beach from its humble beginnings in plantation farming in the 1880s to its rise as a tourist Mecca and elite ...
	Tour of Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hotel Bob Vila visits Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hotel, an architectural gem that symbolizes Miami. This curving white hotel, designed and built in 1954 by architect Morris Lapidus, is now a Hilton ... Watch video and view full description
	The View from Island Avenue, Miami Gina Kirkpatrick, Miami real estate broker, shows Bob a building at the Miami Beach end of the Venetian Causeway, 5 Island Avenue. Morris Lapidus, designer of the Hotel Fontainebleau, designed ... Watch video and view full description
	Discussing Architectural Ideas for the Miami Condo Bob Vila and project architect Michael Pierce brainstorm ideas for this small condo with a great view of Biscayne Bay. The condo, a collection of closets and closed spaces, is ... Watch video and view full description