Art Deco and the ocean
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Pastel hotels, neon, palm trees and white sand: South Beach is Miami’s postcard. Walk Ocean Drive, swim at Lummus Park, explore the Art Deco architecture on foot and end the evening on Collins Avenue.
In the 1930s and 1940s, hundreds of Art Deco and Streamline hotels were built in Miami Beach. Threatened with demolition in the 1970s, they were saved by activists such as Barbara Capitman, and in 1979 the area became the first 20th-century historic district on the US National Register.
