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South Beach Historical Facts |
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South Beach started as a farmland in 1870. Henry and Charles Lum did coconut farming and his daughter Taylor named it “South Beach”. In early years of twentieth century Miami businessmen the Lummus Brothers acquired 400 acres of land to build an oceanfront city of modest single family residence.
In March, 1915, Collins, Lummus, and Fisher consolidated their efforts and incorporated the Town of Miami Beach. In 1920, the Miami Beach land boom began.
In the 1930s, an architectural revolution came to South Beach, bringing Art Deco, Streamline Moderne, and Nautical Moderne architecture to the Beach. After the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the Army Air Corps took command over Miami Beach.
In 1966, South Beach became even more famous when Jackie Gleason brought his weekly variety series, The Jackie Gleason Show to the area for taping, a rarity in the industry. Beginning in the late 1970s and continuing through the 1980s, South Beach was used as a retirement community with most of its ocean-front hotels and apartment buildings filled with elderly people living on small, fixed incomes. |
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