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Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. It was incorporated on March 26, 1915. The municipality is located on natural and man-made barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter of which separates the Beach from the mainland city of Miami. The neighborhood of South Beach, comprising the southernmost 2.5 square miles (6.5 km2) of Miami Beach, along with downtown Miami and the Port of Miami, collectively form the commercial center of South Florida. Miami Beach's estimated population is 92,307 according to the most recent United States census estimates. Miami Beach is the 26th largest city in Florida based on official 2017 estimates from the US Census Bureau. It has been one of America's pre-eminent beach resorts since the early 20th century.
In 1979, Miami Beach's Art Deco Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Art Deco District is the largest collection of Art Deco architecture in the world and comprises hundreds of hotels, apartments and other structures erected between 1923 and 1943. Mediterranean, Streamline Moderne and Art Deco are all represented in the District. The Historic District is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the East, Lenox Court on the West, 6th Street on the South and Dade Boulevard along the Collins Canal to the North. The movement to preserve the Art Deco District's architectural heritage was led by former interior designer Barbara Baer Capitman, who now has a street in the District named in her honor.
Miami Beach is governed by a ceremonial mayor and six commissioners. Although the mayor runs commission meetings, the mayor and all commissioners have equal voting power and are elected by popular election. The mayor serves for terms of two years with a term limit of three terms and commissioners serve for terms of four years and are limited to two terms. Commissioners are voted for citywide and every two years three commission seats are voted upon.
A city manager is responsible for administering governmental operations. An appointed city manager is responsible for administration of the city. The City Clerk and the City Attorney are also appointed officials.
In 1870, a father and son, Henry and Charles Lum, purchased the land for 75 cents an acre. The first structure to be built on this uninhabited oceanfront was the Biscayne House of Refuge, constructed in 1876 by the United States Life-Saving Service at approximately 72nd Street. Its purpose was to provide food, water, and a return to civilization for people who were shipwrecked. The next step in the development of the future Miami Beach was the planting of a coconut plantation along the shore in the 1880s by New Jersey entrepreneurs Ezra Osborn and Elnathan Field, but this was a failed venture. One of the investors in the project was agriculturist John S. Collins, who achieved success by buying out other partners and planting different crops, notably avocados, on the land that would later become Miami Beach. Meanwhile, across Biscayne Bay, the City of Miami was established in 1896 with the arrival of the railroad, and developed further as a port when the shipping channel of Government Cut was created in 1905, cutting off Fisher Island from the south end of the Miami Beach peninsula.
Collins' family members saw the potential in developing the beach as a resort. This effort got underway in the early years of the 20th century by the Collins/Pancoast family, the Lummus brothers (bankers from Miami), and Indianapolis entrepreneur Carl G. Fisher. Until then, the beach here was only the destination for day-trips by ferry from Miami, across the bay. By 1912, Collins and Pancoast were working together to clear the land, plant crops, supervise the construction of canals to get their avocado crop to market, and set up the Miami Beach Improvement Company. There were bath houses and food stands, but no hotel until Brown's Hotel was built in 1915 (still standing, at 112 Ocean Drive). Much of the interior land mass at that time was a tangled jungle of mangroves. Clearing it, deepening the channels and water bodies, and eliminating native growth almost everywhere in favor of landfill for development, was expensive. Once a 1600-acre, jungle-matted sand bar three miles out in the Atlantic, it grew to 2,800 acres when dredging and filling operations were completed.
With loans from the Lummus brothers, Collins had begun work on a 2½-mile-long wooden bridge, the world's longest wooden bridge at the time, to connect the island to the mainland. When funds ran dry and construction work stalled, Indianapolis millionaire and recent Miami transplant Fisher intervened, providing the financing needed to complete the bridge the following year in return for a land swap deal. That transaction kicked off the island's first real estate boom. Fisher helped by organizing an annual speed boat regatta, and by promoting Miami Beach as an Atlantic City-style playground and winter retreat for the wealthy. By 1915, Lummus, Collins, Pancoast, and Fisher were all living in mansions on the island, three hotels and two bath houses had been erected, an aquarium built, and an 18-hole golf course landscaped.
The Town of Miami Beach was chartered on March 26, 1915; it grew to become a City in 1917. Even after the town was incorporated in 1915 under the name of Miami Beach, many visitors thought of the beach strip as Alton Beach, indicating just how well Fisher had advertised his interests there. The Lummus property was called Ocean Beach, with only the Collins interests previously referred to as Miami Beach.
Carl Fisher was the main promoter of Miami Beach's development in the 1920s as the site for wealthy industrialists from the north and Midwest to and build their winter homes here. Many other Northerners were targeted to vacation on the island. To accommodate the wealthy tourists, several grand hotels were built, among them: The Flamingo Hotel, The Fleetwood Hotel, The Floridian, The Nautilus, and the Roney Plaza Hotel. In the 1920s, Fisher and others created much of Miami Beach as landfill by dredging Biscayne Bay; this man-made territory includes Star, Palm, and Hibiscus Islands, the Sunset Islands, much of Normandy Isle, and all of the Venetian Islands except Belle Isle. The Miami Beach peninsula became an island in April 1925 when Haulover Cut was opened, connecting the ocean to the bay, north of present-day Bal Harbour. The great 1926 Miami hurricane put an end to this prosperous era of the Florida Boom, but in the 1930s Miami Beach still attracted tourists, and investors constructed the mostly small-scale, stucco hotels and rooming houses, for seasonal rental, that comprise much of the present "Art Deco" historic district.
Carl Fisher brought Steve Hannagan to Miami Beach in 1925 as his chief publicist. Hannagan set-up the Miami Beach News Bureau and notified news editors that they could "Print anything you want about Miami Beach; just make sure you get our name right." The News Bureau sent thousands of pictures of bathing beauties and press releases to columnists like Walter Winchell and Ed Sullivan. One of Hannagan's favorite venues was a billboard in Times Square, New York City, where he ran two taglines: "'It's always June in Miami Beach' and 'Miami Beach, Where Summer Spends the Winter.'"
Post–World War II economic expansion brought a wave of immigrants to South Florida from the Northern United States, which significantly increased the population in Miami Beach within a few decades. After Fidel Castro's rise to power in 1959, a wave of Cuban refugees entered South Florida and dramatically changed the demographic make-up of the area. In 2017, one study named zip code 33109 (Fisher Island, a 216-acre island located just south of Miami Beach), as having the 4th most expensive home sales and the highest average annual income ($2.5 million) in 2015.
South Beach (also known as SoBe, or simply the Beach), the area from Biscayne Street (also known as South Pointe Drive) one block south of 1st Street to about 23rd Street, is one of the more popular areas of Miami Beach. Although topless sunbathing by women has not been officially legalized, female toplessness is tolerated on South Beach and in a few hotel pools on Miami Beach. Before the TV show Miami Vice helped make the area popular, SoBe was under urban blight, with vacant buildings and a high crime rate. Today, it is considered one of the richest commercial areas on the beach, yet poverty and crime still remain in some places near the area.
Miami Beach, particularly Ocean Drive of what is now the Art Deco District, was also featured prominently in the 1983 feature film Scarface and the 1996 comedy The Birdcage.
The New World Symphony Orchestra is based in Miami Beach, under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas.
Lincoln Road, running east-west parallel between 16th and 17th Streets, is a nationally known spot for outdoor dining and shopping and features galleries of well known designers, artists and photographers such as Romero Britto, Peter Lik, and Jonathan Adler. In 2015, the Miami Beach residents passed a law forbidding bicycling, rollerblading, skateboarding and other motorized vehicles on Lincoln Road during busy pedestrian hours between 9:00am and 2:00am.
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The R2087 was the military version of the 1947 Renault 1000 Kg or 1400 Kg Van. The Belgium army and a lot of them in use.
After 1956 this 1000 Kg van was also known as Renault Voltigeur (1400 kg weight limit) and Renault Goélette (1000 kg weight limit).
These van series found a big rival in the 1947 Citroën H van.
In the 1980s these military ambulances were put out of service. Many R2087 ended as a home-made camper or like here: as a mobile billboard.
Production Renault 1000 Kg/1400 Kg and Voltigeur/Goélette: 1947- 1956/1956-1965.
Production R2087 4x4: 1952-1969.
Near Diksmuide, N35, May 18, 2012.
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When I was young, I was as fearless as this kid; I like to test my limit and see how far I can go. Sometimes, I succeed; sometimes, I did not. Throughout these experiences, I learned that you have to overcome your fear to learn new things.
As I get older, I start to get laid back. I am scared to try something new and failed. I let the fear to overcome me. Maybe that is because I think too much of the outcome. I wish I can be fearless again :)
Location: Vancouver, BC
PENTAX K-1 • FF Mode • 100 ISO • Pentax HD DA* 11-18 mm F2.8 ED DC AW
Playa de la Barceloneta • Barcelona • España
A southbound Central Oregon & Pacific train near Cornutt, Oregon is just about to enter Cow Creek Canyon. Until the Bureau of Land Management built a road through the canyon in the 1970s, the Siskiyou Line was the only means of accessing the remote area.
Signal 5396 is the first signal in the automatic block signal system that stretches from here north to the end of CORP trackage at Springfield Junction. Southbound, the line is dark (no signals) for the next 32 miles between this point and Glendale.
What does it take to capture the beauty of the evening sky? In this case, I had to max out the capabilities of my cheap equipment...and several layers of clothing to combat the cold winter breeze.
7.8.2025.
SR Maunsell designed 'V' Class (Schools) 4-4-0 No 926 'Repton' gets away from Levisham with a passenger service for Pickering.
NYMR.
my first hdr (High Dynamic Range) picture! i love it ! (I used the program called "Photomatix", it's brilliant!!!)
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Pushing the limits of his VW Beetle - Drew Pritchard rounding the chicane at Goodwood Motor Racing Circuit. This is the TV Presenter of antiques shows that I have watched many times.
The group of school children doing some course work or something in the background probably no idea who was racing around the circuit. But their high viz jackets were hard avoid but panning was a great way to blur them out.
Image info Nikon Z9 with Nikon Z 100 - 400mm @ f/4.5 , ISO 32, shutter priority 1/200th, focal length 100mm.
A few days after the high water event, the Monongahela River has went down drastically, almost to normal. No one has visited wit vehicles to disturb the snow line where the the limit of the water was. Marathon Oil's Robinson is still hanging out at West Elizabeth Landing.
I saw this litter in my field today and was initially repulsed by it. As I went to pick it up and dispose of it, I noticed how beautiful the droplets on it were. So, of course, I had to take a couple or three shots of them.
Looking for beauty in all things is new for me and this instance definitely has pushed me to new limits. However, I do not condone putting litter in my beautiful field. Thus I'd like to encourage the dastardly litterbug to amend his or her ways. I'd much rather capture wildflower droplets.
Take care ~ Beth =]
Cette photo fait partie de l'album : "FRONTIERES".
This view is one of the set "FRONTIERES".
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Emblème d'une marque d'eau minérale gazeuse bien connue au Kivu, “La Minérale Hongo”, produite sous la direction de Madame Hélène Michaux-Beckhaus, épouse de l’avocat Marcel Michaux.
La source se trouvait à la limite nord de leur plantation de Hongo, elle même à dix kilomètres de Bukavu (et donc à 6 kilomètres de la brasserie Bralima). L’embouteillage était réalisé, le long de la rivière issue de cette source, se jetant dans le lac Kivu. La route Bukavu-Goma passait devant.
Au festival du Kivu en janvier 1953, un des carrefours du festival était orné d’un panneau avec une grande grue couronnée reproduisant celle de la Minérale Hongo.
La production d'eau minérale était complétée par celle de deux boissons gazeuses ; l'une à la grenadine et l'autre à la menthe, respectivement rouge et vert vifs !
Collection Pierre Gallez, carte postale studio G Huys à Goma , Congo Belge
Star gazing in California's Mojave desert. The tufa pinnacles pictured here were formed underwater some 10,000 to 100,000 years ago when calcium-rich groundwater and alkaline lake water combined.
Probably the most ridiculous piece of SNOT I've made that I won't end up using. The 12 red pins are arranged in a perfect 6.5U radius circle (other than the tiny offset of Technic holes vs SNOT bricks). Thanks to a quirk of geometry, the pins are also almost equally spaced (a pythagorean triangle with sides 33, 56, 65 includes an angle of just over 30.5°). Birthed from an experiment to see if this piece of kit (brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=4645063) could be made with twelve equally spaced compressor cylinders instead of 4.
THIS PHOTO MADE IT ON EXPLORE # 282-3-25-08
Photos were taken from Floral arrangements that Diane made.
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