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South Beach, also nicknamed SoBe, is a neighborhood in the city of Miami Beach, Florida, United States, located due east of Miami city proper between Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. The area encompasses Miami Beach south of Dade Boulevard.
This area was the first section of Miami Beach to be developed, starting in the 1910s, due to the development efforts of Carl G. Fisher, the Lummus Brothers, and John S. Collins, the latter of whose construction of the Collins Bridge provided the first vital land link between mainland Miami and the beaches.
The area has gone through numerous artificial and natural changes over the years, including a booming regional economy, increased tourism, and the 1926 hurricane, which destroyed much of the area. As of 2010, 39,186 people lived in South Beach.
South Beach started as farmland. In 1870, Henry and Charles Lum purchased 165 acres (67 ha) for coconut farming. Charles Lum built the first house on the beach in 1886. In 1894, the Lum brothers left the island, leaving control of the plantation to John Collins, who came to South Beach two years later to survey the land. He used the land for farming purposes, discovering fresh water, and extending his parcel from 14th Street to 67th in 1907.
In 1912, Miami businessmen the Lummus Brothers acquired 400 acres (160 ha) of Collins' land in an effort to build an oceanfront city of modest single-family residences. In 1913 Collins started construction of a bridge from Miami to Miami Beach. Although some local residents invested in the bridge, Collins ran short of money before he could complete it.
Carl G. Fisher, a successful entrepreneur who made millions in 1909 after selling a business to Union Carbide, came to the beach in 1913. His vision was to establish South Beach as a successful city independent of Miami. This was the same year that the restaurant Joe's Stone Crab opened. Fisher loaned $50,000 to Collins for his bridge, which was completed in June 1913. The Collins Bridge was later replaced by the Venetian Causeway.
On March 26, 1915, Collins, Lummus, and Fisher consolidated their efforts and incorporated the Town of Miami Beach. In 1920 the County Causeway (renamed MacArthur Causeway in 1942 was completed. The Lummus brothers sold their oceanfront property, between 6th and 14th Streets, to the city. To this day, this area is known as Lummus Park.
In 1920, the Miami Beach land boom began. South Beach's main streets (5th Street, Alton Road, Collins Avenue, Washington Avenue, and Ocean Drive) were all suitable for automobile traffic. The population was growing in the 1920s, and several millionaires such as Harvey Firestone, J.C. Penney, Harry C. Stutz, Albert Champion, Frank Seiberling, and Rockwell LaGorce built homes on Miami Beach. President Warren G. Harding stayed at the Flamingo Hotel during this time, increasing interest in the area.
In the 1930s, an architectural revolution came to South Beach, bringing Art Deco, Streamline Moderne, and Nautical Moderne architecture to the Beach. South Beach claims to be the world's largest collection of Streamline Moderne Art Deco architecture. Napier, New Zealand, another notable Art Deco city, is architecturally comparable to Miami Beach as it was rebuilt in the Ziggurat Art Deco style after being destroyed by an earthquake in 1931.
By 1940, the beach had a population of 28,000. After the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the Army Air Corps took command over Miami Beach.[citation needed] That year, tourism brought almost two million people to South Beach.
In 1964, 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 mid-1960s 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. This period also saw the introduction of the "cocaine cowboys," drug dealers who used the area as a base for their illicit drug activities. Scarface, released in 1983, typifies this activity. In addition, the television show Miami Vice used South Beach as a backdrop for much of its filming. A somewhat recurring theme of early Miami Vice episodes was thugs and drug addicts barricading themselves in run-down or empty buildings. Only minor alterations had to be made for these scenes because some buildings in South Beach were in poor condition at the time.
While many of the unique Art Deco buildings, such as the New Yorker Hotel, were lost to developers in the years before 1980, the area was saved as a cohesive unit by Barbara Baer Capitman and a group of activists who spearheaded the movement to place almost one square mile of South Beach on the National Register of Historic Places. The Miami Beach Architectural District was designated in 1979.
Before the days of Miami Vice, South Beach was considered a very poor area with a very high rate of crime. Today, it is considered one of the wealthiest and most prosperous commercial areas on the beach. Despite this, poverty and crime still exist in some isolated places surrounding the area.
In 2009, Natalie O'Neill of the Miami New Times said, "Until the 1980s, Miami Beach was a peculiar mix of criminals, Cubans, and little old ladies. Then the beautiful people moved in." In the late 1980s, a renaissance began in South Beach, with an influx of fashion industry professionals moving into the area. In 1989, Irene Marie purchased the Sun Ray Apartments (captured in the chainsaw scene in Scarface) located on Ocean Drive and opened Irene Marie Models.
Thomas Kramer is credited with starting the construction boom in South Beach, driving the gentrification of the area. It is now a popular living destination for the wealthy. Condominium units in the upscale high rises sell for millions. There are a number of vocal critics of the developments. The high-rise and high-density buildings are derided as a "concrete jungle". However, even critics concede that the development has changed the area into a pedestrian-friendly, low-crime neighborhood.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Beach
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January 12, 2012
SPECIAL TO FLORIDA WEEKLY
The Palm Beach County Cultural Council, the official arts agency serving non-profit cultural organizations and professional artists throughout the county, has announced the schedule for its grand opening week in the council’s new home in downtown Lake Worth.
In December 2011, the council moved into the historic Robert M. Montgomery Jr. Building at 601 Lake Ave. The building first opened in 1940 as the Lake Worth Theater and later housed three different art museums, but has been closed to the public since 2005.
Scheduled to reopen to the public on Jan. 19 2012, the newly renovated building will serve as the cultural council’s headquarters. The building’s 11,000 square feet will include galleries for community exhibitions, an artist resource center, tourism services, education and training facilities, as well as meeting space.
“It is critically important for the umbrella organization for art and culture in Palm Beach County to have a hub,” Cultural Council Board Chairman Michael J. Bracci said in a written statement. “The building will help people understand the importance of art and culture to our quality of life. It provides a place for the cultural community as well as our residents and visitors to gather and find information. It is also vitally important to the strategic goals of the cultural council. We couldn’t be more pleased.”
Named after the late Robert M. Montgomery Jr., a prominent attorney and philanthropist, the building was renovated with assistance from the Lake Worth Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), which committed $700,000 for the project. The CRA’s grant is part of its larger Cultural Renaissance Program, focusing on redevelopment through the establishment of artists, cultural centers and institutes within Lake Worth, while expanding the economic base and improving the investment image of the area.
When the Montgomery family donated the classic building to the cultural council in January 2010, it was the largest single donation in the council’s 33-year history.
“I am extremely proud to make this gift in honor of Bob’s memory, and the legacy he built in the legal, cultural and philanthropic communities,” said Mary Montgomery, when she donated the building last January. “Giving this historic building to the cultural council will strengthen Bob’s vision of a healthy cultural foundation developing better students, better citizens and a better community.”
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
palmbeach.floridaweekly.com/articles/cultural-council-ope...
www.palmbeachpost.com/article/20120119/ENTERTAINMENT/8120...
issuu.com/passportpublications/docs/robert_montgomery_bui...
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
Foto presa amb una Rolleiflex 3.5F fabricada entre 1969 i 1971; Carl Zeiss Planar f3.5 / 75mm; Ilford Delta 100 revelat amb Perceptol 1+1. Mireu-les en mida gran!
L'edifici d'oficines Ibex House fou construit a Londres el 1935-37, disenyat per Fuller, Ham & Foulsham.
En concret, aquesta variant del art decó s'anomena streamline moderne. M'encanta. Es tant anys 20-30.
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Picture taken with a Rolleiflex 3.5F, made c.1969-1971; Carl Zeiss Planar f3.5 / 75mm lens; Ilford Delta 100 developed in Perceptol 1+1. Looks much better in large size!
This office building just to the east of the City of London is Ibex House, built in 1935-37 by Fuller, Ham & Foulsham in a variant of art deco known as streamline moderne. I love this style. It's so 20's-30's...
411 N Dixie Hwy.
For sale in July 2022. Restored and open as Meredith Motors by May 2023. Apparently closed by 2024.
"Box Hill Technical School for Girls and Women welcomed its first 65 junior pupils on 31 March 1924. Another 161 seniors enrolled in April that year and on 4 September 1924 the Minister for Education, Mr John Lemmon, MLA, officially opened the school.
The subjects available reflected the education and training priorities of the early 20th century. Core subjects included Housewifery, Cooking, Dressmaking, and Millinery. Through these courses girls gained skills to equip them for the role of wife and mother. However some students chose vocational courses aimed at securing paid work, including bookkeeping, secretarial work and professional dressmaking.
On 2 February 1943, the Box Hill Boys’ welcomed 470 junior students seeking technical education. Subjects included Carpentry, Sheetmetal, Machine Shop Practice and Technical Drawing.
In the mid-1960s both technical schools expanded their subject range to include post-secondary options with offerings such as certificate courses in Business, Engineering, Electronics and Clothing Studies.
By the early 1970s the technical schools had been re-badged as technical colleges and their Technical and Further Education (TAFE) course enrolments grew rapidly. The original Girls’ Technical School was renamed Whitehorse Technical College in 1971 when its new building in Whitehorse Road was opened. Box Hill Technical College was one of the first of seven technical colleges to separate its TAFE programs from the secondary technical offerings. Box Hill College was officially re-named as a College of TAFE in October 1981 with Whitehorse Technical College declared as a TAFE in December 1981.
On 25 January 1984 the Whitehorse College of TAFE and Box Hill College of TAFE amalgamated to provide the most diverse range of programs in the TAFE system."
Mr. Mateu? The chairman of Wayne Industries is online and wants to talk with you. It seems like he's interested in purchasing the Savanna Master Prototype.
;-)
A shot giving a better view of its side.
Malek Theater of Independence, Iowa opened in 1946 with the latest innovative elements of the streamline morderne style (including extensive use of neon light). After the conflagration & destruction of an earlier theater, owner Bob Malek opted to name this new venue in honor of his father. The latest owner, Ian Fitz noted, "One thing that will always stick with me is when [Bob] started to cry. He had told me he had named the Malek after his father who was ill during construction, and had passed on before it was complete, and never was able to witness its beauty in bloom."
The theater was rare, in that it contained two rooms for private viewings, each with doors and thick paned glass to eliminate sound in or out. It also featured both a crying room and a party room.
From its start (despite being built at the apogee of feature films), the Malek was considered a performance theater, not a movie house. But in 1985, it was split into a 300-seat twinned theater instead of the original large 1,200-seat auditorium. As a result, the Malek Theater suffered.
The original owner, Bob Malek, has since passed. The most recent effort in 2019 was a GoFundMe for repairing the roof, which raised only $450 of its $150,000 goal.
January 12, 2012
SPECIAL TO FLORIDA WEEKLY
The Palm Beach County Cultural Council, the official arts agency serving non-profit cultural organizations and professional artists throughout the county, has announced the schedule for its grand opening week in the council’s new home in downtown Lake Worth.
In December 2011, the council moved into the historic Robert M. Montgomery Jr. Building at 601 Lake Ave. The building first opened in 1940 as the Lake Worth Theater and later housed three different art museums, but has been closed to the public since 2005.
Scheduled to reopen to the public on Jan. 19 2012, the newly renovated building will serve as the cultural council’s headquarters. The building’s 11,000 square feet will include galleries for community exhibitions, an artist resource center, tourism services, education and training facilities, as well as meeting space.
“It is critically important for the umbrella organization for art and culture in Palm Beach County to have a hub,” Cultural Council Board Chairman Michael J. Bracci said in a written statement. “The building will help people understand the importance of art and culture to our quality of life. It provides a place for the cultural community as well as our residents and visitors to gather and find information. It is also vitally important to the strategic goals of the cultural council. We couldn’t be more pleased.”
Named after the late Robert M. Montgomery Jr., a prominent attorney and philanthropist, the building was renovated with assistance from the Lake Worth Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), which committed $700,000 for the project. The CRA’s grant is part of its larger Cultural Renaissance Program, focusing on redevelopment through the establishment of artists, cultural centers and institutes within Lake Worth, while expanding the economic base and improving the investment image of the area.
When the Montgomery family donated the classic building to the cultural council in January 2010, it was the largest single donation in the council’s 33-year history.
“I am extremely proud to make this gift in honor of Bob’s memory, and the legacy he built in the legal, cultural and philanthropic communities,” said Mary Montgomery, when she donated the building last January. “Giving this historic building to the cultural council will strengthen Bob’s vision of a healthy cultural foundation developing better students, better citizens and a better community.”
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
palmbeach.floridaweekly.com/articles/cultural-council-ope...
www.palmbeachpost.com/article/20120119/ENTERTAINMENT/8120...
issuu.com/passportpublications/docs/robert_montgomery_bui...
4401 W Slauson Ave, Los Angeles CA, near Angeles Vista Blvd, Windsor Hills neighborhood, Streamline Moderne, built 1941.
Saturday night, Queen Street, downtown Sault Ste. Marie.
The concrete Memorial Tower, featuring a lighted red beacon, was built as part of the Memorial Gardens Arena--a memorial dedicated to local soldiers who perished in World War ll. The Gardens and Tower were built in the Streamline Moderne architectural style, and opened in 1949. In 2006, the Memorial Gardens Arena was demolished and replaced with the new Steelback / Essar Centre Arena- -home to the OHL Soo Greyhounds hockey team. The Memorial Tower was refurbished and retained as a war memorial.
The New York Central K-5b Pacific Class 4-6-2 steam locomotive #4915 with Henry Dreyfuss' streamline design. Originally manufactured in 1926 by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO), no. 4915 and her sister no. 4917 were streamlined in 1936 to lead The New York Central’s most luxurious experience on rails.
This project is my first MOC and has taken about a year and a half to complete with many challenges arising in trying to obtain the beautiful "streamline moderne" styling. Perseverance paid off however and through 1/2 steps, 1/3 steps and even 1/6 steps I have ended with a final version that I hope you all will enjoy.
The model is 8-wide, built to 1:48 scale and is designed to fit all standard lego track geometry. The locomotive is powered by two Power Functions M motors.
Directions to the build can be found here:
Originally opened in 1921, the 500-seat Seminole on Krome Avenue was built for Henry Booker, Sr. and James Washington English for movies and live entertainment. The theater was heavily damaged in a 1940 fire, leaving little more than a blackened shell.
Prolific theater architect Roy A. Benjamin was hired to rebuild the Seminole, which he designed in Streamline Moderne style. The cost of the movie theater's reconstruction was around $50,000. It reopened in the fall of 1940. In addition to movies, the Seminole continued to host live entertainment, as well as beauty contests and cooking demonstrations. In the early 1970s, the Seminole has renamed the Premier Theatre and began to show Spanish-language movies. It closed in 1979 due to declining attendance.
For years, the theater sat vacantly and fell into disrepair. In 1992, when Hurricane Andrew hit the Homestead area, the Seminole was not spared, and though its walls stood, the roof was torn off and the theater's interior suffered serious damage. In 1993, the Seminole Theater's owners donated the battered theater to the city, which designed it a local historic site two years later, the sole remaining example of Art Moderne style in all Dade County.
The Seminole Theater Group was organized in 1997 with the intention of restoring the theater as a performing arts venue serving the Homestead and Dade County region. It is expected to cost about $4.2 million to bring the old Seminole back to life. The Seminole Theatre was reopened on October 28, 2015.
William B Medellin Architect P.A. as the historic preservation consultant for the project was responsible for the restoration of the historic facades, including the re-painting of the exterior walls to match the original historic colors; re-installation of missing historic elements such as the historic “Starburst” fretwork over the transom entrance doors and the historic travertine wainscot using historic salvaged travertine found at the Theater’s storage room. The interior lobby stairs and railings were the only original historic interior elements remaining in the building.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Historic_Downtown_District
seminoletheatre.org/about/seminole-theatre-history
wbmarchitect.com/portfolio-posts/the-seminole-theater/
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The Florida Theatre opened on December 17, 1949, with Olivia De Havilland in “The Heiress”. It was operated by Florida State Theatres and had a seating capacity of 871, all on a single floor. The Florida Theatre was closed as a movie theatre in 1981.
Later known as the Cuillo Centre for the Arts, it features both live performances and film presentations. The balcony was recently enclosed and transformed into a separate auditorium. In 2011, it was renamed the Don & Ann Brown Theatre.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
www.yelp.com/biz/palm-beach-dramaworks-west-palm-beach
www.loopnet.com/property/201-clematis-st-west-palm-beach-...
www.pbcgov.org/papa/Asps/PropertyDetail/PropertyDetail.as...
cinematreasures.org/theaters/20065
www.hammondengineers.com/projects/don-and-ann-brown-theater/
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Airstream trailers are a classic piece of American icon and well recognized for their distinctive rounded aluminium, sleek and shiny bodies, which originated in the 1930s from designs initially created by W. Hawley Bowlus and Wallace Byam as founded the American Trailer Company. ---------(PAR_DSCN1095).
The Berkeley High School campus covers four city blocks between Milvia Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way, and Allston and Channing Ways. The first cornerstone was laid in 1901, and the complex has been under almost continuous construction ever since, except for a decade around World War II. In the late 1930s, Berkeley High was remodeled and old buildings were replaced with newer ones. The Florence Schwimley Little Theater, the Berkeley Community Theatre, and the G and H buildings are prime examples of the Streamline Moderne style designed by architects Henry H. Gutterson and William G. Corlett. The rebuilding was financed largely through Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal program the WPA. They are embellished with sculptural reliefs by Robert Boardman Howard, Jacques Schnier and Lulu Hawkins Braghetta.
- Wikipedia
Firestone Tire and Service Center, 800 S. La Brea Ave. Los Angeles. The Streamline Moderne building was built in 1937. Currently All Season Brewery..
This 12 story concrete art deco office building in downtown Macon, Georgia has 2 elevators. The exterior is covered in Cherokee brick with polished granite at the sidewalks.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=8225
www.emporis.com/buildings/124663/southern-trust-building-...
4401 W Slauson Ave, Los Angeles CA, near Angeles Vista Blvd, Windsor Hills neighborhood, Streamline Moderne, built 1941.
118 E Main St.
A guy fixing a broken window in the ticket booth (so it could be repainted for downtown Christmas murals) told me the place has been closed since the sixties, except for a brief reopening, after at least a couple of fires. That jibes with the info that I later found online, that it opened in 1917, was renamed in 1921, remodeled to its current exterior in 1938, and burned in 1943 and again in 1962.
4305 Harding Pike.
Opened in 1940. Closed in 1991. It has since been a book store, a grocery store, and other retail space. The auditorium was demolished in 2007 but the building facade remains.
Streamline Moderne Movie Theater in Normal Illinois. Opened in 1937, the theatre is now on the National Register of Historic Places.
January 12, 2012
SPECIAL TO FLORIDA WEEKLY
The Palm Beach County Cultural Council, the official arts agency serving non-profit cultural organizations and professional artists throughout the county, has announced the schedule for its grand opening week in the council’s new home in downtown Lake Worth.
In December 2011, the council moved into the historic Robert M. Montgomery Jr. Building at 601 Lake Ave. The building first opened in 1940 as the Lake Worth Theater and later housed three different art museums, but has been closed to the public since 2005.
Scheduled to reopen to the public on Jan. 19 2012, the newly renovated building will serve as the cultural council’s headquarters. The building’s 11,000 square feet will include galleries for community exhibitions, an artist resource center, tourism services, education and training facilities, as well as meeting space.
“It is critically important for the umbrella organization for art and culture in Palm Beach County to have a hub,” Cultural Council Board Chairman Michael J. Bracci said in a written statement. “The building will help people understand the importance of art and culture to our quality of life. It provides a place for the cultural community as well as our residents and visitors to gather and find information. It is also vitally important to the strategic goals of the cultural council. We couldn’t be more pleased.”
Named after the late Robert M. Montgomery Jr., a prominent attorney and philanthropist, the building was renovated with assistance from the Lake Worth Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), which committed $700,000 for the project. The CRA’s grant is part of its larger Cultural Renaissance Program, focusing on redevelopment through the establishment of artists, cultural centers and institutes within Lake Worth, while expanding the economic base and improving the investment image of the area.
When the Montgomery family donated the classic building to the cultural council in January 2010, it was the largest single donation in the council’s 33-year history.
“I am extremely proud to make this gift in honor of Bob’s memory, and the legacy he built in the legal, cultural and philanthropic communities,” said Mary Montgomery, when she donated the building last January. “Giving this historic building to the cultural council will strengthen Bob’s vision of a healthy cultural foundation developing better students, better citizens and a better community.”
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
palmbeach.floridaweekly.com/articles/cultural-council-ope...
www.palmbeachpost.com/article/20120119/ENTERTAINMENT/8120...
issuu.com/passportpublications/docs/robert_montgomery_bui...
Originally opened in 1921, the 500-seat Seminole on Krome Avenue was built for Henry Booker, Sr. and James Washington English for movies and live entertainment. The theater was heavily damaged in a 1940 fire, leaving little more than a blackened shell.
Prolific theater architect Roy A. Benjamin was hired to rebuild the Seminole, which he designed in Streamline Moderne style. The cost of the movie theater's reconstruction was around $50,000. It reopened in the fall of 1940. In addition to movies, the Seminole continued to host live entertainment, as well as beauty contests and cooking demonstrations. In the early 1970s, the Seminole has renamed the Premier Theatre and began to show Spanish-language movies. It closed in 1979 due to declining attendance.
For years, the theater sat vacantly and fell into disrepair. In 1992, when Hurricane Andrew hit the Homestead area, the Seminole was not spared, and though its walls stood, the roof was torn off and the theater's interior suffered serious damage. In 1993, the Seminole Theater's owners donated the battered theater to the city, which designed it a local historic site two years later, the sole remaining example of Art Moderne style in all Dade County.
The Seminole Theater Group was organized in 1997 with the intention of restoring the theater as a performing arts venue serving the Homestead and Dade County region. It is expected to cost about $4.2 million to bring the old Seminole back to life. The Seminole Theatre was reopened on October 28, 2015.
William B Medellin Architect P.A. as the historic preservation consultant for the project was responsible for the restoration of the historic facades, including the re-painting of the exterior walls to match the original historic colors; re-installation of missing historic elements such as the historic “Starburst” fretwork over the transom entrance doors and the historic travertine wainscot using historic salvaged travertine found at the Theater’s storage room. The interior lobby stairs and railings were the only original historic interior elements remaining in the building.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Historic_Downtown_District
seminoletheatre.org/about/seminole-theatre-history
wbmarchitect.com/portfolio-posts/the-seminole-theater/
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The Dixie Crystal Theatre (also known as the Clewiston Theater) is a historic site in Clewiston, Florida. It is located at 100 East Sugarland Highway. In 1998, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
It is a flat-roofed one-story masonry movie theater, built in a simplified Moderne style in 1941. It is 45 by 93 feet (14 m × 28 m) in plan.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Crystal_Theatre
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Early Florida history indicates that the Clewiston area was first used as a campsite by the Indians as they fished the bass-laden waters of Lake Okeechobee. Centuries later, fishing was to become the first recorded enterprise in the area; the sandy beach and natural inlet of Sand Point, now the site of the U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers regional office, served as a base of operations for scores of professional fishermen as late as the 1920's.
The Clewiston area also attracted its share of early adventurers and pioneer farmers, most notably a temporary settlement of Japanese farmers who began to grow beautiful vegetables in the fertile lakeside soil about 1915.
The first permanent development was undertaken in 1920 by Philadelphia investors John and Marion O'Brien and Tampa banker Alonzo Clewis, who purchased a substantial tract of land surrounding the picturesque lakeshore and set about to establish a town. The O'Briens and Clewis soon had a railroad line, the "M. H., and C.", built to connect Clewiston with the Atlantic Coast Line terminus at Moore Haven.
They then commissioned the well-known town planner, John Nolen of Boston, to create a plan for the city, and hired the firm of Elliott and Harmon of Peoria and Memphis to survey, map out and direct construction of the streets and canals.
Many of the early group remained to become permanent residents, founding schools and churches, opening stores, and establishing other needed business and professional services.
Within a few years, the rich muck lands around Clewiston attracted a group of Midwesterners interested in emulating the successful cultivation of sugar cane already undertaken on the lake's eastern shore by F. Edward Bryant.
Extensive sugar cane plantations were laid out and the first crops were so rich and abundant it was easy even then to envision Clewiston's future as a sugar center.
Following two disastrous storms in 1926 and 1928, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers carried out a federal project to help control the waters of Lake Okeechobee, thereby creating, even more, land suitable for cultivation and putting Clewiston well on the road to achieving its status as the heart of the United States sugar bowl.
During the 1930's, Clewiston's population continued to grow and the town's commercial and social activities gradually became more diversified. During the 1940's, at the onset of World War II, British Flying Training School Number Five was established at nearby Riddle Field. Here young pilots trained for the Royal Air Force. Many of these cadets formed lasting friendships with the people of Clewiston and they and their families return to their Southern "Yank" friends.
By the 1950's and 1960's, citrus, winter vegetables, and cattle had become important to the economic growth of the area. In recent years, due to freezes in north Florida, more acreage is being planted in citrus. Hendry County has more citrus trees than any county in Florida.
Clewiston's largest industry, however, was and is, sugar, and the town has become known as "America's Sweetest Town," thanks to the activities of the United States Sugar Corporation.
Clewiston's location on U.S. 27 places it at an important crossroads of both local and south Florida traffic and the seasonal influx of tourists from colder climates--many of whom have chosen to make this pleasant little town their year-round home. The city population is about 6,500 with a zip code population of 19,000.
Lake Okeechobee still abounds in huge bass and vast numbers of other fish. And, in continuing its Indian heritage, Clewiston has become a nationally renowned sports fishing center with tourist accommodations available all year.
Clewiston's temperate climate and tranquil palm-filled vistas make it a town for all seasons.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clewiston_Museum
The Senator Theatre in the Govans neighborhood of Baltimore
-Added to the Cream of the Crop pool as my personal favorite.
The Campana Building
Batavia, Illinois 41.865543, -88.314391
August 28, 2014
On the National Register of Historic Places AND on the Lincoln Highway
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campana_Factory
See comments below for some additional information.
Came across this one from a while ago....thought I'd fiddle with it to make it much more apocalyptic. www.flickr.com/photos/jimfrazier/14879899069 Tones were slightly adjusted in the sky which resulted in the building showing much warmer tones.
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The Huntridge Theater was designed by S. Charles Lee in 1944 in the Streamline Moderne style. It is on the National Register of Historic Places #93000686.
This 12 story concrete art deco office building in downtown Macon, Georgia has 2 elevators. The exterior is covered in Cherokee brick with polished granite at the sidewalks.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=8225
www.emporis.com/buildings/124663/southern-trust-building-...