Word: beaches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...effective governors in the U.S. today. He has his roots deep in the restful Old South. Although he is only 46, he grew up in a Florida as different from today's as the pinewoods around his native Tallahassee are from the palmy patios of the Miami Beach hotels. The Florida he remembers meant the jolt of a single-barreled shotgun on his shoulder and a bobwhite dropping through the yellow winter sunlight at the edge of a slash-pine grove. Or a 15-lb. turkey gobbler hurtling into a charge of No. 6 shot, and then falling through...
...order." The Leisured Masses. A cold snap in the northern states got Florida's tourist season off to an early start this year, for what may be its biggest season ever-and it looked as if Florida's tourism might take a lot of balancing. Miami Beach, the Riviera of the leisured masses, will draw 2,000,000 of Florida's 5,000,000 annual tourists to its 378 hotels, 2,100 apartment houses and 415 swimming pools...
...Miami Beach was already in full...
...Svengali Club; he could determine his destiny through the auspices of a modest "life reader" ("I don't claim to do miracles") named Madame Avon; he could see clumsy girls competing in an amateur strip-tease contest or watch Seminoles wrestling alligators. Within the white walls of Miami Beach's Saxony Hotel the lazier man could maneuver round the clock from the Hulahut through the Bam-Boo-La Lounge, the Veranda Room, the Tropical Room, the Chuck Wagon ("All You Can Eat for Only $1.95"), Ye Noshery,- the Nite-Cap Lounge and the Pagoda Room...
Klystron Tubes & Muck. Like all good Floridians, Roy Collins is proud of Miami Beach; more than most, he is aware of the danger of resting the state's economy too heavily on a vacationland-even in a nation where winter vacations are becoming more and more routine...