Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Says Mel Mendelson, owner of a meat-packing plant, who has been observing the scene for a quarter of a century: "Miami Beach reminds you of a New York subway." From a more scientific viewpoint, Frank Borman, the former astronaut who is now chairman of Eastern Air Lines, concluded from his company's research that "the Beach is dying as a tourist attraction." Eastern's figures reveal that as recently as 1971, more than four out of ten visitors arriving in Florida headed for the Miami area. Last year the figure was fewer than three out often...
...reason for the decline is the popularity of competing resorts. While the number of hotel rooms in Miami Beach fell by 3,000 during the past decade, Las Vegas added 15,000 and Hawaii, prospering on cheap air charters, increased its total by more than 27,000 rooms. Low-cost tourist packages ($319 for travel and lodging in London; only $355 for a return flight from New York to Casablanca) have drawn away the younger set, while retired sun seekers have been lured to Mexico, the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. The surprising boom of the Caribbean cruise business added...
...congress of the International Chamber of Commerce. Walt Disney World is adding 144 rooms to one of its existing hotels and is contemplating construction of yet another hostelry. "We were cut off at the pass by Disney World," laments L. A. Baker, executive vice president of the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce...
...Sanford Weiner, the publicist who helped push through the referendum in New Jersey that will bring craps and slot machines to Atlantic City, has been retained to head the effort, even though Governor Reubin Askew has vowed to fight such an idea. "Gambling would change our image overnight," says Beach Tourist Chief Cohen. "It would combat the feeling that there's nothing to do here." Agrees Joel Gray, executive vice president of the Doral Hotel: "Gambling can return Miami Beach to a point of prime destination." In other words, Gray thinks casinos will lure many more travelers. But these...
...Army Corps of Engineers is restoring the beach. There is talk of building a model of Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens on Watson Island, which is connected to the Beach and the mainland by one of four causeways. Another proposal is to renew South Beach, at a cost of $500 million. The area now attracts winos and beach bums to its sleazy hotels and littered alleys. Despite everything, Miami Beach still has the assets of pleasant climate and huge convention facilities, while businessmen have appealed for $100 million in Government guarantees and outright loans to refurbish and expand...