Pilgrims to the Cities of the Sun have a choice of several “magic carpet” modes of travel. If you’re in a hurry you can take off any evening on regularly scheduled airliners from New York or Chicago and fly the entire distance overnight. By rail, it’s only 28 hours from New York to the golden [...]
Archive | September, 2008
Miami Beach | Islands in the Sun
Host to some 6,000,000 guests annually, Miami Beach attracts vacationers every month of the year from every part of the United States, Canada and Latin America. Here are lodgings for 175,000 visitors in 380 hotels and 2,700 apartment buildings, all within a few minutes of ocean beaches, golf courses, fine shops, restaurants, deep-sea fishing, night [...]
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Under the Tropical Miami Beach Sun
Miami and Miami Beach are some 1300 miles nearer the equator than the famous resorts of the Mediterranean Riviera and about 600 miles further south than Los Angeles, California. The average. temperature here for December, January and February is 58 degrees, as compared with 50 degrees on the Riviera
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Welcome to Miami Beach
Here’s how Miami Beach was described in a travel brochure from 1939…
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