Posted on 11/15/2022 9:28:48 AM PST by Red Badger
The decaying hotel at Miami Beach’s historic Deauville Beach Resort, which once played host to everyone from the Beatles to President John F. Kennedy, was imploded Sunday morning after it was declared an unsafe structure.
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Building 7 did it better
I worked next to, in and on the oceans for 18 years.
I live in Kansas now.
Salt, concrete and steel. Not a great combination for longevity.
Damn Russian drones, oh wait...
(Did you drive inland with an oar in the back of your truck until someone asked you what was that thing you were carrying? :)
I’m holding out for the Millennium Tower implosion in SF.
Reminds me of the old 1960 TV show SURFSIDE 6.
One thing for sure, they’re not going back to the USSR on BOAC.
***I live in Kansas now.***
So, you did like Ulysses when he returned home.
He put an oar on his shoulder and walked inland.
When someone asked what that thing was on his shoulder, that is where he settled down.
That’s mighty WHITE of you!....................
That was on ABC, and we didn’t have an ABC station...................
I married a farmer’s daughter out here in the flat part. I had been back on leave a few times so I knew I could pretty much disappear here.
Was there about 15 years ago. Seemed like they were doing a good job in keeping it vital then. Somewhere there’s a picture of me “On the STAGE where the BEATLES played the second Ed Sullivan appearance on Jan 16, 1964.”
A friend was down about 3 years ago and wanted to see it. I looked on line and saw it was closed and for sale for potential refurbishing. So didn’t go. I guess it was too far gone.
The Fontainebleau is featured in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger,in the sweeping aerial shot that follows the opening credits and accompanies composer John Barry’s big-band track “Into Miami”. It is the hotel where Jill Masterson (played by Shirley Eaton) is murdered by the villainous Oddjob (played by Harold Sakata).[19]
I’d guess that there’s hardly a hotel of that era that didn’t host JFK for at least an hour or so.
A farmer’s daughter would have worked for me! No death by drowning, but look out for grain augers and slow moving Ag machinery on the roads! :)
Trip advisor:
The Staircase to Nowhere - Review of Fontainebleau Miami Beach, Miami ... Back in the late 1950s, when I was a young teen, the grand lobby of the Fontainebleau hotel had a famous staircase. It was famous because it only went up to a cloakroom on the second floor. The patrons would walk up (or take an elevator), doff their stoles and evening coats and hats, and walk down the staircase, making a grand entrance.
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Instead of ‘George Washington slept here.’, it’s ‘JFK slept here, and there, and there, over here, over yonder.”.................
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