![]() ![]() But that doesn’t mean South Beach lacked personality. Many of the residents back then were senior citizens: retirees, snowbirds, Eastern Europeans. These were the days before the tourism boom, some predating even Crockett and Tubbs. The South Beach you know and love (or love to hate) is barely recognizable in the museum's show, which opens today, October 17, and runs through April 1, 2018. HistoryMiami's newest exhibit, “South Beach, 1974-1990: Photographs of a Jewish Community,” captures the time when the area was predominantly Jewish. There’s a reason Miami Beach was once known as the Shtetl (small Jewish village) by the Sea. And the upscale Faena Hotel Miami Beach was a Kosher hotel called the Saxony. The Walgreens located in the Ritz-Carlton South Beach hotel was previously the site of the famed Jewish deli Wolfie’s. The Miami Beach building that was home to the legendary nightclub Mansion and performances by Rick Ross and Deadmau5 was once a vaudeville theater known for its Yiddish entertainment.
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