It was raining. It was hot. It was Humid. It was Florida.
Miami Beach
The Miami Design Preservation League was founded by Barbara Baer Capitman in 1976. The Art Deco District became the first urban 20th century historic distric on the National Register of Historic Places. Capitman fought for the district and was known to stand in front of bulldozers to protect the buildings. Over 800 Art Deco buildings remain.
Calle Ocho or Little Havana
Cigars, food, music, roosters…
Hemmingway House Key West
“The first thing that happened when we were back in Paris was Hemingway with a letter of introduction from Sherwood Anderson.
I remember very well the first impression I had of Hemingway that first afternoon. He was an extraordinarily good looking young man, twenty three years old…., rather foreign looking, with passionately interested, rather than interesting eyes. He sat in front of Gertrude Stein and listened and looked.”
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
Around Key West
