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Edna Buchanan “Girl Reporter”
Edna Buchanan Edna Buchanan has had an illustrious career as a crime reporter and novelist. In 1986 she won the Pulitzer Prize for her "versatile" reporting of crime for The Miami Herald. Her training ground was as a "girl reporter" for the Miami Beach Sun. We...
Andy Warhol’s Visit to South Beach
In September 1980, pop artist Andy Warhol took a tour of South Beach. He was also interviewed by WTVJ's Critic-at-Large, Sam Hirsch. Warhol didn't always agree with Hirsch's assessment of his art, but it is interesting to hear Warhol talk about his work and how he...
Joe’s place…
Former Miami Beach Mayor Harold Rosen was a Joe's regular... A young lawyer up and coming lawyer at the time, Rosen was usually seated with owner Jesse Weiss, a good friend. He tells the story of a day in the 1950s when he, FBI Director J Edgar Hoover and columnist...
Creating the Miami Beach Scene
News About the News Cafe -- a Miami Beach Icon The creator and owner of the iconic News Cafe, Mark Soyka, says his concept for the New Cafe was of a place for the international fashion industry to hang out, have coffee, read newspapers and magazines from all over the...
The Postcard View of Miami
Tony Goldman on How He Came to Miami Beach
Unique archive footage of Tony Goldman discussing how he came to Miami and found the South Beach Art Deco district ready for conservation and renovation. This interview and the scenes of the Beach date from 1989. We came across them while researching a film about...