Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The seeds of change were planted in Miami Beach in the late 1970s and into the ‘80s. The first two renovated Art Deco hotels, the ...

Neon lights, wild nights, and shoulder pads for days, Miami in the 1980s was pure cinematic chaos. It wasn’t all glitz and glamour, though, behind the flash was a city transforming fast in culture, ...

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In the 1980s, Miami was a byword for violence. Drug cartels were murdering people. Tourists were targeted for robbery or worse, a trend so bad that the state of Florida changed its laws in the early ...

The seeds of change were planted in Miami Beach in the late 1970s and into the ‘80s. The first two renovated Art Deco hotels, the Cardozo and the Carlyle, reopened in 1978. Vacant storefronts and ...