Ebook: Sunshine, stone crabs and cheesecake: the story of Miami Beach

BCF (before Carl Fisher) -- The Carl Fisher years -- It's Joe's Stone Crab -- not Stone Crabs' Restaurant! -- Lincoln Road and Washington Avenue -- Ocean Drive and Collins Avenue -- The bathing casinos -- Churches, temples and schools (and beach was dynamite!) -- Restaurants and clubs -- The hotels -- Streets and homes -- Islands in the sun -- Cheesecake? Cheesecake? and other pretty girls -- Greater Miami Beach: "the burbs" -- The Galbut family.;Miami Beach is unrivaled in the annals of American resort history, and nobody in the country can tell its story better than renowned local historian and resident of Miami for more than six decades Seth H. Bramson. From the 1870 arrival of the Lums on an inhospitable mangrove sandbar to a modern-day hospitality mecca, enjoy this beachfront view of the people and places, booms and busts, reinventions and rebirths of one of the greatest resort cities on earth. Featuring nearly two hundred stunning images drawn mostly from previously unpublished private collections, this is truly a one-of-a-kind trip to Miami Beach.