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MIAMI: THE REAL-LIFE MOVIE SET

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Miami Beach has been one of America’s pre-eminent resorts for almost a century. Before that it was a strip of mangroves on a small barrier island that was cleared in the 1800s to make way for a coconut plantation. It was incorporated into a city during the real estate boom of the early 1900s.

It hit its stride architecturally in the Art Deco period of the 1930s, and set the trend for glamour and nightlife in the

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