2045, 3010, 3013 UNITED STATES (Florida) - Miami Beach

3013 Miami Beach: Top left - Mango's Tropical Cafe; Center left - Deco Drive;
Bottom left - Ocean Drive at Twilight; Top right - Swaying Palms;
Bottom right - World famous beach.

Posted on 18.11.2015, 04.04.2017, 07.04.2017

One of the most famous coastal resort city in the world, Miami Beach is located on a variety of natural and man-made barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter of which separates the Beach from Miami city. It has been one of America's pre-eminent beach resorts since the early 20th century, the Town of Miami Beach being chartered in 1915; it grew to become a city in 1917. Carl Fisher was the main promoter of its development in the 1920s as the site for wealthy industrialists from the north and Midwest to and build their winter homes here.

3010 Miami Beach - Ocean Drive

 

To accommodate them, several grand hotels were built. The Miami Beach peninsula became an island in 1925 when Haulover Cut was opened. The great 1926 Miami hurricane put an end to this prosperous era, but in the 1930s the resort still attracted tourists, and investors constructed the mostly small-scale, stucco hotels and rooming houses. After Fidel Castro's rise to power in 1959, a wave of Cuban refugees entered South Florida. The three neighborhoods of the city are South Beach, Mid Beach, and North Beach. South Beach (nicknamed SoBe) was the first section of the resort to be developed, and is a major entertainment destination with hundreds of nightclubs, restaurants, boutiques and hotels.

2045 Miami Beach - Art Deco Historic District

 

The famous Ocean Drive, the easternmost street in South Beach, running in a north-south direction, is responsible for the city aesthetic. Art Deco Historic District (bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, Lenox Court, 6th Street and Dade Boulevard) is considered the largest collection of Art Deco architecture in the world and comprises hundreds of hotels, apartments and other structures erected between 1923 and 1943. Mediterranean, Streamline Moderne and Art Deco are all represented in the District. The movement to preserve its architectural heritage was led by Barbara Capitman, who now has a street in the District named in her honor.

2982 UNITED STATES (Florida) - Hollywood Beach in Florida

Located between Fort Lauderdale and Miami, Hollywood was founded in 1925, and grew rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s, being now the twelfth largest city in Florida, with 146,526 inhabitants (2013). The founder Joseph W. Young dreamed of building a motion picture colony on the East Coast of the United States and named the town after Hollywood, California, but frequent hurricanes have hindered its development in the first decades. Hollywood is a planned city. On Hollywood Boulevard is the Mediterranean-style Joseph Young Mansion, built around 1921, making it one of the oldest houses in Hollywood.

2354, 2977 UNITED STATES (Florida) - Bayside Marketplace in Miami

2354 Bayside Marketplace in Miami (1)

Posted on 06.03.2016, 10.03.2017
To revitalize the downtown areas in major American cities during the 1970s and 1980s, were organized the festival marketplaces, based on European-style shopping markets. The guiding principles were a mix of local tenants instead of regional or national chain stores, design of shop stalls and common areas to energize the space, and uncomplicated architectural ornament in order to highlight the goods. One of these festival marketplaces is Bayside Marketplace in Downtown Miami, opened in 1987.

2977 Bayside Marketplace in Miami (2)

Located between the Bayfront Park to the south end, and the American Airlines Arena to the north, it wraps along the banks of the Biscayne Bay. Instead of being planned to revitalize a specific area as its sister properties had, Bayside complements an existing marina. This two-level, open-air festival marketplaces, which attracts fifteen million people on average annually, features more than 150 shops including unique and national retailers, as well as 12 delicious restaurants, and an international food court.

2311 UNITED STATES (Florida) - Downtown Miami skyline

Located on the Atlantic coast, on a broad plain between the Florida Everglades to the west and Biscayne Bay to the east, which also extends from Florida Bay north to Lake Okeechobee, Miami and its metropolitan area grew from just over 1,000 residents to nearly 5.5 million residents in just 110 years (1896-2006). The city's nickname, The Magic City, comes right from this rapid growth. The historic heart of the city is Downtown Miami and is technically on the eastern side of the city.

2255 UNITED STATES (Florida) - Dames Point Bridge

The Dames Point Bridge (officially the Napoleon Bonaparte Broward Bridge) is a cable-stayed bridge over the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, built between 1985 and 1989. The main span is 396.2m, and is 53.3m high. The cables are arranged on multiple vertical planes in a slight modification to the harp stay arrangement. Until 2003 it was the only bridge in the United States to feature the harp stay arrangement. It remains one of the largest cable-stayed bridges in the US, having 34km of cable.

2182 UNITED STATES (Florida) - Castillo de San Marcos in Saint Augustine

Founded in 1565 by Spanish, Saint Augustine served as the capital of Spanish Florida for over 200 years, and remained the capital of East Florida when the territory briefly changed hands between Spain and Britain. It was designated the capital of the Florida Territory until Tallahassee was made the capital in 1824. Now it is the oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement within the borders of the contiguous United States.

1868 UNITED STATES (Florida) - Lightner Museum in St. Augustine

Founded in 1565 by Spanish admiral and Florida's first governor, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, St. Augustine is the oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement in the continental United States. Among the points of interest of the city is Lightner Museum, a museum of antiquities, mostly American Gilded Age pieces, housed within the historic Hotel Alcazar. This 1887 Spanish Renaissance Revival style building was commissioned by Henry M. Flagler to appeal to wealthy tourists who traveled south for the winter on his railroad, the Florida East Coast Railway.

1673, 1686 UNITED STATES (Florida) - Space Shuttle Endeavour at Kennedy Space Center

1673 UNITED STATES (Florida) - Kennedy Space Center
Space Shuttle Endeavour approaches Launch Pad 39A

Posted on 16.06.2015, 21.06.2015
Space Shuttle Endeavour (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-105) is a retired orbiter from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the fifth and final operational shuttle built. The United States Congress authorized the construction of Endeavour in 1987 to replace Challenger, which was lost in 1986 when it broke up 73 seconds after launch. It was named after the British HMS Endeavour, the ship which took Captain James Cook on his first voyage of discovery (1768–1771). It embarked on its first mission, STS-49, in May 1992 and its 25th and final mission, STS-134, in May 2011. Since 2012 it is housed in the Samuel Oschin Pavilion of California Science Center in Los Angeles, California.

1686 UNITED STATES (Florida) - Kennedy Space Center
Space Shuttle Endeavour roars into space
on mission STS-99

As it was constructed later, Endeavour was built with new hardware designed to improve and expand orbiter capabilities. Most of this equipment was later incorporated into the other three orbiters during out-of-service major inspection and modification programs. The first African-American woman astronaut, Mae Jemison, was brought into space on the mission STS-47 on September 12, 1992. Over the course of its 19-year spaceflight career, Endeavour logged nearly 123 million miles (198 million kilometers) and zipped around the Earth more than 4,600 times.

1564 UNITED STATES (Florida) - Saint Augustine Lighthouse

Off the northeast Atlantic coast of Florida, East of Saint Augustine, the oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement in the continental United States, is located Anastasia Island, a barrier island long of 23km and wide of 1,6km. At the north end of the island is an active lighthouse, named as the city, the most recent of a number of towers built in the area. Saint Augustine was the site of the first lighthouse established in Florida by the new, territorial, American Government in 1824, on the site of an earlier watchtower built by the Spanish as early as the late 16th century. Because of the erosion and the changing coastline, the old tower crashed into the sea in 1880, but not before a new lighthouse was lit.

1173 UNITED STATES (Florida) - Spaceship Earth and Monorail Peach in Epcot

The Walt Disney World Resort, or simply Disney World, is an entertainment complex in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, opened on October 1, 1971. The property covers 16,997 ha, in which it houses 24 themed resort hotels, four theme parks, two water parks, four golf courses, and numerous additional recreational and entertainment venues. Magic Kingdom was the first and original theme park to open in the complex followed by Epcot, Disney's Hollywood Studios, and Disney's Animal Kingdom, opened later throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Epcot (an acronym for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow), the second of theme parks, spans 120 ha, more than twice the size of the Magic Kingdom park. Dedicated to the celebration of human achievement, namely technological innovation and international culture, is often referred to as a "Permanent World's Fair."

0864 UNITED STATES (Florida) - Everglades National Park (UNESCO WHS)

"A river of grass flowing imperceptibly from the hinterland into the sea", Everglades is a large tropical wetlands in the southern portion of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large watershed. The national park with the same name protects the southern 20% of the area, and it has been declared an International Biosphere Reserve, a World Heritage Site, and a Wetland of International Importance, being one of only three locations in the world which appear on all three lists.