This Art Deco-themed walking tour reveals Miami Beach’s seedy, seductive past—and present. Plus, the most evocative hotels, bars and restaurantsJAMES CUBBY has seen a lot. Moments into the historical walking excursion he leads for Art Deco Tours, Mr. Cubby disclosed—with a raised eyebrow underneath his brown fedora—his own history in the city.
After decades as a nightlife writer in Miami Beach, he knows everything worth knowing, he implied, about the city’s strange, seedy past. He’d cut his teeth in the feverish nightclubs of the 1980s, just a few years after Miami began turning around its reputation as a dilapidated, crime-ridden place. He’d lived through the gleeful excess of the ’90s, when Gianni Versace converted a 1930s townhouse into an altar to extravagance,...
RT : Take a trip back to 1930s Miami Beach, with stops at hidden casinos and speakeasies