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Hotels?
Hotels?
What em
les in every hotel.SILL literati,
an lection bet eo Stu ranthecityant&Clea1LoInq
painful
was made lessSenator
painful by choosing Joel at �^¢"�. • Senate
led with the assis-
the payoff ute for luch.(I took lance of our own Mayos Brill
BI iin along tocrowing.)
helpin ward off Richard to run the syndicate out
Blurr'bergs reS ant Stuh <"' ''- of town.Exciting?You bet But
Greeter merldent of the nary an article or book covering
Greater Miami & The Beaches that subject,
Hotel Association,is an exaltediiii According to Blumberg
figure at e•s.Granted hu own (hill all about to rfianga. His
regular tablbie,he holds court for Hotel AssotietiOn Iran commis-
dropping
omntii-
Miami Beach political figures gEyyvtolR mnes' R sinned Howard Kleinbcr9 to
Cofurnnrsr
dao r'gbytopayfferi'dte write a history of the hotel
Mu graciously offered to host industry Kkinbcrg, former editor of the
the lie ereledtomy inns to fatPsta former rule- Miami News.has written perhaps the Most
long ti deferred to fie al,net'ae.AS dedto { cityof Miami Brach.
long-time eltacd official,not accustomed to definitive history 0 tM for
the ritual of pickily)W checks,c nonetheless He writes K as he sees it-no puff pieces
must be honored. Howard. The hotel bortk will be published
recognized a wager next October,and not even Stu Blumberg
Since Botch are the t an update
pd to report offspring knows the full cont�Cr the slrnanlgans of
t Miami Beach,t rye an al report Will KJtrntxrg
this hidden ler(tie gr My ofgrandeur
berhas always been syndicate?the SfaG Will he cover the turn-
Fort,despitethegrerICanr anthoves sse� around era beginning In the'90s when then .
were ire se f the entireworld to, CityManager Roger tarttor and dtixen•vol-
t
were grace for the rr Collins Avenue blit- u^ear Arthur Courshon crafted a deal that
these attention
print-wise.
&n — _ __-- brought us the Lotws.
tie amSomehow print wilt. — t Hotel,the first new arbor
the coin- One of the hotel In Miami Beath in
Mikity celebrates Art J thrr,v years?i hot So.
Deco end Minto designs best-kept secrets aourshon, a finandec
with such reverence that of international repute,
the grand hotel? on of t/,e post—war of lntguided thecityinIlegouat-
Callmtting his ooy with nig with the Lows organa'
verys essence holo,- the era is the s G tatr&n.And to and behold!
very of this Out,city the Syndicate,Which the presence of Loews
are hotel indust. nowa,a flagship hotel(along
once industry is • operated an with the Fontainebleau)
again back at the operated
hold owner;top.At least SO says my illegal gambling and developers to invert
I rememyea
friend Stu Blumberg.g In the enterprise with almost a billion dollars In
the following years. The
the c every year offered bookies in presence of so prestigious
bthe celebration bac of a newly was a none as?news created a
a s ip hotel. for Maxwell
s every hotel. domino theory-It L.oews Is
a Shipper for Maxwell J willing t0 irnest'5o Mil-fumturc,thelarges1 _
irs the hoar dollar car Miami
furniture Supplier In she tI.e( ilio Avenue stip Is a
southeast.I rode,sixteen-wheeler van with a Beach.maybe
work gang unloadarig heavy,heavy furniture fine investment aha all. Sets 0 ,
for each new hotel.unto,tunetely,in the'6os What does the future look like f Sets
the Miami tread'hotel industry went into a Nurnberg. neves known as'Mr. Optimist.
tailspin, and not until the early '9ot was leaped out of his chair,errlalming.
looked batter. I expect huge record years
another major Bold bulk. ahead.- N � know Stu, that dekerv'it •
Besides the lack of conAnrrtir'rs,only a .'Now!'reaction.
few words on hotels - mostly negative- Will nbe give us the flava of all
t Wil Kk rg
made It to sfit media.The ledees,ae .span characters like Bin Novick,the wild,
el work
hotels,inadequate strokes.adispirit- mole original Fontainebleau owner
ed wok Five esp disgruntled tourists.The off-the-wall
t H nalong wit' gruff, hard-to
&nly pncaive responses deice by Art CrVn case current maeatt0 Steve Muss?And.of
Md'nti WO and the struggle by pt icrve- pt Ru el Palm slotel)who.
tionlSts.Watt'yeHais•no doubt.,patacroak wroie she span. slatysl'early broken 'Be
of n loo enveloped Ile hotel x'dutry a rid its irccwrl fo htpnumber of kwSuits.Howard
Then lostg gone,g'r'out past re ter to only du a
ASW c�loriuus' rami Be c hod is had living
table books. Ttsis ons will have a
Going back to WWII,Miami Beach botch had � e to K•
been the Finnic training base for the U.S Air lot of vice
reicher cher BlVmber9 nor I paid the
• Force with thousands upon thousands of GI's
Marching to the Sound of'hut-hul'as&car cit- !heck.Rose,the lovely lady who runs Joe's,
henry applauded then(. Ixoke the iml tsse.She picked up the check.
' One of the beg-kept Secrets of the post- My record for fining to the.tse'hroon'when
war era is the 5&C,Syndicate.Which opera. the.heck arrives was Ittt unsullied.
ed an illt4'1 JamWinq enterurlie with twxok•
And so it Docs
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