#412 c Data About Miami Beach 1950sabout ~i~ Beach
Ferry years a~ when ~iami Beach was founded, no utility thought it
worthwhile to run electric lines to the village, se the developers paid
f~ the~ out-of-pocket. New the city uses 35 ~lion kilowatt h~urs a
month ... Early ill,mi Beach ~esidents eb+~4~ed their bath water fr~a
e~ow wells pumped by windmills. Now huge mains bring five and a half
~illien gallons a year from the mainland.
Miami Beach ha~ mere telephenes than permanent residents. Present
census esttmatos put 58,000 population within the city, and there are
72~000 telephones ... The answer of course is the large number of hotel
roo~s ·
Mi~ml Beach is one of the few places in the world ~here a visitor
can go sightseeing in winter by blimp, or charter beat and equipment for
u~derwater fishing ·.·
The oar parking concession is big business at Miami ~each hotels.
One student worked his way through the University of ~iami parking
cars and is st~ll doing itt having found nothing in ~he professional
world that pa~s as well.
Leisure is still the mest popular cc~aodity at Miami Beach. Surveys
a~ew vacationers spend more time sunning at beach and cabana than
anything else ... Reeagnizin2 this, ~iami Beach's newest hotel consists
of 550 recks and 265 cabanas·
The Shah and Queen ef Irans when they arrive in Miami Beach next week,
will be the first royal visitors e~tertained here since 7~b~rd of England
was a familiar figure befere the war ....~ery presider since Harding
has visited Miami Beach and Heover still goes fishing fr~, here.