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• 1870 Henry and Charles Lum purchased 165 acres on South Beach for 75 cents/acre to plant and harvest coconuts, which turned out to be unprofitable.

• 1896 John Collins arrives from New Jersey to survey the land on Miami Beach.

• 1912 Miami businessmen, the Lummus Brothers, acquire 400 acres to establish the Ocean Beach Realty Company.

• 1914 Collins Ave opens on the Beach and is the first paved road suitable for automobiles. Aug 4th, WWI begins.

• 1915 Fisher clears Lincoln Road out of a mangrove swamp with the help of Rosie the Elephant.

• 1917 Miami Beach changes its status from a town to a city.

• 1920 The Miami Beach land boom begins and millionaires like Harvey Firestone, J.C. Penney, Harvey Stutz, Albert Champion, Frank Seiberling, and Rockwell LaGorce build mansions on the three-mile stretch of Collins Avenue known as "Millionaire's Row" today most of them Hotels.

• 1922 Golf Courses and Hotels are built.

• 1926 A hurricane strikes FL causing substantial loss.

• 1927 The Million Dollar Pier is constructed at the southern tip of Miami Beach.

• 1929 Flamingo Park is acquired by the city and is dedicated as a public facility.

• 1930's Miami Beach flourishes with a boom of art deco buildings. Population growth from about 6,500

• 1940 Population 28,000

• 1941 Dec 7th, the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. The Army Air Corps takes command over Miami Beach.

• 1950 Population 46,300.

• 1957 The auditorium homes to many television variety shows, including the third revival of The Jackie Gleason Show

• 1959 Fidel Castro takes over Cuba and the exodus of Cuban refugees to Miami begins.

• 1960's Miami Beach Population: 63,200. The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba fails. The Cuban missile crisis.

• 1962 The Jackie Gleason Show begins broadcasting from the auditorium, today "The Fillmore"

• 1970 Miami Beach Population: 28,000

• 1979 The Miami Beach Architectural District is listed as a historic landmark.

• 1980 The Mariel boatlift brings 140,000 Cubans to FL.

• 1980's After decades of economic and social decline, an influx of gays and lesbians moving to South Beach led to the revitalization of the city.

• 1983 The feature film Scarface took place.

• 1984 Miami Vice, an American television crime drama series.

• 1991 Miami population grows to nearly 2 million.

• 1992 Hurricane Andrew hits south Dade County.

• 1996 The comedy "The Birdcage" took place.

• 1997 Gionni Versace's is murdered on the steps of his Ocean Drive estate, Casa Casuarina.

• 2000 Miami Beach named #1 Urban Beach by Surfrider Foundation.

• 2001 Jan 18th, Morris Lapidus dies in Miami Beach.

• 2002 The annual international Art Basel Miami Beach begins.

• 2003 Population: 88,000

• 2009 first Gay Pride Festival in April and every year after.

• 2010 population 87,779.

• 2011 The New World Symphony move into the New World Center building designed by Canadian American Pritzker Prize- winning architect Frank Gehry.

• 2013 SoBe Affairs is born to please your whims during your stay in paradise.