Sinbad's at The Algiers, Miami Beach 1965

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Sinbad's at The Algiers, Miami Beach 1965Located at 26th Street and Collins Avenue, the Algiers Hotel was a prominent and glamorous fixture in Miami Beach in the '50s and '60s. Built in 1951 by noted architect Morris Lapidus (1902 2001), it was designed in Miami Modern style (nicknamed MiMo), a distinctive architectural movement noted for its bold colors, playful forms and sleek lines. Lapidus, a former retail interior designer, also worked his magic on other mid century Miami hotels

The establishment is long gone but we’ve seen photos of the Penguin Café dated 1942 and it was a wooden cabin-like building with a cheerful sign outside advertising home-cooked meals

as of today

with the hot fudge sauce faithfully made just as it was in the original recipe

this separation of the sexes ended because underground Speakeasies were co-ed and men and women mixed freely

and a building boom began

There were splashy jungle murals that showed zebras running across the savannah

The album captures the absolute essence of Frank Sinatra in his ‘room’ in his ‘town’… in fact he owned 2% of The Sands so in a sense it really was his

CA with 500 head of cattle

The phrase ham n’ egger was first heard around 1918 as a term for an unskilled worker who earned so little money that he was barely able to buy a ham and egg breakfast

Tortilla Flat was the title of an early John Steinbeck novel

built in the shipyards of Scotland in 1925

Milton Berle and Red Skelton all performed on stage

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