Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...slight man, his pockets ajangle with quarters, strolled into the Criterion Restaurant in Manhattan Beach, Calif., one afternoon last week and ordered the house specialty, fried zucchini with Parmesan cheese. He then walked to the pay phone and dialed a number in New York City. As he chatted on and on, the telephone rang near by in Manhattan Beach police headquarters. The Brooklyn district attorney's office was calling to ask that the man on the phone in the coffee shop be arrested. The police hustled over, and Sergeant Jack Mair approached the caller from behind. "I tapped...
...tourists have always brought in most of Miami's money, and when Miami Beach's popularity began to decline in the 1960's, the area began to grow desperate. Florida has always been more than ordinarily susceptible to greed, perhaps because of its newness; in a city where "old Miami" arrived before 1950, the only thing that separates the worthy from the unwashed is wealth. Miamians will go to great lengths to show off their wealth: It is a city of huge diamonds, Cadillacs and 80-foot yachts. California may be the birthplace of the "me generation" and Boston...
...there is widespread hostility toward the Cubans from this powerful group. That especially startles the Latins, who point out that it was not so long ago that signs outside of Florida hotels reading "No dogs, no Jews allowed" were still standing. Even today there are restricted clubs on Miami Beach, the bastion of Florida Judaism...
...like the rest of the Anglos, the Jews feel that long ago they carved out a secure niche for themselves in Miami, and today that niche is being threatened by the Cuban tide. Jewish Miamians have long thought of Miami as "their city," where they could be secure; Miami Beach has a higher percentage of Jewish residents than Tel Aviv. A generation ago the Jews dominated South Florida as the Cubans do now. But like the Magnificent Ambersons, they refused to change when the times changed, and today the leadership mantle has slipped from their hands. Or, as a Jewish...
...during and after the rioting, many Miamians were actually relieved that the Black rioters didn't attack the Cuban areas of town, because that, people feel, might have sparked a street war. You can still walk around Key Biscayne or the old sections of downtown Miami or Miami Beach and sense, if you look at the old, somehow more tropical building from the 1920s that brought people down here a long time ago. But afterwards you will always feel that Miami lost its innocence along the way, somehow sold its soul for the sake of prosperity...