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SoBe is a section of Miami Beach, Florida that encompasses the lower 23 blocks of the island from
1st Street to 23rd Street. This area was the first section of Miami Beach to be developed starting in the
1920s, and has gone through numerous changes over the years, some man-made and some due to the forces of
nature, like the hurricane of 1926 that destroyed much of the area.
In the 1930s an architectural revolution came to SoBe bringing Art Deco, Streamline, and Nautical
Moderne architecture to the Beach. To this day, SoBe remains the world's largest collection of Art
Deco architecture. While many of the unique Art Deco buildings, such as the
New Yorker Hotel, were lost to developers in the years before 1980, the area was saved as a cohesive unit
by Barbara Capitman and a group of activist who spearheaded the movement to place SoBe on the
National Register of Historic Places.
Beginning in the late 1970s through the 80s, SoBe was used as a retirement community with most of
its ocean-front hotels and apartment buildings filled with elderly people living on small, fixed incomes.
This period also saw the introduction of the "cocaine cowboys," drug dealers who used the area as a base
for their illict drug activities. The TV show Miami Vice used SoBe as a backdrop for much of its
filming due to the area's raw and unique visual beauty.
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