Win Some, Lose Some

Win Some, Lose SomeSouth Beach is where the town started. The years went by, the wars, the inventions. Progress marched away to the north. Hotels became bigger and more lavish. Mansions were constructed. Islands were dredged out of Biscayne Bay. Causeways. Throughways. Motels. Traffic. The Fontainebleau. Eden Roc. Gradually, South Beach became old-fashioned, then marginal, and finally a slum.Below Lincoln Road it is all stucco and tile roofs and Mediterranean styles. Or it is flat roofs and cubi...