Goodbye Deauville: the Miami Beach hotel that hosted JFK and the Beatles was demolished | VIDEO

a hotel of miami beach which hosted the Beatles and US President John F. Kennedy during its heyday in the 1960s, imploded this Sunday after falling into disrepair and neglect in recent years.

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The Hotel Deauville, with 17 floors, was collapsed after several explosions that raised a large cloud of dust. The demolition of the concrete colossus was recorded by the media and residents of the area, who allowed the building to fall in a matter of seconds.

BREAKING: The historic Deauville Beach Resort in Miami Beach was just imploded. pic.twitter.com/aLJgmGuvSp

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The Deauville It was built in 1957 and at one point was included in a historic district that seeks to preserve an architectural style known as “Miami Modern,” or MiMo. The hotel was considered one of the great drivers of the economy in the North Beach area, a much less touristy neighborhood than South Beach, owner of the nightlife, or the majestic Mid-Beach, home to the famous Fontainebleau hotel.

At the hotel, Kennedy gave a speech in it to the Young Democratic Convention in 1961. For their part, The Beatles played there in 1964 and recorded six songs for “The Ed Sullivan Show”, which attracted a television audience of about 70 million people.

celebrities like Frank Sinatra, Tom Jones Y Sammy Davis Jr.. They held concerts there.

Over the years, the property deteriorated and was closed in 2017 after a fire due to electrical failures.

The demolition order came in March, after the city certified last Thursday the engineering report made by the building’s owners, the Meruelo family, in which they pointed out that the construction should be demolished since it was unsafe.

Miami Beach authorities and the family that owns the hotel argued over million-dollar fines applied for various code violations. So far it is unknown what will happen now with the terrain.

Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross, a billionaire New York real estate developer, wanted to buy the property and build a 350-foot (107-meter) hotel and condominium tower, but that plan is in limbo.

With information from AP

Source: Elcomercio

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