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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 3203605, member: 76194&quot;]Miami Vice is one of my favorite shows. Even though I was born in the mid-80s, I&#039;ve always had a deep appreciation for classic TV and radio shows. I can probably recite two dozen shows from the 50&#039;s through the 90&#039;s, as well as 30 or 40 movies from that time period that I love. Heck, I even listen to old radio shows from the 30&#039;s, 40&#039;s, and 50&#039;s religiously on my 1946 Philco radio which I wired with an AM receiver that I run from a tablet to my vintage radio set.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Miami Vice intro is a classic.</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]dEjXPY9jOx8[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>However,&nbsp; the Miami skyline has changed so much from then to now that no one that watched that show but has never been to Miami would recognize this city if their only impression of it is that show.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]829662[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Even the Miami Beach from Scarface would be unrecognizable today. Although the Art Deco buildings are still the same (being historical buildings), they&#039;ve been revamped in and out to accommodate modern tourism,&nbsp; and their street fronts have been heavily modified to create restaurants and shops for the huge tourist traffic. During the Scarface era these buildings were mostly sleepy retirement homes with no storefronts whatsoever, and the streets were dark, quiet, and run down.</p><p><br /></p><p>The scene with the shooting in Miami Beach between Tony and the drug dealers was believable back then. It probably happened every week in real life back in the early 1980&#039;s as Colombian gangs fought for drug turfs. Given how desolate Miami Beach was back then, you could probably shoot it out for 10 minutes before a single cop showed up. But such a scene would not be believable today. .</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]829676[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Late 70&#039;s and early 80&#039;s....desolate streets and buildings full of 70+ year old retirees.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]829677[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b>Same spot today with restaurants and shops, and traffic 24/7.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]829679[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b>Late 70s and early 80s, beach mostly empty except for a handful of 70+ year old retirees.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]829680[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b>Miami Beach today, packed with European and Canadian tourists.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>What you saw in Miami Vice was all a fantasy...what developers and city officials hoped Miami could be in a decade. And it worked...that show is probably the main reason Miami Beach went from a backwaters in 1980 to a busy and thriving tourist trap by the early 1990&#039;s, and why downtown Miami went from a poor, drug infested, and crime ridden neighborhood to a thriving modern metropolis full of skyscrapers and businesses.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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