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Aerial view of downtown Miami, FL, 1959

Subjects
Aerial Views & PanoramasTown & City Views
Card type
Linen
Date
c. 1959 (Chrome)
Front of Aerial view of downtown Miami, FL, 1959, Mrs Nigel Kurtz, MN, USA, c. 1959 linen postcard
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Back of Aerial view of downtown Miami, FL, 1959, Mrs Nigel Kurtz, MN, USA, c. 1959 linen postcard
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About this postcard

The view looks down on downtown Miami from above, with a cluster of hotels and office towers rising beyond green parkland, parking lots, and a large red-roofed bayfront building. A tall white tower at right of center stands out against the denser blocks of the business district. The caption calls Miami "The Magic Metropolis," a booster slogan for a city that had grown fast in the 1920s land boom and kept drawing winter visitors in the decades that followed. By the late 1950s, the downtown skyline still showed the hotels and office buildings of that earlier boom, with parking lots and open space between them.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Dear Mom, we are down at the water today. Real warm but nice breeze 80° have a place for a week. If you want to write us this is the address: Wilina Motor Court 815 S.W. 66th Ave. Miami, Florida Hope you are O.K. Love Mel & Theo

PublisherGulf Stream Card & Distributing Co.
M-12—Miami—The Magic Metropolis
PostmarkedMiami, FL, February 13, 1959, 19:30
Stamp
Addressed to
Mrs Nigel Kurtz

127 E. Winifred St St Paul, MN

FromMelvin Minton Court, 815 S.W. 66th Ave., Miami, FL

Postcard record

Postmarked, Miami, FL
PublisherGulf Stream Card & Distributing Co.
SeriesM-12
ConditionVery good
Place addressedMrs Nigel Kurtz, 127 E. Winifred St, St Paul, MN
Place sent fromMelvin Minton Court, 815 S.W. 66th Ave., Miami, FL
Stamp4c Abraham Lincoln, pink
NotesLinen-textured stock with a thin white border; Curt Teich production code "1C-H793" printed in the lower right corner. Postmark: MIAMI FEB 13 7 30 PM 1959 FLA. Linen-era Curteich "C.T. Art-Colortone" card, divided back; light corner/edge wear, slight discoloration at lower right.

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Aerial view of downtown Miami, FL, 1959, postcard, c. 1959. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/aerial-view-of-downtown-miami-fl-1959. Accessed November 2, 2026.