Ocean Drive, Miami Beach

The main strip and most famous area off Miami Beach is Ocean Drive, which runs along the ocean front, behind of the beach. The street is lined with handsome Art Deco buildings, many of which have featured in television advertisements and in films. Today many of these buildings, painted in pastel colors and featuring neon signs, contain restaurants and hotels.Particularly notable buildings are the Beacon (732 Ocean Drive; by Henry O. Nelson, 1926), the Colony Hotel (736 Ocean Drive; by Henry Hohauser, 1936), Waldorf Towers (860 Ocean Drive; by Albert Anis, 1937), the Breakwater (940 Ocean Drive; by Anton Skislewicz, 1939), the Cardozo (1300 Ocean Drive; by Henry Hohauser, 1939), which is busy night and day, and the Cavalier (1320 Ocean Drive; by Roy F. France, 1936).