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NEW BOOK RELEASE—

The Last Resort: Jewish South Beach, 1977-1986
Gary Monroe

From ten-years of living in and photographing South Beach upon returning home from grad school, I culled
55 images (from a couple thousand) into a crisp and edgy look at that remarkable people, time and place.
Conceiving the project while at college, I began to understand what made South Beach so special.
For those of us who’d grown up there in the 1950s and 60s especially, we didn’t fully get it. The elderly
people of South Beach were shunned and ignored. “God’s waiting room” was one pejorative referent as was “a
gerontological ghetto.” To the openminded, it was lively and fascinating–but we were few and far between. We
were up-close witnesses to the ending of old world Jewry whose roots extended back to the Czarist pogroms
and through the Nazi Holocaust, to our forefathers who filtered though Ellis Island and dispersed throughout KIDDIE RECORDS WEEKLY
the northeast to make South Beach the last resort. It was a place for Jewish retirees to maintain their identity http://www.kiddierecords.com
and practice their mores in a community of their own making. Then South Beach was isolated and insulated,
and a vestige of a way of life that assimilated Jews of my generation could not quite live and certainly not Here’s a site that’s a record
replace. It was a rarefied place. collector’s dream. Before video
games, kids indulged in alternative
I wrote the book’s essay…and the rest media formats -- like listening to
is up to you, the viewers to make sense albums.
of, to place in the larger scheme of things Kiddie Records Weekly began
while likely bringing back memories as in 2005 as a one year project
it’s seeming that just about everyone dedicated to celebrating the
has a connection to old Miami Beach– golden age of children’s records.
buba, babka, blintzes, sunburn, Wolfies. Many of these recordings
(I could go on–Alfie’s, Ollie’s, Epicure, were extravagant Hollywood
Fun Fair, The Cameo Theater, WQAM, productions featuring big time
the dog track, Dubrow’s, but I won’t.) celebrities and composers. Over
To order the book from the time, these lost treasures fell off
publisher, visit: https://upf.com/book. the radar and it has become the
asp?id=9780813066523. mission of Kiddie Records Weekly
In Miami, Books & Books will carry it, to give them a new lease on life
as will other fine bookstores. by sharing them with today’s
generation of online listeners.
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