Surfside Six Miami Beach Florida

Surfside Six Miami Beach Florida

• Surfside 6 is an ABC television series which aired from 1960 to 1962
•  Sandy are three hip private detectives living on and working out of a houseboat in Miami Beach, Florida
• Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida
•  located on natural and man-made barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay
• Called Billion Dollar  Sandbar
•  Tequesta Indians were  the first known settlers in  this region 
• Miami Beach began as a 165-acre plot of land intended for planting and harvesting coconuts
• Henry and Charles Lum, Quakers from New Jersey, purchased the land from the federal government in 1870 for $.25 an acre
•  first bridge from Miami to Miami Beach in 1913. The bridge was, at the time, the longest wooden wagon bridge in the world
• During World War II, 500,000 Army Air Corps cadets passed through Miami Beach when it became a major training center
•  comprises hundreds of hotels, apartments and structures built between 1923 and 1943