People sometimes talk as if tourism is something new in Sunny Isles Beach but long before Donald Trump and his friends invested in luxury high-rise properties on the coastline, the area attracted plenty of visitors to the more modest motels that were dotted alongside the dunes.
It is hard to find many images from the days gone by but one of the things we want to do here is to dig out whatever can be found online to give a taste of what life must have been like in this area. …

One from yesteryear….

This really does capture the old-time Sunny Isles – the space, the beach, the lazy summer days. Even though the coast is no longer home to many little motels, the high-rise hotels and condos having taken their place, Sunny Isles still has the kind of old-school, slip on your flip-flops and shorts and hang out by the beach feel that has been lost to too many resorts.
Anyway, we are suckers for vintage postcards so if you find any drop us a line to visitsunnyislesbeach@gmail.com and we’ll stick them …