century beach club

the Century Beach Club (foreground) was, as its name implies, the beach club for the Hohauser-designed Century Hotel (and the Century Annex, now Joia Restaurant) across the street. Although not threatened with destruction as it might have been 20 years earlier, the mindset of city officials in the early 1990s allowed its virtual destruction through its "incorporation" into the mammoth Marriott South Beach (rear), which opened its doors in 2000. One can only hope that the city has left this bastardization of its patrimony behind with the old century, and will not permit a similar fate for the former Hotel Arlington and the Savoy Plaza.