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OCT-1959 Myrna & Seth Bramson Collection

1959 - the 2200-seat Carib Theatre on Lincoln Road, Miami Beach

230 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, Florida view map


From http://cinematreasures.org/theater/4655/ :

"Easily one of the finest theatres erected in 1950, the 2,200-seat Carib was opened December 22, in one of the city's most fashionable shopping districts. As such, it commands an excellent admission scale...In keeping with its name and location, a Caribbean theme prevails throughout the theatre. The front bears a huge map of the area done in raised porcelain, the open-air patio-foyer has a tropical atmosphere, and the auditorium is designed with a distinct under-sea motif...From the large main foyer, where a wide candy bar is situated, an escalator moves upward toward the mezzanine. This is enclosed with glass in the front to afford a full view of the patio-foyer entrance, wherein are found flagstone walls and floors, a huge antique mirror, and flying birds made of plexiglas...There is a television lounge on the second floor and another set in the foyer...In the auditorium, the cartouche design on either side of the proscenium arch signifies a floating sheet with mystic designs of undersea life and is made of plexiglas and ornamental plaster with indirect lighting. The proscenium arch has bases of Octopus-design which, when indirectly lighted, make the proscenium appear to float in mid-air."...The Carib apparently did not have full stage facilities. The area behind the screen is simply described as "platform"...The orchestra floor has three wide sections of seats, but curiously, only the center section continues to the rear. About two-thirds of the way back, the left and right sections suddenly divide into two sections with a center aisle. The seats in those four rear sections also appear to be different from the reset of the orchestra seats."



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Danny 11-Mar-2011 20:53
what stands here now is a sign that americas trade center its next to a cvs and a pushy club called set....its 3/11/2011 ...its sad
Guest 15-Jan-2010 20:30
Hey Jeff,
My Miami maven. I loved the Carib and when growing up on the beach went there w/ my sister Barbara. My brother Michael was too young but we'd take him to see the parrot. It was fabulously close to Pickin Chickin.
Peggy Green
Louisville, KY.
Jeff 05-Sep-2009 04:29
This WAS one gorgeous theater!

I remember purchasing my ticket at the outside booth, walking through the glass doors into an atrium walkway filled with plants AND a live parrot on a perch!

There was another set of doors to the actual theater itself...

After it closed, it was converted into the short-lived Carib Mall, and another beautiful artifact of the "grand movie house" days was gone forever...

The lettering on the marquee was replaced in the early 1960's, using a different type of script design with plastic facias over the neon.

The best view of the stunning front wall mural of the Caribbean was about a half-block North on James Avenue from Lincoln Road...