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Historical Association; Adjunct Professor of History, FlU. 9. Previous works published: Author: Speedway to Sunshine: The Story of the Florida East Coast Railway; same title, Revised and Enlarged Edition (11000 total copies sold); MIAMI BEACH, Arcadia Images of America Series; CORAL GABLES, Arcadia Images of America series; Co-author: The Plant System of Railroads, Steamships and Hotels. Author: More than 60 articles relating to Florida local and transportation history including: "A Tale of Three Henrys" in Volume 23, the Florida issue, Wolfsonian-FIU "Journal of the Decorative and Propaganda Arts," same now considered the seminal writing of and about the lives and interactions of the three great Henrys-Sanford, Plant and Flagler-who built Florida. 10. If you have not published in the past, please list any similar projects that have required research, writing and a high level of co-ordination. 11. Either attach a curriculum vitae/resume or list any additional biographical detail that you think is relevant to the consideration of the proposed publication. The author is the senior collector of Florida East Coast Railway and Florida transportation memorbilia in America. He is one of only two people in the country who bears the official title of Company Historian with an American railroad and his collection of FEC Railway and Florida transportation memorabilia is the largest in the world: it is LARGER than the state museum's collection and it is larger than the Flagler Museum's collection. IN ADDITION: He is the senior collector of Miami memorabilia and Floridiana in the country, and his collection of same is the largest such collection in private hands (private as opposed to the museums) that exists in the United States. PART II: THE PROPOSED PUBLICATION 1. Please write a short description of the work (between 50 and 150 words is sufficient): 2. 3. SUNNY ISLES BEACH began as a desolate stretch of beach separated from the remainder of Miami Beach by Baker's Haulover, a cut made to facilitate bringing boats from the ocean to Biscayne Bay in the earliest years of the 20th century. The area would be incorporated into the City of North Miami Beach but when, in the Depression, the City was unable to provide services, the few residents petitioned for, and received, independence from the City, choosing to be an unincorporated area and become part of Dade County. Over the years the main street, Collins Avenue, would become nationally famous "motel row," and from the end of the County Park on the south to the south end of the residential community of Golden Beach on the north, the entire area was one motel after the other on both sides of the street, with several small strip shopping centers and restaurants on the west side. In 1996, the residents of Sunny Isles voted to incorporate as Sunny Isles Beach. The city is now a fast growing municipality with mostly condos replacing the motels on the east side of Collins Avenue, their own police department and municipal services and an annual income base that makes the city one of the wealthiest communities in the United States. SIB 2