Buildings and Sites
The State of Historic Preservation Today
30 Jun 2022
News, Wisconsin
By: Joe Lawniczak, Wisconsin Main Street
June, 2022
We’ve come a long way – do we remember the struggle? Are there lessons learned?
The other day, I was watching the classic movie “Scarface.” There’s one part of the movie where Al Pacino goes to a run-down hotel room in South Beach, Miami. When “Scarface” was filmed in 1983, the entire district was deteriorated and in desperate need of preservation. Today, South Beach is a glamorous mecca, known for its iconic, historic, art deco hotels, its glitzy nightlife, and its high-end restaurants and boutiques. The run-down hotel in the movie is one of those now-famous art deco hotels. It struck me that “Scarface” wasn’t filmed back in the 1950s or ‘60s. This was during my teen years, just 39 years ago.
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