For many decades, the Deauville Beach Resort was the premier resort on North Beach, Miami Beach. Designed by the same architect who designed Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas and the Acapulco Princess on the Mexican Riviera, it was named 'Hotel of the Year' in Miami and was praised as "The Crown Jewel of North Beach". 

Dozens of the world's top entertainers, from Bing Crosby to Judy Garland to Frank Sinatra to the Supremes, performed at the Deauville.  Moreover, in 1961, President John F. Kennedy appeared on the same ballroom stage as the Beatles did three years later. It's the only location both JFK and the Beatles appeared on the same stage. But what really put the Deauville on the world map forever was the performance of The Beatles there on the Ed Sullivan Show on February 16, 1964, witnessed by an estimated 70 million U.S. television viewers. It was "a really big shew".

Appallingly, however - despite the Deauville being the most significant Beatles landmark in all of Florida - the hotel's owners and managers (Richard, Belinda, and Homer Meruelo/aka the Blue Meanies) are selfishly letting the hotel decay in what the City of Miami Beach has described in a lawsuit against them as "demolition by neglect".

So, Beatle Fans - here, there, and everywhere - please please see and sign the petition to Save the Deauville!!!! Now, When She's Sixty Four!!!!