![]() ![]() Why was this gorgeous property on a waterfront strip in front of a marina in an exclusive part of town derelict? And why were there vagrants in the building? Why was there graffiti everywhere? Why was the pool overflowing with turkey vultures and - the point is I became homesick when I went to college, and I kept scratching that itch. And, really, for the first time in my life I feel like I was truly, truly haunted.īLOCK: Haunted, why? What did it look like?įARZAD: It didn't make any sense. But right before I left off for college up north in 1994, I had a job just downtown in Miami, and I was stationed in front of this abandoned building. Why don't you describe what had become of the Mutiny Hotel when you first saw it when you were a teenager in the early '90s?įARZAD: I mean, I grew up with much of the rest of the world experiencing Miami Friday nights on "Miami Vice." That was the it show of the mid-1980s, kind of a Hollywood MTV-ized representation of a lot of the ugliness and cosmopolitan splendor (laughter) that we had of Miami at the same time. ROBEN FARZAD: Thank you so much for having me.īLOCK: And Miami is your hometown. Journalist Roben Farzad charts the rise and fall of the Mutiny in his new book "Hotel Scarface." Roben, welcome to the program. It was a palace of decadence and intrigue, and it quickly became a hub for Miami's exploding cocaine trade. Everyone from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Led Zeppelin to Teddy Kennedy might be found at the Mutiny's exclusive, members-only nightclub. In the late '70s and early '80s, the Mutiny Hotel in Miami was the place to be seen and to drop scads of cash. ![]()
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