Miami Vice Locations - Then and Now 2008

We visited Miami for about five hours in 2008. We made this for our own amusement but other fans should enjoy seeing some of the locations today...ish.

[@Arthur-ts3rb]

Is it just me? Everything looks better in the 80's

[@SuperBoomshack]

It was gritty and dirty but better back then

[@leestockton9367]

Nope, it was definitely better!

[@trailshade7590]

Even better in the 70's.

[@sarajanesanders4129]

I want to go back. This show was the theme of my whole life. I actually moved to Miami beach as an adult because of 7th grade Miami vice show. I love i followed my destiny. The hurricanes ran me out in 2005!

[@amandeepv]

Yup

[@matthewcragg3607]

I just got back from a trip to Miami and did a tour of old Miami Vice filming locations. It was SO DAMNED COOL seeing those familiar places in real life after over 30 years.

[@sandraruiz3834]

Id love to see that!!!!

[@lincolnheights6270]

Thank you for this. I was seven years old when Miami Vice first came out in 84. As a kid, I watched it here in there and found it interesting. That is where it ended. Now in 2017 I am about to turn 40. I ordered all of season one on Amazon and have been watching.. Just for nostalgic purposes. A month into now, and I am just fascinated and looking up where they are now, etc. This show has been a time machine for the soul.

[@crocodile1313]

The whole series was recently on Hulu or Netflix.... Can't remember which one and not sure if they are still on.

[@chanzsandoval527]

I'm 33 and lived in Miami and I'm upcess with the 80s era in miami

[@desertjedi]

"This show has been a time machine for the soul." Wow, you got that straight! I was in my 20s when this show was on. The 80s was the greatest decade of my life. I don't know what it is about that decade and this show but when I hear Jan Hammer's Miami Vice music, it instantly transports me back to my "youth" (and I friggin get goosebumps!).

[@kishalester5110]

Lincoln Heights I was 11

[@mgabrysSF]

One thing that's interesting is that for set-dressings Miami Vice restored the exteriors of a lot of South Beach properties which had fallen into serious disrepair. Those restorations and the attention brought to the area led to the redevelopment of South Beach Miami, after more than a decade of degradation, into the prime-real-estate it is today.

[@agomodern]

Restored or painted? I read about them painting a lot of the scenes, but not about restoring the actual buildings. That would be quite a job.

[@johnhancock6114]

Best police show of all time. I bought the boxed white faux alligator DVD set years ago and watched them numerous times through, then bought'em again when they were released in HD on BluRay and watched it all over again a couple times. Having lived in the city at the time, I regularly saw production crews filming in and around Miami and at times saw most of the main cast filming on location. A lot of the show was film in the studio but much of it was shot on location, which is what I really loved about MV. This was a great time in history.

[@Dave-co1cv]

It was a fun show to watch indeed, albeit not even remotely realistic by any stretch of the imagination.

[@agomodern]

Talk about unrealistic, have you not watched any movie from the 2010s or 20’s? CGI is so lame.

[@thedragonofdojima4157]

I prefer the 1980's Miami more, looking at it now, feels a bit different than what you see in Miami Vice.

[@johnhancock6114]

The song at the end of the video ('Tell Me' by Terry Kath), brought a tear to my eye. This was the final song that played at the end of the final episode, Freefall. Crockett & Tubbs shake hands and say goodbye and this song begins to play as they show a montage of clips throughout the seasons. I was an extra in two season-two episodes.

[@SuperBoomshack]

Which episodes?

[@evergladesflyer5167]

I still do this today, when i go to Miami i always visit a Miami Vice filming location, one of my most favorite things to do and one of the good things you can do when you live in South Florida, it makes me happy to go there and remember the days it was filmed.The most influential TV Show of all times. Thanks for the Video, it feels so good.

[@SuperBoomshack]

I grew up in Miami and I can tell you that South Beach was a dump and looked nothing like it does now

[@whatarushlod]

Thank you guys for this video!!! I was 19 in 1984 and after watching the pilot, I was hooked!! Best cop show ever!!! Cars, women, location... I appreciate the effort and time put into this video!! I’m searching for an exact Daytona like the car used in the show!! Thank you again! The 80’s were the best !!!! If you grew up in the 80’s, then you already know! Thanks guys!!!!

[@roadtosanity6369]

Yeah, the 80's forever! Some of us were in our teens back then, and refusing to grow up!😅😅

[@greenrefrigerator]

Will always love Miami Vice for the iconic show it is. Years ago I bought the boxed set of DVD's and watched them many times. My son bought me the newer HD BluRay boxed set and just this afternoon I was watching a couple episodes of season one and this show never gets old. The ending of the very last episode of season five when Crockett gives Tubbs a ride to the airport in his "stolen car" always make me sad though because had certain actors not wanted off the show so badly so they could go be a big movie star (we see how that worked out), we might actually have gotten another season or two had the writing not become so ridiculous. Episodes like Miracle Man and Missing Hours really make you wonder just how they went from such good writing in seasons 1, 2 and even 3 to episodes about caped crusaders and UFO's. I guess we're just lucky to have even gotten five seasons out of it because by the 4th season it went to pot :>\

[@citygirl5705]

There were still great episodes in those later seasons (like when Crockett became Burnett). But there were too many were you wondered why the hell they bothered making them. "Miracle Man" and "The Missing Hours" are two examples. Then I remember one about Bull Semen. And another one with a bunch of young detectives they were thinking of spinning off into another series. Makes you think of the earlier episode dud that focused on Switek and Ditto. Just not what Vice fans wanted to see.

[@agomodern]

I love every single season.

[@2mmarcelorj]

wonderful post, i miss MV so much, i miss 80's and how i lived that moment

[@Deborahtunes]

Love this. Never been to Florida, so it's cool seeing these. Music is great too...

[@Mr.RyanButterly]

Florida’s nice hot hot Rod big frog down there. Big cockroaches. A lot of RVs down there. A lot of motorcycles. A lot of free markets on there. Why people retire down there too.

[@Deborahtunes]

@@Mr.RyanButterly ~ Personally, I wouldn't want to live in Florida. Too hot and humid for me. Not to mention when hurricane season hits. Other than the weather and big bugs, I wouldn't mind it...

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Great job! Was out there myself last month and found a few of them.

[@elliottjames4301]

Thanks for putting this together, I share the same fascination of Miami Vice locations and yes, the movie was one of my biggest disappointments. In 2018 I'm moving back to Miami:)

[@DWINC]

I am so happy Don Johnson publicly admitted the movie was AWFUL even though he handpicked Colin for the role. Thanks for uploading, I've seen a lot of these myself when I was in Miami.

[@willitmakeit]

Thanks for sharing this. Miss this show so much

[@evieraotacon]

Great post I myself grew up watching Miami Vice from 84 to 89. My brother would take me to most of the locations where it was filmed. Glad to know that we have an iconic piece of history here. It's influence is very much alive

[@sc230mb]

Miami Vice is directly responsible for the resurrection of South Beach. When MV filmed there it was old Jewish people waiting to die and Marielitos. Run down trash. Miami was an integral character of the TV show. Thanks for the nostalgia. From a Miami native. Hello Kat.

[@johnhancock6114]

Vice put Miami back on the map and the show was responsible for pastel themes emulated by many. Clothing styles also carried over and spread around the WORLD as did many people's desire to "look like Vice". Indeed, South Beach was literally a run down part of town prior to MV coming to town, after which was left in better shape than before Vice came to town. MV was the only TV show that used actual hit music of the period, versus the more popular method of using "made up" tunes.

[@chanzsandoval527]

wish I was a grown up at those times so I could have invested heavily in south beach before the blossom of Miami financially

[@chanzsandoval527]

and btw your delusional if you think Miami vice was the sole purpose of the Miami revival it had something to do with it but mainly was the billions of dollars seized from the cocaine cowboys era somewhere in the 8-10 billion between 85-89 and then the modeling that took place right after that also helped either way wish I can go back to those times instead

[@adamjhuber]

You are all wrong. It wasn’t the series or seized money. It was the drug smugglers/sellers/dealers needing somewhere to put / launder their billions in drug money that built Miami up. Back then you could buy 30 story high rise buildings with cash and no one asked any questions. Real estate was a perfect investment for drug money back then.

[@SuperBoomshack]

Yes, it was called God's Waiting room. Old people, druggies, and hookers, I remember it well.

[@Cienciamarcial]

That movie was a lack of respect to the series.

[@SIKE01]

...and lacked the charisma and chemistry of the original cast.

[@kengingrich8102]

You´re absolutely right!!!!!!

[@thomastom888]

Manuel Gandini Yep I agree. The tv show was just so special actors brilliant Music brilliant Story lines brilliant And magic of the 1980s realy was a special time

[@evieraotacon]

The chemistry that Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas had was genuine.

[@CaptGage]

And a friend of mine preferred it to the series because "it wasn't a Don Johnson thing. It had a storyline." I'm sorry, but HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHAAAAAAAAA! WTF?

[@NeilNZ]

Still and always will remain the best series ever. Only problem, it was too damn good.

[@fierousa4387]

I'm from Argentina and Miami Vice is one of my fave tv show, always dreaming to travel to Florida, so I went there on my honeymoon. Thank you for making this video, thumbs up!

[@captainjohn7833]

Thanks guys! That show had the best music sound track ever Old Miami looked cool. Today it looks all jammed up. Just not the same. 🌴💊💰🔫🐊... 🚬👓...

[@edgarakarim3887]

always wanted to know where Bennays café location is ??? would love to take a photo there. that's where he calls caroline to ask her if her love was real, lol

[@jeshkam]

Perhaps you should contact Thomas Carter, director of "Brother's Keeper" and just ask him? I'm sure he's a nice guy.

[@agomodern]

Caroline was the worst part of MV. I think she fulfilled her role quite well.

[@vincentpadovano7855]

Excellent...Thank you for posting this..the music captured the mood of the show back then...outstanding...

[@scottkornacki2573]

Had a drink at the Carlyle, and took the Thriller speedboat tour at the Miamarina in March.

[@MrBigdavehd97]

I just finished the box set a week ago ,great show and great gob

[@OfficeLinebacker-FJB]

This was the coolest plain clothes/undercover police show ever produced. Miami Vice 100% influenced my career path.

[@christophertmunro4503]

To me, it's amazing just how little so locations have really changed since Miami Vice!!!!

[@General813]

A very good 80s series...fantastic music...fast cars :)) Great video 5 Stars * * * * *

[@williamclark2730]

This is the first time I am commenting on any Miami Vice theme on KZbin it is really nice to see so many fans out there like myself it would be super nice but possibly impossible to have in Miami Vice get together in Miami for all fans I liked everything about the show I am still sorry that it went off other shows stayed on for really long times it would be nice to see them all come back for one last time yes older now but to tie up some loose ends on Carl drone and have two two new guys as relatives of theirs that just happened to have the same names do you need any writers or actors,.... what a laugh

[@fever_spike]

5:10-5:35 MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE PART OF THAT SONG--I WASN'T READY FOR THAT... OMG MY HEART 💜💜💜

[@thomjones9719]

Sir,- you did a great job! THANKS from Hamburg, Germany!

[@Hooligan71]

I dont know how u found a lot of the properties, but great job

[@Hooligan71]

mamabearmeatball nice! i miss being in Miami, love the city

[@cindyspowart555]

Thank-you. I enjoyed this, and actually remember some of the episodes clips were from, um, 30+ years later.

[@MissJocelyn]

Yes the movie was horrible! Miami Vice made you proud to be from South Florida! Like the best place in the world, and everyone is still coming to our party! Miami Vice still rockin like it’s the 80’s!

[@crocodile1313]

Great work! I used to travel to Miami once a month for my job and I tried to find some of the famous spots, but was not nearly as good as your work. It's amazing how run-down parts of Miami Beach were in the '80s compared to the overpriced glamour and bling of today.

[@terrauncebowie6712]

CrocDoc1 so did I as a truck driver just recently made a few delivery's there. Although I couldn't nearly see all those locations from a truck, it was nice visiting FL as a whole. I too plan to tour it on my own time someday.

[@jacobydressell3793]

that was awesome... thank you so much for taking us down memory lane.

[@juanrpollo]

It was a nice surprise seeing my buddy Dan with you at the gas station, haven't heard from him in years. Hope he's doing well.

[@HollywoodNobody]

Dan was awesome! We had a really fun day. I wonder what he’s up to now?

[@videogarage9221]

Like the saying goes ... "you can't go home again" You gotta love that signature score music that is only Miami Vice ... "the Miami Vice sound"

[@williestyle35]

Spent my honeymoon in Miami Beach and Coral Gables in 2004. Great times, took almost no pictures, even though I stayed at the Colony Hotel and went to the Venetian Pool... The best part was actually in Fort Lauderdale...

[@williestyle35]

Though I did several of the more famous drives shown on the tv show (during the day), the views coming over the bridges going into Miami from Sobe are amazing!

[@TheCab2345]

williestyle35 the Vista of downtown from the drive from South Beach is beautiful you're correct. I especially enjoy it cuz I can see my condominium every time I make that drive

[@williestyle35]

The views from the Venetian Causeway were the first things we saw as we drove into South Beach (we paid the toll just to see the Port of Miami and the long drive up Collins, just before sunset). MacArthur Causeway is a very picturesque view of the center of Miami, I'm glad that you get the pleasure of seeing it often. Our favorite stop was Lauderdale-By-The-Sea, though our hotel has since been wiped away by a hurricane. I think sometime soon we'll drive down A1A (from Daytona, near where we live now) and visit a few more of the filming locations in Metro Dade. Thanks for your comment.

[@Cienciamarcial]

Excellent video! Perfect music selection 😉

[@macbroch3756]

Pure quality pal, my heart skipped numerous beats 🥰 I’d pay use to take me around everywhere….👍🏻🇬🇧👸🏼🥰

[@fit4ya1975]

That was super awesome! You sure lucked out, I would love to go to all those places like you did and take pics as well!! You even played the correct music for each location!! Solid work bro.

[@fit4ya1975]

very much so!

[@100thomasmagnum]

so cool . . . legions of hardcore Vice fans!

[@brenthill3241]

It must have been bad. I had completely forgotten that a Miami Vice movie had been made. The show I remember as being great.

[@matthewcragg3607]

Take the "Thriller" speedboat ride out of Bayside Marketplace (where Crockett's boat was docked most of the time). You have to see Miami from the water.

[@jmarcguy]

This lacked entertainment value! No seriously this was really cool. The selection of music from the show was perfect. Amazing to see how different & how similar things are.

[@simonespanu7768]

I have lived in Miami for the past 20 years. It must have been a lot rougher in the '80s for sure. I can still remember the first time I visited in 1996. I did not feel safe. Today it's okay.

[@Vaporvice84]

I tried to get a picture under that bridge where Jimmy Smits got blown up but there must've been about 100 homeless people camping out there. I took a pic further away by the train tracks lol.

[@jeshkam]

Lol 🤣😂😁

[@viewfromrowb]

I made a trip to Miami a couple of years ago just to see locations but didn’t get as successful as you did. Great video.

[@thealaskan1635]

That was neat to watch. Thanks

[@brianocean7399]

That show was the greatest

[@alisonlaing2778]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the follow up film 2006 WAS AND IS "BAD". who ever made and acted in that should be "hiding" in a dark room. LOUSEY is an understatement.

[@thedragonofdojima4157]

when you played "tell me" at the end, i started crying as well as the picture of the freefall epsiode's ending, great job, pal. (Yes this TV show made me say pal a lot} As i am only 17 and yet i say, the 1980's is way better than today....one maybe one day there will be a time machine :P then i can go experience the 1980's...

[@Snowboy2015]

not saying u should be like the rest of the morons who can't grow up and play video games beyond their teenage years, but i found that GTA Vice City and doing some caffeine is a great way to "mentally" go back to the 80s.but you're right, life after the 1990's/early 2000s really has sucked compared to the past, lol

[@SuperBoomshack]

We get it, pal

[@abdelkaderbesseghir4844]

Nostalgie beautiful

[@seanfree3821]

Excelent work

[@go-goakins1489]

This is awesome Are these filmed in Los Angeles. Great video✌️😎 thanks pal

[@go-goakins1489]

I heard that some were filmed in hollywood🎥

[@pmafterdark]

I actually find videos like this quite fascinating. To see these same locations decades apart and how much they've changed or haven't changed is very interesting. This was also 10 years ago so I imagine more changes probably have taken place. I'd prefer the Miami of the 80's but unfortunately we can't go home again as they say.

[@Siggi-Bean]

This was fun! Thanks for sharing!

[@TomasVarg]

Very nice! Thanks ❤️

[@tomahawk5118]

Great job. Only missing Stiltsville. Great job on the music sync as well. Thanks for sharing all those places I’ll probably never get to see.

[@sarajanesanders4129]

I love your intro it is hilarious 😂. Absolutely hilarious.

[@HollywoodNobody]

THank you, my friend!

[@ricksegal3065]

Great stuff and great music, but you need to go back. Many more locations to shoot!

[@SupraManG]

This is epic. I want to first say THANK YOU for sharing this video with the fans--including me:o) Second, i had always wondered about if some of those sites were permanent or setup. This answered my questions and I enjoyed it!! Thank guys. Much Kudos to You-Dos. Loved the series. Not interested in the movie. No comparison. NOTE: Not to leave out the GRAND THEFT AUTO VICE CITY PS2 game that was a major hit! I played that game so much till I beat it, got everything done at 100% and it really gave me a new respect for MIAMI VICE. Heck, even PHILIP MICHAEL THOMAS voiced one of the characters in the game(LANCE VANCE). Very good game if you haven't played it. Thanks again guys & gals.

[@viceheat4035]

Seriously,good job man.

[@charrua59]

Never been to Miami. But i live in Atlantida Uruguay were part of movie was filmed.

[@yoyo1poe]

why does every place look so ugly and soulless nowadays? More importantly, why do they put potted plants everywhere. It's really ugly

[@williestyle35]

It was the result of post 2000 commercial property redevelopment boom. So many things were being built that allot of them started looking very similar. I've been lucky to see Miami before and after the 2000's.

[@TheCab2345]

yoyo1poe complain much?

[@billjoang]

TheCab2345 lmao

[@oliverellermann2746]

Thank you so much for this fantastic piece of work! Could you please tell me 6:34 - 8:31 the name of the title a/o the artist? Greetings from GER, keep well and fit!

[@oliverellermann2746]

@@HollywoodNobody Thanks again, I was searching this title for decades, you made my day!

[@tomhext1229]

Great job, thank you.

[@rememberingmiami]

Excellent video.

[@jondohnson5538]

Thumbs up! 👍

[@CarmenGarcia-lu5cr]

Im watching the show now, love to see Ocean Drive before it got so expensive👩‍⚕️

[@HollywoodNobody]

Me too!!

[@carlabrown4523]

When i see the renovations it just seems to me that back then, the renovations were just starting out or what i mean is they had structures built there but was the beginning for miami to me i guess??

[@anonie8770]

The 2006 Miami Vice movie was GREAT I LOVE that movie I loved every thing about that movie, so much so that I went to Miami in 2009 for vacation. I wish I could go back again to Miami.

[@Bernd4711]

I understand you well. Miami is a fantastic place. I am going there this year end of September for vacation. It's my 5th visit there since 2009. The city becamed like my 2nd home.

[@Mr.RyanButterly]

That was nice excellent totally tubular Rock on.!

[@HollywoodNobody]

Thank you, my friend!

[@juang5926]

Excelente

[@MrJeff832000]

0:33 that color blue was the color definitely back in the 80's I remember I had a pair of converse that color

[@jameswilson5196]

Greatest show that was ever on TV as far as I’m concerned and they took it off in the movie of Miami Vice stunk was nothing like Miami

[@deepthunder1034]

Have you ever considered a career in Southern Law Enforcement....

[@RockClass101]

This rocked, thanks for doing this!

[@jimshoe270]

Do another Super Cool Thank You..After watching in 1986 I would hit the Bars .I was staying on 16th ave and Collins last year for 6 nites FREE huge $$$ . My long running Joke while there was " Lookin for Don Johnson house " only one figured it out ..I drive a Perfect Miata but that's the most I want 2 spend .. THANKs

[@jimshoe270]

Thanks again ,

[@agomodern]

Someone recently did a video seeing some of the sites while dressed up like Crockett and when asking people who he looked like not even one person knew after he told them Crockett from Miami Vice. Everyone was clueless.

[@iqbalayub]

Awesome!

[@Robocoppat]

The music for the video is Great. However like you,and other Miami Vice fans( especially me), the only thing the show and rotten sucky movie is title. Jamie Foxx is a bad actor. And Colon whatever is way over rated And Jesus Christ 95% of the movie took place at night. Hollywood needs to stop remaking popular tv shows because they just plain ruining them! Great video! 2 THUMBS UP

[@benzer126]

Great. Thanks

[@chanzsandoval527]

great video

[@8czesiu8]

Sentimental yourney:)

[@thetommoody]

Where was the OSB building? Is it not there anymore?

[@HollywoodNobody]

Hi Thomas! Thanks so much for asking!! The building used as the OCB was sadly torn down years ago. That broke my heart. However, if you go to MiamiViceLocations.org, you will find almost every single Miami Vice Location to ever be used - both THEN and NOW shots. The site is a little old in its design, but it's functional and very cool. Enjoy!

[@thetommoody]

@@HollywoodNobody HOLY S__T!!! What an amazing page, thank you so much!!! And I too am saddened by the news of the OCB (I think I called it the OSB! in my original note :() being torn down...does NO-ONE have any sense of popular history?!?!? Anyway, thanks again for the prompt response and the history...this was a great show and all of us that still watch it appreciate how these dramas were so much better than the drivel that populates network TV (for the most part) these days.

[@HollywoodNobody]

@@thetommoody My genuine pleasure, Thomas!

[@d.shannon261]

I dig this music.

[@nativevirginian8344]

Cool!

[@mikesmith4052]

Awesome

[@gabialbrecht1]

The movie is actually great. It captures the feel without emulating it. It's all there: The inner turmoil of these men and women performing this dangerous and schizophrenic job, the darkness and hopelessness of the demimonde, the desolation of this profoundly corrupted world, in which everything is for sale. It is beautifully shot and full of subtlety, the music is on point, a true homage to the original show. The love affair isn't in your face, it's all about the eyes, the fragility of the relationship was really moving. To all those who expected a cheesy mimicry of the 80s show it surely must have been a huge disappointment.

[@Ronbo710]

I refused to watch the remake film. Only ONE Sonny & Rico.

[@HollywoodNobody]

Right on, man! I keep hearing buzz that Johnson wants to do a limited episode reboot on Netflix or Hulu. Hope it happens.

[@agomodern]

As of 2023, not going to happen.

[@dianemacfie-loucks6392]

I thought we would get address I’m not from Miami

[@sarajanesanders4129]

Love 💝💝🥰 it thanks 😘!

[@HollywoodNobody]

So glad you enjoyed!!

[@8czesiu8]

Passat b6 que chic;p Ps. Appreciate music in this vid:D

[@alejandrolatorre2622]

Excelente👍

[@coreyoliphant3268]

Yes I agree the movie stunk to be damned

[@rjjensen8136]

I could have made that Movie from clips from the T.V. Show...Seriously... The Whole is almost a Scene by Scene Rip-off of the T.V. series...LOL.... BUT...Of Course I watched it...Several times -- Hey It was Nice to see the Miami Again.

[@crissdrums3975]

Wow. Devo

[@unknowndriver6652]

where is the gas station at?

[@robertm.8385]

The gas station is located at Flagler street and 13 avenue I loved Miami Vice. I live all my life here and it truly was amazing.the people the parties and south beach. What a time to be around Miami in the eighties.