turned 100 years old this year. yes, 100. he's still here. the cigarette smoke and dark dank atmosphere pretty good for a guy that's seen it all. >> matt: that's 73 years ago. fort bening, georgia. i was in the second army division. >> anthony: matt klein came to miami in 1945 from new york's lower east side by way of the battle of normandy. >> matt: i came here because i was wounded and the warm weather was much better for me. >> anthony: but there was a lot of g.i.s during the war here, right? >> matt: the war made miami beach for the simple reason that people were stationed here, and they saw a world that they didn't believe. >> anthony: during world war ii, miami saw a massive influx of military personnel. hotels, which had seen a sharp drop in business, made a deal with the government to house troops at the empty resorts. >> matt: they told their parents about us and their parents came down, sons came down, they opened their businesses here, and they were basically jewish at the time and that's how it started. >> anthony: by the fall of 1942, more than 48,000 troops were living in 300 hotels in miami and miami beach.
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