Pastel: offer Ocean Drive beige and watch Michael Mann refuse it, dress a detective against the wall and push the sleeves up, fly through the hole in the Atlantis, send divers after Elvis the alligator and roll the credits with the preservationists billed first.
televisionPastel: offer Ocean Drive beige and watch Michael Mann refuse it, dress a detective against the wall and push the sleeves up, fly through the hole in the Atlantis, send divers after Elvis the alligator and roll the credits with the preservationists billed first.
12 places in MiamiMarcus · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Display-cropped · City context photograph
12 places · 12 mapped locations
The City of Miami Beach film office says 1250 Ocean Drive is where the series introduces Sonny Crockett, in 1984.
Look from the Ocean Drive pavement or the beach side of the street; the building is a working hotel and condominium.
In the pilot, “Brother’s Keeper”, the building was an Ocean Drive apartment block, home to Tubbs’ brother.
Now a hotel and restaurant. The front steps are on Ocean Drive; the courtyard is for guests and diners.
Miami’s visitor bureau says the bar appeared in Miami Vice several times, and that the cast and crew held the series’ wrap party there.
A working bar: go in.
The City of Miami Beach says the dinner conversation between Crockett, Tubbs and Trini was filmed at 1438 Washington Avenue.
Walk Española Way from Washington Avenue; the hotel wraps the corner.
The fan-event tour route lists the post office as the art museum at the start of “El Viejo”, in season three.
Still a working post office: go in during opening hours and look up at the rotunda.
Barbara Baer Capitman and Leonard Horowitz founded the Miami Design Preservation League in 1976; the district’s buildings were preserved, renovated and repainted.
Open daily, 9am to 5pm, except Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. The walking tours start here.
Arquitectonica designed the Atlantis, with co-founder Bernardo Fort-Brescia leading; it opened in 1982, with a palm tree in its central opening.
A residents’ building with no public access. See the hole from the Brickell Avenue pavement.
The courthouse appears in the opening credits and in many episodes.
A working courthouse: see the tower from Flagler Street.
The fan-event tour route lists the Freedom Tower as the hitman’s position in “The Hit List” and in the opening chase of “Cool Runnin’”.
Now Miami Dade College’s museum building, with four exhibitions and a weekly public tour; check the college’s page for tickets.
Bayside Marketplace is shown many times in the series.
An open-air waterfront market: walk the bay edge.
The fan-event tour route lists Watson Island in the pilot, “Smuggler’s Blues”, “Lombard”, “One Way Ticket”, “The Fix”, “El Viejo” and “Freefall”.
Drive or cycle the MacArthur Causeway; the island’s edges look across the bay to Downtown.
Vizcaya’s villa appears many times in the series, including in “Whatever Works” and “Heart of the Night”.
Open daily except Tuesdays, 9.30am to 4.30pm; adult admission is $20 while restoration continues.
Pastel: offer Ocean Drive beige and watch Michael Mann refuse it, dress a detective against the wall and push the sleeves up, fly through the hole in the Atlantis, send divers after Elvis the alligator and roll the credits with the preservationists billed first.
City photograph: Marcus · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Display-cropped for this layout.
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