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Box 011591, Miami, FL 33101-1591. 2 2 browardpalmbeach.com | CONTENTS | PULP | NEWS | NIGHT+DAY | STAGE | ART | FILM | DISH | MUSIC | NEW TIMES BROWARD-PALM BEACH AUGUST 20-AUGUST 26, 2015 3 | NEWS | CHANGES IN browardpalmbeach.com browardpalmbeach.com TS | TS ATTITUDES N Margaritaville takes over the Hollywood Beach TE N bandshell. BY CLARISSA BUCH O C t was the Monday after Hollywood. He envisioned a movie-making Christmas, 2014. Night had paradise that would rival California’s. He paved Johnson Street to the beach — and, in PULP | fallen, and the air was crisp. 1924, built a wooden bandstand and benches In front of the Hollywood to provide entertainment for residents. IBeach Theatre — a pale-yellow “The big thing at that time was march- concrete bandshell located where ing bands,” explains Dr. Joan Mickelson, | NEWS | | NEWS a historian with the Hollywood Historical Y Johnson Street meets the ocean — Society. “Young hired these bands and paid Justin Rosenberg | JSR Photos DA a crowd of a few hundred people them as city employees. Their songs probably danced to a cover of Duke Elling- date back to the 19th Century.” But in 1926, ally happening,” Michaels says. Cozy Michaels: “Never really about the money.” ton’s 1940s hit “Take the A Train.” a hurricane blew the structure to pieces. Adds Libman: “I never thought Mickelson says, “No one remembers an- it would affect the bandshell.” for me. I’m an entertainer, and part of my Cozy Michaels, dressed in a suit and other bandstand in the ’30s, ’40s, or ’50s.” The lease stipulates that Margaritaville show is audience participation. I’d look GE | NIGHT+ tie and with a perfectly shaped pencil-thin The City of Hollywood either lost or threw will refurbish the theater and add portable like an idiot in a studio auditioning.” A out records regarding the building of the cur- seating as well as utilities and technical T mustache, was front and center on the Benjamin says, “They told me they’d S stage playing drums. Bandmates backed up rent bandshell, but it was likely constructed equipment. The agreement also allows contact me after I sent in a submission form the 65-year-old on piano and bass — just in the 1960s. The Hollywood Historical Margaritaville to sell naming rights to the for the auditions, but I never heard back.” as they had every month for decades. Society’s earliest documentation of the theater, though the city would have to ap- Adds Michaels: “I’m one of the longest- “The bandshell has been my home for bandshell is a postcard from the early 1970s. prove any name change. Taxpayers will get standing performers at the bandshell, and over 22 years,” Michaels says. “It has been For more than 20 years, the city offered 25 percent of proceeds from the deal. So far, Margaritaville hasn’t reached out to me. an incredible thing and very interesting