The way we were....How the press reported beauty pageants 45 years ago

Kristina Hanzalova

The Miss Universe Pageant enjoyed a long 12-year run in Miami Beach from 1960 to 1971. In 1970, the city's Tourist Development Authority persuaded the pageant's TV announcer to call Miami Beach "the land of sun, sand and surf."

But in 1972, the pageant moved to Puerto Rico and didn't return to South Florida until 1984 when, history tells us, a minor scandal erupted