The South Shore Motel has been closed since the assault of back-to-back tropical storms Ian and Nicole in 2022.

was the annual Miss Hawaiian Tropic pageant, which began in Daytona Beach but later went to glamorous national and international stages — it also drew contestants from all over the world. Writing ...

Writing about the first pageant, held in Daytona Beach in 1983, Rice says, “We had caught magic in a bottle. Absolute magic.” Over the next 20-some years, the “Hawaiian Tropic Girls ...