Miami Eater pays their respects.

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Miami Herald pays their respects.

From the Klein Family... March 25, 2016 / Miami Beach, FL "To all our friends and family, This post is to inform you of the passing of my father Mac Klein. He left yesterday, comfortably and surrounded by people he loved. He wanted celebration, not mourning, because his life was one of great love, friendship and success. He lived every moment.

Miami Eater pays their respects.

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Erika Orstad from UMTV stopped by Mac's Club Deuce recently to talk with Mac Klein, bartenders, and patrons alike. Highlighting Mac, this interview proves, age is just a number as he recently celebrated his 101st birthday.

Be certain to check out Ryan Pfeffer and Laurie Charles' latest article in the Miami New Times. The two stopped by Mac's Club Deuce recently, sitting down with Mac Klein to learn more about his and the bar's history. Along the way they also spoke to a number of our favorites to get their take on the bar's history. We'll kick off this history lesson with a bit of math. If you don't already know, you will learn that Mac Klein was one of the 16 million Americans to serve in W

It's been nearly a decade since Anthony Bourdain first walked into The Deuce and struck up a conversation with Mac Klein. There isn't a visit to Miami that Anthony doesn't stop to see his friend Mac. He does just that for the Miami episode of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, now in it's fifth season. It's fitting that Bourdain opened the episode with Mac, a man who celebrated his 100th this past year. With over fifty years as the sole proprietor of Mac's Club Deuce and nearly

Anthony Bourdain is a man with many notes. Taken of decades in the kitchen and beyond, Anthony is an observer of the world around him. Bourdain's notes are also personal, like these, thanking Mac Klein, Iggy Pop, Michelle Bernstein, and Questlove for sharing their Miami with him. Explore more of Parts Unknown and Bourdain's Field Notes: Miami.

Some say the best stories are told in two places; in the kitchen and at a bar. Anderson Cooper and Anthony Bourdain talk the latest episode of Parts Unknown–Miami–while making a meal. We love the fact that even in the two minute fifty-four second clip, it is impossible for Bourdain to NOT mention our very own Mac Klein and we don't blame him. Explore more of Parts Unknown and Bourdain's Field Notes: Miami.

While in Miami researching her upcoming book Fringe Florida Lynn Waddell stumbled upon Mac's Club Deuce. It was 2009 and Lynn was looking for "the state's unusual and sometimes illicit subcultures" when she found something else; friends. She described The Deuce as something straight out of a Damon Runyon novel; we agree. Looking past her setting, she found the lunch-time crowd full of friends, you know them as Deucers. Walking in, Lynn knew no one, a condition our special bar

This week Miami New Times profiled 30 of the most interesting people in Miami. Of course our own Mac Klein was crowned The King of Club Deuce. If Mac is the King of 222 14th Street than The Deuce is is Queen. He shared his humble begins, his service in World War II, and what lead him to Miami Beach where in 1964 he purchased Club Deuce. From the beginning, Mac had no intention of "changing a hair on this beautiful woman's head". For fifty years Mac has maintained its magic an

Thank you Miami Herald! Like they say, join us Thursday at 5pm as we get ready to celebrate Mac Klein's 100th birthday at the stroke of midnight! Stop by and toast everyone's favorite proprietor.

Miami Design Preservation League and Close-Up Productions sat down with our legendary proprietor Mac Klein for the Miami Beach Visual Memoir project. In collaboration with Florida International University Collections and Miami Metropolitan Archive Oral History Collection, Kathy Hersh and the Close-Up Production team spent an afternoon with Mac in his office at Mac's Club Deuce.