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I was born in West Palm Beach in 1958 and my father and grandfather were building in Boca Raton starting in 61. I can’t believe how many cars there are on the road and in the parking lot and parking on the street I can clearly see and remember all the open spaces, but Boca really seems to be very busy on this particular day

Oye Vey Boca!

Here's how you know you're getting old: you find yourself saying things like "everything was better back then" more and more often!

I moved to boca in the ear,y 70s high school was a racists paradise. No one when into the bathroom alone. The gym class ga,es where backs against whites. Fuck 70s Boca

What a fantastic piece of history.

It's an overcrowded hell hole now!

You could pull off the side of A1A and park at the top of the beach dune.

Dorthy Wilkens mandated a population cap of 40,000 by down zoning property. My 8 unit lot became a duplex lot. A government "taking" without compensation. When Arvida sued, they removed the cap but didn't restorethe zoning for the little guy.

What was this business at 32:35 on the right? The Sign is visible. Looks like a Restaurant or Motel. Cool Sign!

The map is kind of pointless without markers showing up where the car is when points of interest are mentioned.

This was when Boca was a town. It quickly filled with New Yorkers and folks from New Jersey and stopped being in tune with the environment .

THIS IS GREAT!! How very different and undesirable it is today.

T Rex still up and running

Maybe Wipe-Off *Polish* the camera's lens before recording this footage?

Great memories. My grandfather founded Causeway Lumber at the 17:56 mark.

Thanks for posting. I'd suggest posting a version without the map (or where the map goes away after the first minute) because some of the image is cut off.

Like the old vehicles not the soundtrack

Ancient stone anchors are all over new port richey to Dunedin. Proof that there use to be ancient civilizations and massive boats

Arrived in Boca in 1965, a paradise. Now it is an extension of Broward County. Boca is in liberal Palm Beach County.

Absolutely incredible to see - lovely narration too

Those school kids are so skinny!

Churches...what about the Temples...

South Florida was still beautiful at this time but overcrowding wasn't too far behind. 7:16, My parents loved Wolfie's.

I remember sand along the roadways in Los Angeles too. Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach etc. had two lane roads lined by sandy shoulders. That's all gone now replaced by fancy schmantzy curbs and concrete sidewalks. I miss the old sandy road shoulders.

My goodness, there was even open space for our little critters to live in. So sad they had to move out.

Tracking on Google maps and it is now all high rises and junk malls. What a shame. It was quite quaint then. When I was little my parents took me to Florida in 1959. Orlando was all orange groves and there was no Disney monstrosity there. It was all country. Miami was a trip but nothing like it is now.

24:46 .. Gas must of been a lot more expensive in BR than in Indy . Because when I started driving in 66 gas in Indy was 25-26 cents per gallon .

Drug store called “Loves drugs” is wild 12:57

Those air conditioners are about the same prices of today

Lots of aqua and blue colored cars, in harmony with their surroundings

Unfortunately their home is now a parking lot.

I've been going to that Boca Car Wash for years.

wow undeveloped land

Why anyone would name an area the rat's mouth never made sense to me!

Is sally Ling still with the historical society? She was a sweet woman I knew from the Boca Marriott days.

Very informative interview. Susan Gillis's work, in her interviews, books and at the Boca Raton Historical Society and Museum is always professional and well-researched. Thank you Susan!

01:12 for you kids, that object in the middle of the video is an "antenna" and cars used to have them. If you had a fancy car, it might raise or lower by power. For most of us, we had to pull it up into position by hand. This allowed you to receive radio transmissions in the car like music or news. Has anyone seen my teeth?

Amazing video.

Old friend of ours called Boca, Pepto-bismol Town. 😂

Now it's called Blackrock Raton and it sucks

Amazing how things have changed so much but still retain an element of familiarity.

I remember when there was still a remnants of this in the early 70s.

Cool video but why is the music from the 30s and not the 60s

It was reported the ARVIDA Corp founder Arthur Vining Davis when being driven around Palm Beach County would instruct his staff to buy the land that was going by only to often be told you already own this land sir.

Ich habe da gelebt. Einfach schön damals. Aber nun wo schwarze Mitbürger und Co integriert wurden wurde es zur Hölle auf Erden...wie im Restlichen Teil des Landes. Man sieht heute die Rassentrennung hätte auch etwas gutes. Denk mal darüber nach. Jeder Mensch hat seinen Platz...doch Afrikaner und andere haben in den USA wie Europa nichts verloren.

Beautiful footage and well narrated. It’s fun to see how it was in the 1960s. Thank you for your great work!!

Thanks for the vid ,:) enjoyed the new ford falcons, chrysler's and all the other shiny new things of the 60's, a real gem.

If only Florida could have stayed this way.

21:28 Is that President Warren G Harding next to Clarence Geist?

I like A1A the way it was then