“ GULF COAST CARAVAN ” 1960s TRAVELOGUE FLORIDA, MISSISSIPPI, LOUISIANA & TEXAS XD55024
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One of the episodes in the series "America!" with Jack Douglas, this color travelogue takes the viewer on a tour of what is known as “America’s Riviera” or the major cities along America’s Gulf of Mexico coastline: Brownsville, New Orleans, Biloxi, Mobile, and Pensacola among others. It originally aired as a two-part episode with the same title in the larger series titled “America!” with the first episode chronicling the journey from Florida to Mississippi and the second the journey from Louisiana into Texas. Like other episodes in the series, this two-part film is also hosted by Jack Douglass.
U.S. coastline on Gulf of Mexico (0:46). White sands of Pensacola Beach, Florida on the Miracle Strip (1:18). Escambia Bay (1:30). The Pensacola Bay Bridge (1:47). Pensacola City - first colonized under Spain by Don Tristan De Luna (1:50). Pensacola Navy Yard home to Pensacola’s Blue Angels (2:17). The Naval Aviation Museum - hanging model of N3N or “The Yellow Peril” airplane used to train cadets during WWII, the JT3C Turbojet Engine, astronaut display center and wings worn by astronaut Scott Carpenter (2:45). Pensacola Lighthouse (3:41). San Carlos Fort (3:53). Barrancas Fort (3:55). Pickens Fort on Santa Rosa Island - sight of Apache Geronimo’s imprisonment, old cannons, and the Gatling Gun model 1890 (3:59). Pensacola Museum of Art/ Pensacola City Jail (4:39). The Grand Hotel at Point Clear Mobile Bay, Alabama (5:10). Mobile (5:54). Mobile’s sea port (6:13). Oliver Wintzell’s Oyster House (6:26). Azalea Trail Tour Center (7:59). Long Gardens of the Earl Longs (8:27). The Richard’s House (9:17). Oakleigh Antebellum Home - Mobile Mardi Gras (9:40). City of Pascagoula, Mississippi (10:26). The Longfellow House (10:39). Spanish Fort and artifacts identified by the Smithsonian Institute (10:55). Burial place of the Krebs family who invented the cotton gin before Eli Whitney (11:18). Biloxi, Mississippi (11:34). Biloxi Lighthouse (11:38). Gulf Beach of Biloxi (12:01). Resorts and hotels of Biloxi (12:09). Sport fishing - dolphins, Spanish mackerel, speckled trout, sheepshead flounder etc. (12:46). Ride on the Sailfish for leisure tour of the waters (14:00). Biloxi Ocean Springs Highway Bridge (15:07). Beauvoir, the last home of Jefferson Davis (17:58). Gulfport Chamber of Commerce (19:39). Dauphin Island (20:14). Fort Gaines and Civil War Museum where Admiral Farragut commanded from (20:42). Bellingrath Gardens (21:26). Importance of religion - Episcopal Church of The Redeemer, Saint Michael’s at Biloxi (22:03). Important historical figures - Prince Madoc of Wales, Isabella De Soto, The Pirate Patriots and Jean Pierre Lafitte (22:24). Introduction of episode 2 (23:40-25:02). New Orleans, Louisiana (25:05). Painting of the battle of New Orleans (25:16). Portrait of Andrew Jackson (25:18). Lafitte, LA (25:36). Map illustrating Houston’s connection to the Gulf of Mexico (26:39). Houston, Texas (26:46). The Rice Hotel (27:12). Hotel America (27:20). The Warwick (27:23). Mecom Fountain (27:40). Neiman Marcus Houston (28:07). The Astrodome (28:21) Game Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Houston Astros (28:51). Statue of Sam Houston at Hermann park (29:27). Battle of San Jacinto Monument (29:43). Portrait of General Santana (20:25). The USS Texas (Dreadnought class) (30:41). NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Clearwater, Texas (31:29). NASA lunar excursion module (32:03). Galveston Island (32:36). Portrait of La Salle (33:20). Shrimpers or “Mosquito Fleet” of Galveston (33:31). The NS Savannah Nuclear Transport Ship (33:47). Treasure Isle Tour Train (34:04). Galveston sea wall (34:18). The Texas Heroes’ Monument (34:35). Bishop’s Palace (34:59). Oleander flowers (35:18). The Seahorse (35:37).
Jamaica Beach (36:11). Sailing of Polynesia Tikis (36:47). Corpus Christi, Texas (38:01). Buccaneer Days Festival (38:19). Padre Island (39:57). Brownsville, Texas (41:51). Gateway Bridge above Rio Grande (41:57). Brownsville City Hall (42:06). Charles Stillman’s Home (42:16). Journey's End (43:08). Matamoros, Mexico (43:18). The Drive-Inn (44:14). Villa Del Refugio restaurant (44:36).
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When I was a child, back in 1970 I will never forget vacationing on Fla. Gulf Coast. We stayed in a motor inn called "Blue Horizon". My family stopped at road side parks (we drove from Baton Rouge where I STILL live) and had sandwiches(wrapped in wax paper and sealed with a toothpick) and Mom made Delaware Punch and it was in a light blue Coleman drink cooler.Just having the blue and aqua paper Dixie cups was exciting back then. We brought our toaster oven to the motel - my mom WAS frugal but the REAL reason was that it was not all built up and commercialized back then with restaraunts. The beach was white sugar sand and the air smelled so different - so salty and I will never forget how clean, fresh and lovely it was. I went back 3 months ago. It costs several hundred dollars to stay in a high rise hotel and has, to me, lost this magic.
I watched one of these the other day and it made me feel so good about how OUR Country once was.
Isn't it amazing all the little details you can remember from so long ago?
Thanks for sharing!
So wonderful and simpler times, would give anything to go back...
I love your detailed recollections.
I know exactly what you are talking about! As a child, in the early 1960s, my family would go to the Point of Rocks at Siesta Key. Dad would fish while my brother and I played in the amazingly clear and warm water which stayed shallow until you were far from the beach. That water was full of all sorts of marine life.
Lunch was bologna sandwiches in wax paper, hard boiled eggs (with salt and pepper in aluminum foil packets made by Mom), and instant milk from powder (as actual milk would have spoiled in the car on the way).
In the evening, we would sit on the beach with a campfire, eating the flounder that Dad had caught, while watching the incredible sunset the area is known for. At night, we'd lie on the powder-soft sand and look up at the Milky Way which was clearly visible as there was no nearby light pollution.
I revisited the area in the mid-1990s and, while I could still tell there was some magic in the air, it is no longer anything like what it was. The entire area that I remember as forested is now condos and the beach is crowded.
I thank my parents and my lucky stars to have the wonderful memories that I do.
The world like that is long long gone.
That's jolly surprising isn't it?
After all, it was only 62 years ago . . .
1964?
Mississippi gulfcoast before camille and katrina,
Practicaly every building shown in the biloxi segment is no longer there even the bridge is replaced
Great video
10:30 my high school
Great post. Simply wonderful. This was filmed before the world went stupid.
No, the world was very stupid during this time. Looks like it was before or during the civil rights fight. Not to mention the fact that the narrator literally said that Jefferson Davis was innocent of any crime and was wrongfully imprisoned.
No it was stupid then also. People were just too stupid to realize it was stupid and didn't realize it till the invention of the internet which at that point it was already to late.
@@ronaldmcdowells1107 I agree that humans have always been stupid but there was a time one could live peacefully (and/or ignorantly) without it being shoved down your throat. The internet is fine but social media is stupid.
@@ronaldmcdowells1107 I'm glad U R Stupid Enuf 2 Know THIS.
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Bugs, heat and humidity with no air conditioning. I don’t know how they did it back then.
They weren't Wimps like you= SNOWFLAKES=😥😥😥❄❄❄
They didn't know anything else.
Ironically AL MS LA we’re the least obese states until the 70s a/c and fast food did a lot of damage to public health
If we outlawed AC, we'd be rid of Yankees in three months....far easier task than Jeff Davis tried.
@@voiceofreason2674 Wow, never thought of that.. Very true. Yep, we are living in a time of convenience, comfort and abundance. My grams from New York City said to me once most of us were malnourished until after WWII. In the teens 1920s and 30s They lived on ketchup sandwiches, peas and pasta, buttered bread, eggs and coffee. Only on holidays did they have large meals with meat and desserts.
My cousins , on my mothers side, live in Mobile. It is a beautiful city , in many parts. They had a big power boat
and we went out in the gulf for a ride. It was great. I remember it well. Thanks
I have lived in south east Alabama all my life and am very familiar with these areas. It has been such a treat seeing these places 24 years before I was born.
I googled Wintzell's Oyster House. The place is still in business!
me too, lol
@@alanrogs3990 And the founder passed away in 1980. His family sold the place to another company in the late 80s, but the decore and all those writings of his are still up.
And still a great place to eat oysters.
>>> 5:43 ... Deep In the heart of Dixie , indeed.
If Heaven ain’t a lot like Dixie, I don’t wanna go.❤
In the panhandle of Florida in the 80s, it was affectionately referred to as the “redneck Riviera”.👍🏼
Yes sir
Yes it was! Lived in Ft Walton in 1981. After just 7 months, we left! There was no money there, very typical of a military town.
it still is
@@jagboy69 Sure glad you left, you little snob.
Still is…..at least to most Southerners…
La saturación de las películas en color de esta época tiene un encanto especial.
These are just amazing to watch, this step back in time. Same planet but different world.
My favorite travelogue out of all of them.
You can tell the oyster bar owner really loved his business
agreed
Still there
I just love watching these they are so cool
My family emigrated to Houston in 1972. They had a spinning Gulf sign downtown up to March 1974.
My grandfather was stationed in Pensacola while this was filmed. He was a test pilot for the Navy, and was taking his qualifications to see if he could be an astronaut. Unfortunately, he was just a bit smaller than the rest of the candidates and had a hard time keeping his G's down! My grandmother would have been thrilled if they could have stayed there. She said Pensacola was lovely and she made friends wherever she went.
I live in historic Galveston. So much here including Jean Lafitte abandoned home ☠️
Wintzell just dated the film. The restaurant was established in 1938 and he said they were there 26 years so the date it was filmed is 1964.
10:00 A bit of trivia, Mardi Gras means Fat Tuesday.
They cover the "Battleship Texas" which was towed 8hrs to dry dock this week. You probably knew that already . lol
I know. I live in Clute, Texas.
Excellent video with commentary. Eaglegards...
That mariachi scene with the expressions of the faces of patrons and musicians alike - phew, everyone just wants them to stop playing.
Loved going to Ft. Desoto
Hurricane Camille wiped out the Grand Hotel.
I was there for Camille stationed in the AF. Keesler AF Base.
So ,so many things wrong with these old ' Periscope ' films ; my how things have changed - some thankfully for the better!
At 34:49 The lady in the statue is not Pointing to the red light district in Galveston she is actually pointing towards the battle ground that is 26 miles away.
“Admission only costs 20¢ or 25¢ but we sure would pay $20 or $25 to see the looks on our children” that line kills my soul in 2024
I choked on my coffee laughing at the golf course flag in Mobile 😂
I loved it !
They should bring it back.
nice cliff on the title slide
I grew up in Pensacola. We used to boat over to Fort Pickens and camp on the beach. At night, rats the size of large cats would come out on the beach and eat whatever washed up on shore that day or whatever trash they could find. Back then, you could go into the fort and the rooms where Geronimo was held captive. It was normally flooded with several feet of a mixture of old rain water and leftover hurricane remnants. One night when I was about 15, I decided to sleep out on the beach by myself while my folks slept in a nearby tent. I passed out pretty early, I guess around 10 or so after a long day fishing and kneeboarding. I woke up sometime late at night with a thick fog shrouding the island, which is pretty abnormal for summer in the panhandle. There were still some coals left from the fire earlier in the night so I got up from my cot and sat down by the fire to put another log on. About 20 feet in front of me I saw an old man with long grey and black hair wandering around like he was looking for something. I was still pretty young and the thought of us not being out there alone anymore kinda scared me, so I tried not to make any noise or bring any attention to myself, so I decided not to put that other log on for now. I slowly moved back a little away from the fire pit and pulled my blanket up around my head thinking that would somehow protect me (the safety of my blanky) when the figure started walking in my direction. I tried to stay calm but I was freaking out inside and doing my best not to scream. I knew the fire was pretty much out so there wasn't any chance they could see me from the light, but I swear it felt like whoever it was knew that I was there. I could hear their footsteps making that swooshing sound you make when walking around in the loose sand on the beach and the air started to smell different the closer they got, it was like a mixture of sage and cedar wood, but this was the island and we dang sure didn't have any sage growing anywhere even close. The cedar smell could have been from the fire, but the sage really threw me off because my mom always cooked with it, so I was pretty familiar with the smell. What felt like an eternity could have only been a few minutes or so, but the figure slowly disappeared back into the fog and I crawled back into my cot and fell back asleep with my blanket wrapped tightly around my head.. We visited Fort Pickens nearly every summer until I grew up and moved away, but I never had another encounter like it.
I read your whole story ! Are you a writer by trade ? Thank you though. I really enjoyed it. 😀
Beautiful memory!
@@Krisesakes Thank you. No, I'm not a writer by trade, but maybe I should be :)
My favorite part of the US.
Those boats are Pirogues. LOL Prounounced "PEE-rows"
may i ask where do you get these great films from?
DONATIONS! ESTATES SALES. ETC
@@captainamericaamerica8090 And just libraries, collections etc. Only small portion of films has been scanned and digitized. Most of the stuff was never seen in normal "digital" form, outside of projector.
That's my turf. my stomping grounds.
Which place? Mine is Houston/Galveston
@@robinread8010 mobile
I live in Pensacola. I wonder what happened to all the Spanish Moss trees? Very few left to see anymore.
Cut down for condos.
I live in Louisiana. Spanish moss mostly grows in live oaks and in Cypress and crape myrtles. It has something to do with the cleanliness of the air around the moss. I learned it a few weeks ago while taking the Atchafalaya Swamp Tour by the tour guide. The moss in the swamp is beautiful.
@@valfletcher9285 I find it interesting that Caddo Lake in NE Texas has plenty of Spanish Moss, same for a good part of NE Louisiana in the vicinity of Oil City and Vivian. Beautiful area.
Drive down scenic to road called Manolete and drive up that road to see tons it’s a neighborhood called gabberone
This is very cool. Wish you would fix the hissing in the audio tho. I think this is farily easy to do
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This looks like 1967 or 1968, pre-Camille (1969)
My thoughts exactly. Changed the gulf forever
Buena Vista hotel is in the shots of Biloxi. Pre 69.
Longs Gardens in Mobile. Brand new Ocean Springs bridge. Alligators still at Fort Gaines. No condos on Pens Beach. I'd guess 1966.
1965: Just got to the Houston chapter. Lady got out of a 64 Caddy...Astrodome is finished still with real grass mentioned. Painted dirt by end of year when that grass died. Astroturf by 1966.
1964. Wintzell's was founded in 1938 and he says that was 26 years ago.
@@frankfowlkes7872 likely filmed in different cities over a year or two and edited together.
Look how blue the water was in Biloxi
And hot and mucky. Lived there in 1969.
Less river water diverted from Lake Ponchatrane
What was the date this film was first released?
Looking at the cars on this 64 would be very close.
Probably mid to late 1965, the Astrodome opened in April 1965
Why is the camera tilted in so many scenes?
Trickery
"a sign that shows the fun loving spirit of the owner" *shows grumpy old man*
Confederate flag as a golf course marker? Too funny…it would be an international incident today
Is the OYSTER RESTAURANT STILL OPEN???
yes,multiple locations,not family owned anymore
@@jimmyfloyd9970 When the corporations move in, it's game over. Isn't Copeland's like that too? Last one I was in was dirty and the food sucked.
Wintzells on Dauphin St is still pretty much like i remembered it in this film. The others are chained out and more modern.
Corpus Christi! PINS
LOVE the pin FLAG on the Mobile Bay golf course !!!!!!!!!!
Get bent, racist fool. We fought a war against Nazis. Maybe you heard of it? Too bad they didn't get them all. Like cockroaches, they keep crawling up out of the trash sodden darkness.
I wonder when they switched to Astroturf?
He said Texas has few lakes lol yea ok. Out of all states Texas has the eighth most area of water
Stunt flying? Formation flying you mean.
It has to be noted they used the English word Caravan not trailer or toy hauler ..It's a caravan..
The segment on New Orleans was pathetically short. New Orleans is a Hell of a lot more interesting than motels in Texas, just saying.
Ansolutely pathetic. Since this was from the late 60’s we can only assume the show had some kind of bias against the city, compared to the amount of time Mobile got.
Even as a proud native Texan, I agree. I've visited New Orleans before and it deserved more.
It wasn't even a segment! A couple of shots and a couple of sentences. Wow!
@@m.woodsrobinson9244 More of a big deal was made out of Lafitte...
@@piatpotatopeon8305 I wasn't knocking my brothers and sisters in Texas, I was just let down that more wasn't shown about NOLA.
way too many youtube ads
The old man with the beard looks like Charlie Manson.
Except he got way more people killed than Manson could ever hope to.
They didn't mention Walter Anderson, the artist who lived alone on Horn Island for much of the latter period of his life. When this film was made he was close to his death and I don't think he'd been "discovered"
Lifelong Gulf Coast resident here. Boy, they really just skipped right over New Orleans in this video huh lol. Not even a full 2 minutes in New Orleans. Kinda odd.
Not to mention no word on Orange Beach or Gulf shores…
Probably because they didn’t want to show the “colorful city” there is not a “colorful” person in this whole film
not enough whites lol
When people say they “wish we could go back to” THIS is what they mean. I wonder who built all those beautiful antebellum homes they love to show off?
No , I think most just want to go back to when there were male and female , etc.
No , I think most just want to go back to when there were male and female , etc.
Slaves against their free will built them and this shows how revisionist history was so prevalent back then.
Slaveowners
Disappointed that they skipped over New Orleans
I am glad they did. Too much hype over NOLA and lately it has really taken a tumble into violence and crime. Praying the city will keep up the historical sites until a new mayor can be brought in - same goes for Baton Rouge. These places need to clean up.
How was NOLA in the 60’s? Nothing like today, I’ll bet.
Anytime in history without air conditioning or central heat can kiss my ass.
LMAO... Good one!
Then you'll have a hot and sweaty Kester
@@STho205 we call that swamp ass!
Sounds like John Wayne is narrating.
I can't remember the name of the town but I'm pretty sure it was in Alabama on the coast. The town was infamous as the center of organized crime in the whole south. It was nothing but bars, whorehouses and flop houses for the men of the military bases outside of town. It was said that you could get anything you wanted if you had the money. There was a lot of illicit everything that went through that town on the way to Texas.
Biloxi MS, but most every military base I have been on has that stuff to entertain the troops
Probably Phenix City. They made a movie about it in the 50s. "The Phenix City Story" I think you can find it on Roku.
@@davidm4255 That's it! And I will watch the movie if I can. Thank you. My 71-year old mind is not as sharp as it used to be. But I remembered that place. Den of inequity.
@@johnallen6945 Not on the coast, it's across the river from Columbus GA and Ft. Benning
@@deeexxx8138 Thanks DeeExxx. I was enthralled by this video and I am hitting the road come January. I'm going to bypass Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and especially Houston,Texas , because I don't like the police there and vowed to never spend a penny of my money in those states. But by golly I am going to travel that Azalea Highway in September. To see beautiful Azaleas and flowers like that would do my heart good.
A time when Americans were not as well traveled like they are today
Do you remember the smell of the hallways in The Holiday Inns yes behind the wall there were all the plumbing for the toilets and the guy never used the proper glue that smell was poo poo Aqua poop
been a surfer , fisherman , hot rodder and live aboard Yacht Owner for 40 yrs. here on North Padre Island , Corpus Christie , still have Buccaner Days every year , been to South Padre , Brownsville and Matamoros a thousand times , loved to party in Matamoros , havnt been in a few yrs. , to dangerous !! really miss the America in grew up in !! now its basically '' gay africa '' ..... gonna sell my Yacht and Euro Exoticar in november , and MOVE to Jomtien Beach , Thailand !!!!!!!!!
I saw the Blue Angels a few months ago at Wings Over South Texas held at Naval Air Station Kingsville.
@@guymorris6596 yea , they seem to rotate the air shows between NAS Corpus and NAS Kingsville , if you anchor your boat in Corpus Bay bye the base runway , great view from there !! stopped in Kingsville for fuel on the way to S. Padre lots of times but never been into the actual town , im sure King Ranch is super cool !! , i was a Working Cowboy in my 20s in Wichita Falls TX , loved it !! cheers bro, from N. Padre
@@SpaceInTime1885 after 40 yrs. of Yacht and Exotic Automobile Ownership , now living in a Luxury Beach Front Condo for pennies on the dollar and my retirement check allows me to Live Like a King in South East Asia , what have you done with your life besides being a bitter LOSER
lol crimes he had not committed. good one.
What to do in Houston? That's easy, get mugged or car jacked! Too bad they spent more time on Lafitte than New Orleans. :-/
New? ORLEANS?....Never heard of it.
All the blacks from New Orleans move to Houston and that’s the reason why you’re getting robbed and car jacked
@@tedfox2683 Their Democrat leadership is the maim problem, but the hurricane helped move a lot of people there. Funny how right after Katrina, New Orleans cleaned up pretty good the next few years. Well, at least the French quarters didn't reek of piss too bad. Today, Bourbon Street is a shithole once again.🤮
When this film was made, Houston was VIBRANT! Great memories of all the stuff to see, do, and eat back then! It wasn’t super crowded and you could go out at night.
This entire production was wayyyy to nostalgic about the confederacy. They even skipped over New Orleans “a colorful city” to show us more boring old plantation homes
This was produced before America hating libs started to revise our history.
The woman at 45:07, looks like her left eye, might have caught the backside of her boy's right hand the night before !
If you know what I mean.
Ahhhh..... isn't history wonderful !
Domestic abuse is no laughing matter !!!
She also needed her dark roots touched up big time.
I was into until they started talking about those houses and confederates. I know my people built those houses and didn’t get to enjoy any of the nice things about the gulf coast
What an interesting video back when the bravery of the Southern men was honored and not reviled as it is today. Now most of these things are either ignored or closed now to today's American families. I've been through this area and there are no freeway signs honoring anything including the gardens; much less the home of the President of the Confederacy. Today all our history has been destroyed with the removal of all symbols or honorable memory of the Southern dead who gave the last full measure for a cause they thought they were fighting to protect. I doubt by the next generation the kids will know much of anything about our nations history or anything.
you mean traitors who paid for their treason with their lives...nobody celebrates losing a war better than the south...pathetic ....lmaooo
poor jefferson davis and those "uncomitted" crimes lololol
5:43 Snowflakes losing their shit right now.
That's what I thought when I saw that! "Racism on the 12th hole" F them! ;-)
lol, I wish they'd just die in their own misery
Jazzbo13. Roger that!
I'm surprised traitors and slavers were celebrated like that.
Ok
troll better, that was weak.
Their Democrat party legacy was in power then
@@charles1964 yes, before they all became Republicans after the civil rights acts were passed.
That’s how DeSantis wants history taught nowadays in Florida.
Route 66 is better.
yeah, nah
Where Is route 66?
Yeah, if ya like no water.
It's too bad the people of today have all but ruined this area
The narrator's info and opinions of white American history are as comical as they are nasty.
I can see from your other comments that you base EVERYTHING on skin colour. Must be a stressful life.