Florida Dream
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- čas přidán 9. 06. 2014
- Florida's dramatic transformation since World War II-from a sparsely populated, southern backwater to today's multicultural megastate-is featured in this colorful, compelling one-hour documentary. Produced by FHC and WEDU-TV of West Central Florida, "The Florida Dream" traces the great social, cultural, and economic forces that drove Florida's rapid growth and change. Narrated by actor Ed Asner, this program was inspired by the book Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida, by Gary Mormino.
Excellent video! You touched a lot of bases. I've lived here since 1959. One thing you seem to have missed is the impact the railroads had. Flagler, Plant whose trains brought millions to South Florida were a tremendous force in the state. The Spanish American War, Teddy Roosevelt. In 1962 I was sitting on the porch with my elderly aunt in Tampa. She pointed to the old brick street in front of her house and said "I saw Teddy Roosevelt sitting on his horse right there "!
Teddy! Wish we had him now.
I've been here since 2006 and have just recently been catching up on the history here and the backdrop for the creation of cities and islands. It's been mesmerizing. And watching this now even this 'newbie' can list a dozen things they didn't cover. The state has so much history in such a short time it's really amazing, and I suspect this is just the cliff notes version of it all.
Grew up in Miami as a kid. In my opinion South Florida, the Everglades and the Keys have been totally destroyed by greed
Grew up in Miami from 1957, the old Florida that I loved is gone, now live in Sarasota
@@davidpetri4502 Sarasota has now turned into shizit too!
@@timboc105 Sarasota is indeed a blossoming nightmare. But it's still beautiful. So is Miami, the Everglades, and the Keys. People that never knew what it used to be down here are still loving it for what it is today, and they are building everywhere and anywhere they can to absorb the demand. The weather is still the weather and the water is still the water (when there's not red tide!).
@MoMoMyPup10 Camped at Watson place and Darwins place and Mormons Island a couple of times each. Hidden paradise not for the weak..YUPPERS! 😁✌️
Oh no!! So sorry to hear this ..haven't visited yet gate this about beautiful Florida hello fr TEXAS 🇨🇱🤎
We loved what is called old Florida. We learned to live with what you call the problems.
I'm a native, It's disgusting, what Florida has become. Too many people and buildings!!
I absolutely love FL & would live there right now just don't wanna leave my parents here in TN they are getting old
I left my home in Florida in 1992. I've been in Georgia for the most part ever since..... I can't wait to get my little family back home.
Where would you come to?
So proud to be a Floridian
Yes, I was born in Florida and know I was born in the right state. Can't stand the cold. As a child I used to wish that Florida would just break off from the US and we could become our own island nation.
@@debrahelmlinger6256 and I still think that should happen let us become our own nation
@@debrahelmlinger6256 Only problem is, Florida isn't an island.
@@debrahelmlinger6256 I would rather be barefoot and poor in Florida than be a millionaire in Vermont.
A lot more has changed in the last 10 years since they made this documentary. Great video!
Homes were $8000 in the 1950s. Now just a mobile home is $55000 with a $525 HOA fee.
Yep. And not one thing has been updated since 1950 including the roads.. Unkess you count the speed bumps ever 50 ft. Crime? Off the charts and most cities have adopted the "send a social worker" type of "defunding".
No winter heating costs but your AC will be on day & night for 8 months a year.
Have fun.. They pay in sunshine too.
With the hurricanes and even the typical thunderstorms, high humidity, relentless heat and sun, I don't think I would want to live in a mobile home in Florida.
You gotta pay to play!
Love living in the panhandle, Does not get any better...
It's horrible. What are you talking about? Much better in Miami or New York.
You can have the tornados, flooding and hurricanes.
I'm watching this from central Kansas in February 2021. It's currently 0 degrees F with a wind chill of -20. We're expecting between 6 and 10 inches of blowing snow tomorrow. The gulf coast looks amazing right about now.
Balmy 69, but foggy.
In the heat of Florida summers, central Kansas looks amazing.
Na stay up there to much of northern people coming here wit their way of living n can't adapt to the Florida living
Come on down!
Now imagine that cold turned into heat… 130 degrees on the sand yea try and go to the beach 😂
So informative! Thank you!
Florida was once so beautiful, now a giant concrete jungle.mother Earth will fight back against her abuses. Karma on its way.
hi im the sicko that still wears a mask because im looney tunes duuuuuh
I'm like the gentleman from Tampa (cept im a woman😁) and I bolted outa Miami at 19 yrs old in 1992 cuz of crime and chaos...but I came back 2 decades later to west coast and it took me almost that long to love Florida again.
I love how the streets from my youth and current get a mention here. I grew up 200 ft from Dixie by the UM baseball field and now I live 200 ft from Tamiami Trail. 💜💜💜💜
Dont call yourself a Floridian until you can go an entire summer with no air conditioning. ☀
I guess ill never be a Floridian. I'm not up for that. Lol
@@ginac895 See you in winter🌴
LOL
@@trueblue65hlt92 See you next winter. 👍
Remember many nights in the summer with a fan next to my bed to stay some what cool...
Florida will not be able to sustain it's pristine status for much longer. This too shall pass!
Ridiculous yes, living in Tampa to visit a unique pristine environment, have to travel at least 2 or so hours. I understand it use to be all uninhabitable pine forests and swamp, but central and South FL been far from pristine unfortunately. Development keeps encroaching upon all the unprotected areas, the state really should/ needs to buy up more land than than it presently is in order to protect biodiversity, water resources, etc
They put hi rises on every open lot
The invention of Air Conditioning helped destroy the real Florida along with Walt Disney!
Good documentary. Though it seemed to skip over the negative and positive impacts of the drug (rum/marijuana/cocaine) industries. Would Miami even exist as a vibrant city without this short term (mid70’s-mid80s) money spurt? Or would it just have turned into USA’s biggest retirement community? Florida has certainly had a rich history.
Florida is a big beautiful state it has everything life has to offer and it sure has out grown just a retirement state so I love it and I love the diversity it has to offer different kinds of food, music, and customes I learned a lot from the caribbeans but the weather and the scenery the land scape I still wish that central florida had more streets that run straight instead of so many curves and not so many corner sacks the flow of traffic is terrible but Florida has always had people who came from the north I love the Developement that is going on in Florida it's still a lot of natural land that I'm sure will be kept just for nature purposes so I just wish that the jobs will pay over $15hr so people can make a decent living to help Florida stay beautiful and clean that black communities are a mess and they old fashioned and falling apart especially in downtown orlando area so I hope to see everyone doing good in Florida!!! That means all races of people!!!
I respect and agree with your comment with the exception of 15$ an hour you do realize that as soon as feds raise min to 15 federally expect to pay 10$ a gallon of milk 6$ a gallon gas rent up +500$ 15$ min wage sounds great on paper until you realize every business will just pass the cost on to the consumers🤦♂️🍻👌💯
@@yumadbro9554 well i have hope that things will not go up so why not think positive and pray that things will be better for us citizens!!!
@@tinnelledwards1408 I've been alive for 8 presidents now past 6 I've been old enough to understand politics during all those presidents nothing has gotten better. In fact vs 1990 cost of living at min wage of 3.75c gas was below 1$ food was reasonable hell there was a dollar menu for years. Now fast forward to 2000 gas is 4-5$ under bush jr milk 3$ a gallon now fast forward to 2021 gas still floats 5$ avg and so is milk. Want to know what changed min wage went from 4.75 in 90s to 7.35 in 2008. Now instead of seperating from your coworkers and earn the 15$ raise we want govt to mandate 15$ an hour. I gurantee first year will be great lots of rich people until all the business owners stop eating the costs of all the raises plus the skilled workers that already were making more than 15$ now they want a raise to 20$+ because they went to school to make more $. Business owners won't eat that cost for long before they raise the prices of their services to cover the cost of raise in min wage. Instead of raising min wage why not regulate price gouging during the pandemic ie toilet paper and hand sanitizer going for hundreds and thousands of dollars in ebay etc. This is why 15$ min wage is a bad thing federally. Let the states regulate the min wage and that way you not making 15$ an hour you can move to a state that does. I'm not being negative I'm being realistic. You want to elevate your $ text me I'll put you into trading cryptocurrency for $ I've made 27k so far on only 1200$ that I earned for free in the trades. Also if the local workers in mcdonald's wants 15$ an hour they need to make sure I have correct order and napkins and ketchup. But nope they want 15$ an hour when they can't even work correctly at 8-10$ an hour I hope you see the problems with this now. Also how many fastfood restaurants you think gonna pay all those employees 15$ an hour before they start really bringing in the robots to replace the workers🤦♂️💯🤷♂️.
st pete resident here. florida rocks
I've been thinking of moving to st Pete or clearwater in the future. I'm in Indiana now
It’s got it’s perks some areas are nice some not so much. I like where I live but I don’t love it. Florida has a lot of drugs homeless not too much of an issue only in certain areas. St. Pete is nice when it’s not being ruined by red tide and dead fish. Florida is a sunny place for shady people but I can’t see myself living anywhere else
Excellent video!
Houses were so cheap, now it costs around $100,000 to own a crap house in a crap neighborhood.
It cost the same in shitty Ireland. In the backass of nowhere houses cost that much
God bless America!!!
Brah come to Sydney Australia, $650K a.u.d. will get you pretty much a crackhouse in a borderline 3rd world suburb... welcome to the area....
last time it was affordable for the average person to own a condo on Sydney harbour was back in 1942 in ww2 when the Japanese were bombing the harbour with submarines .... just saying
Look for a fixer upper
At 29.18 or so he said it was the stage for the first man in space. But the first man was a Russian. The US were the first on the moon.
@Derrick Bridges The V1 Rockets did not carry a man to space
26:28 a top the citurs tower you can see orange groves all around … bet you can't see that now those developers got there way and it is all houses where the orange groves where...that hurt the citrus industry.....
Also there were several hard freezes that destroyed entire crops so they start moving the groves further south down around lake okeechobee and further
The groves have been decimated from disease
Orange don’t even grow anymore
It's really gross how much boosterism and reverence for "growth" this thing has--humans have swarmed over the gorgeous state I knew as a kid and paved it over with crap. So sad. Why on Earth don't they have growth management like they do in other states and limit development?
Great point
Since traveling out of Florida, I've wondered the same thing. All those beautiful woods and prvt swimming holes, islands and just places to be alone are gone to development. Nothing saved. Sad.
Big business kills
So sad. 5th generational Floridian here
"Growth Management" departments have been bought off.
The Florida "dream" has been being sold since the early 1920s .
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 ol
I love visiting the state as much as I can. One thing on my bucket list is to drive from the mainland to Key West. And I hate seeing all of these people telling others that they shouldn’t visit the state simply because of who the people in the states government are. Even if not visiting, did punish the states economy, people fail to realize that it will eventually punish all of the hard work in mom and Pop places in the state. I would love to live in Florida one day.
Was born in Tampa, raised outside of Everglades and Sal Apopka, then back to Seffner and Tamps for a couple.of years before joining the Army and then settling in Ohio
Moving w/a big family from SYRACUSE NY to S-W side of Florida ..Thanks so much learned a lot .. Trying to digest everything I can about our new home 🏡♥️🏝🏖☀️☀️☀️
Heather A I hope it went well for you.
Esoteric Gnosis we are on our way💕
I want to move back there soooo bad. It’s awesome. But the heat girl, there’s no words to express lol. You get used to it after a while though. That state is so alive and there’s so many different types of people and cultures. Seriously good luck to you and your family!
@@casfox I want to go to Florida one day. It is a dream.
You know one thing about many others I love about Florida? I can grow tropical fruits all year round. I’ll take the risk of hurricanes, oppressive heat, and gators over oppressive long winters and super high taxes that come with it.
Beautiful!
I do have a question 🤔?Do you know how to add music for long video.for example if you wanna add music for 1 hrs video.
Surprised The Villages wasn't mentioned in this video as it's the fastest growing metro area many years
Looks like this was made in the late 90s or early 2000s (they quoted a Florida population of 16 million). Villages wasn't that big of a deal then.
But now in 2023 😱😱😱😱
I think that First Lady was definitely in the villages 😅
what a sad tale of destruction
Nature will always have the last laugh.
Florida is the spearheaded fighting pandemic
I agree. If I could live my life over I would move to Florida as soon as I could afford it.
What’s that large body of water in South Florida doing there? Is that Weston?
Oh some of these comments are 😮💨Never been to beautiful Florida but Mom always talked about when She & Daddy lived in"Winter Haven" ,& Cypress Gardens& Esther Williams "" ..it was fasinatingbto me as a child!!! And the ole movies. Of watersports w Esther Williams " ...Mom loved her ....Daddy had entered the AIR Force after they married was got assigned to Winter Haven Florida" ....still have Mom's vintage case w brochures of Cypress Gardens" where the girls walked around in Ole South Dress .I love it ...she did too...and also a bulletin fr the Methodist Church they attended ..please can someone tell me if theses places are STILL there !?!🙏😮💨we live in Texas
Probably not
this documentary makes it seem like no one lived south of the lake but north of miami till after world war 2
berserktomcat it remained rural longer than most areas. Developed very later on.
That’s about right
Florida has to be civilized to prevent invading forces
That doesn't make sense.
Would you rather live in FL the way it was 50 years ago or the FL of today?
FL in the 90s was probably the last decade it was nice before everything shot up into a financially unsustainable mess
The 70's 80's till the mid 90's was the best.
@@timboc105 The best years in EVERYTHING! I was a teen in the 70’s, a young adult in the 80’s and a parent of Millenniums in the 90’s! We had it so good… until we didn’t
2001 & on ….
@l.j.6169 Yup you got that right. Same here.
Watching this in early 2023. The narrator posed the question: How will the coming wave of retiring Boomers impact Florida?
😱THE VILLAGES!!😱
Yuck...
Wow! When that black gentleman said it was the same water!
I hate it! stay where you are, Fla. lines CLOSED!!
Anyone know the narrator's name?
Ed Asner is the narrator's name
Too many Northeasterners in a lot of Florida. The retired ones act like children. It's fun to watch how tight they act...
Yankees are a disease.
The Cubans were welcomed and prioritized because their skin wasn’t much different from those already ruling the state.
I took one look and I said, “That’s it!”
The state that I'm from especially Boynton Beach the part of Florida that doesn't get talked about alot.
Yep not a lot of people realize FL is Big (doesn't mean the environment isn't vulnerable tho) & lots of small sleepy towns. Like only a few or couple hundred people living in these "middle of nowhere" towns. Quite wild being in them/ experiencing it
Edit: also amazing how dollar generals are absolutely everywhere. People think publixes are everywhere, but they only follow the big money
Bulldogs 🙌
Vice city got me here lmao
Where would a person go if their primary goal was an affordable place with a nice climate (not too hot, don't need beeches) and low pollution?
Heaven
@@jj342 LMFAOOOO this is the funniest comment ever
@@JacobSavvy thanks
If you're still thinking FL, then probably Niceville.
I’d say Ft Myers
Decent watch
Florida is the greatest state of all
WAS the greatest state..it's going to hell fast!
53:42+ grandpa's getting down
I'm from Northern Florida... all my grandparents migrated from North Carolina, Alabama and Virginia. Why?! They come here to die is my guess 🤷🤮
@@kimberlys8422. Florida is known as Heavens waiting room.
@@brandonsavitski Oh yeah I know.
One of my grandparents is from VA, another NC, and another Alabama.
The narrator - in 2008 - was asking how would the wave of retiring Boomers affect Florida next. Watching this today in 2023, I am horrified by what the Boomers and 😱tHe ViLLAgES has done to central Florida!!!
If it was only know then how bad, evil Disney was and we found out about approx 2020.
Florida is where dreams go to die. Visit soon.💀
Retirement homes are the perfect expression of a Florida dream.. not my dream.
Living close to the beach is such a horrible dream.
@@JimmyTurner. His retirement home would consist of a double wide trailer out in the middle of the boondocks with a bonfire pit.
Ed Asner, narrator? Didn't sound like him?
I guess it's him, but I had to strain to hear it, as well
Funny, until reading this I thought it was Spencer Tracy.
The florida dream died a long time ago. Miami is a sinkhole with too many terrible people trying to put one over on you,too many expensive buildings that need to be torn down, and it’s really not worth living here.
You have other choices number 1 leave
@@WalkRobotFilm how you got a defensive tone outta that lol damn
Didn’t that Jacksonville politician lady end up in prison for defrauding the IRS?
Right...... old people..
It's funny, because everyone thinks that, but seniors are less a part of Florida than they were in the 1960s. Unless you live in one of the big retirement areas like Sun City Center or The Villages. The majority of who you will see now are families of all races. White, black, and Latino with a little bit of everything else mixed in. That part is nice.
It's been DOWNHILL since 1959.
"Florida, a tropical paradise..." The very first sentence has a mistake. No part of Florida is in the tropics. It's a common misconception.
@@b4536 I'm not wrong. The tropics are that portion of the world between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. If you look at a map or a globe you'll see all of Florida is above the Tropic of Cancer. Labeling it as a tropical climate does not put it in the tropics.
@@b4536 We're talking about two different things, geography and climate. The tropical zone is an unchanging geographic location. A climate zone is an arbitrary label that can change over time.
@@b4536 I don't laugh at replies, so I guess we have a disagreement on that, as well on the wording of the script.
Shut up nerd
@@Kuroki420 Thank you for the kind words.
In 1971, my mom was participating in bake sales to get AC in the schools. Oi
3rd largest state population
and growing......electoral votes growing
Nice Burk!
GOD BLESS TEXAS!
Why?
sorry i love nyc
Good, stay there.
@@Ridley369 I WILL LOL
No c.c. Oh boy,, i am deaf ,ned to read
😂😂😂 Grow some ears boy
I would gladly help you with a keyed transcript. You may have to be patient though!
Wit all due respect no respect Corrine Brown the African community didn't keep you isolated it was the other folks that didn't want Us Black Folks round. Watch ya words alotta people will take it differently
Growing up in Florida since 5 we need stop destroying the beautiful nature of Florida no excuses . My grandfather helped construct Cape Canaveral that being said I was raised to respect and protect nature .
I would never vo to Florida again.
Why?
Okay, stay where you are.
Probably a yank anyway, stay up north.
Why didn’t all those who left Cuba stay and fight for their country?
ANOTHER NICKNAME FOR FLORIDA SHOULD BE THE (PLAYGROUND OF AMERICA).
The Litterbox
First off Florida is NOT the smallest state in the south.
Gta 6 : Vice city brought me here
Loved Florida in the 1980s but now it is a nightmare, overcrowded and overpriced
its been a while since I've heard someone say negro
Biden 21
The Magic Kingdom planted the seeds in 1971 of old Florida's demise.
Covid 19 will finish the job. I've seen it all. Sad.
I honestly love the vibe of old Florida. A tropical getaway, full of natural beauty instead of countless developments. Florida really used to have this tropical paradise charm to it. I think there's way too much development now.
For me, I would have loved living in Florida from the late 1940s to the 1980s. Apart from Florida, I already love the vintage/retro aesthetic of the 1950s and 1980s.
Floridians are thankful that cockroaches don’t sting and sharks & gators don’t fly.
A huge hurricane needs to come and wipe it clean so people will move out and the land and sea can heal itself from all the fn people.
They forgot about da kkk lol
45:00 This woman is full of crap.
Go back Europe "Bill Wilson"
@@NealForAmbassador: Do YOU live in an "immigrant" rich area? I doubt it. ALL "immigrants" are not good and should not be "painted with a broad brush" as good. OF COURSE there are some that are worthy to live in THE Greatest Nation on the Planet but there are many that should not be allowed to step foot into any country outside their own - MS13 gang members for example.
Thank you president Trump!
Why do people try to make everything about race? That's so not what I came to watch.