Florida High Spots 1957

[Shoreisfine]

Stud at 1:18!!

[Tomsouthrock]

When florida was beautiful now the developers ruin it, to bad

[MrBornhead]

because he's right! ass hole pacifist idiot ass wipe and all the rest

[kxsteve]

Geez this was filmed the year I was born. How did we make it this far.

[imsixftsix]

The haters that remember Miami as some paradise in the '50s...they are just a bunch of Florida cracker rednecks...Miami was racist back then and anti-semetic..

[clemtirephucker]

@imsixftsix AND YOUR MOTHER WAS SMOKING CRACK & SUCKING NIGGER DICK THEN SCUMBAG

[imsixftsix]

@clemtirephucker

[Tomsouthrock]

@imsixftsix we should have stayed that way then we wound'nt have to put up

with scum bags like you, prod to white

[imsixftsix]

I grew up in West Palm in the '50's and 60's...I always enjoyed going to Miami...Yes, Miami Beach was a craphole in the '70's...It is great today and the latin touch gives it a cosmopolitan feel...Miami is much improved, too...In the '80's, I would have given it to Fidel. Now, it has improved greatly...I just stayed at the Hotel Viceroy on Brickell Ave. There is a wonderful area called Brickell Station with nice restaurants and entertainment for all the condo dwellers in the Brickell area...

[cranebeacher]

Now it's a cesspool of illegals, drug smugglers and vermin. My grandparents moved down there in the 60's after Jackie Gleason announced he was moving his show to Miami Beach. They settled in Sunny Isles and stayed there until the down fall of the beach area in the 70's before moving back to Cape Cod. I miss those golden days as a kid.

[johnreagannumber1]

Whoever filmed this was a hell of a cameraman. Wow, look at those perfectly framed and steady shots.

[thediceman711]

Man Miami was the American Rivera in those days I lived there from 1956 to 1979 The place is a dump now. I went back in 2008 and spent a week and haden't been there since 1985 and was sickened to see how it is now. Crackheads sleeping on the bus benches. Those beautiful homes on Alton Rd all in disrepair Miami Beach Kennel Club GONE.. No world class resturaunts like the Starlight Roof at the Doral or the D'Continental in Bal Harbour. What a shame ..

[spapsl]

Why is there ALWAYS some JACK ASS that has to write a racist comment???

Those are the REAL losers!!

[Medusa22]

What a wonderful film. Thank you for posting.

[DukeAlba]

Also kind of sad however, are some of the borderline bigoted comments here. It just sounds like people here resent the fact that Miami became the home of many immigrants... For those of you that see this as Paradise Lost, just remember that this place became our very own refuge from our own Paradise Lost.

[DukeAlba]

Wow, a nice glimpse into what Miami used to be like before the events that changed it forever took place. This is back when Coral Gables and West Miami were at the edge of the city. Hialeah almost looks like a completely different place, sadly most people who live there don't even know it has a Race Track, one that was once world famous.

[SeesAndKnowsAll]

What exactly made it a "sedate" tourist place? Miami Beach in particular was a very busy place, with a nightclub life that rivaled Las Vegas, which was only just coming into its own. Big name entertainers were there, national TV shows were made there, and the jet set crowd came to be seen there . What was "sedate" about that?

[FI575land]

Not a ridiculous comment, IF one doesn't take my words out of context.

I didn't say Miami was like a small town in Iowa in the 50s and 60s. But it WAS primarily a sedate tourist and retirement area then. Not anymore.

Those here who suggest that it was "paradise" then but a hellhole now don't have a clue. It is a booming international business city today, a world class city. It wasn't back then.

Are there dangerous areas in Miami today? Yes. Now go ahead and name a major US city without those.

[SeesAndKnowsAll]

Miami Beach and its environs (Surfside, Bal Harbor, Sunnles Isles, Aventura, etc. ) did not become a retirement area until the 1970s. In the 50s and 60s there was too much action there, and it was a nightclub town. The rest of Dade County was never really a retirement area in the way that the Beach was in the 70s and 80s, and parts of Broward and Palm Beach are today.

[FI575land]

What has changed in Miami since 1957? A lot, and most of it for the better.

Today it is a much younger city, an international business center with gleaming super-skyscrapers and a dynamic, 24 hour atmosphere.

Gone are the old days of the 50's and 60's when Miami was mostly a sedate retirement town.

Not civilized you say? Not true unless your idea of civilized is limited to the atmosphere one finds in small town Iowa, for example. Times change folks, and not always for the worse.

[SeesAndKnowsAll]

Ridiculous comment. Miami was still a large tourist city, even in the 50s and 60s. It was certainly nothing like a small town in Iowa. That is why Jackie Gleason and Arthur Godfrey brought their shows here, and Ed Sullivan had the Beatles on his whow here, and the Orange Bowl was a big event. The great hotels were in full swing. The list goes on and on.

[lrj1119]

Excuse me, but Miami was NOT just a sedate little retirement town nor comparable to small town Iowa in those days. Are you kidding or something? If you believe that you don't know diddly about the history of Miami.

[kolbpilot]

@FI575land I was at Homestead AFB as a child (kindergarten thru 2nd grade) in '63 until '66. I remember Coral Gables somewhat & we went to Miami a couple of times. What I remember most was the wide open (undeveloped) spaces there were once we left the base.

[dontmesswithbill23]

I grew up during the 50's and 60's in the Shadowlawn neighborhood of Miami (general area around North Miami Avenue between NW 46th Street and 59th Street, NW 2nd Ave to NE 2nd Ave. It was a wonderful place to raise kids back then, and we kids loved everything about Miami (well, maybe not school every day!). Sending photos of our family swimming at the beach during cold Winter's up North was a yearly fun project. Yeah, I will always be grateful for my childhood there.

[reymatt76]

Wow, Miami was safe and civil at one point. What have we done to it (or not done)? Such a shame as compared to half a century ago.

[dbm4310]

Love it!

[LowLevelHum]

miami used be a dreamland

[jojostudrock]

Too much of 5:03 in the Miami area now! If Florida was going to get an enema,Miami would get the tube!

[82abnoff]

Oh. I know. We know. No Civility.

[CanadaguyRudey]

Oh.. what has changed in Miami since this movie was made?

LMAO we all know.....

[macNjulia]

Elegance bottomed out! ... Cheers, Julia from Florida

[LindaThornberg]

Outstanding footage! I miss the diving board days, it's too bad attorneys found out you could sue for liability if you hurt yourself on a diving board.... ruined the Sport for future generations!

[rjscheppy]

This was filmed when people in Miami Beach spoke English.

[steffidude]

I often wish that I could turn back the clock.

[chuckmanofgod]

@steffidude, yes, I agree. I think the world is too fast paced nowadays......too much technology. Even though I like technology sometimes, it makes us very impatient. People could trust each other as well back then.

[brickbradford]

My first visit to Miami: August of 1957...What memories.

[Picaro1]

Now, few can afford all the entretainment seen here.

[fabiosolo]

wow those are the goodold times , thank you for sharing