The Changing Face Of Florida (1960s) 

And now we're so ridiculously over crowded and over priced for the locals.... Places like Disney are out of reach for the average Floridian, and it's sad how many of the charming, older attractions are gone

Mild climate? The winters may be mild but the summers sure aren't.

Wow! We used to make clothes here! Hard to find "Made in America" now

Florida before the drugs , crime and overcrowding.

I'm glad I grew up in Tampa ('70s). Low crime, less traffic, great teachers from elementary through high school and college. People were friendly and hardly any discrimination. Florida is a great state.

Just like anything eventually to many people will ruin it , put parking lots and cookie cutter subdivisions on land that was wild from the beginning of time. Before long most of what people started coming for in the first place will be gone or not the same .

a FANTASTIC look back at the growth of Florida! Love this video!

Before everyone and their grandmother from the Northeast started over populating Florida

There's only so much room and it's pretty much gone in Florida.

All gone. Replaced by bongo drums tattoos and cig butts.

The jetliner seen taking off at 8:31 is a Boeing 720 seen in Eastern's New Mark (or "Hockey Stick"), two-tone blue paint livery which was first introduced on EAL's airliners in 1965.

Flew over floridayears ago and found it extemely disturbing how it looked like a state/country sized suburb

Originally released in 1965.

What I see is that even in the 1960s the elderly was flocking to Florida.

My father, my oldest brother, and I were in Florida back in February of '98 for just the weekend. My other brother was living in Fort Lauderdale at the time, and he was our host. We stayed Friday and Saturday night at the Doubletree Hotel right there in Fort Lauderdale. And then we stayed Sunday night at my brother's apartment. We only covered the area between Pompano Beach and Miami. Most of the time, the weather there was nice, but it was raining the morning that we left. As for me personally, I would not want to go to Florida again. I cannot take summertime weather all year long down there. I am also afraid of thunderstorms as well, and I don't want to deal with them all year long either. And besides, you never know when either a hurricane or a tropical storm is going to hit Florida. In fact, every time a hurricane hits down there, there's a lot of flooding and property damage down there as well. Every time they rebuild down there, another hurricane or tropical storm hits, and they have to start all over again. And you want to talk about crime down there: my father's rental car got stolen that same weekend. There was a train line not that far from the hotel that we were staying at. And this train runs between West Palm Beach and Miami. Both my father and my oldest brother took this train into Miami. I learned about it when both me and my other brother came back from attending the Saturday vigil Mass at St. Henry's Roman Catholic Church in Pompano Beach. My father called tbe rental car company, but they told him to call the corporate office. Early Sunday morning, my father received a call from the police officer. They not only apprehended the suspect, but our winter coats were still in the trunk. We drove down to this place in Dania, and the car recovered. Plus we also got our winter coats back because we were going back to Philadelphia the next morning. If anybody wants to either go on vacation or else live down there, that's their choice, and I'll respect that. But as for me personally, I will not go back down to Florida again. I was born and raised right here in Pennsylvania, and I would rather have the change of seasons here instead. I certainly hope that you'll understand this.

Nice video!

Thanks for posting :)

The same year as when the 'Hart Celler' act (Immigration Act) was passed by the US congress without the general vote of US citizens.

Started going to Naples, Fl in the late 1970's. Bought a home there in 1990. Moved their full time in 2001. Moved to Hendersonville, N.C. in 2014. Naples changed tremendously. It exploded in population. The whole face of the place changed. During winter season traffic is terrible. What was once a nice little small Florida fishing village has morphed into a huge mess. One plus is that we made a killing on our Real Estate investments when we sold everything to move north. Just try to get Homeowners Insurance if you live within a mile or so of the coast. Impossibly expensive.

The only industry left in Florida is building overpriced "luxury" homes and condos . Dump millions of people fleeing someplace else and stack and pack em. As long as the place they left is worse they are happy to live in Florida, no matter how bad it gets.

Where are these places today?

Good

Wow

Still lots of rural areas in Florida

Wow! When does the bus for Florida leave?

Thank God the cross Florida barge canal was abandoned

There has never been a "Cape Kennedy". It's Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral.

TFS. Too bad, better if Florida had been left alone, but can't turn back the hands of time.

wow everything was so civilized and peaceful then. now look, still a beautiful state if the population reduced...

My grandfather went to Miami in 1966, and he told me it was an whole another world. Also for those who are complaining about overpopulation... well Florida was marshland and swamp until Europeans arrived, so of course Florida is struggling in the real estate market.

Well the tshirt industry still exists 6/$10 everywhere

Oh the , before the "oyay's" were shipped over from Cuba. Florida was nice before that.

Narrator: Excellent state's highways HaHaHa

So some Americans now believe moon landing is a hoax and RU-vid needs to put a note about the Apollo space program. I am so proud of our country's great diversity, from the smartest doers to the most ignorant and easily manipulated.

Most all work you see in this video using skilled actual people , are now all done by computers and machines. People aren't needed anymore to make anything that is bought sold and purchased .

Strengthened by WWII, Emboldened by the 50s, armed with high tech professional degrees, middle class white America was on its way to a top shelf way of life. Then beginning in 1963, huge distractions immediately halted it all. Assinations, civil rights, the sexual revolution, womens rights and the fall of Cuba derailed all efforts made towards making Florida into a State where the middle class would thrive, dominate and prosper for generations to come. Beset with social ills and a State government who would be easily wooed and dazzled by the quick buck of tourism, industries fled North in exchange for Disney (who had already been turned away by industry), hotels and theme parks. We no longer would manufacture it ourselves but import it from Latin America and the North East. Today Florida is over populated with basically two groups of people: rich snowbirds/tourists and those who serve them. The huge take over by minority populations brought medocrity and crime. School suddenly struggled to maintain discipline an academic excellence. Rather than be expected to sharpen their game to the what the white middle class had already been doing a meeting in the middle was required thereby lowering expectations, goals and the quality of life all around. When before they had structure, specific expectations and knew their place in society suddenly they found themselves lost in a world where intelligence, class and a mastery of the language was considered basic attributes. As a result, crime exploded in Miami, Orlando and Jacksonville. By the 1970s Miami had been totally taken over by Spanish-only speaking Cubans most with barely a high school education. Miami as the up and coming industrial powerhouse and shipping capital of the world would be forever changed, attracting cruise ships and and over building of condos instead. Today Florida is paying the price. As buildings collapse, as the Everglades dry up and as Miami floods during a rain storm, the thriving, industrial, self-sustaining Paradise that once was Florida is now gone forever.

Disney ruined Florida

whit ppl - oh geeeeesh