Pensacola Tourism Film 1964
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- Опубліковано 12 жов 2024
- Tourism film by Dodson, Craddock & Born produced on film in 1964. The Spanish music--well, ALL the music, is just hilarious, and the scriptwriting old school. Be watching for the segment on the Pensacola Open (held at the Pensacola Country Club in 1964) where the narrator points out Tom Watson in the blue sweater--but it's all in black & white!!! Shows the old Casino building at Casino Beach (Pensacola Beach), Fort Pickens State Park (now Gulf Islands National Seashore) and ginormous mahogany logs dropping off the side of a huge cargo ship into the harbor to be lashed together and floated down to Bayou Chico, where they were "processed" at the Mahogany Mill. A fascinating look into Pensacola's past, even if some of the facts are a little sketchy....
I was cleaning up my computer of old emails and come upon this that I had saved several years ago. I came here in 1956 for flight school. Came back to Whiting Field from 1962-1965. Finally retired here in 1975. I am going to forward to some of my old friends. I remember most all things shown. Thanks fro preserving it.Bob Cleveland
+BOB CLEVELAND Hey, Bob! Thanks for your note. Glad to stir up those old memories--I hope most of them were good ones! Ha! And when will you come back to visit? You wouldn't recognize downtown--it's quite a happening place now. And a new baseball stadium on the bayfront, a public plaza where the old municipal auditorium once stood. Lots happening. Come see us!
I grew up about halfway between NAS Saufley and NAS Mainside in the 50's and 60's and spent a great deal of time watching the hordes of T-28's flying overhead. It is where my passion for aviation began!
It's just an amazing story of history here! Glad to be part of it. My forever HOME!
My sister just shared this video on her facebook page, and as I watched it, I couldnt believe my eyes... There I was, as a child marching in the parade...And my most embarrassing moment caught on tape as I dropped my baton! I still cant believe this video has existed all this time and I never knew about it until know.. almost 50 years later! This is a great representation of Pensacola.
Pensacola Tourism did a fantastic job on this :)
I don't check this site often, but I'm glad so many folks are enjoying this old video rescued from the trash compactor! We are now Airbnb hosts, and I give my guests an orientation tour of the downtown area, Seville and North Hill if they haven't been here before. We stop at Seville Quarter (everyone loves the interior of this place!), the ball park, and Joe Patti's. Don't we live in a fabulous place? I can't imagine ever living anyplace else.
Robin, I just want to repeat all the good things everyone has said abt this video...what a jewel!!! Thank you thank you thank you, I have lived here, all my life not born here, but a Navy brat and this is where Daddy was stationed in 1968, and from then on, he always said he had that Pensacola Sand in his shoes, he couldn't get it out, so he just had to stay here!!!! I am sooo glad he did !! ... now people can see why we are so proud!! thanx....Sheri
That was great! Sad to see the Hotel San Carlos and Municipal Auditorium gone. The beach looked so vacant!
Thanks for posting - it brought back a lot of childhood memories.
I can't believe this has so many hits already! Just shows you what a great place this is, that so many folks have so many fond memories of living or visiting here.
So glad we could put it on UA-cam!
- Robin
love this video. I was born and raised here and this really took me back.
Hi; stumbled on your U-tube, found it very memorable. I was stationed there in 67, have great memories. We held a squadron reunion there in 02 and wow you've really lost a lot of the beach in front of the old Casino, like 1/2 of it. Found out the old San Carlos Hotel was torn down...spent my 1st night in Pensacola there, Great Old Lady!
Some of the old sites are still around like "Richies", well by now it's probably been demolished too. The old Tiki Motel on Santa Rosa Is.....gone. "Time stands still for no man." , BUT the memories live on!
Thanks Robin for taking the time.....
Thank YOU for leaving such a nice note. Most folks just take an opportunity to talk about what's WRONG with Pensacola. I think it's improved 1000% since I moved here in 1982. It's such an outdoor kind of a place; you have to get out and enjoy it and do your own exploring to find the hidden gems, of which there are many. Thanks for watching!!! And please come back and see us soon!
Thanks for commenting! 27,000 hits and counting! I worked as a writer for an ad agency back in the 80s and had to write a historic district walking tour. I started doing research on Pensacola, and I was hooked forever. What an amazing place this is! I now collect vintage Pensacola "ephemera"--paper goods that were never meant to last--postcards, menus, photographs, matchbook covers, and old visitor guides and brochures. Been here 30 years and may stay 30 more! Cheers
Just viewed this wonderful video! I am a member of the National League of American Pen Women -Pensacola Chapter. The NLAPW(based in Washington, DC) will be 120years old in 2018 and the Pensacola Chapter will be 75 years old as well. Our group is researching our founders which date back to 1943..we are in search of discovery regarding our founders who were very active in the cultural life of Pensacola. We are looking for clues about women such as Occie Clubbs- educator and historian, Celia Robinson- who wrote"Jackson and the Enchanted City"-about old Pensacola. Please message me on my Facebook page. Perhaps you can offer us more insight about old Pensacola?
That cracks me up. Look at that under-developed beach, wow! I lived in the Pensacola area from 1984-2000.
What a great TIME CAPSULE find! About this time (age 14) I was helping on the family farm 30 miles North and loved trips to the WIDE OPEN beach. I was selling vegetables to groceries downtown and watermelons to NAS sailors on the base back then. Thanks to whomever posted this!
Loved that town as a military wife stayed long time ... Want to go back ..
Great time capsule, Pensacola, with all its bumps and bruises, is still vibrant and true to the film,I have lived here 47 years..still home.
Wow. The beach has changed so much. Now it's full of condos blocking your vision.
An avg temp of 80 degrees in the summer.
That must've been nice!!!
It still is at night.
Robin,
thanks so much for posting. So many great memories! Makes me proud to be a native Pensacolian.
Awesome history for our hometown 🥰🥰
Thank you! We moved here in 1947, so it was refreshing to see. Couldn't believe the shot of the airport! I can remember when 9th Ave was a dirt road out that way when they started building the junior college.
Wow ur old
Tremendous, thank you.
Robin,
thanks so much for posting this. Michael had given me a copy years ago, but I couldn't share it. This is perfect!
I couldn't help but count the losses of what were touted as such important parts of our community almost a mere 50 years ago. Seeing the San Carlos broke my heart.
Good job!
Vicki
The narrator pointed out Downing Gray, a well known amateur golfer from Pensacola. Tom Watson probably hadn't even started high school when this was filmed.
Lot's of great memories though. Thanks for posting.
Monsanto open
Fascinating documentary. I’m learning a whole lot of history . Thanks
That's the Pensacola I grew up in.Wish it'd come back but "progress" has passed those times on by.
Great video for metal detecting learn about the history
Our family visited Pensacola in the summer of '59, I was 7 years old. I remember staying in a beach house, sand dunes and clear water. It was a great vacation! Where are all of our old films?
Destroyed by gatekeepers to hide the civilization that is buried under the city.
The music is awesome!
That was awesome. Thanks for uploading it.
I grew up in Pensacola and I am proud to say my children are growing up here.Best place in the world!!!!!!
This makes Pcola look and sound like a giant lollipop of love and tranquility, what the F happened??
i really want to live in pensacola
ive been there 3 times (2 times each summer)
i hope i get to go next weekend
I love this kind of stuff!
I loved watching this, and even enjoyed the music! ...But the year of this film's production, cited as 1964, is one of those "sketchy facts" you alluded to, for at 8:09, a 1967 Buick Electra 225 hardtop sedan passes through the frame, and at 9:26, we see a fiberglass boat (which I can't fully identify) powered by a black MerCruiser stern drive. (These drives were never painted black until the start of the 1967 model year.) Because Buick and Kiekhaefer Mercury both introduced their next year's models early, in the preceding autumn, those two film clips could have been shot as early as September 1966 -- but certainly not before then.
Thanks for watching, Don, and for your comments about the year. 1964 was written on the old tape box itself--it was all we had to go by. All the best to you.
Strange. Did you load a different or edited video? The things I referred to, which I vividly remember seeing, verifying, commenting on and pinpointing, clearly aren't in this one.
@mailgilbs True, i recent thought about and realize that the city limit of Pensacola is very smaller than the region of Pensacola which include smaller towns such as West Pensacola,Brent,Ferry Pass,Warrington, and Ensley.
Myrtle Grove,Pines of Avondale
That was great... thank you!
You're welcome, Sam. Thanks for watching!!
Jim Morrison of the DOORS.....LIVED THERE.
This is great. Where is the world did you find this video. I love surf bathing in the Gulf.
WOW! Just wow!!! I am so glad I stumbled upon this!! Being a teenage adolescent in Pensacola nowadays, you would never see anything like this now! It is so fascinating to see Pensacola from such a different perspective! I love this sooo much! Thank you for uploading this!!!!!!!
+101Heracles Hey, you're welcome!! So glad so many can now enjoy it!
+Robin Rowan Thanks for the walk down memory lane.
Cool
THE OLD CASINO !! now its the beach boardwalk
I like this video. i went to Pensacola 6/13/11 an there was no oil.
also no oil on Santa Rosa island an gulf breeze national sea shore.
If you have an interest in Pensacola history, there's a new Facebook group called "Vintage Pensacola" you might enjoy.
He was Mayor and Manager of San Carlos
I like this video. i went to Pensacola 6/13/11 an there was no oil.
Pensacola! On the map. NO, it's not a soft drink...
That was the old bridge. Was turned into a fishing peer
Pier is now half the original size.
@roseforvendeta
*taken* not tooken. c:
Pitstop-Pensacola...
Pcola in the heezy!!!!
Lee Conner Hagler is my great great Grandfather.
@0903devildog
There was never any oil in Pensacola or anywhere on the emerald coast. The media blew everything out of proportion.
Jay won the oil lotto.
@Tip345 agreed
@piracymoney THATS NOT THE REAL POPULATION.THE REAL POPULATION OF PENSACOLA DONT EVEN LIVE IN THE CITY LIMITS OF PENSACOLA. MOST OF US STAY IN THE COUNTY OF ESCAMBIA COUNTY.WHICH HAS POPULATION OF 300,000 STRONG! LOOK IT UP.
Facts
Also known as Lower Alabama
i would sell my soul to leave this hell hole.
ciarra dical Where are we going😊
Damn you should go up to Michigan or Nebraska see what they have to offer lmao bye 👋🏼
Omar says come up to Minnesota, we get you in a burka.
This place sucks
Too bad it's a retirement village now... Pensacola used to be sexy, paramount, capital, a regular trend setter. Now its a ghost town, creeping with old, dusty people, who work part time at walmart greeting other old people.
Tip345 now it’s getting badass again.
Come visit, be positive.
I was four and living in Ohio at the time.
So...do you live here now, Justina? Pensacola just made a list of National Geographic Traveler's Best Cities in the U.S.: www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/features/best-small-cities-united-states/