@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.
This replaced Castle Films' "Florida Holiday" (1949) in their catalogs after 1957. In 1976, a final updated edition of 1941's "Fun In Florida" replaced this film as well.
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...
Fast food restaurants and 64oz gulps happened. I was raised in Fort Lauderdale Florida from 59 to 74 and then I moved away for college and I never went back.. well to visit some I wish I had the money to move back there and live.. it was very clean and beautiful and wholesome way back then.. .
@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.
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!
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.
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?
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.
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.
Disappointed they didn't cover the Keys.Maybe it was because there was nothing to see there in '57 when I was a grammer school student.Went to Coral Shores School in Taverneir,lived on the Gulf shore at Sunset Point a few miles north.PARADISE!
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.
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.
Was born in Fla a few years before this. I love going back via these old films to see the place I began growing up in. Thanks :)
The year I was born!! Miami used to be a wonderful place to grow up. Now, not so much...Sad
Whoever filmed this was a hell of a cameraman. Wow, look at those perfectly framed and steady shots.
wow those are the goodold times , thank you for sharing
That year at age 14 we came to Miami from Cuba,what a paradise it was.
I love Miami today and it’s definitely a bustling business gateway to Caribbean and SA - but darn I miss Tubbs and Crocket!
My first visit to Miami: August of 1957...What memories.
wow ! find me a time machine....i wanna go back !👍
@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.
This replaced Castle Films' "Florida Holiday" (1949) in their catalogs after 1957. In 1976, a final updated edition of 1941's "Fun In Florida" replaced this film as well.
I remember my parents taking me on vacation to the Americana Hotel and to Cypress Gardens !
I’m always amazed how healthy and trim everyone looks in these vintage films. What the hell happened to us???
High fructose corn syrup, cable tv and the internet.
We got old!!
Love it!
You just know when you hear that luscious, melodious soundtrack this is going to be a swell little motion picture 😁
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...
I often wish that I could turn back the clock.
Geez this was filmed the year I was born. How did we make it this far.
Fast food restaurants and 64oz gulps happened.
I was raised in Fort Lauderdale Florida from 59 to 74 and then I moved away for college and I never went back.. well to visit some I wish I had the money to move back there and live.. it was very clean and beautiful and wholesome way back then..
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Fort Lauderdale is anything but clean and wholesome now.
Now, few can afford all the entretainment seen here.
man what i would do to be in miami in the 50's, now its just filled with trash and herpes
6:20 Alfred E. Neuman's little sister?
When florida was beautiful now the developers ruin it, to bad
@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.
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!
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.
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?
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.
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.
Disappointed they didn't cover the Keys.Maybe it was because there was nothing to see there in '57 when I was a grammer school student.Went to Coral Shores School in Taverneir,lived on the Gulf shore at Sunset Point a few miles north.PARADISE!
Do you got anything about atlantis in florida
Stud at 1:18!!
dude at 1:18... HUBBA!
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.
Miami, before cuban migration
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.
So sad to see those poor chimpanzees 😪.