The Man Who Built Miami Beach - A WLRN Original Production
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Miami Beach was incorporated as a city 100 years ago by a group of visionary pioneers, but it was one of them - a colorful industrialist with a knack for publicity named Carl Fisher - who was most responsible for transforming a swampy jungle into the glamorous tourist resort of today. The film chronicles this metamorphosis through the story of its forgotten protagonist.
My GF’s 96 yo Grandmother who is still alive as of this writing in May of 2022 just told us that her father worked for Carl Fisher back in the 1920s in Miami where Fisher was building roads and railways. Instead of using horse teams to haul carts of material, he had a pair of elephants, one famously named “Rosie” whom Grandmother said “was the more tractable of the two.” As such, Rosie would pull the area children in a cart to Sunday School-as long as they were old enough to be trusted to not jump out of the cart, “about three years old.” I was ready to hear her say 10 and up! Well that was our recent brush with History, Live and 1st Hand Account.
Amazing! 👏🏽
Thank you for sharing. Carl Fisher was a great uncle of my grandfather. Love hearing these stories.
These were all my playgrounds. My husband’s grandfather (we were 4 generation Miamians), used to put up outrageously heavy storm panels whenever there was a hurricane watch. We used to laugh at him for overdoing it because he had survived the great storm of 1926. We stopped laughing as we fought to survive ground zero in south Dade during Hurricane Andrew in 1989. We stopped laughing after that. I have so much respect for what was involved in building Miami Beach. Lives were lost during it’s development, as conditions were initially deplorable. Thank you to the brave developers…you earned your fortunes!
Andrew was in August of 92
@@SilentMovements305 I was just about to say that hurricane Andrew was in 1992 and then I read your post. Lol, I remember this because I was about to start 10th grade in high school that year.
@@DrummerDanny76 that hurricane was bad man I remember it almost wiped all of homestead
I live in South Beach, part of the year since i was a child, love the history, would not trade it for the World, i'll take it all, the good, the bad, the ugly..loved this !
I live in Miami too it is an amazing big city with more the. 6 millón peaple
The cultural shifts have been fascinating, and so diverse!
Was always fascinated in the history of Miami Beach and what it originally looked like before it is now. I don't think there's any spare piece of land on that peninsula that has been taken by real estate. Unless you tear down old buildings to build new. Thanks
Thank you for watching!
This was wonderful to watch! I only wish I would have been born earlier in Miami! Born in 1968 in Miami I did enjoy the seventies and eighties growing up around Haulover Beach and all of the retro South Beachs at the time! My Mom was born 1950 in Miami and my Dad 1938 also from Miami along with many Aunts and Uncles from 1920 on. Oh how I wish it could have stayed like this video represents! Thank you for sharing this! I really enjoyed it!
Thank you for your kind words. Glad you enjoyed our production.
Great and comprehensive view on how Miami Beach got started. ❤
I lived in Florida and been to Miami beach plenty of times and had a blast on every Miami trip... It's also super hot so for me to see these gents with full length suits on Miami Beach is amazing
I havent a clue how people used to do it. Miamis average temperature is like 85 degrees with tones of humidity.
@@dariel7001 Maybe it has to do with the fact that it was before global warming. I've been told Florida wasn't as unbearably hot back in those days as it is now, but I don't know if that's true or not. I would like to know if that was possible.
@@serenatwilite4005 well. My apartment on fisher is about ten feet from the ocean. Next to the docks we have a sea gage. In thirty years the sea level has been the same (with the exception of hurricanes of course but we’re forced to evacuate during hurricanes just in case) so I don’t believe the whole climate change thing. Sure it’s natural for the clime to change. Especially now since we’re in the midst of leaving the global ice age
@@dariel7001 The rich came in the winter time, so that is when most of the pictures were taken in these early days of Miami Beach. No one was there during the summer.
He forgot Dana Dorsey, Miami's first Black Millionaire, and the original owner of Fischer Island.
I find it appalling they spent all that time making this documentary and didn't mention it. Just goes to show you how they deliberately keep information from people. Imagine growing up in Miami and seeing the Dorsey technical school and not even knowing who the man was. I'm 33 years old and just now finding out the man once owned the same island I now take a ferry to deliver mail to. The same island that ranks among the highest income in the entire country. Then they wonder why people run around acting like they don't have any sense. If you tell the truth and give them something more to aspire to then perhaps they'd have more respect for themselves and their communities. Goddamn travesty as far as I'm concerned. I expected more from WLRN, I grew up on y'all.
@@sethmorgan728 Dorsey is undoubtedly a huge figure in early Miami history but played little role within the scope of this documentary about Miami Beach and more specifically Fisher. What does a viewer of this documentary actually miss out on by not knowing who Fisher purchased the barren 21 acres from? The Dorsey connection is more of an interesting piece of trivia than an integral part of the story, the story that is again centered on Miami Beach and Fisher. I'm also a little surprised that they left it out but come on it's no travesty.
If dorsey was yt they would've mentioned him but of course they would have to mention how he was forced to sell the land since blacks wasn't allowed out there but that's another story
OK, so?
Well done. Bravo!
ONE OF MY FAVORITE DOCUMENTARIES IVE EVER SEEN!!!!! Thank you!!!!!
What about mentioning that Fisher bought what is now Fisher Island from Florida’s first African-American millionaires, Dana Dorsey.
Actually searched Dana Dorsey and got this.
Cause nobody cares and you make everything about race. Super lame!
@@ppg4667 Speak for yourself buddy. If you don't care why would you take the time to read the comment and respond to it. Now who's Super Lame! It's there for those who do care and for those who don't move along and ignore it.
@@Ayee_Jayyy I sure as ffff don't care but I see you're into class warfare and putting people into boxes and categories because the color of their skin.. super lame!
Great story, but right, don't get why that fascinating twist is omitted wherever this story is told.
No one talks about Dana Dorsey. The black billionaire who built Miami Beach and sold an island to Fisher which is now called Fisher island
Thank you for mentioning D.A. Dorsey. His great contributions to Miami can be discovered still today.
BS
@@AD-ef8bm It's not bs asshat, it's history.
Love this documentary! Thank you! 🌴🌎🌴
So interesting,a man with a vision...but things change and now we got crazies...
Great mini doc.
It's all a beautiful paradise until that hurricane come
Paul George was my history professor in college. I took a tour that he lead in Little Havana. He is an Incredible historian
Very cohesive and informative. Probably a really interesting tour.
Does he still do these tours?
Thank you for this informative video. Iam currently a South Beach Tour guide . You hit all the fine points of Southern miami
Building artificial islands a century before Dubai did, is incredible.
Dubai = Do buy
Yeah is incredible indeed but now do to all the High Rises on the superficial island is making it sink. Each year it keeps getting more and more floaded and now a building collapsed due to all that outrageous huge buildings putting so much pressure underground for their Foundations are super deep and have moved all that superficial REFILLED place.
I've lived here for 30 years and I see it more and more. Is all gonna be underwater very soon.!!!
@@godsperfectcreation4756 Is soon 200 or 30 years?
@@linfrey1103 VERY SOON. JUST SIT BACK AND WATCH.... SOON IT ALL DEPENDS ON YOUR PERSPECTIVE OF SOON 😉😉😉👊
@@godsperfectcreation4756 So probably never
I just came here to see if Dana Dorsey name would be mentioned
thank you Carl.
Very cool. Thanks.
2:41 Carl Fisher. 4:58 John Collins started bridge, but ran out of money; Fisher finished it.
I was born in Homestead Florida. My offical birth certificate says Miami. But I'm just glad I was born in the area. Somehow I ended up in Ohio. I'm moving back to Dade or Putnam/Alachua County areas when my youngest turns 18. If any of my three boys want to move with me they can.
I live is South Florida believe me when I say go to Putnam/Alachua area crime down here is sky high! Just read the news and you'll see for yourself.
@@leversforever9748 I had to sleep in the bathtub untill I was 5. Is it still that bad? Or just a leftists gone amok thing and prosecutors catch & release like Portland, L.A, San Fran, ect...
Let me know when you’re ready to move down here! Beautiful city/people
I searched for Dana Dorsey and they send me here but they haven’t mentioned at all
YET NO MENTION OF DANA DORSEY #SHOCKING
Why are you shocked? This is what these devils do
BABY DADDY DOC WOODS ITS A SHAME - DR' KING'S SACRIFICES WASTED, WE WOUND UP WITH YOU !!! SEMPER FI
@@gudlukkay Where the hell would you be today with out the DEVILS
@@AD-ef8bm Well we already owned Fisher Island and had several VERY prominent communities around the country that were burned, looted and bombed. We'd have been in a much better position economically and socially. It's not even up for debate.
Carl Fisher bought “Fisher Island” from a black American millionaire Dana Dorsey.
Keep in mind the MEN who built Miami Beach, many were Black and worked under harsh conditions. When my parents built their house on MB in 1951, the foreman for the white construction workers refused to sit and lunch with Black workers. My mother solved that by saying the Black workers would get paid first and the white workers could lunch in the sun, no shade.
@Tim Siegel I like your story, but... It's not necessary to turn this into a racial thing. I know that you know this video is not about the laborers. Sometimes, it's just nice to take things at face value rather than making everything into an issue. In fact, as long as you're looking to troll this video post, why not go back further? Before the white AND black construction workers profited (in the form of pay) from raping the land, there was the Seminole Tribe of Florida who didn't have a say.
Also keep in mind, and not mentioned in the video, that Miami's first black millionaire, D.A. Dorsey owned 21 acres on Fisher Island. It was still a sand bar when he sold the property.
@@bruceanderson2798 , Why do people leave out the truth when it comes to the efforts black people contribute in American history? No one is trolling, it's time to tell the WHOLE TRUTH!
@@imsure23 Because this video isn't about the bartender that contributed to the hotels, or the bricklayer, the officer, the laborer. This video is about the risk taken by developers and dreamers and how their dreams turned into a city and created a boom. News flash, not everything has to be or is always about blacks.
@@_.Leo_. Black people complaining about race on a video about a guy that built Miami. Smh. No end to crying about what their great grandparents had to suffer. lol.
Saw those baby elephants working. crazy.
Dana Dorsey?
5:26 ok that sounded very comedic
There's no connection between that ANGLO past and the HISPANIC present. It's as if that past never existed and was erased from history. I'm old enough to remember the few aged decrepit ANGLOS still left in the late 80's living out of their crumbling white frame homes in Little Havana. I saw them die one by one the ones that dared to remain in a Miami which was becoming foreign to them as the years rolled on by. I remember the buckets of free mangos place in front of their homes for anyone to take. There's nothing left nothing, not even a marker to state they were here. Unfortunately, I was just a child and didn't understand the dimensional generational cultural changes that were occurring right before my eyes. Only now in retrospect do I fully comprehend it.
Same in Hialeah. I still know one white lady living in Hialeah who is now 96 years old. She lives in the same house she bought with her now deceased husband when the city was 90% Anglo-American.
Young genius.
Very interesting
People:miami
Gamers: Vice city !!
Wow. The More You Know.
And this is why our lovely artificial island is SINKING each year more and more, because now Dade county has allowed ai many High Rise Buildings on top of what was meant for smaller buildings but now, south beach and Miami beach north looks like a Dawm Downtown instead of a beach and to top it all off, do to this high rises that must have DEEP FOUNDATIONS have moved all that artificial REFILL with its vibrations of their Constructions. No wonder a building collapsed in 1974 and now again, when a high rise building was constructed right next to it in 2015 to 2018
I'm confused didn't they say dans dorsey own the small island ?
He's omitted from history because he's black
Don't come here. Stay up north
Hey uh, they neglected to recognize the cocaine boom of the eighties that literally exploded growth for southern Florida......especially Miami. It does snow in southern Fla. and it is very profitable.
Right on, every documentary I see about Miami seems to conveniently forget that ever happened. I lived in middle Florida in the1980's and it seemed like we were hearing about it on the news every night. Now people want to pretend it never happened. My husband and I wanted to visit Miami, we were about a 4 hr. drive away, but we were hearing so much about the violence there, drive by shootings and fighting in the streets from gangs and cocaine cowboys, we were afraid of the place. It seemed safer to stay home and watch Miami Vice, lol.
I see in comments a lot about what color you are. Can we all just acknowledge the fact that kids were labor workers too ? shit wasn’t sweet back then for nobody unless you was born in a family of a man who has made he’s money. A MAN not a white man or black man or some other man but a human been with brain.
Rather “carved a city out of a treasure of nature* ” that should’ve never been carved.
*Jungle: used in this narration in a pejorative way.
the champlain towers have entered the chat.
We need to preserve our history and historic structures! Enough giving funds away for useless purposes. Damn all these churches getting away with highway robbery
You will surly change your mind just seconds after you die.
Able Holtz ?
@12:00 Mother Nature wasn't haven't it 😎
Looks like Miami was created very late in the middle of nowhere by severa real estate companies, even the roads, bridges and infrastructure. Whereas in other countries infrastructure is usually built by state, Is that how all cities were built in United States?
Yes.
In the meantime, Native Seminoles were leading a peaceful life in the swamp.
What about the African Americans" yea I know Fisher gets all the credit...
That and cocaine money my friend.
The only people I see that’s doing the work Is African Americans 😊🙏🏾 yes we built this whole country and took care of y’all kids ❤️
Sure that can't be denied, but also have many other immigrants.
@@royaldomain4055 CORRECT SIR WE BUILT THIS COUNTRY AFRICAN AMERICANS AND OTHER IMMIGRANTS ❤️
You did not study the history well at school. There were a lot of white indentured workers on the North who worked even harder than black slaves. Most of them did not make their way through the contract due to hard work. Besides, what I see now is that a lot of hispanic people are building this country now. I came from a different country and we have not had slavery. What I see now in America is that the black people start all the racial topics even though the blacks have all the rights now.
And Florida feed black baby's to Gator s that the jealous Masters wives would sale to millionares as they alligator hunted for the alligator they wanted their shoes and bags to be made from.🙏🏽🙏🏽
Not we, you didn't have anything to do with it. And yes, there were other immigrants.
I literally clicked on this video after searching Dana Dorsey and he didn't even show up in the video.... racism is insane
This is UA-cam which is owned by a white company. The producers of this video are white. Stop expecting white people to use their own media platforms and creations to laud black achievement. They have no obligation to do that. Perhaps if millionaire Dana Dorsey had not sold Fisher Island to a white man and instead developed it himself the story would be different. And if Robert Johnson also a black millionaire (currently worth $600 million dollars) the original owner of BET had not sold BET, the only black owned nationwide television network to white owned Viacom then blacks would have had a national media outlet to showcase their achievements. Tyler Perry, Michael Jordan, Jay-Z are all billionaires. They could easily create a black owned nationwide news network. Why haven't they? By the way I'm as black as an ace of ♠️.
@@exoressdelivers70 So it's somehow entitled to expect to see the person I searched for, and who originally owned this property, in the video? There is a stark difference between lauding Black achievement and omitting successful Black people from history.
@@exoressdelivers70 Its easier said then done I don’t like to bring up the past but it seems to fit have you heard of Black Wall Street it was thriving black community the money circulated 36 times and had created immense wealth unfortunately it was burned down by jealous whites who hated to see black people prosper the same could be said today anytime we build for ourselves or try to get there is always some that is going to bring you down don’t let them be the change you want to see in the world maybe eventually I create my own business and let it rise to make it to the fortune 500 list maybe
Exactly. I just read an article about him and I typed his name into youtube and this video was the first one on the list. This video makes no mention of him.
You can’t count on whyts tell the truth
So Carl fisher but no DANA DORSEY. Thumbs down. 👎👎👎
CRAZY KEN ? CRAZY KAREN'S BROTHER ? YOU WANT DANA DORSEY DEADBEAT, DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK AND MAKE THE VIDEO - LEARN TO BE GRATEFUL FOR WHAT YOU'VE BEEN GIVEN ! SEMPER FI
It was a woman not a man
Annoying background music and audio effects... Jeez, can't watch this
Dana Dorsey for all y’all who are belly-aching:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_A._Dorsey
It's not belly-aching. The man is part of not only Black history but Miami's history. The fact that he's missing from the picture is downright disrespectful and doesn't do justice to the stories that are told about the history of Miami. This is why white folks walk around thinking they're better than everyone else. If the people that create the publications you watch refuse to tell you the entire truth about the land around you then you'll be more likely to assume only people that look like you had a hand in creating the world you see around you today. He was very important and the fact that he's not mentioned is sad and very telling of the society we live in. To help you see it another way, it would be like telling the story of Miami and not mentioning Carl Fisher or Henry Flagler. The man was the first Black millionaire in Miami, first real estate mogul and the former owner of Fisher Island. That's a pretty big deal and no amount of supposed "belly-aching" can change that.