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Bibliography: leaves 71-78.
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File Size : 20,58 MB
Release : 1980
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Bibliography: leaves 71-78.
Author : Gregg M. Turner
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 14,8 MB
Release : 2015-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0786499192
During the Roaring Twenties, millions of Americans moved to the Sunshine State seeking quick riches in real estate. Many made fortunes; others returned home penniless. Within a few years thousands of residential subdivisions, palatial estates, inviting apartment buildings and impressive commercial complexes were built. Opulent theaters and imposing churches opened, along with hundreds of municipal projects. A unique architectural theme emerged, today known as Mediterranean Revival. Railways and highways saw a renaissance. New cities--Boca Raton, Hollywood-by-the-Sea, Venice--were built from scratch and dozens of existing communities like St. Petersburg, Fort Lauderdale and Orlando were forever transformed by the speculative fever. Florida has experienced numerous land booms but none more sweeping than that of the 1920s. This illuminating account details how one of the greatest migration and development episodes in American history began, reached dizzying heights, then rapidly collapsed.
Author : Christopher Knowlton
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 23,26 MB
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1982128380
Christopher Knowlton, author of Cattle Kingdom and former Fortune writer, takes an in-depth look at the spectacular Florida land boom of the 1920s and shows how it led directly to the Great Depression. The 1920s in Florida was a time of incredible excess, immense wealth, and precipitous collapse. The decade there produced the largest human migration in American history, far exceeding the settlement of the West, as millions flocked to the grand hotels and the new cities that rose rapidly from the teeming wetlands. The boom spawned a new subdivision civilization—and the most egregious large-scale assault on the environment in the name of “progress.” Nowhere was the glitz and froth of the Roaring Twenties more excessive than in Florida. Here was Vegas before there was a Vegas: gambling was condoned and so was drinking, since prohibition was not enforced. Tycoons, crooks, and celebrities arrived en masse to promote or exploit this new and dazzling American frontier in the sunshine. Yet, the import and deep impact of these historical events have never been explored thoroughly until now. In Bubble in the Sun Christopher Knowlton examines the grand artistic and entrepreneurial visions behind Coral Gables, Boca Raton, Miami Beach, and other storied sites, as well as the darker side of the frenzy. For while giant fortunes were being made and lost and the nightlife raged more raucously than anywhere else, the pure beauty of the Everglades suffered wanton ruination and the workers, mostly black, who built and maintained the boom, endured grievous abuses. Knowlton breathes dynamic life into the forces that made and wrecked Florida during the decade: the real estate moguls Carl Fisher, George Merrick, and Addison Mizner, and the once-in-a-century hurricane whose aftermath triggered the stock market crash. This essential account is a revelatory—and riveting—history of an era that still affects our country today.
Author : George B. Tindall
Publisher : New Word City
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 21,76 MB
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 161230799X
In the 1920s, America was afflicted with Miami Madness as speculators and would-be moguls flocked to Florida to make a fortune in real-estate. Here, in this short-form book from award-winning author George B. Tindall, is the story of the greatest land boom in American history.
Author : Homer Bews Vanderblue
Publisher :
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 23,76 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Florida
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Author : Martha Gwendolyn Webb
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 39,47 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Florida
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Author : George B. Tindall
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 34,71 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Florida
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Under the Florida palms William Jennings Bryan orated and Gilda Gray shimmied while real-estate promoters hawked lots. It was the greatest boom in our history.
Author : Dennis Willard Jeffers
Publisher :
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 23,29 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Journalism
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Author : Jason Vuic
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,97 MB
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1469663163
Florida has long been a beacon for retirees, but for many, the American dream of owning a home there was a fantasy. That changed in the 1950s, when the so-called "installment land sales industry" hawked billions of dollars of Florida residential property, sight unseen, to retiring northerners. For only $10 down and $10 a month, working-class pensioners could buy a piece of the Florida dream: a graded home site that would be waiting for them in a planned community when they were ready to build. The result was Cape Coral, Port St. Lucie, Deltona, Port Charlotte, Palm Coast, and Spring Hill, among many others—sprawling communities with no downtowns, little industry, and millions of residential lots. In The Swamp Peddlers, Jason Vuic tells the raucous tale of the sale of residential lots in postwar Florida. Initially selling cheap homes to retirees with disposable income, by the mid-1950s developers realized that they could make more money selling parcels of land on installment to their customers. These "swamp peddlers" completely transformed the landscape and demographics of Florida, devastating the state environmentally by felling forests, draining wetlands, digging canals, and chopping up at least one million acres into grid-like subdivisions crisscrossed by thousands of miles of roads. Generations of northerners moved to Florida cheaply, but at a huge price: high-pressure sales tactics begat fraud; poor urban planning begat sprawl; poorly-regulated development begat environmental destruction, culminating in the perfect storm of the 21st-century subprime mortgage crisis.
Author : William Johnson Frazer
Publisher :
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 19,12 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Banks and banking
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