Let's Look At Florida, 1950

I was 9 years old when the parents and grandparents took me and my brother to Florida for a vacation in 1959. We all piled into a 1957 Pontiac and drove from Maryland to Florida along 301. I95 was only a dream back then.

I'm a Virginia native, but my Mom was from Port Orange and we traveled there every year in the 50's and 60's. Very good memories, renting floats to ride the surf, cookouts, renting Bridgestone motorcycles on the beach, all kinds of fun. Mom moved to South Daytona in '75 after my Dad died. She passed away in '76 and is interred next to her Father in South Daytona. Still have good memories of our visits there.

Now THIS is the Florida I remember as a kid in the early to mid '60s!! What fun we had at Silver Springs and Cypress Gardens!

I love the USA and have NEVER had a bad holiday there in my twenty five years of visiting. Earlier this year I decided it was past time I visited the Florida Keys, and I absolutely loved them! The wonderfully relaxed vibe of Key West was a revelation... it was so nice just wandering around the place with "no particular place to go"! As a Londoner living in the 'crowded howse' of S.E.England, America's huge horizons and stunning landscapes give me a feeling of freedom & wellbeing that is impossible to overstate... God Bless America!

I’m 66 and was born in Tampa I know you can’t stop progress but it shure was nicer pre Disney

I'm born and raised here in Jacksonville Florida and this was awesome to watch, pure time capsule!❤💯

Timing is everything. In Collier County, there's a museum that has artifacts and letters written by soldiers involved in the Seminole Wars back in the 1800s who complained bitterly about the heat, bugs and the misery of fighting in such a God forsaken land. They could never imagine that the future would bring tourists, junk souvenirs, and people still complaining about the heat.

I was on board until he said it was “seldom too hot.” LOL. I am a Florida native and can attest that it is constantly too hot here for about 9 months out of the year!

We lived in Miami Beach in the 50s when I was 10 years old. I went to North Beach Elementary School and I found my old house on Google maps tonight. Our pool was outside my bedroom window. The house is still there unchanged. What a great place for a kid to grow up. Ps. I used to have to dodge falling coconuts making my way to the bus for school. Lol

My Boston grandmother & her sister retired to Sarasota in the early 1960's. My sisters & I visited a lot of these FL tourist places when we visited in the summers. Old FL is just a memory now & this video is a reminder to what once was. We really did pave paradise.

I'm 87 and I remember how beautiful this State was. But the last 20 years is a dump left and right. I have been every where in FL You can find a great community, and two miles away is a complete slum, gunshots, wreckless driver, etc. Note: My grandson wrote this for me.

"It was better in the old days before all these weirdos showed up and took it over." -- Joe Seminole, 1880

My cousin's family always went to Fla for summer vacations. They'd bring us back small crates of orange gum-balls. Yum!

The narrator almost sounds like Peter Graves.

As a child I grew up here. The fond memories of my past. To bad things change but nothing stays the same. Rather be here than Bagdad or Poland. Count your blessings

We used to vacation on A1A in West Palm Beach in the 50s. Back then, there was only the Lake Worth beach bath House and a few motels along the 35 mph road.

Looks lovely! I LOVE these old travel vids great channel!

13:25 That is Lejeune road at 36th street . They used to drive the airliners across the street to takeoff.... They had their own red light😅

"Have you ever been in a cockpit before?"

Look at St. Pete now in 2019 is has grown soooooo much it’s almost unreal. I live here and I see all the old structures that still stand that are in this video.