60 Minutes - Bigger is Better? 1970s documentary on growing pains in Tampa Bay
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Published 2018-06-26
Produced by Norman Gorin
60 Minutes takes a look at rapid growth in Tampa Bay, Florida with scant city planning, zoning restrictions, and environmental regulation.
All Comments (21)
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Born & bred in FL and live in Tampa now. Hilarious to see them considering the 70s a boom compared to what's happened in the last 2 years
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West Hillsborough Ave is where I basically grew up and helped build. Now I live a bit north of there. Several of those commissioners were indicted in various scandals.
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I grew up in Temple Terrace back in the '70s. Great video and a reminder of the building boom Hillsborough had back then. I recognized a few of the video shots including the Zayre over in Town and Country, South Dale Mabry back then from the Tahitian Inn down toward Britton Plaza, etc. Thanks for posting.
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I’ve heard Southern accents in this video. It seems like the Tampa Bay area was Southern at one point.
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It seems not much has changed in Hillsbough County, uncontrolled growth, sprawl and lack of planning and guts by government agencies.
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Funny what you see when watching this video, while the camera is panning along Hillsborough Ave there's a strip center as its passing Hisperdes St. Theres a Dorioes Bakery in the center, the camera shows a backed in Mustang, that car belonged to my sister, see worked at the Beauty shop, in the strip center...Wild Guess it was one of the few days she got her ass up and went to work !!
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Back when the news questioned the rich on their bs instead of making all the common people fight amongst ourselves.
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Awesome Video, thanks for posting!
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Shortly before the Buccaneers were born, the first professional sports team in the Tampa-St. Pete region. The Lightning and Rays started in the 1990s
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I was born and raised in Hillsborough county! WOW
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6:50, I liked Mike Wallace but nobody was going to be able to stop people from moving to Florida. It's ridiculous to think that if a bank stopped doing business that all of a sudden people would quit moving to Florida.
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The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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Interesting video , thanks for posting.
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Funny how a Castor is the only check against the other commissioners. Proof that Tampa hasn’t changed.
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1990 seemed so far away
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Soooo, did they fix the sewer issue after almost 50 years?
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It is funny how they made everything a crisis, the Tampa area is 4 times larger in population than it was in the 70's and is still thriving and a great place to live. I am happy to have grown up there in the 70's and 80's.
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So whats hoing on moe isnt new huh
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Growth is good. Work and live here. Retire someplace else.
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Damn Tampa LMAO and it dosent smell too bad.
