The Florida Keys: 200 Years of Paradise
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- Опубликовано: 22 янв 2023
- Journey through the history of the Keys and meet the people who live that history every day. Celebrate the uniquely colorful and often dramatic history of our nation’s southernmost subtropical isles. Beginning with the planting of the U.S. flag on Key West in March 1822, the documentary uncovers two centuries of booms and busts, shipwrecks and pirates, engineering feats, natural disasters, artistic and literary achievement, sport fishing, ecological conservation, and restoration and renewal.
The film also explores the often overlooked history of Black contribution to the development of the Keys and the legacy of pioneers such as Sandy Cornish - a former slave who built Key West’s most successful farm in the 19th century and became a prominent civic leader. The hour-long program takes viewers on a historic journey to one of the most fascinating and exotic places in the country, discovering the people and events that make the Conch Republic unforgettably offbeat.
An original South Florida PBS production.
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Key West. My ancestral hometown since 1870. My maternal grandfather, José L. Rodríguez (1898-1986), was Hemingway's captain for the Pilar during his Key West years. (My grandfather is the man pictured on the far right at minute 35:23). Thank you for this program!
Cool.
Love..
I've visited the Keys and never felt so much comfort. Lots of love 💞 You're very fortunate.
@@CatJuarez So kind - thank you!
🌴❣️I spent only a partial day and evening (a cruise stopover) wandering along (Duvall St.?) where I saw Truman's Southern White House, Hemingway's Home, the home where Robert Frost lived, banyan trees, gorgeous pet iguanas, then on to check out Sloppy Joe's and, of course, to enjoy a Margherita in Margheritaville.
That was just the tip of the iceberg, I know, so a return trip is on my bucket list. Next time I will drive down along that famous highway through the Keys!
Wish all these fascinating pictures were in a photo album so we could spend more time studying certain ones!!
I love reading everyone's comment's about their own personal connection to the Keys! A fantastic documentary.🌴🌴🌴🌅
I moved there Oct. 6 1976 and I got to see Paradise before new people came in the 90s and it changed sad what has been done to Paradise for ever. I got old there. I am no longer there . All those nice families I met, was the best of my life,. I am 82 now . I photographed before the fools changed it. My memories are priceless.
I'm a 5th. Generation Conch and you are 100% correct. They have ruined our island now. It's heart breaking to try and drive around now covered in multi million dollar resort now surround the island blocking out the local sea breeze between that and all the concreate and pavement it just traps the heat in. Thank You for you kind comment the new people don't respect it and removed many of our local fruit trees because "They are Messy" so sad.
Maybe the best video story of 200 years of Florida Keys History.
i moved to Marathon in 1975 and became a comm fisherman, it was a great place to live and explore. but now in 2023 its sad. it is now been overrun by big business high rents. its so bad that most of the work force is bussed down from the mainland. Paradise has been lost in lieu of the all mighty dollar. After hurricane Irma it just got worse. RIP florida keys
Heard that my friend. I was born a Conch, now it breaks my heart everytime I go back. The trash, the shitty people, expensive prices. Hell I used to live on a sailboat and they are even trying to get rid of live aboards down there. I remember the days as a kid we would pay in the middle of US 1, now your lucky if you can cross it on foot! No to mention all the buddies I've lost due to drunk drivers. It's sad af now
My family has been in this state for over 400 years and lasted because of what Florida offered and it's all getting lost !!!!
@@hohsmith4723 My great grandfathers cousin left Cuba to Key West in the 1880's as a cigar factory worker and never left so I have family who are Conch Native. My parents owned a home in Big Pine back in the 70's until 2004, I remember when the waters where blue not aqua as they are today, pollution has done a lot of damage, and then having all these realtors pushing to create more construction and pollution doesn't help. Thanks to the snow birds and their arrogant, rude, snobby, annoying, with a sort of dictatorial attitude.
@@mannyrodriguez5453 I wish I could have been alive back then to see how beautiful it really was before it got so crowded. I was born in KW in 89 and lived in Taviner with my parents untill I was 10 we moved away after hurricane Andrew (they got tired of the hurricanes) I ended up moving back down to Islamorada to be a fisherman in my 20's, but right away I could tell it was not like it used to be. I used to sit at the Lorelei and listen to all the old captains talk about the "good old days"! It sure is a paradise lost now...
Anyway glad your grandfather's cousin got to experience the true Keys! One of my best friends came from Cuba during the political prisoner release during the missile crisis. His dad had been locked up for speaking out against Castro. I was with them when the world found out Castro died, my guy was in tears he was so happy. Then we had a hell of a party lol. I'm sure I don't have to tell you this, but your family member was very fortunate to make it over. I've come across a hand full of Cuban rafts (occupied and completely empty) and the level of desperation in their eyes in the occupied ones is hard to forget. And wondering what happened to the crew of an empty raft is just as concerning.
Hope you have a great day bro!
@@hohsmith4723 Do you still live in the keys. I had a friend who lived on Burgandy Drive in Tavernier key, I remember, when the state ended the canal dredging, he was really happy as well as the rest of the residents. When I was in high school back in 1979, my math teacher, who I got along with well, would always talk about fishing and how the affect of pollution had affected the waters, he would tell me how abundant and how larger the fish were from shore when he was a kid and how he and his dad would fish the Bahamas and even the waters were not the same.
Driven the highway and spent a week in key west. One of best times of my life.
Hope you can make it back soon! 👍🏼👍🏼
Key West was a grand place in the 70's went back in 87 was still nice. Then I took a road trip recently and was disappointed. The once beautiful town has turned into Little San Francisco.
Definitely more diverse now. Once I put aside my middle aged bias, I began to see the huge influx of styles and culture that they brought to a town that had unfortunately become a tourist trap. Loved it in the 70’s and 80’s. Disgusted by what it had become in the 90’s. They turned it around. Now I can get drunk as F at Sloppy’s or Monkeys, or Hogs and laugh at their silly ass outfits and behavior. And guess what? They are laughing right there back at me over my sandals and old white guy clothes. The hard pill I had to swallow was that the party is where you make it. But we all laugh at the fat fucks that unload when the cruise ships dock.
Meaning what?
Meaning there is too much traffic and the keys between bridges use to be able to camp to fish.
Being born in Florida back in 1965, I've been going to the Keys since I can't remember. Old photos of my mom holding me at Bahia Honda, my dad holding his spear guns at the edge of the water. All my 6 siblings still visit the Keys every year to enjoy the water as well as catching our own lobsters. So many fantastic memories over the years as a teenager, till now as a late 50's young man. The Keys are always a paradise and a short drive from central Florida. I love "The Florida Keys"!
I shouldn't be surprised at how amazing this Documentary is since being a lifer of PBS programming but I gotta say, Wow. I've lived in the Keys for 35 years and never got this much comprehensive data in one place that was so well composed and enjoyable to watch. Thank you.
This was an engaging and beautifully edited narrative. Thank you.
As a 6th generation Conch, all I can say is BRAVO PBS!!! This is an absolutely brilliant presentation of my island home. It was such a joy to see so many friends onscreen, too!
This is the comment I was scrolling for. I wondered as a documentarian if actual residents saw the diversity I do in the finished production. thanks for sharing your feelings!
Yes,
I'v spent many ah lazy days in 1960's in keys, living in Homestead. Hunter, Gatherer...
Then after my short stint in Vietnam,I soon came back too the world & spent my last, about year N half at NAS Key West, lived st Fort Zac, & did ahlot of skin diving, & took the Magic Mushroom tour there at the beach of Fort Zac (macro dosage not micro) -- it was all the Greatest of Experiences ! ! !
I am A NJ - Hillbilly growing up on Dark Moon Road in A little obscure corner of the Appalachian Valley in NW - Jersey, I'v been in nearly ah dozen different Asian countries,courtesy of the red, white & blue & lived & worked all around these highly divided states of 'merica.... I am in Oregon now, but soon too return too Florida, looking too live up North near Ocala & Gainsville, South Dade can get way way too red necky for me 👎
So there is no doubt in my very poor Freedom infected Mind... That once again, Good Lord Willing, I'll make it back too Key West , , and all the magic ! Maybe for A final Magic Mushroom ride Toooooo 👍😎@@HRHPrincessDianaGoodman
My wife and I visited Islamorada for the first time in the Mid-80's and fished out of Bud-N-Mary's many times for Bonefish and Tarpon. We we're instantly hooked and fell in love with the Keys. There is only one Keys and I am proud to say I have supported Captains 4 Clean Water a few times. When I learned of what those Guides were working for, I knew I had to donate a few times. I have life long memories of the Keys and my late wife. 💔
Me too, but 70's memories. Revisit on my own now since a widow. Met my husband at the Seven Mile Grill.
@@christinemckinney4093 I'm very sorry for your loss.
The keys are amazing ❤
Those same captains have over fished the shit out of the place
@@KeyLargoDude666
I left key west in the early 80's and returned from time to time. I then lived in Homestead during 2015 and would always be somewhere in the keys. Key west has changed so much that it's not worth going to in my opinion. Too many souvenir shops and tourists. The green parrot, Captain Tony's and sloppy joes bar expanded , ruining the quaintness of the establishments. I remember in the early eighties seeing and speaking with Capt Tony at his bar. He was a character. The upper keys are bumper to bumper traffic and people from Miami have trashed and overfished every fish possible. I'm glad I was able to enjoy the old key west when I was a younger man
Best Key Lime pie I’ve ever had was homemade in Key West ! I’ll never forget it. Yummy 😋
Outstanding presentation of the Florida Keys!
GREAT program and documentary. My parents lived in Key West and I have always felt like it was 'home'. ...not a Conch but only a month away from actually being one before my parents moved away. Key West is in my blood, the Keys are in my blood...this was a great show for what this Paradise of the US was and still is in its small places. THANK YOU for producing this fantastic documentary.
My great grandfather came down in 1912..my grandfather served at the Naval Base during the war and my mom went to school in Key West. This was such a wonderful documentary and I noticed many places still there today.
Dear bradcolby3624, Greetings from San Francisco I am a native and feel like a sea gal....I just wanted to say your family history is so romantic, I wish they would make a movie about your great grandparents how they met...got marry etc..my parents came to San Francisco in 1955 life and things were so simple here.....my mother side of the family settled in Florida.....I did get to drive down all the way to Key West it was beautiful and enchanting ....I have been a old soul and would have love to have been there in 1912 and on......I dated a navy person when he was station a while at Treasure Island,,,thou the San Francisco Coast guard is still Station there......the Keys and archipelago that make this region are the most magical place in the world.......
The Estrada's mom and son Jonathan ......🌁🌺🌊🌉📻👍
Glad I got to visit the Keys in 2017 and 2019 - absolute paradise! 🌴
I was there in 1970 till 1971. Landed by small yacht, got a job, a house on stilts, met my husband, got married, traveled for 15 years, revisited the Keys every 5 years or so. Now a widow, settled on the Gulf Coast. Music of the 70' always takes me back. Good times.
Paradise would be pristine and undeveloped. When you call it paradise you kiss it good-bye!
This opens with a revision to history. The waters weren’t aqua colored when the settlers came here. The waters were a light bright vibrant blue. The aqua color is an artifact of the last forty years. It’s due to the increase in algal content in the water from the infusion of nutrients due to human habitation. Much of the nutrient load actually comes from the Miami Fort Lauderdale area. Longshore drift and Gulf Stream counter currents cause the nutrients to flow south westerly through and along the Keys. I’ve lived here immersed in our history for over thirty years. I saw and dived the blue colored waters before they were a full aqua color.
Do apply a bit of patience to allow me the latitude to express my perception of the value of facts.
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A truly worth share you have provided, as we can only "believe" in most subject descriptions of History, for the influence of the "Mainstream Academics" and their "19th Century Theory based Paradigm and Linear Timeline", the Theory actually applied as a Fact Foundation, the Paradigm used as a "Tool of Measure", all 9f which did not fit or support this Paradigm, be that Theory, Artifacts, even Peer Reviewed Science, were and are ignored, and the History Books reflect their Paradigm, 'a Moden Myth" that is accepted as Academic Facts.
(The "Standards of Science and Research" prohibits using a Theory as a Fact.)
Thus we have arrived at a time, where even the Current Events are encrusted with an application of creative writing to suit the Commentary for the purpose, agenda, the Power and Profits of the Owner of the 24hr Cable News, one of whom lightly referenced his Fox News as "We are an Opinion News Media", (reference: Biography Documentary of Rupert Murdoch).
However, lest we forget, the "Universal Laws" are Absolute, and like the tides of the water you describe, the "Law of Rhythm" the ebb and flow of energies:
*We are position in time, on the beach to witness the "Tides of Truths" flow in and have vast opportunities to apply the *"Thought + Feelings, to establish the Frequency", that can benefit our desires with the most prevalent of the "Universal Laws", the "Law of Attraction", which when understood offers "Conscious Creating".*
A subject that will come to be realized as the most important value of everyone's Learning.
A subject that's noticable in it's absence in Curriculum Education and in the Western Roman based Christian Religion. Particularly since it clearly was the foundation of the Teachings of Yeshua/Jesus, and found in sparse parts in the New Testament, yet in far more identifiable content in the "Gospel of Thomas", one that was intentionally withheld, though it met their referenced "standards for qualification".
How the subject of greater Facts reflect vast explorations and potentials for such worthy discoveries.
Beth
a Sociologist/Behavioralist
and Historian
Just 30 years?
I think it’s been getting better since they got rid of septic tanks, still a lot of work to do! I love ❤ the keys
I was stationed at nas Boca chica over 40 years ago and speared fish , snorkeled and dove..The water was pretty much the same color until you went beyond the reefs..Then it was blue water..
Amazing 🤩
My late wife moved to Key west with her best friend in 1970 She loved the keys. Sadly became so expensive she couldn’t stay, which worked out otherwise I would not have ever met her years later. RIP Babe
I lived in the 1980s in Bahama village.
I absolutely loved it.
My infant son played and learned to swim in the ocean and the lovely people of Bahama village treated us as family.
We loved the community.
I was there five years, stationed at the Navy base. I went back recently and was so sad to see what has happened to the area.
The 1980's saw local artists that had little tiny stores all up and down Duval Street and it was so lovely and quaint.
Now it's just a lot of people who drive fast, move fast and the quaintness of the few remaining Conch's, the true local people, seems very few and far between.
We are still here .
@@boondockingamerica Wow you live down the street from Pres. Trump?
@chadsimmons6347 no we are about 129 miles from the orange man.
Julia Tuttle was the one who convinced Flagler to bring his railroad to Miami. He was never interested. She was brilliant !
Good to know! Women getting credit! Who knew?!?!🤔🙏🏻❤️
In 1999 I walked from Ft. Lauderdale to Homestead and took a small Bus to Key West , I stayed a bit over a Year , No Sunscreen , I turned Purple , I now have a sore on my head that won't Heal . But I had so much fun , the Rumrunners were Devine , Working on the Jail Crew was even interesting I got to see Islands that have bunkers that are still on no Maps . I got to know a Lot about every little nook and Place to sleep , every Bar to get a Drink , the Sunsets were Amazing , the Lime Pie was great , I saw the Cats all around the Lighthouse , You need to see this place before you go , It's worth it :) QC
Love your comment, QC, but just to be safe make sure you get that sore on your head checked out. I'm a gardener-landscaper, I had a sore on my forehead that wouldn't heal--it was skin cancer. Caught it early, knock on wood, & no issues since. Take care, friend!!!
Why take a bus? You don't have a car to drive any where?
@@barrywainwright3391 His name is Quaalude Charlie; I wouldn't recommend him driving.
@@barrywainwright3391. Well obviously not if he walked from Ft. Lauderdale to Homestead!!!
As a Bahamian its nice to hear of some of our history!
@ROCKET MAN I was born a Bahamian, not a victim of colonialism.
@ROCKET MAN I'm sorry you have a challenge with reading. I never said I lived in the "keys". I am a Bahamian not an American.
Wonderfully put together!!!
What a great documentary I’ve learned so much about the keys and Florida I’m ready to pack my bags it’s 5 o’clock somewhere
I've been to the keys three times. Nothing else like it!
I must visit Key West, and Cuba. I've been all over Florida and around the Caribbean. I love Cuban People and Music, and I've been waiting a long time, all my life we couldn't go to Cuba.
I will so enjoy the People (Cuba and Key West), and the Feeling of being there.
(Hemingway had to be a really fun fishing friend.)
Yep, it a plan/intention ✨
Chicago, USA
I’ve grown up in the Florida Keys, Islamorada to be exact. The Keys is a very special place.
In Marathon, we call Key West Key Weird.
Freaks are in
why in this 60 min PBS program are there 3-4 minutes devoted to gays and lesbians? i dont get it. Thats 3% of the program. Is the gay movement really 3% of the floriday keys 200 year history?!?! What history got left out in leiu of the gay story? kinda sad to me.
@samhallowsdc the gay community (I don't know about the rest of the letters), is a fairly significant part of the Key West community. I'm straight, and they don't bother me a bit. They are part of Key Weird as much as anyone else.
I appreciate the diversity in the storytelling. Thank you for sharing this.
I remember filling traps with cement, loading them on the boat and driving out to the Tortuga's as the sun was coming up. Then returning to Marathon Seafood House with the catch, boiling in the house, rice and beans and good company.
Well done! Not too TDC! Having lived in KW 28 yrs, it reminded me of what I loved about it before it became over-sold, overcrowded and really trashed. So sad.
sucks now.I call it Condo West !!!
@@jimshoe402 Lol, so symbolic of expansion . . . domestically. Now how can interest be created to immigrate northwest - Minot, North Dakota . . . Lol. 😎 🇺🇲 🤗
Growing up in south Florida- the keys were always a special place for us. Once I graduated from HS we moved to Big Pine. We were fortunate to be able to be caretakers of Camp Wesumpkee ( Girl Scout camp) for a year. I loved living in the keys. Life takes us in directions we don’t always understand. But, I am coming back.
Great documentary 👍🏽📹
Loved it there and so enjoyed learning the history on this video. 🐚🐚🐚
Excellent! I love camping on Sugar Loaf Key! The Keyes are magical, a place you can just "BE!" It is so beautiful!💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
I once woke up in a drunk tank in Key West with three stitches in my face after paying a homeless man to buy liquor outside of a cemetery, stealing a cart and eating the pavement in front of Ernest Hemingway's house. Ah, youth is a gift of nature. I have the scars to prove it.
Thanks for making this great documentary. I visited The Keys recently and now have new knowledge and insights into the development of the area. This warrants another visit!
Key West has always been paradise. I've lived there on and off for many years starting at the age of 14 in 77. I worked on a shrimp boat before becoming a sailing lover. Even worked at Margaritaville in the 90's
I now live aboard my sailboat in Hawaii, my other paradise 🏝️
Cheers for the wonderful story, thank you!
Some of my most prized memories. ⛵🐚🐠🦐
The one thing I expected to be in this show was the start of TWA. A first in the world company with it's origins there.
Other than that minor point, it was a fantastic show... I will always remember my visit to the magical island and the good times I had there. Thank you.
Wonderful documentary 👏❤
Great documentry and the pictures just put you right in the mix...
"BRAVO", So Well Done, Thank You................................................
I love the detailed history. I enjoy learning about new things.
I live in NJ and drove all the way to Key West one time. It definitely feels different down there. Had a good time on Duval Street. But I wouldn't want to be there if a tsunami hits or hurricane. It's a very fragile area to live but nice place to visit. Btw, it's expensive to live there.
Thk u for this…great story
Thanks for sharing this video it's a place of paradise.. Florida is beautiful is more calm place..
wow....beautiful history always linked to my homeland! we are so close and related indeed. my grand grand father was settled in KW for a time linked to Gato and the others revolutionaries.
thanks PBS for such a great documentary! hugs from Havana Cuba
Most definitely the Bestest Story! I love the Keys🌼🌺🥰🌸🌷❇️
Key West is always a blast.
Awesome video learned alot about the keys I didn't know.👌
Anyone remember the infamous Hanley's Restaurant on Marathon Key? Interesting chapter in the history of the island. The story goes that Jackie Gleason was co-owner of Hanley's. Downstairs was a fine dining area with garadon service, and somalier service for each table. But upstairs was by invitation only. It was a casino and speakeasy. The yachts could dock in front of, ( well actually behind) the restaurant and patrons could disembark in their finery and find themselves discreetly escorted up the winding staircase to the inner sanctum. There was the usual scandal and the usual reprimands and occasional fines, but hey, it was that era, and you know how that goes.
Thank you for posting this informative, entertaining and helpful video of this beautiful place, Key West. I so hope to visit one day, maybe even have a vacation home their one day. I too am a writer and hope Key West can inspire me further. Numerous movies include Key West, to name two Miami Vice and A Murder of Crows with Cuba Gooding Jr. God bless.
Who could forget the year of cessesion from the Union and the formation of the Conch Republic. Fun times!
Officer Bianco, FANTASTIC INTERVIEW! Never give up!
😎🇺🇸🧜This Video Should Be Included As Part Of The Mandatory History Curriculum Of Every Florida School 🙏Thank You South Florida PBS From A 3rd Generational South Florida Native !!!
A class on how to use capitalism in sentences should also be included.
@@BrittMFH I Use Capital Letters To Accentuate My Point
I never knew key lime pie came from the Florida keys, learned something new.
When I got out of the navy in 1981, I lived in Bahama village. Very tight knit community. I was white and never had a problem .
If you ever find yourself on key West, be sure to take the Hemmingway House tour. I got to, and even though I am very handicapped and couldn’t easily run sll over the property, I was infinitely happy to get to spend my evtire visit there sitting in The Hemmingway’s kitchen. I was fascinated by that house and what I was able to absorb there. And the entire town is populated with those darling 6 toed kitty cats.
Groovy video
Smart man true history tells us a lot
❤❤❤❤ Wow EXCELLENT REVIEW!! I SUBSCRIBED ❤
Makes me miss home
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Was stationed at NAS Key West in the late 70's. I was just a kid, really. Had an opportunity to buy a "fixer-upper" home for a mere $25,000 on Jaimaica Drive with a channel in the back yard. Didn't buy it. Been kicking myself in the ass ever since. Last I visited was in 2001. Was pretty disgusted with how what it's turned into. Just sad.
I’ll always love orange blossom perfume from the keys ❤
I live in the Keys and once was a beautiful place. Unfortunately now there are way to many Humans that come and don't give a Sh.i about it's environment or abide to the regulations. Its pitiful to see what little consideration some have.
amazing documentary of my backyard ❤❤
I celabraed my birthday last year with my girlfrid for four days right off Duvall Street. The people were so kool. Never forget it. Key West should be on everyones bucket list to see. Just bring lots of money.
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent still-motion photography pictures. Enabling viewer's to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Special thanks to residents sharing personal information on daily lifestyles. Unfortunately the Key West turned into something it was never ment to be.
I love everything about the keys
Well done documentary. 💦
It is a beautiful place been there and loved it
I've been so lucky to have lived and worked all over the world 🌎. But there's not anything to compare to Florida Key's. Love.em 🎉😊❤❤❤
this is sooooo stinking cool!!!!.....i love the days when people had MORE of an interest in BUILDING things up rather than tear it all down!!!! i've lived in fla too long to have never made it to the keys yet!!! there's a statue down there that i've wanted to see and THE bridge and just the history of it all for....25 years!!!!!😕 glad things worked out between flagler and krome. krome seems like he was a pretty stand up guy to WANT to give flagler his dream come true.
Beautiful place
Thanks Skye!
I lived in Marathon for a long time - it's an amazing, beautiful, fun and laid-back little drinking community with a serious fishing problem.
I'm due to visit Key West in January '24. Unfortunately, only for one day, on a small British cruise ship. I can see I'll have a lot to cram in!
Wow history buff from MN here keys history is fascinating
I lived in Key West for six months. Pretty convinced I would be dead if I extended my stay.
Beautiful history. However, where are the Bahamas village descendants, the old Cuban families today? They can no longer afford to live in KW. KW, like virtually every coastal in town in the US is now owned by developers, persons/corporations who saw the opportunity and were given free reign when real estate was cheap to develop. The result is that most Americans, even those born and raised in those communities can no longer afford to live there, let alone own property unless they were lucky enough to inherit and able to resist the lucrative offers of developers. The sad reality is that we have sold KW and coastal communities to persons and corporations who will never live there, who have little ties to the communities they now control the vacation rental and tourism industries in. They don't represent the history, hearts and souls of those who built those communities. We, need to limit our greed and desires to redevelopment to a sustainable level that allows the people of these communities to remain, to thrive and to continue to create and contribute to the natural history, character, and inherent charm of real communities, rather than to become a part of the unaffordable vacation industry that forces them to move to where they can afford housing and the food on their plates. For the most part history and communities are not built by soulless corporate entities buying up local places.
This is so wrong and 😢
Basically there are no real beaches left in the Florida Keys. We searched for them. But the only reasonable one
is in Key Largo at the John Pennekamp Corral Reef State Park at a length of about 100 yards the rest are mini beaches were you can wade knee deep. The developers must have taken over all the nice beaches shown in this movie.
AirBBs and VRBOs are destroying communities and neighborhoods all over the world. The developers and realtors are simply blood sucking greedy people. They don’t care about neighborhoods and communities.
I was there approximately 50 years ago with my mother and sister and a friend of ours. It had become a Haven for gays and Cubans. (Boat people.). We'd liked the key lime pie and conch dishes.
@@hesseldijkstra5327 There never was beaches; we live on rocks of coral which is also why we have no “waves” either. Any beaches we have are man made ones.
boot legging was big back in the day before i was born, it was always hidden o0n the harbor keys and brought in on sunday while most were in church.
I lived there for over 10 yrs I loved it it was expensive but a great place
Florida Keys! I am 72 now and my Dad bought a motel there in the 1950'a (Grassy Key)! I recall the coconut palms the key limes , and the sight of todays catch rolled up in newspaper !!. Back in those days I recall the swarms of lobster 🦞 darkening the shore line. Everone was so excited ! Conch where everywhere i saw conch thrown up on the shore in heaps ! Smell was awefull. The greed of a few decimated the conch population ! Shameful!
Well so many horseshoe crabs seemed to be everywhere. Awesome creatures there where no shortage of.
Daytime was the most excellent, as when the sun started to set the mosquitoes where so bad you couldn't see the docks in front of our home ! After late night you could hear the mosquito abatement trucks flooding the skys with pesticide to eradicate the mosquitoes .. Sounded like aircraft crash landing, scared my mother to dearh..
Well our uncle John Hlebo who served on the USS BANG submarine seevice during WwII joined us. WHAT a life, free America wss in those days ! All our Family friends and neighbors where living in Paradise !
Hopefully You and others will have a chance to enjoy GODS Blessings !
I remember the mosquito trucks, the palms, the water, the scent of the ocean, and huge sand crabs my cousins used to scare us. It was wonderful. It is gone now. I am 74 and sad to know that most will never see what we did or felt the ambiance of the islands.
I lived in the Keys after I was discharged from the Army. It was great. It was lonely. Each Key was its own little community. They were ruined when they expanded US1 and more people could easily get there.
A1A ?
It's beautiful there but you feel vulnerable to storms due to the isolation.
No wat one of my favorite place Key West beautiful go to the sanctuary by butterflies it's amazing can you show me key limes one of my family desserts oh boy
Was not aware of most of the topics, especially the 19th century history. Surprised that Hurricane Irma 2017 was not mentioned.
There's a TON of history missing here
It's PBS and Key West focused....this means the wealthy white liberals who are the primary consumers of publicly financed media as well as the resident of the Key West need to feed their own narcissism by focusing in on the victimhoom aspect of the history. This is key to feed their own egos as well as push the racial and gender conflict theories which help them divide and gain power.
VERY NICE. 😘😘😘
The Florida Keys and Florida in general always impressed me as unique, though alas -- would that the Keys-proper were a terra better kept discreet, ay about which few if any words were shared...
I was looking forward to a pleasant video. However, the main focus seemed to be about division. Why is division the focus? I quit watching after about 10 minutes.
It's PBS and Key West focused....this means the wealthy white liberals who are the primary consumers of publicly financed media as well as the resident of the Key West need to feed their own narcissism by focusing in on the victimhoom aspect of the history. This is key to feed their own egos as well as push the racial and gender conflict theories which help them divide and gain power.
@Astrobucks2 You're right, and I think the majority of people are not like them, there're people like us. We're going to fix this broken situation soon.
Sad to hear what's happening to KW. Went in 2011 on my honeymoon for a week. Ended up staying 10 days. Fabulous time. The Green Parrot was my favorite watering hole. Wanted to return ut not sure after this.
HEH! PBS
bogart movie key largo ! drank beers in carribian club was awsome
Grew up here lived in Tavernier.
i ws th9rd generation, my great grandpa came from Bahamas, my mom came from marathon and my dad was from everglades.
my grand father was one of the people that was in the frontier of key west. The family names are ogden, thompson, and cates.
My family shipwrecked on the reef in 1843. I inherited an acre on big torch key in 1965 that cost a filing fee of $34.50 in 1920.
I think the early pioneers also met with the Native Americans, who had lived there for a very long time.
Deceptive PBS show.
I spent 2 weeks every summer with my iron worker Dad from St. Louis we lived in Captain Tony’s and Sloppy Joe’s!!! It was a good time. Sad to See what the Keys have become…