Fort Lauderdale Beach In The Old Days!

[@SERGSB]

My city born and raised #954 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@willbygosh4887]

Broward County had a population of 83,000 in 1950 and now it's around 2 million.

[@joeweider9471]

I remember moving down to fort Lauderdale from Bennington Vermont in August 1965... it was a paradise then, and I used to get up at midnight and ride my brother's bike to Ocean World on 17th Street causeway, I climbed over the wall and snuck in and played with the dolphins several times before I got caught, IT WAS GREAT!! 😃😃

[@Scrapla1]

Oh wow I remember that place then it turned into the Art Institute.

[@joeweider9471]

@@Scrapla1 Yes I think so

[@thomasdaniel5308]

Was a most wonderful place to grow up in the late '60's thru the '80's! Still a great city, but way too crowded and stressful place to live now, sadly. Feels like Miami in a bad way these days.

[@braddavis4276]

I was saying I moved to Pompano Beach where I grew up ! 26ave now Harbor Drive , We bought the house for 16thousand and I sold it for 300k in 2003 . But growing up in So.Florida was great , long before I-95 and all of the fucking traffic !

[@stevenmeadows6917]

What a beautiful place it was

[@videomaniac108]

This looks like the section of the beach from the Bahia Mar, with the Yankee Clipper hotel, to Las Olas I used to swim and skin dive off the jettys there from1966 to 1969 when I was in high school(Stranahan Sr High).

[@joeweider9471]

I was a senior at stranahan in 1965

[@videomaniac108]

@@joeweider9471 The Mighty Dragons - burnt orange and royal blue. I remember Harold Moser as Principal and Robert Childers as Dean of Boys. I had William Augustine as a physics teacher, Bob Sharp teaching English and Carol Turner as the head of our Thespian Troupe(#1831). I think that one of my math teachers(Ruth Shetler) may have been a classmate of yours. It's a shame how Broward county has let the school deteriorate into a dirty dump.

[@joeweider9471]

@@videomaniac108 nice to hear from you jim! we moved to fort Lauderdale in August started school in September I guess, but we went back to Vermont October 15th so I was only at Strahan for a few weeks... I don't remember any of the teachers and I wasn't there long enough to make any friends... I didn't even know that was the school sports name, dragons🤗

[@joeweider9471]

I've been living in Vail Colorado for the past 3 years, and I met a guy in a grocery store a few weeks ago with a Florida shirt on, and I asked him whereabouts he said fort Lauderdale and told me he went to stranahan high School, shows you how small the world really is--😃

[@docdurdin]

This was filmed before the Yankee Clipper was built. The Gill family built it and many other beach hotels. My grand dad moved to Lauderdale in 1902 as a surveyor and road builder. I had to leave the area in the 70's. Too many people have destroyed it.

[@joeweider9471]

the Yankee clipper was in this film... I was living in fort Lauderdale at the time, it was definitely there during the time of this filming

[@docdurdin]

@@joeweider9471 Hey Joe, you are right. My grandad took me out with Mr. Gill to see where they were building it. The cabanas were already there I must have been a little younger than I remembered. The main structure was built in 56. Time slips away so fast. These were the best of times.

[@joeweider9471]

@@docdurdin oh, they sure were, doc! I'm planning on moving back to South Florida from Colorado, but probably somewhere in the keys since that South east coast is such a mess of traffic and crazy people right now 😆

[@johnx4181]

My parents got married there and my grandfather was the Gills blacksmith

[@PyrosPelagics]

amazing to see how much space and air between buildings there were, i bet it was so pristine minus the smog from the pre-epa vehicles back then..

[@MegaHowser]

Extremely nostalgic

[@danpiraino]

Yes, it's very cool #retro :)

[@bevbryant8272]

The good ole days of Broward 🌞! I moved to Wilton Manors in 1969 from South Miami and lived there until 1995. The late 90's it really started changing. A lot of Broward natives and long time residents left because of the crime and corruption. Now it's mostly just transplants who come with their money.

[@dronejack6417]

@@bevbryant8272 Still here holding the line! since the early 70's!

[@vulcan2882]

@@bevbryant8272 .. houses there in Wilton Manors are now around $500k to well over a million. Apts there are starting at around $1,800 for a small 1/1 and going up to around $3k. Nobody can afford to live there anymore, I know because I used to live there.

[@braddavis4276]

I was Born in Holy Cross Hospital in 1958 and we lived in Wilton Manors until I was 3 and moved T

[@timfortune1884]

I was born Broward general hospital 1958 grew up in Lauderdale Manors

[@thatonescrambler]

I look at this then I look outside, then I look back at this and back outside thinking to myself "what a shithole"

[@thomasdaniel5308]

Yep

[@Alchemizingg]

Same

[@CjkingEntertainment]

Wow 😯

[@danpiraino]

Thanks for checking it out !

[@broken0956]

Damn

[@jahblessin3996]

Love my city born in Miami raised I. Lauderdale unfortunately the city has changed quite a bit

[@videomaniac108]

Does anybody remember the Aqua Addicts dive club and the Greenback Surf Club from this area?

[@bevbryant8272]

The good ole days of Broward 🌞! I moved to Wilton Manors in 1969 from South Miami and lived there until 1995. The late 90's it really started changing. A lot of Broward natives and long time residents left because of the crime and corruption. Now it's mostly just transplants who come with their money.

[@dronejack6417]

It has been sad watching Broward implode. I wish I could take the cold so I could leave like everyone else has. I will probably end up dying here a miserable old man.

[@frankrizzo4460]

@@dronejack6417 yes I totally agree with you at one time it was a paradise but sadly now it a congested concrete jungle with crime and drugs everywhere. My family moved to Broward in the early 70s and I can tell you it most certainly has changed for the worse🤔

[@KingCajete]

This place blows-- and I've been here all my life. I'm 33 now and I wanna get the fuck out!

[@vulcan2882]

@@KingCajete .. go west to 95 then turn right for about 8 hours then say hello to Georgia.

[@JamesJames-ut9yu]

Lived on 11 ave by 5 pionts

[@2011mendo]

Everyone has a ball in FLL, love it... Old promotional vlogs should be brought back.. these kids could use some culture from the CRAP they see today...

[@harryhall-o4y]

Taco Tico and Code 1

[@ikilledgaia1290]

Ft. Laud isn't the same without Ronnie B...he don't even border in Pompano. Who is going to bring back to Pompano Ronnie B's and get rid of present era of filth?

[@mrjohnstgeorge]

I need to lose about 20 pounds and 40 years.....