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Joe gruter,vern Buchanan, greg stuble,you sure are home to these losers🎉

Venice is a beautiful place to live.

Ive lived here for 37 years and this is the coolest film ive ever seen about Sarasota

I been in Sarasota all my life, grew up on Lido beach and swam in the pool every weekend. Was the last kid to swim in the Lido Casino pool before they tore it down and was the first kid to get back in it when it reopened. I used to play on the military trucks in front of the old power station on 41 and 10th st. Now is a boat ramp. Sarasota was a great place to grow up.

Excellent film by Hack Swain, historically accurate.

Would like to watch the video but the sound is messed up

They knocked that parking garage down. THE FIRST BUILDING WOW GILLESPIE AREA.. 😮😮😮😮😮🤦🏾‍♀️😮😮😮😮😮 @SARASOTA #SARASOTA @THEN&NOW @FIRSTJAIL #FIRSTJAIL FOR @WHHHHOOOO @WHHHHHYYY #WHHHHYYY @RAILROADS #RAILROADS @1903-2023

Thanks for sharing this video… I really enjoyed it!

2023 its ruined

My husband presented this video to the Longboat Key Kiwanis club in 1986. You're first at United First Federal. Thanks for sharing, Mike.

Grew up in Venice from 1953 thru 1962...back when it was quite and a cheap place to live and enjoy, sadly that is not the case in 2023 but those of us who grew up there still have the great memories...

Wish they had more images of the Lido casino . I recall towers and a pool . Of course not everyone had a small camera in their hands in those days . Sure wish my grand father or dad had purchased land there . I know dad looked . We had a slide show presented to us in our home up north of all the properties for sale in the 60's. Dad was not a visionary or mom put the squash to his idea , I'll never know now. We would walk down to St Armands from the cottage we rented on Harrison Drive , pretty long walk for a kid in the heat . Just a beautiful spot .

Completely ruined by pollution and over crowding.

leave it to Florida to have a TOLL in 1910 😂😂

Sarasota is amazing. So fortunate to live here. I'm producing a documentary; we'd love to speak with you. I've tried a few ways to contact you. A great little tune recorded by Hack Swain Music "I'm having fun in Sarasota" is such a perfect song to capture the moment in time.

I love my home city

NICE VIDEO OF THE PAST,

It's wild that the bank that made this went out of business 4 years later.

I love this!! Just seeing venice way back when it was just being built Is really incredible

Sarasota remains one of America's best kept secrets, well that was until the beginning of the 2k's. I myself came to Sarasota in the early 90's. Transferring from my attendance at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn NY, down to this little still then sleepy town where Ringling School of Art and Design became my new school and residency. A suggestion that came from my old Pratt instructor became the best move i coudlve possibly made in my life. Sarasota in the early 90's was still at best known as a town for seniors, retirees, and veterans living their last in the good life. But in the 90's ironically those demographics has already been long tappered off. The town beyond nice , beautiful and notably special but also lacked much in regards to youth. which in many ways was a good thing. As much of the only youth around was mostly college students such as myself. Ive lived in many places in the US, and not many measured up to the peace and tranquility of Sarasota and its surrounding cities. The people were nice, maybe more than a bit too slow, but where the big cities forced a sense of panic insanity and never ending rush, sarasota didnt even have a word for such activity. The housing market boom didnt begin back then but the kindling of the fires were indeed brewing. And like a trickle before the flood, people often leaving the big city life, just so happened off the well beaten trail into sarasota and once their feet hit the cool powdered white sand beaches, like all of us, the place put a spell on its travelers like no other place in all the US. why leave!!!! youd have to be insane to leave such a place. And so.. it was common that people came to vacation but choose not to leave. And the secret began getting passed down to those individual friends, and from what was a trickle all threw the 90's and into the 2k's eventually became a flood. as we see today. Forget Martha's Vineyard Forget the Hamptons Forget Beverly hills or anywhere else in LA. Sarasota was another world. another country. And its neighboring cities who also went thru decades of sleep began to wake up as well. Saint Peterburg, Clearwater, Venice , Tampa. many places well known but the region as a whole quickly became ground zero for choice living. Their is indeed much to miss with the current level of new residences in Sarasota. as its not always the good that makes its way into town. Its also the wealthy and the greedy, the snobs, and the aristocrats who do more than a little towards putting a stink to where ever they settle. Sarasota thought built with luxury in mind, was always a humble place, and pretty diverse with its african american communities not overly mentioned in this video. As they settled the region even prior the white folks, alongside its native american settlers. But its not to say Saraosta has lost any of its beauty. Its just that it was more of a picture perfect sleepy town, well off everyones radar. and thats what made it special. And now the secret is out. we can only hope they dont transform the place into another over saturated California type town. No one wants that. and for those that do.. seeking greed and fortunes, try getting a ticket back to LA or NY. the gulf coast was just fine without you.

Good job beautiful boy! ✨💖

Thank you for sharing, truly enjoyed.

This is just wonderful, thank you for posting it. It is great to hear the voices of the people who lived here in the earlier years, who are long gone now.

Thank you, love you Sarasota ❤️

Great video. Hello from NY.

I think more apartments will be great in Highlands. A great place to live minus a few issues. Would be crushed if it were to crumble.

Great film guys....and Venice is STILL a great place to live.

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my jump instruction mike swain.what great skydivers

Grüße aus Deutschland. 🇩🇪

Thanks for sharing the film Mike. I’m a descendent of Jessie and Rebecca Knight as well as the Currys. It’s nice to see some history of such a great city.-Keith

Sarasota is awesome. Little crowded these days but nonetheless, couldn’t imagine living somewhere else. 👌 Thank you for the awesome vid!

This is not the real Venice of California 90291...!!! West Side !

Mike Swain, I'm on old friend of Danny and lost touch with him we were in a band together with a few other sarasota guys we r just seeing this now for the 1st time and wonder if u could answer a few questions for us is so my email is mickweick@msn.com please reach out Thanks

Thank you !

Thank you Mike for putting all these videos together. It is much appreciated! Subscribed!

Great production for 16mm. We just moved here summer of 2020, couldn't be happier.

This is awesome. Wish i could of seen the town in these days

That looks soooo familiar. It even sounds familiar....Who would jump out of a perfectly good 172XP?

Many years ago I was acquaintances with Burr Schmidt who told me he used to hunt were Sarasota Memorial is located and he called US 41 a Glorified goat path I believe this was in the early 1900s as he said he mostly got around by horse.

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Love it ! thank you ! ...love manatee county love it here

Changed so much, Sucks Venice is now ruined by all the new homes being built

Very good, but who hunts skunks

Awesome.

Wonderful. Very nice. Looks like my great grandmother @14:50 on the far left. So amazing.

Yes, Florida - not California or Italy. We produced this in 1976 on 16mm movie film long before video and the possibility of a universal audience on TH-cam. We never thought it would have anything but a local audience. Thanks for your comment. Mike Swain

The title should say Venice, Florida. I watched for a few minutes before I realized it was not the Venice by le in California. Lol

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Glad to know that Manatee county was always a miserable place to live lmao! Anyhow, thanks for uploading.