I grew up on Miami Beach in the 1950s and 60s. What a magical, safe and wonderful place to be a kid. My high school was a few blocks from the beach. Life was good. Surf Side Six was a big hit on TV and the Jackie Gleason show was live from Miami Beach. The Fountanebleau Hotel was the height of cool and the Eden Roc was luxury.
Great footage of Miami back in the late 1950s. Love the old cars they had back then. This film footage is very rare indeed. I could do without the music you selected for this clip. Thanks for posting this!
Perez Prado MAMBO! : D THANK YOU for not putting another hip hop background music like everyone does, I'm up to my eyeballs with that type of music! Great video!
That's quite a spiffed up '55 Chevy Belair seen near the end of the clip. It's got a continental kit on it which normally only appeared on Ford cars, plus the Packard Caribbean back then, plus its also got an antenna on the back. They were introduced on the '55 Packard. So those modifications must been strictly a custom job I would imagine. By the way, it's a great looking car, a true classic.
Thanks! Memories of my childhood and before I joined the Army in 1962 and returned in 1966! Especially liked the views of Espanola Way as I want to Central Beach Elementary School the Ida M. Fisher Jr. High to the new Miami Beach Senior Hi. What changes have been made some for the good some so so. Still it was home and a great place for a kid and young adult. Miss the great deli’s and restaurants.
Went to Miami Beach in winter in the 1950's as an elementary school kid. Stayed at Arlington and Somerset hotels. No fear for personal safety, no blasting music all hours, no tables blocking the sidewalk, and no traffic jams even in the evening. Just great people enjoying a winter vacation.Despite the high prices Ocean Drive has become so cheap. I regret it.
Too bad nobody warned the Native Americans. The Deliverance soundtrack and the stink of meth should have been a warning of what was to come. Yea thanks Europe!
What a great flashback I love to haulover in those days and charter boats Biscayne boulevard chasing the train God was a great time in Miami then glad I grew up in that era
I lived in Miami Beach in 1979-80. It was very nice then up until the 1980 Mariel Cubans started to arrive when crime rate soared to unspeakable heights, I wouldn't live there now, so many negative changes.
Its their fault? Of course that in the begining the crime rate was high, Cuba sent criminals, and a lot of the immigrants were poor, but nowadays the city is actually rich and the best in US. Crime rates are high all over US. Cubans and descendants work hard everyday and doesnt support the leftists, they know how bad left is.
@@whitebathroomguy That is a disgusting lie from yourself, and you known that, maybe you are angry, because many other people, that are not Anglo, can get a job to, I sense envy and demagogue on your post.
Actually, Cubans were in Miami 20 years before that date, and many years before many of the angry people, hateful Dems, expressing their hate in the post, The Mariel, was an effective way to accredited a bad name to the successful Cuban Community in Miami, by the left (Carter) and Castro(Cuban Communist Dictator) even that only a 6% of that migration were criminals, made a lot of noise, together with the Colombians Narcs, who created the bloody hell, but Cubans got the fame, left and media did the rest, most of the criminals finished in a jail, deported, or dead, the other 94% made a good life, and many of them were successful, which causes a great disgust to the envious haters, including many Latin Americans, besides your hate, Miami is one of the greatest urban enclaves today, without the Cubans, this will were, maybe a New Orleans, with a 70% Afroamerican-AfroAntllian, 20%(which a 70% jewish)and a 10%Hispanic(Central-American-South American)
3:40 the serpentarium. I remember back in the 1980s it was still operational until 1984. This McDonalds 12647 S Dixie Hwy, Pinecrest, FL sits inits place. Had a teacher who used to work there and had stories about the place.
That McDonalds was there before the Serpentarium was torn down and was directly adjacent to it. My siblings and I ate there many times and always admired the cobra statue next door. What sits on the site now is a strip mall.
Wrong music. The Perez Prado / Cuban Mambo thing wasn't really happening then , it became popular later . In the 50's it was songs from the Glenn Miller era Big Bands in the Hotels , Arthur Godfrey from the Fontainbleau , Elvis , the Crew Cuts , Dion and Chubby Checker . The Cuban Revolution happened in 53 , but Castro didn't oust Batista until 1958 . I know , I grew up in Miami in the 50's , I was there .
wow! 3:38 The Miami Serpentarium 1947-1984. I got to go as a kid in the early 80's. I even had a teacer who worked there as a custodian at one time. He used to tell stories about the place. It was along the US1 just south of dadeland mall. After it was demolished a McDonalds was built there. Those were the days. It looks so country in the video. Its all developed now.
Actually it's one of the top paces in the world, and everybody wants to come here, your comment don't make any sense, stay in your trailer hating, it's serve well to you.
If Miami downgraded its because of the rich. You can't afford to go to the beach with your family. No parking. There's always fights and at night it's noisy .
The best reason I can think of is because in the 50's people mostly wanted to have fun and be entertained in a more wholesome and natural way. Today if you go to South Beach people are there to show off their cars, show off their steroid muscles or breast and butt implants and how "bad" and ghetto they can be. They mostly go there to compete and if you go to a club the music is so loud you can't even speak to the person next to you not to mention the blinding lights. It's a horrible expensive bumper to bumper MESS! Go to Key Biscayne and you'll see a totally different atmosphere very much like the 50's, the mentality is different, people go there to enjoy nature and share with family and friends rather than to be competitive.
Love that classic shot of what looks like the FEC Railway then, lots of Speedway Boxcars. Spotted a SOU one as well. Overall this is some fantastic footage
My brother was born in Miami Beach, 1951. Mom worked for Wolfie Cohen at the counter and she said he was a very nice and generous man. Dad was a lifeguard by day and short order cook at night. He said it was a crazy place after the war. He said there were twin brother motorcycle cops for Miami Beach PD that were completely crazy and they use ride their police Harleys down Ocean Ave shooting their pistols off in the air. He use to drag me back to Miami Beach in the late 60's from SF, but he said it had all changed for the worse.
Florida was definitely The South. Some hotels had signs stating: Great views, and no Jews" and, of course, there was segregation against African Americans, too.
Not alll of miami was liked that though against African Americans. Some parts treated African Americans good. I just saw a documentary of it. Its called history of south Miami.
@@josejones3312 you must not know the true history of Miami. The southern whites that was living there before the Cubans moved in treated African Americans like shit. Black could not go to South Beach and had to have a permit to work in south Beach. Also look at what the whites did to Overtown which was the heartbeat of the African American community in Miami. Overtown was th3 Harlem of the south and white ppl didnt like it. They destroyed it cause they had to make room for I95. Miami was just like any other southern cities
@@BeholdtheTruthBrandon no you must not the truth. Look up history of South miami on TH-cam. It seemed like it was kind of different in some way. Plus I read some articles where blacks and whites had picnics together and some of the whites served blacks. If I can find the article again I would definitely send it. Anf miami and the police use to look at them weird but the whites told them we are not like that in some areas. Yeah what you saying is right but if you dig deeper it wasn't ALL WAY around like that
@@BeholdtheTruthBrandon and no miami was not like any southern city. It waa not as bad as birhmam however you spell it or jackson MS. Miami had jobs for blacks. Many from georgia came to maimi for more jobs. You need to really really read more deeper than just what they teach you. Miami had the first black hotel in the south where blacks could stay like singers whenever they came miami to visit.
@@leobotero2792 yeah back in the day when you didn't have to worry about locking your windows and doors and they weren't bars on your windows and besides they weren't treated like rabbit animals until after 10pm and had to be on the West side of the railroad tracks.
They were full of envy and hate but the courageous and strong didn’t feel guilty, they understood human nature, that it’s all about power. Right now, you have people taking power too, using a method of emotional abuse, guilt, envy, hatred. It’s only for power.
Back then, I am sure people thought development and advancement were key components. But in all reality, much of people's ideas in that time has destroyed much of America
Sadly, we had to immigrate to America instead of standing our ground against Castro, many men tried in the Escambray rebellion, but they didn't have enough support and the people were too hypnotized by the "free perks" of socialism. In another universe, we might have been colonized by the British after they took Havana in 1762 and have our future set to become another U.S. state, but it's too late for that what with the Spanish retaking the city and the damage communism has caused in Cuban society. I fear the same will come for America if they don't put the communist threat in check.
Thanks for posting this very rare footage of Miami and Miami Beach back when it was a safe and normal place to live. The music overlay would be more proper for today's Miami as back in the 1950s most everyone who lived in Miami and Miami Beach soke english.
About this video: 1- Awesome 👍 nah 4 more 👍👍👍👍 2- Perez Prado, the real, the original Mambo King - Monica Lewinski ruined Mambo #5 for me. 3- Mechanical wonders when cars were works of art. Beauty in steel. No computers on wheels back then. Real American cars, unchopped and unchipped 😎
Incredible shots of the Miami I remember and loved. This has to be THE most irritating soundtrack that could ever have been selected though. Thank You for precious memories though!
I lived there off and on from 1969 to 2017. Cubans put Miami on the map, but Latin culture ruined Miami. People there are aggressive, rude, and coarse. They weren't great in 1969, but they are way worse now. I keep thanking God for the area where I live now. Warm, wonderful people, and you don't have to know Spanish.
There were actually some Cubans who lived in Miami during that time, but there weren't many. Most Cubans lived in Tampa, NJ, and NYC at that time, Ybor City and Union City being our footholds. There's been speculation that more Americans emigrated to Cuba before the communist regime, specifically to Isla de la Juventud (Isle of Youth), though there isn't a formal census on that. I think that it's great that many Cubans didn't have the need to settle in the U.S. before Castro's murderous dictatorship took over. I personally believe that tourism and settling in other places are fine, but not when it is caused by tyrannical governments forcing us to leave.
Comments were previously made about the choice of music that accompanies the historical footage....that it didn't match....I at first was of the opinion that the periods didn't match....Did some research.....How wrong I was....I'm not by anymeans an expert but the Latin sound and the Cha Cha were in full bloom during this period. Maybe the choice was without regard.....but it falls exactly into the time line of the film....
There were not many Cubans in Miami before Castro although I heard a small% fled Cuba during Batista's regime not everyone was happy with his dictatorship
Yes, I went to Snapper Creek Elementary 1-5th grade. ( 10151 SW 64th St, Miami, FL 33173) The 1st first grade class when the school was first opened. I never saw a black student in those 5 years .1960 -1966
Actually Cuban music were very popular at that time, and Miami were associated with Cuba, at that time you only, will need to take the ferry and to go to Havana, and the same from Cubans coming to Miami in their car, and for you information, they were a lot of Cubans at that time, in Miami, and mostly in Tampa, I don't know, if you are even American, don't like one.
Tony But let’s be realistic, this was before Miami turned Cuban/latino and at this time in history it was still primarily Anglo/Italian/Jewish. Even with connections to Cuba. Tampa is primarily where most pre-1959 Cubans lived, and even in Tampa at that time they were only a minority. At this time in history, Miami was primarily white American.
I grew up on Miami Beach in the 1950s and 60s. What a magical, safe and wonderful place to be a kid. My high school was a few blocks from the beach. Life was good. Surf Side Six was a big hit on TV and the Jackie Gleason show was live from Miami Beach. The Fountanebleau Hotel was the height of cool and the Eden Roc was luxury.
No democratZ!
@@stuartlee6622 give it a rest.
@@stuartlee6622 Miami Beach has always been a stronghold of Democrat majority and especially in the 50s and 60s.
Beautiful video.. Its a treasure..!!
Great footage of Miami back in the late 1950s. Love the old cars they had back then. This film footage is very rare indeed. I could do without the music you selected for this clip. Thanks for posting this!
I love this video so much I want to make 1 myself
Get an up-to-date PC - like mine. It has a volume & mute controls.
I love the music. Latin music in the 1950s
chip, 😂😁
I love the music. It’s perfect for the video.
Nice look at my home town, thank you!
Great look at 50s Miami; wrong music for the time...before the large white Cuban arrivals. Thank you for sharing!
I was thinking the same thing. Cugat must have been doing his thing in Havana in 1950.
Perez Prado MAMBO! : D THANK YOU for not putting another hip hop background music like everyone does, I'm up to my eyeballs with that type of music! Great video!
That's quite a spiffed up '55 Chevy Belair seen near the end of the clip. It's got a continental kit on it which normally only appeared on Ford cars, plus the Packard Caribbean back then, plus its also got an antenna on the back. They were introduced on the '55 Packard. So those modifications must been strictly a custom job I would imagine. By the way, it's a great looking car, a true classic.
I live here. Adore the music!
Thanks! Memories of my childhood and before I joined the Army in 1962 and returned in 1966! Especially liked the views of Espanola Way as I want to Central Beach Elementary School the Ida M. Fisher Jr. High to the new Miami Beach Senior Hi. What changes have been made some for the good some so so. Still it was home and a great place for a kid and young adult. Miss the great deli’s and restaurants.
I went to Central Beach, Fisher, and Beach High (Class of 1970) as well. Great memories!
@@cwctlh Try the Ollieburger?
Pumpernicks and Wolfies,some of the classic deli restaurants long gone. Loved the Serpenterium on US 1 in Perrine
Bill Haast used to turn a king cobra loose on a little patch of grass surrounded by kids. When it headed for the kids, he pulled its tail.
Fantastic video. I've been collecting fotos of this area in my channel. Watching this is a great help
Went to Miami Beach in winter in the 1950's as an elementary school kid. Stayed at Arlington and Somerset hotels. No fear for personal safety, no blasting music all hours, no tables blocking the sidewalk, and no traffic jams even in the evening. Just great people enjoying a winter vacation.Despite the high prices Ocean Drive has become so cheap. I regret it.
Because now it's a hip hop area, with 80% of the ambiance imported from New York, Detroit, and Atlanta, mainly
Right before the invasion. Thank You , Fidel! The Xavier Cougat music is a warning of what's to come!
Too bad nobody warned the Native Americans. The Deliverance soundtrack and the stink of meth should have been a warning of what was to come. Yea thanks Europe!
It was your choice to invent white flight, not ours.
My home sweet home❤️ this is surreal but so cool...tnx for posting👌🏻
What a great flashback I love to haulover in those days and charter boats Biscayne boulevard chasing the train God was a great time in Miami then glad I grew up in that era
I lived in Miami Beach in 1979-80. It was very nice then up until the 1980 Mariel Cubans started to arrive when crime rate soared to unspeakable heights, I wouldn't live there now, so many negative changes.
Its their fault? Of course that in the begining the crime rate was high, Cuba sent criminals, and a lot of the immigrants were poor, but nowadays the city is actually rich and the best in US. Crime rates are high all over US. Cubans and descendants work hard everyday and doesnt support the leftists, they know how bad left is.
sawyermatters from the words out of Fidel Castro's mouth.." I have flushed the toilets of Cuba onto the united States" his statement to Jimmy Carter
back in the days if you were Anglo you could still get a job in Miami...today Anglo resumes and applications on the bottom of list...
@@whitebathroomguy That is a disgusting lie from yourself, and you known that, maybe you are angry, because many other people, that are not Anglo, can get a job to, I sense envy and demagogue on your post.
Actually, Cubans were in Miami 20 years before that date, and many years before many of the angry people, hateful Dems, expressing their hate in the post, The Mariel, was an effective way to accredited a bad name to the successful Cuban Community in Miami, by the left (Carter) and Castro(Cuban Communist Dictator) even that only a 6% of that migration were criminals, made a lot of noise, together with the Colombians Narcs, who created the bloody hell, but Cubans got the fame, left and media did the rest, most of the criminals finished in a jail, deported, or dead, the other 94% made a good life, and many of them were successful, which causes a great disgust to the envious haters, including many Latin Americans, besides your hate, Miami is one of the greatest urban enclaves today, without the Cubans, this will were, maybe a New Orleans, with a 70% Afroamerican-AfroAntllian, 20%(which a 70% jewish)and a 10%Hispanic(Central-American-South American)
3:40 the serpentarium. I remember back in the 1980s it was still operational until 1984. This McDonalds
12647 S Dixie Hwy, Pinecrest, FL sits inits place. Had a teacher who used to work there and had stories about the place.
That McDonalds was there before the Serpentarium was torn down and was directly adjacent to it. My siblings and I ate there many times and always admired the cobra statue next door. What sits on the site now is a strip mall.
Wrong music. The Perez Prado / Cuban Mambo thing wasn't really happening then , it became popular later . In the 50's it was songs from the Glenn Miller era Big Bands in the Hotels , Arthur Godfrey from the Fontainbleau , Elvis , the Crew Cuts , Dion and Chubby Checker . The Cuban Revolution happened in 53 , but Castro didn't oust Batista until 1958 . I know , I grew up in Miami in the 50's , I was there .
IS VERY SAD TO WATCH THE VIDEO AND SEE HOW BEAUTIFUL MIAMI WAS AND WHAT IT HAS BECOME.
Miami still beautiful. Problem is the people that goes and live there
Miami is wonderful, I'm glad all the different types of people came together to make it great again
Where have all the white Americans gone?
Miami is now the Dubai of the United States.
@@SilverWave64 they moved to Broward and West Palm Beach counties when the Cubans came to America. The whites didn't want to live near the Cubans
wow! 3:38 The Miami Serpentarium 1947-1984. I got to go as a kid in the early 80's. I even had a teacer who worked there as a custodian at one time. He used to tell stories about the place. It was along the US1 just south of dadeland mall. After it was demolished a McDonalds was built there. Those were the days. It looks so country in the video. Its all developed now.
A strip mall was built on the Serpentarium site. The McDonalds next door was there before the Serpentarium was torn down.
I was bitten by a snake there. It escaped the enclosure. Non venemous
That's the one thing I recognized. My folks took me there 2-3 times.
Too bad Miami downgraded to the mess it is now.
Actually it's one of the top paces in the world, and everybody wants to come here, your comment don't make any sense, stay in your trailer hating, it's serve well to you.
If Miami downgraded its because of the rich. You can't afford to go to the beach with your family. No parking. There's always fights and at night it's noisy .
The best reason I can think of is because in the 50's people mostly wanted to have fun and be entertained in a more wholesome and natural way. Today if you go to South Beach people are there to show off their cars, show off their steroid muscles or breast and butt implants and how "bad" and ghetto they can be. They mostly go there to compete and if you go to a club the music is so loud you can't even speak to the person next to you not to mention the blinding lights. It's a horrible expensive bumper to bumper MESS! Go to Key Biscayne and you'll see a totally different atmosphere very much like the 50's, the mentality is different, people go there to enjoy nature and share with family and friends rather than to be competitive.
Downgraded? So you're saying this cuz the video doesn't show the mob shootings in 50's. Ignorance at its finest.
Minori
1958 Plymouth station wagon, followed by a Pontiac convertible, followed by a 1955 Chevrolet convertible.
Love that classic shot of what looks like the FEC Railway then, lots of Speedway Boxcars. Spotted a SOU one as well. Overall this is some fantastic footage
Wow, Miami was always beautiful. :o)
Wow ! Great memories and Dixie hwy the serpentarian as well. I remember Hoss was there for years . He was on TV too.
Author Godfrey at the Fountainbleau, i'm old.
Hawahya, Hawahya!
My brother was born in Miami Beach, 1951. Mom worked for Wolfie Cohen at the counter and she said he was a very nice and generous man. Dad was a lifeguard by day and short order cook at night. He said it was a crazy place after the war. He said there were twin brother motorcycle cops for Miami Beach PD that were completely crazy and they use ride their police Harleys down Ocean Ave shooting their pistols off in the air. He use to drag me back to Miami Beach in the late 60's from SF, but he said it had all changed for the worse.
Imagine a GTA game set in 50s Miami/Vice City...
Smuggling molasses!
Lived in Miami my whole life, Never liked Cuban music, drives me nuts
Florida was definitely The South. Some hotels had signs stating: Great views, and no Jews" and, of course, there was segregation against African Americans, too.
Not alll of miami was liked that though against African Americans. Some parts treated African Americans good. I just saw a documentary of it. Its called history of south Miami.
Wrong. Most of the residences of Miami Beach in the 1950’s were Jews.
@@josejones3312 you must not know the true history of Miami. The southern whites that was living there before the Cubans moved in treated African Americans like shit. Black could not go to South Beach and had to have a permit to work in south Beach. Also look at what the whites did to Overtown which was the heartbeat of the African American community in Miami. Overtown was th3 Harlem of the south and white ppl didnt like it. They destroyed it cause they had to make room for I95. Miami was just like any other southern cities
@@BeholdtheTruthBrandon no you must not the truth. Look up history of South miami on TH-cam. It seemed like it was kind of different in some way. Plus I read some articles where blacks and whites had picnics together and some of the whites served blacks. If I can find the article again I would definitely send it. Anf miami and the police use to look at them weird but the whites told them we are not like that in some areas. Yeah what you saying is right but if you dig deeper it wasn't ALL WAY around like that
@@BeholdtheTruthBrandon and no miami was not like any southern city. It waa not as bad as birhmam however you spell it or jackson MS. Miami had jobs for blacks. Many from georgia came to maimi for more jobs. You need to really really read more deeper than just what they teach you. Miami had the first black hotel in the south where blacks could stay like singers whenever they came miami to visit.
Recognizing most every landmark filmed here. Born here in 55. That could have been me in any of those passing cars, hee hee
Very nice video and Music classic of that time, when people weren't sensible snow flakes haters, and full envy.
Yeah when people still treated people of color like rabid animals. What a time to be alive.
Ahhh the good old days when white people where able to say racist things without being checked
@@leobotero2792 yeah back in the day when you didn't have to worry about locking your windows and doors and they weren't bars on your windows and besides they weren't treated like rabbit animals until after 10pm and had to be on the West side of the railroad tracks.
They were full of envy and hate but the courageous and strong didn’t feel guilty, they understood human nature, that it’s all about power. Right now, you have people taking power too, using a method of emotional abuse, guilt, envy, hatred. It’s only for power.
Memories! Now its been taken over by the rich.
And the poor.
Is there really a difference?
Belin Gonza, No, it has been taken over by the banana people.
Back then, I am sure people thought development and advancement were key components. But in all reality, much of people's ideas in that time has destroyed much of America
By destroy you of course mean building highway system, transportation infrastructure, developing previously uninhabitable regions.
That's not what she meant.
Wasn't Miami a hotbed of activity for Irish and Italian mobsters in the 50s?
C W ehhhhh not as much as nyc
Thats still better than the cocaine warfare that came after
And cuba 90 miles away...
@@nickv7824 Mostly Cuba. Las Vegas of the East pre-Castro
@@drpoundsign visited Miami early '60s, mostly like the film...tourist attractions. That was before the missle crisis tho.
I was born in Miami in 1952. Was a great place to grow up. Most people spoke English then.
Sadly, we had to immigrate to America instead of standing our ground against Castro, many men tried in the Escambray rebellion, but they didn't have enough support and the people were too hypnotized by the "free perks" of socialism. In another universe, we might have been colonized by the British after they took Havana in 1762 and have our future set to become another U.S. state, but it's too late for that what with the Spanish retaking the city and the damage communism has caused in Cuban society. I fear the same will come for America if they don't put the communist threat in check.
It was a sundown town then.
And people spoke English! Can you imagine?
Thanks for posting this very rare footage of Miami and Miami Beach back when it was a safe and normal place to live. The music overlay would be more proper for today's Miami as back in the 1950s most everyone who lived in Miami and Miami Beach soke english.
*Safe place for the rich white people
@@Imgordinho So what about the poor white people.....Are they safe as well....
@@moviemagg nah fuck em
Safe place for everyone. I lived it.
@@Imgordinho that’s not very nice
Love the 1950s Miami
About this video:
1- Awesome 👍 nah 4 more 👍👍👍👍
2- Perez Prado, the real, the original Mambo King - Monica Lewinski ruined Mambo #5 for me.
3- Mechanical wonders when cars were works of art. Beauty in steel. No computers on wheels back then. Real American cars, unchopped and unchipped 😎
Miami.. My Mammy..!
Incredible shots of the Miami I remember and loved. This has to be THE most irritating soundtrack that could ever have been selected though. Thank You for precious memories though!
This is right before Castro ruined Miami.
Lovely!!
Miami went through a weird white flight, white Anglos left and white Cubans took their place. It seems more about culture than race. Crazy huh
mambooo
Very nice. Thank you very much! The title is a bit misleading, this is not 1950, late 1950's maybe?
My parents took me to the Serpentarium in South Miami in the early '60's
This is so cool.
Miami in 1952
Somewhat misleading title ...obviously not 1950...late model 50s automobiles throughout...but wonderful scenes nevertheless....
epoca de Elvis Pesley
I lived there off and on from 1969 to 2017.
Cubans put Miami on the map, but Latin culture ruined Miami. People there are aggressive, rude, and coarse. They weren't great in 1969, but they are way worse now. I keep thanking God for the area where I live now. Warm, wonderful people, and you don't have to know Spanish.
Where`s Johnny Ola?
Why the latin themed music when portraying a city that had yet to see its first Cuban immigrant.
There were actually some Cubans who lived in Miami during that time, but there weren't many. Most Cubans lived in Tampa, NJ, and NYC at that time, Ybor City and Union City being our footholds. There's been speculation that more Americans emigrated to Cuba before the communist regime, specifically to Isla de la Juventud (Isle of Youth), though there isn't a formal census on that. I think that it's great that many Cubans didn't have the need to settle in the U.S. before Castro's murderous dictatorship took over.
I personally believe that tourism and settling in other places are fine, but not when it is caused by tyrannical governments forcing us to leave.
Comments were previously made about the choice of music that accompanies the historical footage....that it didn't match....I at first was of the opinion that the periods didn't match....Did some research.....How wrong I was....I'm not by anymeans an expert but the Latin sound and the Cha Cha were in full bloom during this period. Maybe the choice was without regard.....but it falls exactly into the time line of the film....
I JUST LOWERED THE VOLUME TO WATCH THE VIDEO.
Me 2 .it drived me crazy
Checker cab first made in 1959.
We are forgetting the contributions Cubans and other groups made Miami was not going to stay in the1950s nor any other city
Music isn’t appropriate for early - mid 50’s.
I HATE THE 80'S, 90'S, 2000'S AND BEYOUND.
There were not many Cubans in Miami before Castro although I heard a small% fled Cuba during Batista's regime not everyone was happy with his dictatorship
I believe Marco Rubio's parents immigrated to Florida during the Batista regime
Those are all late model cars.
Vice city 50's
I don't know what music is worse the music from the 1920s and 30s or the music in this video
Music in this video wins hands down.
Hay dios que tiempo
Was Miami ever segregated?
yes especially on the beach in the 70s (If I remember correctly)
Do you mean legally or by lifestyle choices?
Yes, legally. Schools, movie theaters, buses, taxis, even parks and beaches.
Yes, I went to Snapper Creek Elementary 1-5th grade. ( 10151 SW 64th St, Miami, FL 33173) The 1st first grade class when the school was first opened. I never saw a black student in those 5 years .1960 -1966
omg miami hasn’t changed
Everything the same but cars have changed.
Miami never had Hispanic's in the 1950's . They ruined this video adding Spanish music to it.
Actually Cuban music were very popular at that time, and Miami were associated with Cuba, at that time you only, will need to take the ferry and to go to Havana, and the same from Cubans coming to Miami in their car, and for you information, they were a lot of Cubans at that time, in Miami, and mostly in Tampa, I don't know, if you are even American, don't like one.
"Miami never had Hispanics in the 1950s" - ha!
Tony But let’s be realistic, this was before Miami turned Cuban/latino and at this time in history it was still primarily Anglo/Italian/Jewish. Even with connections to Cuba. Tampa is primarily where most pre-1959 Cubans lived, and even in Tampa at that time they were only a minority. At this time in history, Miami was primarily white American.
Hubba Hubba!!
Please replace the music with the 50's sounds of the day.This music does not fit.
Because, was one of the fashion music at that time, and for sure, no many stupid haters, with a snowflake complex like you.
Ciudad super aburrida pocos parques ,poco acogedora
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WHY BANANA REPUBLIC MUSIC FOR THE VIDEO, MIAMI WASN'T A BANANA REPUBLIC IN THE 50'S.
AM music ,no mombo
Where was Scarface
Where have all the white Americans gone?
In other parts of the state
Miami was NOT Latin back then. Wrong Music.
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Music sucks