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It Happened On Clematis: A Walk Through City History · Inside West Palm Beach

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  Welcome to Inside West Palm
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  Beach. I'm Gerry Marcelo.
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  Clematis Street has been the center of our
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  social and economic life
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  for over a hundred years.
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  Today, we're going to dive back to view
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  actual snapshots of life on Clematis
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  from its earliest days
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  to periods of boom and
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  bust throughout the decades.
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  That's next on Inside West Palm Beach.
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  Joining us today is Kalani Rasouli,
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  Archivist for the Historical
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  Society of Palm Beach County.
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  Kalani, welcome.
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  Thank you for having me, Jerry.
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  You know, we've already done a couple of
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  stories where we've talked about the
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  history of both West
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  Palm Beach and County.
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  And stuff is fascinating. People don't
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  realize how rich our past actually is.
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  Tell us a little bit about the Historical
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  Society, where it is, and how people can
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  take advantage of what you guys provide.
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  So the Historical Society of Palm Beach
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  County, we are housed
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  in the 1916 courthouse.
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  So when you go to the courthouse on
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  Dixie, we're right across
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  the street. We're the old one.
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  Not the ginormous, large thing. It's the
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  smaller but
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  incredibly beautiful building.
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  Yeah, we're that neoclassical building
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  right across the way. You can head in.
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  We have the Richard and Pat Johnson Palm
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  Beach County History Museum.
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  Currently, we have an
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  exhibit called Sunshine Cinema.
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  It covers the history of the film
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  industry in Florida.
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  So it starts with silent films of the 20s
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  and ends with more modern
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  productions from the 90s.
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  So if you're
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  interested, check it out, Jerry.
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  So it's sort of like it is sort of an
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  exhibit of the museum of sorts with
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  specific theme things
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  that shows that go through.
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  Yes, we cover the
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  history of Palm Beach County.
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  And then also we collect and preserve the
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  history of Palm Beach County.
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  We've been doing this since 1937. So we
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  have a very vast collection
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  of artifacts, photographs,
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  newspaper clippings,
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  documents, you name it. We have it.
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  So how did you come about this
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  collection? Do people like save stuff up
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  and then give it to you?
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  Yeah, people. We are a donation-based
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  collecting institution.
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  So what we do is people come in. I talk
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  to them, write down
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  some names, and then we...
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  Yeah, it happens that
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  way. It's donation-based.
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  How many photographs are we talking
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  about? I mean, it's going to be...
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  It's in the millions.
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  It's, I'd say 10 million.
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  That's a lot of photographs. People's
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  lives are being captured.
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  This is what's really cool.
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  People bring you photographs. Okay, sure.
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  It's West Palm Beach.
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  But it's their lives in West Palm Beach.
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  What they were wearing,
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  the people around them,
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  the events that happened here. So what
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  was important. Yeah.
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  It was really cool. It's
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  really cool to see that.
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  Anything like film or stuff like that
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  being saved as well? Or
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  is it just photographs?
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  We do have some films. We do have some
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  actual rolls of film. But
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  majority of our collection,
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  I'd say, is photographs.
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  Photographs. Very cool. And we're going
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  to be looking at some
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  amazing photographs.
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  And part of the magic of historical
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  photographs is, at first
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  you'll glance at them and go,
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  "Oh, wow, cool. Look at these old style
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  clothes. Look at the cars."
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  And then you start actually
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  studying some of the details. And it's
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  like peeling back the layers of the onion
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  and you start seeing
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  stories upon stories, people in these
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  photographs. And you brought us a handful
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  of photographs today,
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  specifically about Phlamatus Street here
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  in West Palm Beach.
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  Okay, so let's go ahead and
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  jump right in. First of all, I'll let you
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  jump in here, but I want
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  to go ahead. Just for the
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  folks who are listening and not viewing
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  the podcast, I want to
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  give them a quick sketch,
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  a verbal sketch of what we're looking at.
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  And the first photograph
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  here, I'm not kidding you,
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  it looks like it's right out of an old
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  timey Western movie kind of
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  thing. What I'm looking at
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  here is a tent and a small wooden
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  structure. Behind them we can see pine
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  trees, no palm trees
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  anywhere, just pine trees, which is sort
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  of interesting. And then
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  a group of people standing
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  in front of this wooden building. We have
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  folks who are obviously
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  dressed in garb appropriate for,
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  I would assume, the later letter part of
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  the 1800s. A gentleman
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  who looks to be carrying a
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  shotgun and is wearing a very interesting
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  garb. I'm sure you could get
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  into that in just a moment.
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  I see a mother and child and I see other
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  folks who are just
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  gathered around in front of this
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  building. What is it? Is it a restaurant?
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  What is it? So the building
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  is actually one of the earliest
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  structures on Phlamatus Street. That was
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  Mr. Weybrecht, who's in the middle there,
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  to the right of the woman with the baby.
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  Otto Weybrecht opened his
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  store, that was it right there,
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  on Phlamatus Street. And that's one of
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  the earliest structures on
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  Phlamatus Street, actually.
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  Weybrecht was a plumber by trade. And so
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  when he came down to
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  Phlamatus from up north, he opened
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  the shop where he offered his services,
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  like steam and gas
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  fitting. He shaped tin and copper
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  and did iron work. All of these things
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  are essential for a
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  community that's starting
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  from the beginning, from the very start.
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  These are essential things that you need.
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  It's important for people to really
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  realize that what we're
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  seeing here is truly a pioneer
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  town. At this point in time, even though
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  streets are laid out and
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  across the way is the beginnings
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  of Palm Beach and the Palm Beach Society
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  thing, this is a very isolated area.
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  You had to be a little wild to want to
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  move here, I'd say. Seriously, bare
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  bones, you see the trees
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  in the background, the dirt paved road.
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  It was freshly laid in the
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  year prior. This photo was
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  taken in 1894. A year prior, Henry
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  Flagler had come down. He and George
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  Potter laid basically the
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  framework of what we know as downtown
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  West Palm Beach.
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  You'll see on his plat map,
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  Clamata Street, Banyan Street,
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  Poinsettia, all of those
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  cross streets. I see a pattern.
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  Yeah, all of the street names were very
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  precisely names with floral
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  florals. It was very, very
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  thoughtful how he started West Palm
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  Beach. It sounds like he
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  was actually trying to make
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  the street name sound very attractive to
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  bring people down here.
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  Absolutely, yeah. But again,
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  it's important for people to realize at
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  this point in time, West
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  Palm Beach, moving to West
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  Palm Beach was like moving to a desert
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  island somewhere in the
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  Pacific. It was a really long
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  way away from anything. The people who
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  are opening up shops
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  here weren't just opening up
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  T-shirt shops. No. They were opening
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  things that people needed to survive.
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  And so, do you have anything, looking at
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  the photograph again,
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  there is this very exotic
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  looking gentleman standing in the
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  foreground with a rifle and it seems to
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  be a headdress or some
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  sort of special thing on his head. Could
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  you tell us, do you know
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  about him? Yeah, I'm glad you
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  pointed him out. That is Billy Bowlegs
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  III. Billy Bowlegs was a
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  Seminole man who would come to
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  Klimatas and the Seminoles lived amongst
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  the pioneers. They taught
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  the pioneers how to live
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  on the land, how to farm, how to fish.
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  The relationship was
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  symbiotic in that way.
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  So they were actually very helpful and
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  this was the myth that
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  immediately contact with
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  Native Americans was an adversarial or
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  they were pretty welcoming. That's
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  fascinating to see. So
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  what we're looking at here is a very
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  early look at the beginnings
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  of Klimatas street. And even at
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  the very beginning, we can see that
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  commercial entities were
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  appearing on the street. So it's
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  really cool. And so again, just to make
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  the point, these are the earliest
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  pioneers that were coming
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  down and deciding that they wanted to
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  make, trying to hack out a
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  life here in an undisturbed,
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  undeveloped area. And you were a long way
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  away from any kind of
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  help. Oh yeah. Okay, so let's
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  put this picture aside. Let's move on to
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  another image that was
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  obviously just a few years into
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  the future, but it looks like a lot of
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  things have changed. Again,
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  for our folks that are not
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  hopefully you are listening, but for the
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  folks who are not able to
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  see what we're looking at,
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  we're looking down a stretch of roadway.
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  It's a fairly wide roadway
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  and parked along either side.
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  There are many, many, many cars that look
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  like they come from the
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  early twenties, you know,
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  Model A's and all kinds of cars all
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  parked along there.
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  They're all black and you know,
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  because I think that was a primary color.
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  And alongside of each
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  side of the road, there is,
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  looks like three commercial buildings of
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  many different types.
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  And at the very far end,
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  at the very end of the road, we see a
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  collection of what now I
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  think I'm seeing palm trees at the
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  end of that road there. Tell us what
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  we're looking at here.
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  Yeah. So we are looking at
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  Klamata Street in 1925. Wow. So 1925, the
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  Orange Blossom Special
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  connects to from New York to
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  West Palm Beach. That's the real way.
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  Yes, that's the real way,
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  Orange Blossom. And so you have an
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  influx of people who are picking up on
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  the appeal of Palm Beach County. They're
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  buying up real estate.
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  And where would you go to stay during
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  this period? You would
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  go to Klamata Street.
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  So you'll see it kind of littered all
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  over the street. I counted
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  three hotels on this photo.
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  As I said, I think I said earlier, when
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  we got started here, you get
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  the initial shock of looking
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  at these, wow, look at this really old
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  picture and these really old
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  cars. And then when you start
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  diving into the photograph and really
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  looking at the individual
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  things there, I mean, again,
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  for our folks at home that are not able
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  to actually see these
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  pictures, we see Hotel
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  Alamanda, we see Palm Beach Land and
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  Investment Company, we see a sign that
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  says Seaboard Airline
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  Railway, Central Market and Western
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  Meats. We see all sorts of different
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  varying types of businesses
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  all thrown along here. And this is
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  Klamata Street in the mid 1920s. Yes.
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  Yes. At the really the
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  height of the boom right before it pops,
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  I'd say you can see Anthony's
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  shop. That is the place where
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  if you needed a new pair of shoes or a
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  new sports coat, you would go to
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  Anthony's, get fitted. It
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  was a one-stop shop. But what we don't
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  see here, maybe I'm looking at
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  the wrong part of the street,
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  but I don't see the Como Building yet.
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  No. So this picture was
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  taken right at Poinsettia,
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  which is now Dixie. So the Como Building
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  would be the other way.
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  It's facing the other way.
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  Okay, I see. We're facing east on Klamata
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  Street. We're facing, you're looking
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  towards the ocean. Yes.
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  But I'll tell you, but what does come
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  across in this photograph
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  and people who are at home
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  looking at it will probably agree, there
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  seems to be a hustle and
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  bustle going on. There are cars,
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  there are people running about, there are
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  folks going in and out of
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  shops. So there is real growth
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  in West Palm Beach. We have gone a long
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  way from the lone wooden shack with
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  Native American help
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  and moms and babies and pioneer, pioneer,
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  pioneer. We're now seeing
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  ourselves become a small
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  metropolis here. Yeah, exactly. So even
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  by this point too, I
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  want to point out that this
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  photo was taken about March. Early on
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  after Flagler's first hotels opened up,
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  season was really only from December to
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  February. By now, season had expanded
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  into March. So you'll
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  see at the very end where City Park is,
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  all those trees, you'll see
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  a sign that says Seminole Sun
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  Dance. Oh, what's that? Seminole Sun
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  Dance was a festival that
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  took place for three days,
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  all across Klamata Street. Seminole Sun
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  Dance, it was like a
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  parade. You would have floats of
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  that businesses would put together full
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  of flowers. You would see
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  high school students putting
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  together floats. You would have your high
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  school bands, baton
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  twirlers, all of this movement,
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  all across Klamata Street. And then the
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  streets, we have photos of it, are
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  littered with people.
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  In the windows, the balconies,
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  everywhere, people would stop
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  and stare. That's fantastic.
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  Yeah. Okay, now I have a question for
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  you. We're seeing a view
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  of West Palm Beach here,
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  specifically Klamata Street, that's very,
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  very busy, looks like
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  it's really bustling.
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  It's sort of outside the realm of what we
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  discussed when we're talking
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  about the city of West Palm
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  Beach. But further north, there sounds
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  like Lake Park and other
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  things. So is there wilderness
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  between West Palm Beach and Lake Park at
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  that point? Or is it
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  sort of like a metropolis?
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  I wouldn't say it's a metropolis further
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  north of this area. I
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  would say there were actually
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  tents, tents in the Lake Park area. You
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  would come to West Palm
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  Beach and you would go to Klamata
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  Street to look at properties, talk to a
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  realtor, and then another
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  option besides hotels, you would
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  go to tents in Lake Park. So go camping.
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  Pretty much, yeah. Well, you were here
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  maybe to save money.
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  Yeah, yeah. So those are communities
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  there that would eventually
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  become what we know today as
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  Lake Park and some of the other smaller
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  communities that surround
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  this central area in West Palm.
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  And so it was almost like people were
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  still very primitive there.
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  They were living in tents and
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  like what it was probably 20 years, 25
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  years beforehand here in
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  West Palm Beach. It was still
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  that way up north. But we can see that we
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  have a city here that is
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  growing, that there is commerce,
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  there is people, there are people who are
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  not just involved with
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  helping the folks over on
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  Palm Beach, but actually creating a
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  community of their own and
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  having their own commerce here.
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  So that's really very fascinating. Now,
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  this is mid-20s, right?
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  Are we heading into a period?
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  Are we in a boom period here? Yes, we are
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  at the peak of boom in this photo. It is,
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  the bubble is so close to popping at this
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  point. We'll be talking
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  about that in a minute.
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  No, I didn't want to stop you. So, but
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  there's a lot going on. There is
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  commerce, there's growth.
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  And there's a boom. There's a boom and
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  it's going to bust a year
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  later because people were,
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  not even coming to Palm Beach County,
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  they were buying property
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  on speculation. So they would
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  buy up lots in hopes to sell them for
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  more than what they got it
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  for. They were hoping to make
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  a quick buck. And so we see a lot of
• 13:22:30
  neighborhoods being developed at this
• 13:22:32
  point, neighborhoods like
• 13:22:33
  El Cid, Flamingo Park, all of those
• 13:22:36
  lovely neighborhoods
• 13:22:37
  outside of this downtown district.
• 13:22:40
  You see those being developed, but also
• 13:22:43
  what's happening is people
• 13:22:44
  are buying real estate on
• 13:22:46
  speculation, like you said. So people are
• 13:22:50
  just buying a property
• 13:22:52
  and then they're not able to
• 13:22:53
  sell it. So the prosperity that we see
• 13:22:55
  here in West Palm Beach,
• 13:22:56
  was it just West Palm Beach or
• 13:22:58
  were there other communities that were
• 13:23:00
  seeing a similar boom and
• 13:23:01
  people coming in and speculating?
• 13:23:04
  All of really a lot of South Florida in
• 13:23:07
  the 1920s was experiencing
• 13:23:09
  a boom. Miami had a lot of
• 13:23:13
  development in this period
• 13:23:14
  as well. Miami, Hollywood.
• 13:23:20
  And I can add to that. I mean, once
• 13:23:23
  again, outside the Rumble West
• 13:23:25
  Palm, it's still fascinating.
• 13:23:27
  Up in Hobestown in Martin County, when
• 13:23:30
  they were first developing that area,
• 13:23:33
  it had another name. It was known as
• 13:23:35
  Olympia. And
• 13:23:37
  interestingly enough, Picture City.
• 13:23:40
  Picture City was supposed to be another
• 13:23:42
  film community that was
• 13:23:44
  to rival the burgeoning,
• 13:23:48
  brand new industry of movie making that
• 13:23:51
  was starting to form in
• 13:23:52
  Southern California and
• 13:23:53
  Hollywood. So for a short period of time
• 13:23:56
  there, there was
• 13:23:57
  going to be a possibility
• 13:23:58
  that Hobestown would be in the same
• 13:24:00
  ballpark as Hollywood,
• 13:24:03
  California. That all went away.
• 13:24:06
  It does go away. In the 20s, the film
• 13:24:11
  industry of Florida was unique. It was
• 13:24:15
  booming as well. There
• 13:24:16
  was lots of silent films being filmed
• 13:24:18
  here because of the
• 13:24:20
  uniqueness of the environment.
• 13:24:22
  It was attractive to film on a beach
• 13:24:26
  under a palm tree. You would get more
• 13:24:29
  tropical scenes here.
• 13:24:31
  If I may jump in, I know one of the
• 13:24:34
  technical reasons is
• 13:24:36
  that back in that day,
• 13:24:37
  film needed a lot of light. You had to
• 13:24:40
  have a lot of sunlight. It'd be very
• 13:24:42
  bright. How could you beat
• 13:24:43
  Florida for beautiful sunlight? No, you
• 13:24:48
  really can't. Even the
• 13:24:51
  1916 courthouse where the
• 13:24:53
  historical society lives now, there was a
• 13:24:56
  silent film that was
• 13:24:57
  filmed inside the building.
• 13:25:01
  Yeah, it's been lost to time,
• 13:25:03
  unfortunately. I would have pulled it up.
• 13:25:07
  Okay, so we know that there was a lot of
• 13:25:10
  dreams being dreamt back in
• 13:25:12
  the mid-1920s for this area.
• 13:25:15
  A lot of prosperity, a lot of speculation
• 13:25:17
  hoping that things would go continue on.
• 13:25:20
  But unfortunately, as you point out,
• 13:25:22
  there was a bust. What caused the bust?
• 13:25:24
  There was too many cooks. Too many people
• 13:25:27
  were coming down. There
• 13:25:30
  was no business. There was no
• 13:25:33
  business after a certain point. People
• 13:25:36
  started actually pulling out
• 13:25:37
  their money from banks after
• 13:25:40
  the 26th hurricane in Miami. People
• 13:25:43
  weren't used to weather like
• 13:25:45
  we have in Florida. So it was
• 13:25:48
  new. Once the 26th hurricane in Miami
• 13:25:53
  hit, people got nervous and
• 13:25:56
  they started pulling out their
• 13:25:57
  money out of banks in West Palm Beach. So
• 13:26:01
  people started to panic
• 13:26:02
  because they know that one
• 13:26:04
  really bad storm effectively could wipe
• 13:26:07
  them out and wipe out a business.
• 13:26:09
  Exactly. And unfortunately,
• 13:26:11
  that came to play in 1928.
• 13:26:16
  Yes, in 1928 with the 28th storm. It just
• 13:26:20
  completely decimated
• 13:26:22
  so many properties in
• 13:26:24
  West Palm Beach, so many
• 13:26:26
  people working in Belglades.
• 13:26:28
  Yes, there was a tremendous loss of life
• 13:26:30
  out there with the flooding
• 13:26:33
  that took place out there.
• 13:26:34
  Thousands of people lost their lives. But
• 13:26:38
  beyond just the incredible
• 13:26:41
  tragedy of that loss, which
• 13:26:43
  I think was actually like a
• 13:26:45
  record-breaking, horrible tragedy for
• 13:26:48
  many, many, many decades,
• 13:26:51
  there was just that speculation, that
• 13:26:54
  fear that, "Hey, why should we invest in
• 13:26:57
  this particular area
• 13:26:59
  if we could get all wiped
• 13:27:00
  out with just a big blow here?"
• 13:27:02
  Exactly. It was a shot in the dark. You
• 13:27:04
  couldn't predict these kinds
• 13:27:06
  of storms. There was no way.
• 13:27:08
  So people got nervous, moved back home.
• 13:27:11
  Before we get too far ahead on the
• 13:27:13
  timeline, I want to move on
• 13:27:15
  to our next photograph here.
• 13:27:17
  It looks similar, but not really,
• 13:27:20
  compared to the picture from the early
• 13:27:22
  1920s. Tell us a little
• 13:27:23
  bit about what we're looking at here.
• 13:27:25
  That is Clamata Street facing...
• 13:27:29
  Is it facing East? Just
• 13:27:31
  like the other one, right?
• 13:27:32
  Yeah.
• 13:27:33
  Let me go ahead and just give a quick
• 13:27:35
  verbal description here.
• 13:27:37
  We're looking down another
• 13:27:38
  section of a wide boulevard kind of thing
• 13:27:41
  with commercial
• 13:27:43
  buildings on either side. We see
• 13:27:46
  cars maybe a little bit further along in
• 13:27:48
  development. It's not the early 20s,
• 13:27:50
  maybe a little bit later, but still we
• 13:27:53
  got fenders and we got tires
• 13:27:57
  attached to the back seats and
• 13:27:59
  stuff like that. We see people walking
• 13:28:01
  along a very wide curb, a very wide
• 13:28:04
  sidewalk, I should say.
• 13:28:06
  Looking at the signs, we see many
• 13:28:08
  different types of businesses.
• 13:28:11
  It looks like it's still a fairly
• 13:28:14
  prosperous time here, Folly.
• 13:28:16
  Yeah, absolutely. You'll see all of the
• 13:28:19
  commercial spaces. The National Bank is
• 13:28:22
  on the left, of course.
• 13:28:25
  Any guesses?
• 13:28:26
  I'd say this is after the bus. I'd
• 13:28:28
  estimate this to be 27.
• 13:28:31
  27, sure.
• 13:28:33
  Yeah, so the shine has come off the boom.
• 13:28:37
  Some of the money that used to be flowing
• 13:28:40
  freely into Wispon Beach
• 13:28:42
  was starting to dry up here.
• 13:28:47
  Interesting, looking again, looking at
• 13:28:49
  what we have here, we see
• 13:28:50
  some banks. I see a jewelry
• 13:28:52
  store on one side. I see menswear. It
• 13:28:56
  almost seems like we're
• 13:28:57
  seeing less of the hotels and
• 13:29:00
  investment companies that we might have
• 13:29:02
  seen in the early photograph,
• 13:29:04
  and we're seeing stuff that
• 13:29:05
  people just needed to live.
• 13:29:07
  Exactly. It was more retail spaces just
• 13:29:12
  for your necessities, like what you said,
• 13:29:15
  jewelry, clothing, shoes.
• 13:29:18
  You have your bank, of course.
• 13:29:22
  Commerce for people who lived here.
• 13:29:25
  Okay, and that's an interesting turn,
• 13:29:27
  because before you had a
• 13:29:29
  sense of, "Hey, welcome. You
• 13:29:31
  are out of town. Here's a hotel. Here's a
• 13:29:33
  place for you to spend
• 13:29:34
  your money. Here's a place for
• 13:29:35
  you to buy land. Now it's more, "Hi,
• 13:29:39
  welcome. Here's where you can buy food
• 13:29:41
  and clothing and tools."
• 13:29:43
  That is an interesting change, and it's
• 13:29:46
  very apparent from these two photographs
• 13:29:48
  that should have been only taken maybe
• 13:29:50
  about six or seven years apart, maybe.
• 13:29:52
  Yeah, a lot can change, but you do see
• 13:29:56
  people still enjoying the
• 13:29:58
  street. People are browsing
• 13:30:00
  the stores. People are walking side by
• 13:30:03
  side. I imagine friends
• 13:30:06
  just hanging out, enjoying the
• 13:30:09
  weather. Well, it was the center of the
• 13:30:10
  community, and it continued to be that
• 13:30:12
  for a long, long time.
• 13:30:14
  Exactly. If you lived in West Palm, you
• 13:30:17
  headed down to that park. You headed down
• 13:30:20
  Klamata Street. That's where all the
• 13:30:22
  stores were. That's where people hung
• 13:30:23
  out. The vibe of it being
• 13:30:27
  the epicenter of the community was really
• 13:30:30
  intact at that point, still
• 13:30:31
  happening here. That's pretty
• 13:30:33
  cool. We have gone through a period here.
• 13:30:38
  It's interesting because
• 13:30:39
  what we've gone here from
• 13:30:41
  the very first photograph we showed,
• 13:30:42
  which was probably mid
• 13:30:43
  1890s, to this photograph,
• 13:30:45
  which would probably be late 1920s, we've
• 13:30:48
  only covered about 30
• 13:30:50
  years, 35 years maybe.
• 13:30:52
  Yeah. The city of West Palm Beach was in
• 13:30:55
  its 30s. Things are,
• 13:30:57
  like you said, slowing down
• 13:31:00
  after the real estate crisis. People are
• 13:31:04
  still living here. It
• 13:31:06
  wasn't as busy. The population
• 13:31:10
  falls out, but they come back to their
• 13:31:15
  feet. They keep coming back.
• 13:31:17
  Essentially, this was a period of time
• 13:31:19
  where from the mid
• 13:31:20
  1920s, when the boom happened
• 13:31:22
  through the Depression, and obviously the
• 13:31:25
  war was on the horizon of World War II.
• 13:31:28
  There was a period of malaise for the
• 13:31:31
  city where it was really,
• 13:31:32
  really quiet and that whole lot
• 13:31:34
  was going on. It's beyond what these
• 13:31:38
  photographs are doing,
• 13:31:39
  but just to ask a question,
• 13:31:42
  did West Palm Beach have something to do,
• 13:31:44
  have a role during World War II?
• 13:31:47
  Yes. West Palm Beach County played a big
• 13:31:50
  role in World War II. We have several,
• 13:31:54
  like for example, what we now know as
• 13:31:57
  PBI, Palm Beach
• 13:31:59
  International Airport. It originally was
• 13:32:02
  Morrison Field, which was where men would
• 13:32:06
  come to train for the Air
• 13:32:08
  Force. You would use Morrison
• 13:32:11
  Field. The breakers was converted to a
• 13:32:14
  hospital during the war. All
• 13:32:18
  of these places in this area
• 13:32:20
  were doing their part and really
• 13:32:23
  supporting our greater country and the
• 13:32:28
  men fighting in the Army,
• 13:32:30
  in the Navy. One thing that's interesting
• 13:32:34
  to know, we often think of
• 13:32:36
  World War II as being a war
• 13:32:37
  that happened very far away from us, that
• 13:32:39
  happened in Europe or happened in the
• 13:32:42
  Pacific. That wasn't
• 13:32:44
  the case. There was stuff that was going
• 13:32:46
  on just off our shores. Is that the case?
• 13:32:48
  Yeah, exactly. There were German
• 13:32:53
  submarines found in Boca Raton and Palm
• 13:32:57
  Beach all along the coast.
• 13:33:01
  There were some attacks, some U-boat
• 13:33:03
  attacks off our shore.
• 13:33:04
  There were, yeah, which you wouldn't
• 13:33:08
  imagine. You would never
• 13:33:09
  hear about, but there were
• 13:33:10
  even stories of Germans coming out of the
• 13:33:17
  boats, out of the submarines,
• 13:33:19
  entering the area and just hanging out.
• 13:33:25
  Wow. Okay, so we were clearly engaged in
• 13:33:29
  quite a conflict. But the point of what
• 13:33:32
  we're talking about
• 13:33:33
  here, and this is why it was
• 13:33:34
  important to Palm Beach County and West
• 13:33:36
  Palm Beach, was that
• 13:33:37
  hundreds of thousands, well,
• 13:33:40
  I'm guessing that, but I would assume
• 13:33:41
  probably hundreds of thousands of
• 13:33:44
  able-bodied servicemen
• 13:33:45
  and women passed through this area on
• 13:33:48
  their way to whatever
• 13:33:49
  theater they were going to,
• 13:33:51
  most likely the European theater. They
• 13:33:53
  got a glimpse of what was
• 13:33:55
  going on here in West Palm
• 13:33:56
  Beach and they ended up liking it.
• 13:33:59
  Exactly. So many men and
• 13:34:01
  women trained down here and they
• 13:34:04
  liked it. They liked it. They took well
• 13:34:06
  to the climate and just
• 13:34:10
  Florida. And so after the war,
• 13:34:13
  in the 50s, we see a second boom. We see
• 13:34:17
  a second boom in Palm Beach
• 13:34:19
  County. Just people, you know,
• 13:34:21
  have a little money in their pocket and
• 13:34:25
  they picked up their families and came.
• 13:34:27
  So they come back to West Palm, they
• 13:34:29
  visited, they kind of
• 13:34:30
  liked it. They probably found
• 13:34:32
  opportunities to build like little homes,
• 13:34:34
  you know, small starter
• 13:34:35
  homes to start families. And
• 13:34:36
  suddenly there's an explosion of
• 13:34:39
  population in West Palm
• 13:34:41
  Beach, which I think is a perfect
• 13:34:43
  springboard into one of our photographs
• 13:34:45
  here that we were going to
• 13:34:46
  talk about. Again, a quick
• 13:34:48
  thumbnail for our folks listening at
• 13:34:50
  home. This is a view of an
• 13:34:53
  intersection of Clamata Street.
• 13:34:55
  I kind of recognize that building. It's
• 13:34:57
  so funny how these
• 13:34:59
  buildings, you go, "Yeah,
• 13:35:00
  yeah, that's that building, blah, blah,
• 13:35:02
  blah." You know, you're looking at a
• 13:35:03
  picture that's 70 years
• 13:35:04
  old. This is a picture that looks like it
• 13:35:07
  may be from the early 50s
• 13:35:09
  judging by the cars. I'm looking
• 13:35:10
  at an intersection. Kalani, you can fill
• 13:35:12
  this in a second, but let me
• 13:35:13
  paint the picture. But we're
• 13:35:15
  seeing large department stores. We see
• 13:35:17
  Belks. We see down the way
• 13:35:20
  a large building that says
• 13:35:22
  "Burdines" on it. And now the road is, it
• 13:35:26
  looks like, honestly, it
• 13:35:27
  looks like it's a one-way street
• 13:35:29
  now at this point. And we have three full
• 13:35:32
  lanes of traffic moving down
• 13:35:34
  towards one end. So there's
• 13:35:37
  a lot of activity and there are people
• 13:35:39
  everywhere in this intersection. So
• 13:35:41
  there's a lot going on.
• 13:35:43
  Tell me about this point in time for West
• 13:35:45
  Palm Beach. Yeah. So
• 13:35:47
  this is about 1950s, I'd say
• 13:35:50
  early 1950s. I agree with that. So after
• 13:35:54
  the war, nationally, you
• 13:35:57
  know, confidence is boosted.
• 13:35:59
  People have recreational money now. And
• 13:36:01
  so you see, you see it
• 13:36:04
  reflected here in Clamata Street,
• 13:36:06
  all of these retail stores. Just in one
• 13:36:09
  photo, you have Belks.
• 13:36:12
  This is on the corner of
• 13:36:14
  Clamata Street in Olive. It's at that
• 13:36:16
  intersection. You have Belks
• 13:36:19
  right there where, you know,
• 13:36:21
  it's a department store. Fashion store as
• 13:36:23
  well. Yeah. You could buy
• 13:36:25
  jewelry, perfume, shoes,
• 13:36:27
  whatever you need. And same with
• 13:36:29
  Birdines. same with Birdines. You know,
• 13:36:34
  you have floors just of
• 13:36:36
  merchandise, all these different things
• 13:36:39
  you can get. And people flocked to
• 13:36:42
  Clamata Street to do
• 13:36:43
  that, to shop and maybe get a smoothie at
• 13:36:47
  the deli counter. Maybe
• 13:36:50
  get a milkshake. Yeah,
• 13:36:52
  actually, it sounds really good. But it's
• 13:36:54
  interesting again to
• 13:36:55
  note how the storefronts
• 13:36:58
  tell the story. We were talking about how
• 13:37:00
  the photograph from the
• 13:37:02
  very late 1920s seemed to
• 13:37:04
  show a sort of a motion back towards
• 13:37:06
  fulfilling family needs. You
• 13:37:09
  know, you had small stores,
• 13:37:11
  mom and pops, selling things that people
• 13:37:13
  just needed to get by.
• 13:37:14
  Now, all of a sudden you have
• 13:37:16
  department stores, which will have the
• 13:37:18
  very latest in women's
• 13:37:20
  fashion. Oh, yeah. And the shoes and
• 13:37:22
  the purses and all that. And people are
• 13:37:25
  coming to buy this stuff. So
• 13:37:27
  there is, I guess we could even
• 13:37:29
  say that as we're moving into this period
• 13:37:31
  of time, Whispon Beach is
• 13:37:33
  seeing a rebirth in economic
• 13:37:35
  viability. Yes. Okay. Just so many people
• 13:37:38
  moving here and businesses
• 13:37:40
  moving here and industries.
• 13:37:43
  And so as the economic profile of the
• 13:37:47
  city change, we see it right here on
• 13:37:51
  these views of Clamata
• 13:37:53
  Street. This is something else. Yeah,
• 13:37:55
  exactly. It was the retail hub of the
• 13:37:59
  area. After the war,
• 13:38:03
  we mentioned Morrison Field, right? The
• 13:38:06
  training base for the Army
• 13:38:11
  Air Corps. Thank you. Sure.
• 13:38:14
  So we mentioned Morrison Field, which was
• 13:38:17
  the training base for
• 13:38:18
  the airmen of World War II.
• 13:38:20
  And then it becomes Palm Beach
• 13:38:23
  International Airport in 1952. So
• 13:38:26
  suddenly it's just that much
• 13:38:28
  more convenient to get here. And so you
• 13:38:32
  see a flight of people
• 13:38:33
  coming here, just flocks. You see
• 13:38:36
  a boom of new builds being built south of
• 13:38:41
  West Palm Beach,
• 13:38:42
  north of West Palm Beach,
• 13:38:43
  north Palm Beach, Palm Beach Gardens.
• 13:38:46
  That whole area just sees
• 13:38:49
  a boom in population. It's
• 13:38:52
  their pioneer times, you could say. So
• 13:38:54
  now when we were talking
• 13:38:56
  about the tents in Lake Park,
• 13:38:58
  I guess the tents have gone away and the
• 13:39:00
  small homes and the single
• 13:39:01
  family homes and the small
• 13:39:02
  mom and pops and all that started to
• 13:39:05
  appear at that time. So as
• 13:39:06
  we look at the prosperity here
• 13:39:08
  at ground zero of like Klamadah Street,
• 13:39:11
  it's all happening on the
• 13:39:12
  periphery and all through
• 13:39:13
  all of South Florida. Yeah, absolutely.
• 13:39:16
  Hopefully I'm not
• 13:39:17
  catching you off guard here, but
• 13:39:20
  where about did we see the development of
• 13:39:23
  like the big roadways
• 13:39:24
  down here? When did the term
• 13:39:26
  pike take place? When did I-95, I know
• 13:39:28
  the I-95 was only
• 13:39:29
  completed back in the 1980s. Yeah.
• 13:39:33
  In here. So yeah, for a long time, 95
• 13:39:37
  exits were a little
• 13:39:38
  scattered in our county. I think
• 13:39:41
  I wrote a quote like, if you wanted to go
• 13:39:44
  to Del Rey, beat it. You
• 13:39:46
  couldn't get there without
• 13:39:49
  a proper exit. It was so tough, but
• 13:39:52
  you're right. In the 60s, we see the term
• 13:39:55
  pike being built that
• 13:39:57
  connects you to the western part of our
• 13:39:59
  county. It's just that much more
• 13:40:02
  convenient. You get to
• 13:40:03
  hop on a highway. Right? Because I
• 13:40:06
  remember hearing stories
• 13:40:07
  from my dad and my dad would
• 13:40:10
  be driving down with our family in the
• 13:40:13
  late 50s, early 60s from
• 13:40:16
  the New York, New Jersey area.
• 13:40:18
  Yeah. Okay. Like everyone else at the
• 13:40:21
  time was doing. And what
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  would happen is you would get down
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  to Georgia or whatever. There were no
• 13:40:28
  giant interstates. I-95
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  really didn't exist back then.
• 13:40:31
  You were taking what we would consider
• 13:40:32
  now to be back roads through
• 13:40:34
  here. And so a trip to Florida
• 13:40:37
  from that part of the world was of like a
• 13:40:39
  five day event because you
• 13:40:40
  were driving a very short period
• 13:40:42
  of distance. It's all you could do. So
• 13:40:44
  that probably limited a lot
• 13:40:46
  of people getting down here.
• 13:40:47
  But as those roads went in, as it became
• 13:40:51
  better developed, it
• 13:40:53
  became a straight shot to get to
• 13:40:56
  South Florida, to go to Miami, go to West
• 13:40:59
  Palm Beach. People weren't
• 13:41:00
  going to Orlando back then
• 13:41:01
  because there was nothing really there in
• 13:41:03
  Orlando until the 1970s. So we were a
• 13:41:07
  destination and that
• 13:41:08
  probably was a lot of what helped propel
• 13:41:10
  the growth in West Palm
• 13:41:12
  Beach. Exactly. You've hit on it.
• 13:41:15
  Although what we do have in Palm Beach
• 13:41:19
  County is US-1. US-1, the scenic highway,
• 13:41:22
  which is very unique
• 13:41:24
  to this area. You have to drive all the
• 13:41:29
  way down from
• 13:41:29
  Jacksonville up to West Palm Beach,
• 13:41:32
  but you got to do it on a very beautiful
• 13:41:34
  highway and you can stop
• 13:41:36
  all along the way. There's
• 13:41:38
  strategically motels being placed all
• 13:41:41
  along the way on your road
• 13:41:42
  trip. So you would hop off and
• 13:41:46
  Juno and head over to a motel there. So
• 13:41:51
  for the time being, that
• 13:41:53
  worked, but eventually in the
• 13:41:55
  60s we do get more 95 exits. We get the
• 13:41:59
  turnpike. We just get more larger
• 13:42:03
  highways, more development.
• 13:42:06
  So we've covered from the very, very
• 13:42:09
  beginnings of Clamata
• 13:42:11
  Street. By saying Clamata Street,
• 13:42:13
  we're also talking about the city of West
• 13:42:15
  Palm Beach in general
• 13:42:16
  through the 20s, through a boom
• 13:42:18
  period that was short-lived and failed.
• 13:42:23
  And then there was a Malays
• 13:42:25
  period where things were kind
• 13:42:27
  of quiet. The war as tragic as war can be
• 13:42:30
  did basically expose us
• 13:42:33
  to a brand new audience of
• 13:42:34
  people who decided they would like to
• 13:42:36
  live here. Now we've moved
• 13:42:37
  through the 50s. The 60s was
• 13:42:43
  similar period. Was it still steady
• 13:42:46
  growth throughout that
• 13:42:47
  time, do you think? Yeah,
• 13:42:49
  there was in the 60s you see tourism
• 13:42:54
  booming again in Palm Beach County.
• 13:42:59
  In the 60s we see South Palm Beach being
• 13:43:04
  developed. That's where if
• 13:43:07
  you take the Lake Worth bridge
• 13:43:09
  over, you'll see all of the apartment
• 13:43:12
  buildings over there. So those start
• 13:43:14
  coming up and people
• 13:43:16
  really buy up those apartment buildings.
• 13:43:19
  They come here and they
• 13:43:22
  stay here during the winter
• 13:43:24
  period. They're snowbirds as you'd call
• 13:43:27
  it. And so you see a lot
• 13:43:30
  of that in the 60s. So yes,
• 13:43:32
  another boom. Another boom period. And
• 13:43:34
  again, all you need to do
• 13:43:37
  now is to take a few minutes
• 13:43:39
  and drive down Klamadu Street and see
• 13:43:41
  that we're in another
• 13:43:43
  period of amazing change.
• 13:43:47
  It's been said that only 15 years ago you
• 13:43:51
  could roll a bowling ball
• 13:43:52
  down Klamadu Street and not
• 13:43:54
  hit anybody because it was such a quiet,
• 13:43:56
  derelict period of time. I do want to
• 13:43:59
  mention we're looking
• 13:44:00
  at department stores here in this last
• 13:44:02
  photograph. This is before
• 13:44:04
  the advent of malls. We thought
• 13:44:06
  about the Palm Beach Mall 1967ish? Yes,
• 13:44:10
  1967. So there wasn't even a
• 13:44:13
  Palm Beach Mall until then.
• 13:44:14
  There was the Palm Coast Mall down south
• 13:44:18
  that hadn't been
• 13:44:18
  developed yet. So the idea of you
• 13:44:20
  had to go to downtown to get to the
• 13:44:22
  department stores and see
• 13:44:23
  that. But now you can go down
• 13:44:25
  Klamadu Street and you see a wide
• 13:44:28
  spectrum of different types
• 13:44:29
  of merch. You see restaurants,
• 13:44:31
  you see places for people who are
• 13:44:33
  visiting. I don't think there's too many
• 13:44:34
  hotels along Klamadu
• 13:44:36
  right now. We have the Ben. I think of
• 13:44:38
  the Ben. Sorry, Ben. You're exactly
• 13:44:40
  right. It's just off
• 13:44:42
  Klamadu Street. And that is a beautiful,
• 13:44:45
  beautiful facility. So one
• 13:44:48
  can argue that alongside the
• 13:44:51
  tremendous growth we're seeing all over
• 13:44:53
  the city and all over South Florida,
• 13:44:56
  Klamadu is not being
• 13:44:56
  left behind. It's taking its step with
• 13:44:59
  everything else that's going
• 13:45:00
  on. I agree completely. I see
• 13:45:03
  Klamadu still being really the center of
• 13:45:07
  West Palm Beach. It's where we all
• 13:45:09
  gather. I see it on my
• 13:45:11
  lunch break. I see it right. Everybody
• 13:45:13
  heading out, going to get
• 13:45:15
  lunch, going to get dinner a happy
• 13:45:17
  hour later. There's a lot of movement
• 13:45:20
  still. Absolutely. It is
• 13:45:23
  a dynamic, wonderful spot.
• 13:45:26
  Part of appreciating what it is today is
• 13:45:28
  being able to look back and see the
• 13:45:30
  history and understand
• 13:45:31
  where it's been from its very earliest
• 13:45:34
  form of a little wood shack
• 13:45:35
  with people buying stuff out
• 13:45:37
  of it just to stay alive to what we have
• 13:45:40
  today. It's just amazing
• 13:45:42
  that all this history has
• 13:45:43
  happened in just a short period of time.
• 13:45:46
  It's amazing, but it's
• 13:45:47
  only been what, 132 years?
• 13:45:51
  132 years since 1894. We're pretty fresh
• 13:45:56
  compared to other sites.
• 13:45:57
  Yeah, we lose sight of that. The
• 13:45:59
  fact that you go and visit a similar
• 13:46:02
  small little village in Scotland. Oh
• 13:46:06
  yeah, that was built
• 13:46:07
  2000 years ago. The kind of thing. Yes,
• 13:46:11
  but at the same time, it's
• 13:46:13
  important for us, even though we
• 13:46:14
  are like babies compared to other
• 13:46:17
  communities, that we take the time to
• 13:46:19
  study and understand
• 13:46:20
  our history so that we can appreciate the
• 13:46:24
  now. Exactly. Because
• 13:46:25
  development, especially you see
• 13:46:27
  it on Klamadu Street, development in West
• 13:46:30
  Palm Beach was so fast
• 13:46:32
  and it's unlike anything.
• 13:46:34
  That's very good. Kalani, thank you for
• 13:46:36
  your time today. This has been a
• 13:46:38
  fantastic little trip
• 13:46:39
  down history down Klamadu Street. Again,
• 13:46:43
  we thank you for everything
• 13:46:44
  that you do and everything
• 13:46:45
  that happens at the Historical Society of
• 13:46:47
  Palm Beach County. We want
• 13:46:48
  to tell people to head on out
• 13:46:49
  there and take a visit. You have a
• 13:46:52
  website? Yes, we are
• 13:46:53
  pbchistory.org. Check us out.
• 13:46:57
  So come by there and go by there and take
• 13:46:59
  a quick look. Kalani, thank
• 13:47:00
  you for being a part of the
• 13:47:01
  show. Thank you for having me, Jerry. And
• 13:47:04
  thank you for joining us
• 13:47:05
  for Inside West Palm Beach.
• 13:47:08
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• 13:47:09
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• 13:47:10
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• 13:47:35
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• 13:47:37
  I'm Jerry Marcello.
• 13:47:38
  We'll see you next time.