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The Florida land boom was in the 1920s. The Marx Brothers made a comedy about it: The Cocoanuts (1929), their first full-length film.
by cbd1984 12y ago
The Florida land boom was in the 1920s. The Marx Brothers made a comedy about it: The Cocoanuts (1929), their first full-length film.
- brudgers 12y agoAn earlier boom in the 1880's was fuelled by the citrus industry and ended with the freezes of 1894/5. Tourism also played a role to such a degree that Roosevelt's Rough Riders were quartered at the Tamap Bay Hotel prior to the invasion of Cuba. That boom is what gave enough population density to run service as far down as places like Conway [or Orlando itself] by 1910. The The Coconuts boom ended with the onset of the Great Depression...at least for those who believe it soft started with events like the Florida land crash and the Boll Weevil infestation across the South. Two post WWII booms were triggered by the wide spread availability of residential air conditioning and mortgage derivatives respectively. https://www.floridamemory.com/photographiccollection/photo_exhibits/citrus/citrus2.php https://www.floridamemory.com/photographiccollection/photo_e...
- dredmorbius 12y agoJohn Kenneth Galbraith includes a good discussion of the Florida land rush in his book The Great Crash: 1929.