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Excerpt from Miami Millions: The Dance of the Dollars in the Great Florida Land Boom of 1925
Miami was transformed from a sleepy little town on the edge of Biscayne bay into a Magic City of modest skyscrapers and legend ary real estate profits.
From Miami, the nerves of the boom spread out into every corner of Florida. No land was too poor or too remote to attract buyers or to be subdivided, so long as it was within the confines of the state of Florida. The coasts where pirates under Morgan and Lafitte once plied their evil trade sprouted such riches that in one place ocean-side developers actually abandoned a pirate chest they could feel with their dredges, to get on with the more remunerative work of building a subdivision to sell. Pirate gold was nothing but museum antiques in the days when the binder boys had money flowing into Florida at a rate that would have put even the New Deal to shame.
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Miami was transformed from a sleepy little town on the edge of Biscayne bay into a Magic City of modest skyscrapers and legend ary real estate profits.
From Miami, the nerves of the boom spread out into every corner of Florida. No land was too poor or too remote to attract buyers or to be subdivided, so long as it was within the confines of the state of Florida. The coasts where pirates under Morgan and Lafitte once plied their evil trade sprouted such riches that in one place ocean-side developers actually abandoned a pirate chest they could feel with their dredges, to get on with the more remunerative work of building a subdivision to sell. Pirate gold was nothing but museum antiques in the days when the binder boys had money flowing into Florida at a rate that would have put even the New Deal to shame.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
Contributors
Author
Kenneth Ballinger
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780266736493
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.9 cm
Page Count - 162
Paperback
Contributors
Author
Kenneth Ballinger
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781527702462
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.9 cm
Page Count - 164
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