Hollywood Beach Broadwalk History

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1921: City Founder Joseph Young formed Hollywood Land and Water, began purchasing parcels for $175 per acre

1925: Florida real estate market reached all-time highs with speculators bidding up Hollywood real estate in a frenzy of buying

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Joseph Young rapidly transforms the Hollywood Beach coastline

 

1926: Hollywood had grown to 18,000 acres, 6.5 miles of oceanfront and an assessed value of $20,000,000

 

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Inspired by the “City Beautiful Movement”, Young built the Broadwalk, a unique cement promenade, 30 feet wide, stretching along the shoreline for a distance of 1.5 miles and patterned after Atlantic City’s famed boardwalk.

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1924: Florida’s largest and best appointed bathing pavilion, the Hollywood Beach Casino, was built on the Broadwalk.

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Built at a cost of $250,000 with 824 dressing rooms, eighty shower baths, a shopping arcade and an Olympic-sized swimming pool.

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1926: Tent City

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Just as Young envisioned, Hollywood Beach and the Broadwalk became a popular gathering place.

1935: Broadwalk

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1937

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1940

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1950s

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1960s to 2007

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