Ocean Avenue


Ocean Avenue lined with palmettos and hibiscus, Palm Beach, Florida. "The Sun Parlor of the United States" is the way a distinguished citizen of the state familiar with its characteristics has in a brief paragraph described Florida. Though it leads all the states in winter grown vegetables, in the number of growing days, in diversity of food products, variety of crops, grapefruit, celery, winter grown tomatoes, coconuts, in varieties of hay crops, and though it is second in oranges and watermelons, third in lettuce, and fourth in cabbage, Florida is above everything else a great winter playground. It has just been having its inning in the great development of our country. The Middle West, the Northwest, and the Pacific Coast have had their great influx of population and made great strides industrially and otherwise. Florida, in many respects the best of all the states, came last, after being literally overlooked during the forward march of other sections. The great Transcontinental Railway studded the Western prairies with cities and towns by the thousands. Today, like the ebb of the great tide, America stops and looks back and has discovered Florida. Palm Beach is one of the pioneer winter resorts of the state. Here more rich and fashionable people gather during the cold season than in any similar place in America. Originally this was just a hotel resort, but now the whole peninsula lying between Lake Worth and the sea is covered with cottages, ranging from modest structures to mansions. Palm Beach has retained her fame and following as a an exclusive resort right through the period of the state's tremendous growth and popularity, wealth and development.

Photographer:	Unknown	Date:	Unknown
Publisher & City:	Keystone View Company: Meadville, Pa., New York, NY., Chicago, Ill., London, England
Series & Number:	26794

Scan courtesy of Roy Winkelman. Image retouched and converted to anaglyph in 2005 by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology at the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida. View this image using 3D glasses with the red lens over the left eye and the blue lens over the right eye.


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