Joan Mickelson

Joseph W. Young, Jr., and the City Beautiful

A Biography of the Founder of Hollywood, Florida

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Produktbeschreibung

Joseph W. Young, Jr., was acknowledged as one of the five or six major city builders in boomtime Florida. From practically nothing in 1920 he created Hollywood By-the-Sea with an elegant Beaux Arts plan of circles and lakes, calling it a "City Beautiful," an ideal first propounded by Daniel Burnham of Chicago. Young had a rare talent for publicity and a knack for making and spending millions--supported by an immense personal charm that is still remembered decades after his death. This first full biography of Young covers his start as city builder in turn-of-the-century California where new cities blossomed and were ballyhooed, his move to Indianapolis, home of Carl Fisher who developed Miami Beach, his creation of Hollywood and Port Everglades, and his move to his Adirondack resort, ending with his dreams to expand Hollywood, fulfilled after his early death.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9780786468805
• ISBN-10: 0786468807
• Artikelnr.: 36842129

Autorenporträt

Florida historian, art historian and biographer, Joan Mickelson lives in Broward County, Florida.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction
1.
From Gold Rush to Newsboy: Childhood of an Entrepreneur, Seattle, Yukon, 1882-1900
2.
California's Southland: The Sourcebook for a Future Florida City, Long Beach, California, 1900-1916
3.
Young's First Forays into Turning Land into Homesites with Convenient Transportation, 1904-1916
4.
First Disaster, 1914, and Arizona Interim, 1915-1917
5.
Indianapolis: Renewed Success, Speedway, and Circles, 1918-1920
6.
Young's Dream City Takes Form, 1919-1920
7.
City Beautiful: Hollywood By-the-Sea, 1920-1921
8.
Hollywood By-the-Sea: Nationwide Advertising Blitz Begins, 1922
9.
The City Beautiful Blossoms Under Young: A Man "possessing extraordinary energies, generous and modest to a degree," 1923 10.
The City Expands: Cash and People Flood In, 1924 11.
Young's Vision Expands Nationally and Internationally, 1925 12.
A Hotel to Rival Flagler's and an International Port, 1926 13.
"A life of ease before us ... then overnight everything wiped out": The Infamous Hurricane, 1926 14.
Desperate Aftermath, 1927-1929 15.
The Adirondacks: Hollywood in the Hills, Another Lasting Legacy, 1928-1933 16. Turning the Tables: The Floridian Buys and Sells in New York City, 1930-1933 17.
"A builder whose work is play": Young's Four-Day July 4th Party, 1933 18.
Last Days, Final Acts, 1933-1934 19.
The Company Dies with J. W. Young; the City Continues, 1934-1936 20.
Young's Legacy Chapter Notes Bibliography Index