This document summarizes the history and development of Palm Beach, Florida from a refuge island to an international resort destination. It traces the major events, people, and places that transformed Palm Beach from a private social club in the late 1800s to the fashionable shopping and residential destination it is today. Key developments included the arrival of wealthy industrialists in the early 1900s, the establishment of hotels, clubs and boutiques along Worth Avenue in the 1920s, and the rise of condominium living and commercial centers from the 1960s onward.
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Live Online – Tuesday 5 October 2021 at 10am
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This is a presentation I produced and delivered to the Lightcliffe History Group and various other groups in the Brighouse and surrounding communities.
Presentation made by the learners of CoArt & Pro, related to the cultural diversity in London, from the people to the markets.
Co Art& Pro
Eu Treasure Hunt Grundtvig Project.
Sworders Modern Contemporary Art 5th October 2021Sworders
MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART
Live Online – Tuesday 5 October 2021 at 10am
ORDER OF SALE
Lots 1-23 Gre
at Bardfield and Benton End
Lots 24-132 20th Century
to include
Lots 84-108 The Elsie Henderson
Collection
Lots 133-214 Modern British
Lots 215-353 Modern and Contemporary
to include
Lots 229-253 The Curwen Print Study
Centre Collection
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f you offer a service on the web, odds are that someone will abuse it. Be it an API, a SaaS, a PaaS, or even a static website, someone somewhere will try to figure out a way to use it to their own needs. In this talk we'll compare measures that are effective against static attackers and how to battle a dynamic attacker who adapts to your counter-measures.
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6. Oil Swells- The Standard Oil Crowd at Palm Beach
From St. Augustine to Palm Beach
7.
8. The Breakers I – II - III
Beach censors, cabana bookies, dance instructors, pier
fishermen, orchestra leaders, and Bessie Fenn -
America’s only woman golf pro.
11. “Palm Beach is fabulously rich, idle, but absolutely useless.”
“Palm Beach is essentially a society resort …
Created solely for expected visitors of a certain class … a vision of lazy luxury.”
1925
The 400
2016
25,000
12. The Gilded Age spectacle of wealth coincided with the development of daily
newspapers and photography, making the extravagance of the rich front-page
news.
14. Bradley’s Beach Club
1898-1945
“Go to Palm Beach, which is not
exclusive, but merry, sumptuous and
expensive and where there is a
chance to meet many prominent
men in the gambling rooms.”
“The real reason for the popularity of Palm Beach is not its climate or
its hotels; it is Bradley's." The New York World, 1912.
“The Beach Club is the limelight for the privileged; at mid-season
there are 2,000 people in Palm Beach, all wealthy, but only 150 can
be seated for dinner at The Beach Club. That is society.” NYT, 1916
15. “People in Palm Beach prefer the thrill of rolling the dice; card games are boring. They
do not play to win but for amusement because it is fashionable and not necessary. Here
gaming is a pastime rather than a concern for money gains.” -Pittsburgh Press, 1913.
20. 1916
Palm Beach Country Club
“Palm Beach was like a place near
the United States, an exclusive
foreign colony, a desired spot
created not for people to merely
exist but devoted entirely to
pleasure.”
-Theodore Pratt
25. Royal Park
When hotel guests returned at the beginning of the 1913
season, they beheld three subdivisions with streets planned
for as many as two-hundred houses, two banks, three
newspapers, commercial lots selling at $200 a front foot, a
new toll bridge, and a scenic ocean road.
26.
27. Royal Palm Way - 2016
A 1973 zoning change converted Royal Palm Way from predominately residential to commercial,
paving the way for multi-story office buildings.
28. Floral Park
In July 1938 the town's new four-lane Flagler Memorial
Bridge motorway opened, transforming Main Street
into a palm-lined parkway renamed Royal Poinciana
Way.
52. Jesse Newman
President
Worth Avenue Association
(1957-1969)
President
Palm Beach Chamber of Commerce
(1971-2000)
Worth Avenue
The Mink Mile
Palm Beach’s Fifth Avenue
53. “On Worth Avenue, there is always an excess of possible
tenants.” - Worth Avenue Property Owners Association, 1979.
54. Worth Avenue
Portrait artist Channing Hare lived
on Worth Avenue and showed his
work at several of the avenue’s 20
art galleries during the 1960s.
55. By 1927, there were 7,000 different
cosmetic products for women who each
spent $300 per year for creams, lipsticks,
foundation, talcum powder, cleansers,
and rouge.
Women of Worth
69. Sold on Palm Beach
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Credits
Palm Beach Daily News / Palm Beach Post
Historical Society of Palm Beach County
State Archives of Florida – Florida Memory
Palmbeach chamber of commerce
November17, 2016
