Cypress Gardens, America's Tropical Wonderland: How Dick Pope Invented Florida by Vickers, Lu
Cypress Gardens, America's Tropical Wonderland: How Dick Pope Invented Florida by Vickers, Lu

Cypress Gardens, America's Tropical Wonderland: How Dick Pope Invented Florida

Where America's wildest dreams came true"At Cypress Gardens--the original Florida theme park--movie stars, water-ski champs, and southern...
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Cypress Gardens, America's Tropical Wonderland: How Dick Pope Invented Florida by Vickers, Lu

Cypress Gardens, America's Tropical Wonderland: How Dick Pope Invented Florida

$82.13
Cypress Gardens, America's Tropical Wonderland: How Dick Pope Invented Florida by Vickers, Lu

Cypress Gardens, America's Tropical Wonderland: How Dick Pope Invented Florida

$82.13
Author: Lu Vickers
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Where America's wildest dreams came true

"At Cypress Gardens--the original Florida theme park--movie stars, water-ski champs, and southern sweethearts created magic. More than anyone, even Walt Disney, Dick Pope Sr. invented Florida as America's dream vacationland. This journey back to the attraction in its heyday brims with wonderful images, true tales, and the author's great love for and understanding of the real Florida."--Joy Wallace Dickinson, author of Orlando: City of Dreams

"Before the monstrous Mouse infested the orange groves, luring tourists to its predigested 'fun, ' Cypress Gardens was Florida's premier attraction, a crazy salad of sunshine, water, flowers, palm trees, and pretty girls in bathing suits performing dare-devilish stunts. This is a terrific book." --Diane Roberts, NPR commentator and author ofDream State

To the average person weathering a New England winter, Dick Pope's Cypress Gardens must have looked even more exotic than a trip to Alice's Wonderland. The images coming out of his promotional powerhouse appeared in magazines, newspapers, newsreels, and movies. These Technicolor glories depicted everything from bathing beauties aquaplaning through walls of fire to southern belles relaxing beneath huge tropical plants, from Don Ameche proposing to Betty Grable under moss-hung cypress trees to Esther Williams performing a water ballet in the famous Florida-shaped pool.


It was all happening in sleepy Winter Haven, where one real estate maverick turned tourism tycoon was out to sell "100,000 visitors] 25 cents worth of Florida."


Brilliantly illustrated with over 250 vibrant images, Cypress Gardens, America's Tropical Wonderland reveals the empire Dick Pope built from its origins as remote swampland to its heyday as a famous water-sports destination and playground for such stars as Joan Crawford, Johnny Carson, and Carol Burnett, as well as royalty from the Duke and Duchess of Windsor to King Hussein of Jordan.


Lu Vickers also discusses the park's decline following the construction of Walt Disney World, changes in management, the evolving interests and vacationing habits of the nation, as well as its outlook for the future as a part of LEGOLAND Florida.



Author: Lu Vickers
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 11/14/2010
Pages: 358
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.85lbs
Size: 7.25h x 10.25w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9780813034997


Award: Florida Book Award - Bronze Medal Winner


Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2011

About the Author

Lu Vickers is the author of Breathing Underwater and Weeki Wachee, City of Mermaids: A History of One of Florida's Oldest Roadside Attractions.




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