The Emerald Coast is an unofficial name for coastal areas in the US state of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico that stretches about 100 miles (161 km) through five districts, Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton and Bay, from Pensacola to Panama City. Several southern Alabama communities on the Baldwin County coast, such as Gulf Shores, Orange Beach, and Fort Morgan embrace that term as well. This area is increasingly nicknamed Redneck Riviera .
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The term
Starting in 1946, for a beach marketing destination from Fort Walton Beach to Panama City called "Playground of the Gulfcoast", as witnessed by the names of Fort Walton Beach, Playground News, then Playground Daily News , and now Northwest Florida Daily News . In 1952, this stretch of beach was nicknamed the "Miracle Line" by Claude Jenkins, a local journalist, a term still reflected in the name of the Miracle Line Amusement Park and other local businesses. The term "Miracle Line" was officially adopted by thirty-five officials and members of the three branches of the Florida Motor Courts district association on March 14, 1956, at a meeting held at the Staff Restaurant at Fort Walton Beach, for a stretch of 100 miles from " from Highway 98, motels, hotels and nightspots "from Pensacola to Panama City. Members include representatives of the local chamber of commerce.
The beaches along Emerald Coast from Pensacola to Panama City are referred to as the "Redneck Riviera", which has a strong southern culture. This area is home to some tattoo parlors and the location of Waffle House, a chain of restaurants associated with the South. Flora-Bama at Perdido Key on the Alabama border is a bar and music venue with diverse Southern clients.
According to the Daily News , the term Emerald Coast was coined in 1983 by a junior high school student, Andrew Dier, who won $ 50 in a contest for a new area slogan. Since then, the term has been expanded by popular use to cover all of Florida's northwest coast from Pensacola Beach to Panama City Beach.
Popular holiday destinations include Pensacola, Pensacola Beach, Gulf Breeze, Navarre, Navarre Beach, Fort Walton Beach, Niceville, WaterColor, Panama City Beach, Destin, and Seaside, the planned community whose famous pastel-paint and roofs are made famous in Jim Carrey's The Truman Show, was filmed in the area from 1996-1997. Other communities on the Emerald Coast include Perdido Key, Navarre, Sandestin, Mexico Beach, Grayton Beach, Inlet Beach, and Santa Rosa Beach.
This area is known as a family drive destination, attracting tourists from all over the Southern United States because of its proximity. The Emerald Coast is a three-hour drive east of New Orleans. In the first decade of the 21st century, the popularity of the Zamrud Beach is very widespread, leading to a new construction boom and overnight changes. Many development communities similar to the Seaside have sprung up in the southern part of Walton County and on the western tip of Panama City Beach, increasing the value of the property.
Deep-sea fishing is a huge attraction for this area, with Destin holding the nickname "The Luckiest Fishing Village in the World" (and some saltwater world records) and Panama City Beach being the site of the high-value annual Bayfish Invitational Bay Point. This area has many seafood restaurants too.
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Military base
This part of Florida is home to several military bases, with installations including Naval Air Station Pensacola (home of the Navy Blue Angels demonstration team and initial training venue for all naval aviators), Hurlburt Field, Eglin Air Force Base (one of the largest military base in America), Tyndall Air Force Base (Naval Air Force F-22 fighter base), Naval Surface Warfare Center (Naval Experimental Diving Unit and Marine Diving & Safety Training Center), and Technical Training Center Navy Corry Station.
In addition to military bases and related civilian contractors, tourism, fisheries, and hospitality industries are also the main employers in the area.
In popular culture
The established military presence in the region has led to many film appearances, the earliest being a takeoff run run by Doolittle Raiders for Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, shot at Peel Field, an additional field in Eglin Field, on 1944. Some scenes in the 1949 movie Twelve O'Clock High, another film about World War II, were also shot at Eglin.
The 1972 Frogs film was filmed in Walton County, Florida, in and around Wesley House, an old southern mansion located in the Garden of Eden Gardens in the city of Point Washington, located in Tucker Bayou of Choctawhatchee Bay.
Exterior photos and some interior scenes for 1998 The Truman Show were filmed at Seaside.
Most of the scenes for Jaws 2 (1978) were filmed in the area as well, especially in the Navarre area. The interior for a child pinball hang-out was filmed at Fort Walton Beach in the original location of Hog's Breath sedan on Okaloosa Island, and the Bruce the Shark control sleigh was placed at the base of the Bay off Navarre and the mainland community of Navarre.
Redneck Riviera is the title song by Tom T. Hall about this region (from the 1996 Song Album from Sopchoppy). Lyrics include:
- Gulf Shores up through Apalachicola They got the white sand beach
- No one cares if gramma has a tattoo
- Or Bubba has hot wings in his hand
Parts of John Grisham's book The Whistler (2016) takes place inside and around the Emerald Coast.
AnaÃÆ'¯s Nin and Rupert stopped at one of the white sand beaches around Panama City-FL, on their way back to the Sierra Madre-CA, in their Ford Sport converter, in May 1952, a recording trip in 11 days from Miami - FL. (see Trapeze Ã, Â © 2017 p. 108)
See also
- Florida Panhandle
- Forgotten Coast (coastal area to the east)
- West Florida
References
Further reading
- Bouler, Jean Lufkin. Explore Emerald Coast Florida: A Rich History and Rare Ecology. University of Florida Press, 2007. ISBNÃ, 0813030862
- Hollis, Tim. Florida Wonders: From Redneck Riviera to Emerald Beach. University of Mississippi Press, 2004. ISBNÃ, 1578066263
- Jackson, Harvey H., III. "The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera: North Rim of the Gulf Coast since World War II," Southern Culture , 16 (Spring 2010), 7-30.
External links
- The Emerald Convention and Visitors Bureau website
- Pensacola News-Journal
- Northwest Florida Daily News
- Panama City News Herald
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