Remembering Paradise Park
Subtitle: Tourism and Segregation at Silver Springs
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780813061528
Subjects: African americans, history; African americans, florida; Tourism; Segregation; Florida, history
Description: "Paradise Park was the "colored only'" counterpart to Silver Springs, a central Florida tourist attraction famous for its crystal-clear water and glass bottom boats. Together the two parks formed one of the biggest recreational facilities in the country before Disney World. From 1949 to 1969, boats passed each other on the Silver River--blacks on one side, whites on the other. Though the patrons of both parks shared the same river, they seldom crossed the invisible line in the water"--Jacket.