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    Broward County: The Photography of Gene Hyde
    Broward County: The Photography of Gene Hyde
    Broward County: The Photography of Gene Hyde
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    Broward County: The Photography of Gene Hyde

    By Susan Gillis

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    In 1915, the South Florida communities of Fort Lauderdale, Dania, Pompano, Hallandale, Deerfield, and Davie joined together to form a county. They named it Broward, in honor of the governor whose Everglades drainage program had brought them such prosperity. Today, Broward is Florida s second largest county, with 1.6 million people. Photographer Aaron Eugene Hyde came to Fort Lauderdale in 1933, at the age of 16, to begin a 40-year career, serving as one of the county s few professional photographers and the photographer for the Broward edition of the Miami Herald. Gene recorded fascinating people, places, and times pivotal in the county s development. His photos evoke nostalgia for the not-that-distant past, a way of life Broward County residents will never see again.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateAug 24, 2005
    ISBN9781439617076
    Broward County: The Photography of Gene Hyde
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    Susan Gillis

    Susan Gillis has lived on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Canada, and now lives most of the year in Montreal, where she teaches English. Her books include Volta (Signature Editions, 2002), which won the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry, and Swimming Among the Ruins (Signature Editions, 2000), and a chapbook, Twenty Views of the Lachine Rapids (Gaspereau Press, 2012). Whisk, with Yoko’s Dogs, is forthcoming in 2013 from Pedlar Press. The Rapids is Susan’s third collection (Brick Books, 2012).

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      INTRODUCTION

      Vacation land for the nation, Broward County has drawn permanent residents by the hundreds of thousands in the last few years. New friends, new people, new business . . . Broward has a way of attracting them all—for keeps! How did we get so lucky? This is how . . . balmy climate, shore and sea, wonderful cities, warmth, leisure activities, ALL YEAR!

      —(c. 1965 promotional ad by the Broward County Economic Development Commission)

      The earliest known inhabitants of what is today known as Broward County, Florida, were a resourceful people known as the Tequesta Indians. For several thousand years, they exploited the bountiful resources and equable climate much as its modern residents do today. Those ancient people were long gone by the end of the 18th century—when the first Bahamian and American settlers arrived on New River. By the end of the 19th century, a small community huddled on that river, named Fort Lauderdale in honor of a fortification that arose there during the Second Seminole War. By 1896, the Florida East Coast Railway was completed between Palm Beach and Miami—and civilization began in earnest up and down that route. New towns grew at Deerfield, Pompano, Fort Lauderdale, Dania, and Hallandale. In 1915, these communities joined together to form a new county, carved out of Dade County to the south and Palm Beach County to the north. The new county was named after the Florida governor who had championed the Everglades drainage program that had brought economic prosperity to the region—Napoleon Bonaparte Broward.

      The Florida land boom of the 1920s introduced two new industries to Broward: tourism and land development. New towns were borne amidst the influx of land-hungry residents. Hollywood-by-the-Sea was typical of the Florida land boom communities, the brainchild of developer Joseph Young. After World War II, a new era of growth gripped the area, and 22 additional municipalities were created in the county by 1967.

      Fort Lauderdale photographer Aaron Gene Hyde was one of the principle documentarians of those amazing years as vast tracts of land morphed from farm and dairy country to subdivisions. Gene came with his family to Fort Lauderdale in 1933, at the age of 16. He brought with him a strong interest in photography, and his rare 1930s images are some of the best that survive of Fort Lauderdale during the Depression years. He gained additional professional training at the Brooks Institution of Photography in Santa Barbara and other schools. During the war, he served in the Signal Corps making active use of his photographic skills. He gained experience with motion pictures there, working alongside director John Huston, among others.

      After the war, Gene returned to Fort Lauderdale and began a career that was to span another 40 years. As one of the county’s few professional photographers, Gene was called upon to shoot a wide range of subjects—from weddings to autopsies, passport shots to presidents. He served for many years as the photographer for the Broward edition of the Miami Herald, as well as a United Press International (UPI) and Associated Press (AP) photographer. His photojournalism led him to record many fascinating people, places, and times, pivotal in the development of the county, such as spring break and the African American community’s campaign for desegregation. The large vintage automobiles and demurely covered beachgoers featured in Gene’s photos invoke in its viewers nostalgia for the not-all-that-distant past, a way of life Broward County residents will never see again.

      For Gene, photography was not just a job. His practiced eye, keen sense of composition, and technical expertise (in the days before point and shoot) captured the most mundane venue with the eye of an artist. His 1950s-era vignettes, shot with a large format camera, sometimes seem almost Rockwellian—with South Floridians as his principle characters. The excellent details of everyday life that appear in these images—the activities, fashions, technology, and venues—are an anthropologist’s dream and proof that pictures can be worth a thousand words.

      Gene’s wry sense of humor belied a generous and thoughtful man. In the 1980s, he donated approximately 200,000 negatives to the Fort Lauderdale Historical Society to be preserved for posterity. Gene’s images have in turn been used in publications, exhibitions, and as historical decor in endless local establishments. The collection spans the era from the 1930s (there are very few of these, however) through the 1970s. Most of Gene’s photojournalistic images were shot in the 1950s and 1960s, and consequently, most of the images used in this volume date from those two decades. Mr. Hyde passed away in 2004, unable to complete his dream of creating a book based on his life’s work. The Fort Lauderdale Historical

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