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One of the episodes in the series “America!“ with Jack Douglas, this color travelogue takes the viewer on a tour of what is known as “America’s Riviera” or the major cities along America’s Gulf of Mexico coastline: Brownsville, New Orleans, Biloxi, Mobile, and Pensacola among others. It originally aired as a two-part episode with the same title in the larger series titled “America!” with the first episode chronicling the journey from Florida to Mississippi and the second the journey from Louisiana into Texas. Like other episodes in the series, this two-part film is also hosted by Jack Douglass.
U.S. coastline on Gulf of Mexico (0:46). White sands of Pensacola Beach, Florida on the Miracle Strip (1:18). Escambia Bay (1:30). The Pensacola Bay Bridge (1:47). Pensacola City - first colonized under Spain by Don Tristan De Luna (1:50). Pensacola Navy Yard home to Pensacola’s Blue Angels (2:17). The Naval Aviation Museum - hanging model of N3N or “The Yellow Peril” airplane used to train cadets during WWII, the JT3C Turbojet Engine, astronaut display center and wings worn by astronaut Scott Carpenter (2:45). Pensacola Lighthouse (3:41). San Carlos Fort (3:53). Barrancas Fort (3:55). Pickens Fort on Santa Rosa Island - sight of Apache Geronimo’s imprisonment, old cannons, and the Gatling Gun model 1890 (3:59). Pensacola Museum of Art/ Pensacola City Jail (4:39). The Grand Hotel at Point Clear Mobile Bay, Alabama (5:10). Mobile (5:54). Mobile’s sea port (6:13). Oliver Wintzell’s Oyster House (6:26). Azalea Trail Tour Center (7:59). Long Gardens of the Earl Longs (8:27). The Richard’s House (9:17). Oakleigh Antebellum Home - Mobile Mardi Gras (9:40). City of Pascagoula, Mississippi (10:26). The Longfellow House (10:39). Spanish Fort and artifacts identified by the Smithsonian Institute (10:55). Burial place of the Krebs family who invented the cotton gin before Eli Whitney (11:18). Biloxi, Mississippi (11:34). Biloxi Lighthouse (11:38). Gulf Beach of Biloxi (12:01). Resorts and hotels of Biloxi (12:09). Sport fishing - dolphins, Spanish mackerel, speckled trout, sheepshead flounder etc. (12:46). Ride on the Sailfish for leisure tour of the waters (14:00). Biloxi Ocean Springs Highway Bridge (15:07). Beauvoir, the last home of Jefferson Davis (17:58). Gulfport Chamber of Commerce (19:39). Dauphin Island (20:14). Fort Gaines and Civil War Museum where Admiral Farragut commanded from (20:42). Bellingrath Gardens (21:26). Importance of religion - Episcopal Church of The Redeemer, Saint Michael’s at Biloxi (22:03). Important historical figures - Prince Madoc of Wales, Isabella De Soto, The Pirate Patriots and Jean Pierre Lafitte (22:24). Introduction of episode 2 (23:40-25:02). New Orleans, Louisiana (25:05). Painting of the battle of New Orleans (25:16). Portrait of Andrew Jackson (25:18). Lafitte, LA (25:36). Map illustrating Houston’s connection to the Gulf of Mexico (26:39). Houston, Texas (26:46). The Rice Hotel (27:12). Hotel America (27:20). The Warwick (27:23). Mecom Fountain (27:40). Neiman Marcus Houston (28:07). The Astrodome (28:21) Game Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Houston Astros (28:51). Statue of Sam Houston at Hermann park (29:27). Battle of San Jacinto Monument (29:43). Portrait of General Santana (20:25). The USS Texas (Dreadnought class) (30:41). NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Clearwater, Texas (31:29). NASA lunar excursion module (32:03). Galveston Island (32:36). Portrait of La Salle (33:20). Shrimpers or “Mosquito Fleet” of Galveston (33:31). The NS Savannah Nuclear Transport Ship (33:47). Treasure Isle Tour Train (34:04). Galveston sea wall (34:18). The Texas Heroes’ Monument (34:35). Bishop’s Palace (34:59). Oleander flowers (35:18). The Seahorse (35:37).
Jamaica Beach (36:11). Sailing of Polynesia Tikis (36:47). Corpus Christi, Texas (38:01). Buccaneer Days Festival (38:19). Padre Island (39:57). Brownsville, Texas (41:51). Gateway Bridge above Rio Grande (41:57). Brownsville City Hall (42:06). Charles Stillman’s Home (42:16). Journey’s End (43:08). Matamoros, Mexico (43:18). The Drive-Inn (44:14). Villa Del Refugio restaurant (44:36).
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