I tried to look for photos... no luck...
did find this.
http://simplify3.wordpress.com/2007/02/21/golden-gate-estates-nefarious-history/
Gulf American Land Corporation
(founded by Leonard and Julius “Jack†Rosen of Baltimore via Miami) which was formed in 1957. Gulf American’s subsequent “developments†were land promotion schemes subdividing land, selling lots, and not much else using the technology of the day including the autotype machine, WATS line (and resulting boiler room sales promotion tactics), black & white television advertisements, national newspaper advertising, slick colorful sales brochures, the free steak dinner (to hear the sales pitch), and the “free†trips to Florida, and aggressive salesmen to close the deal. Gulf American purchased a travel agency and a charter airline with 15 planes to fly prospects to its developments at lower cost. By 1967 when Gulf Americans land sales activity peaked, it was Florida’s fourth largest publicly traded corporation with more than 500,000 acres of land for sale in Florida and across the
United States.
