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Where is the Emerald Coast?
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Em
Beach Fanatic
With over 3.1 million hits for "Emerald Coast" on google, I wish Okaloosa County good luck on trying to real in that beast.
Arkie, don't stop at the first paragraph from W. Here is the map they show, which includes Pensacola to Appalachicola.
Popular vacation destinations include Pensacola Beach, Gulf Breeze, Navarre Beach, Fort Walton Beach, Niceville, WaterColor, Panama City Beach, Destin, and Seaside, a planned community whose iconic pastel-paint and tin-roof construction was made famous in the Jim Carrey movie The Truman Show, filmed in the area from 1996-1997. Other communities on the Emerald Coast include Perdido Key, Navarre, Sandestin, Mexico Beach, Grayton Beach, Inlet Beach, Santa Rosa Beach, and Seagrove. Approximately 80% of the Emerald Coast's 4.5 million yearly visitors go to Destin, FL.
The area is known[by whom?] as a family drive destination, although in the past decade, its popularity has expanded greatly, leading to new construction booms and seemingly overnight changes. Many development communities similar to Seaside have sprung up in Walton County and the west end of Panama City Beach, raising property values....
This roughly 100-mile stretch is home to several military bases, with installations including Pensacola Naval Air Station (home of the Navy's Blue Angels flying squadron and the initial training site for all naval aviators), Hurlburt Field, Eglin Air Force Base (one of the largest military bases in America), Tyndall Air Force Base (home to the Air Force's F-22 Raptor fighter jets), Coastal Systems Station-Naval Surface Warfare Center (home to the Navy Experimental Diving Unit and Naval Diving & Salvage Training Center), and Corry Station Naval Technical Training Center.
Emerald Coast in popular culture
In addition to The Truman Show mentioned above, filming of scenes for Jaws 2 took place in the region. Interiors for the youth's pinball hang-out were filmed in Fort Walton Beach at the now-razed original location of Hog's Breath Saloon on Okaloosa Island, and Bruce the Shark's control sled was placed on the bottom of the Gulf off Navarre.
Redneck Riviera is also the title of a song by Tom T. Hall about this region (from his 1996 album Songs from Sopchoppy). Lyrics include:
Gulf Shores up through ApalachicolaThey got beaches of the whitest sandNobody cares if gramma's got a tattooOr Bubba's got a hot wing in his hand The first level in the Dreamcast game Sonic Adventure is named Emerald Coast.
Arkie, don't stop at the first paragraph from W. Here is the map they show, which includes Pensacola to Appalachicola.
Popular vacation destinations include Pensacola Beach, Gulf Breeze, Navarre Beach, Fort Walton Beach, Niceville, WaterColor, Panama City Beach, Destin, and Seaside, a planned community whose iconic pastel-paint and tin-roof construction was made famous in the Jim Carrey movie The Truman Show, filmed in the area from 1996-1997. Other communities on the Emerald Coast include Perdido Key, Navarre, Sandestin, Mexico Beach, Grayton Beach, Inlet Beach, Santa Rosa Beach, and Seagrove. Approximately 80% of the Emerald Coast's 4.5 million yearly visitors go to Destin, FL.
The area is known[by whom?] as a family drive destination, although in the past decade, its popularity has expanded greatly, leading to new construction booms and seemingly overnight changes. Many development communities similar to Seaside have sprung up in Walton County and the west end of Panama City Beach, raising property values....
This roughly 100-mile stretch is home to several military bases, with installations including Pensacola Naval Air Station (home of the Navy's Blue Angels flying squadron and the initial training site for all naval aviators), Hurlburt Field, Eglin Air Force Base (one of the largest military bases in America), Tyndall Air Force Base (home to the Air Force's F-22 Raptor fighter jets), Coastal Systems Station-Naval Surface Warfare Center (home to the Navy Experimental Diving Unit and Naval Diving & Salvage Training Center), and Corry Station Naval Technical Training Center.
Emerald Coast in popular culture
In addition to The Truman Show mentioned above, filming of scenes for Jaws 2 took place in the region. Interiors for the youth's pinball hang-out were filmed in Fort Walton Beach at the now-razed original location of Hog's Breath Saloon on Okaloosa Island, and Bruce the Shark's control sled was placed on the bottom of the Gulf off Navarre.
Redneck Riviera is also the title of a song by Tom T. Hall about this region (from his 1996 album Songs from Sopchoppy). Lyrics include:
Gulf Shores up through ApalachicolaThey got beaches of the whitest sandNobody cares if gramma's got a tattooOr Bubba's got a hot wing in his hand The first level in the Dreamcast game Sonic Adventure is named Emerald Coast.
scooterbug44
SoWal Expert
According to our alumni club's territory claims, the Emerald Coast goes from east of Pensacola to west of Panama City and we don't "rebrand" or give up territory for nobody~!
lenzoe
Beach Fanatic
If they're going claim "Emerald Coast," I say we stake a claim to "Redneck Riviera." But we'd better be quick. With all the competing TDCs and chamber of commerces, the loser in this high-stakes branding game is going to get stuck with something generic ... like "The Beach."
Zebraspots
Beach Fanatic
Redneck Riviera by Tom T. Hall
Down here on the Redneck Riviera a drinkin' beer and singing country songs
Chillin' with the motel door wide open hopin' somethin' good will come along
Gulf Shores up through Apalachi-cola they got beaches of the whitest sand
Nobody cares if gramma's got a tottoo or Bubba's got a hot wing in his hand
Redneck Riviera is where I wanna be down here on the Redneck Riviera by the sea
Down here on the Redneck Riviera trawlin' up and down Mir-a-cle Mile
Smoothin' out my tan and disposition and wearin' little other than a smile
On Highway 98 I got a ticket something I ain't never understood
If driving a convertible is topless why can't I ride my Harley in the nude
Down here on the Redneck Riviera sign says Smoking Mullet Here Today
I really don't know what I'm gettin' into but I'm in line to try some anyway
Redneck Riviera is where I wanna be down here on the Redneck Riviera by the sea
I got seven dollars for the jukebox twenty more left over for some beer
Down here on the Redneck Riviera there ain't no better living anywhere
Now here comes them dreadful possums
(Down here on the Redneck Riviera down here on the Redneck Riviera
(Down here on the Redneck Riviera down here on the Redneck Riviera
(Down here on the Redneck Riviera down here on the Redneck Riviera
(Down here on the Redneck Riviera down here on the Redneck Riviera
(Down here on the Redneck Riviera down here on the Redneck Riviera)
http://new.music.yahoo.com/tom-t-hall/albums/songs-from-sopchoppy--4905
Down here on the Redneck Riviera a drinkin' beer and singing country songs
Chillin' with the motel door wide open hopin' somethin' good will come along
Gulf Shores up through Apalachi-cola they got beaches of the whitest sand
Nobody cares if gramma's got a tottoo or Bubba's got a hot wing in his hand
Redneck Riviera is where I wanna be down here on the Redneck Riviera by the sea
Down here on the Redneck Riviera trawlin' up and down Mir-a-cle Mile
Smoothin' out my tan and disposition and wearin' little other than a smile
On Highway 98 I got a ticket something I ain't never understood
If driving a convertible is topless why can't I ride my Harley in the nude
Down here on the Redneck Riviera sign says Smoking Mullet Here Today
I really don't know what I'm gettin' into but I'm in line to try some anyway
Redneck Riviera is where I wanna be down here on the Redneck Riviera by the sea
I got seven dollars for the jukebox twenty more left over for some beer
Down here on the Redneck Riviera there ain't no better living anywhere
Now here comes them dreadful possums
(Down here on the Redneck Riviera down here on the Redneck Riviera
(Down here on the Redneck Riviera down here on the Redneck Riviera
(Down here on the Redneck Riviera down here on the Redneck Riviera
(Down here on the Redneck Riviera down here on the Redneck Riviera
(Down here on the Redneck Riviera down here on the Redneck Riviera)
http://new.music.yahoo.com/tom-t-hall/albums/songs-from-sopchoppy--4905
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Kurt
Admin
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/opinion/owns-41394-coast-don.html
EDITORIAL: Who owns 'Emerald Coast'?
You don’t have to agree with Ted Corcoran to admire his willingness to take up a fight that has left everyone else beaten and discouraged. The president and CEO of the Greater Fort Walton Beach Chamber of Commerce is arguing that the “Emerald Coast” label should apply only to southern Okaloosa County.
“The goal here,” he said last week, “is for Okaloosa County to own the Emerald Coast.”
Officials in Fort Walton Beach and other south-county municipalities have passed resolutions in support. The county and its cities are being urged to use a new Emerald Coast logo on their websites. There’s even talk of adding the name “Emerald Coast” to signs at the county line.
Trouble is, all of these efforts ignore history.
Junior high school student Andrew Dier coined the name “Emerald Coast” for a 1983 contest. He won $50 for his trouble.
At the beginning, the label was meant to apply to Okaloosa and Walton counties. It was expanded in 1984 to include Navarre and Navarre Beach. By 1998, when the Daily News’ Lee Forst wrote a brief history of Emerald Coast promotions, its use was much looser. “I guess it’s caught on that the Emerald Coast is from Pensacola to Panama City,” said an official with the South Santa Rosa Tourism Development Council.
Sure, local boosters tried to restrict the “Emerald Coast” brand. They tried to limit the name’s use to businesses that were TDC or chamber members. They failed.
“For a while, we attempted to control the name from a business standpoint,” Gary Alden, founding president of Okaloosa’s TDC, said for our 1998 story. But “we had to include everybody because our white sands go a long way.”
A later TDC honcho, Darrel Jones, said lawyers had advised him that limiting “Emerald Coast” would be impossible because “it’s too generic a term.”
It’s also too popular a term. Tourism boosters across Northwest Florida use it because it’s exotic and evocative.
Now Mr. Corcoran and the TDC want to take an ever-expanding Emerald Coast and shrink it to the size of Okaloosa’s beaches. They have their work cut out for them.
EDITORIAL: Who owns 'Emerald Coast'?
You don’t have to agree with Ted Corcoran to admire his willingness to take up a fight that has left everyone else beaten and discouraged. The president and CEO of the Greater Fort Walton Beach Chamber of Commerce is arguing that the “Emerald Coast” label should apply only to southern Okaloosa County.
“The goal here,” he said last week, “is for Okaloosa County to own the Emerald Coast.”
Officials in Fort Walton Beach and other south-county municipalities have passed resolutions in support. The county and its cities are being urged to use a new Emerald Coast logo on their websites. There’s even talk of adding the name “Emerald Coast” to signs at the county line.
Trouble is, all of these efforts ignore history.
Junior high school student Andrew Dier coined the name “Emerald Coast” for a 1983 contest. He won $50 for his trouble.
At the beginning, the label was meant to apply to Okaloosa and Walton counties. It was expanded in 1984 to include Navarre and Navarre Beach. By 1998, when the Daily News’ Lee Forst wrote a brief history of Emerald Coast promotions, its use was much looser. “I guess it’s caught on that the Emerald Coast is from Pensacola to Panama City,” said an official with the South Santa Rosa Tourism Development Council.
Sure, local boosters tried to restrict the “Emerald Coast” brand. They tried to limit the name’s use to businesses that were TDC or chamber members. They failed.
“For a while, we attempted to control the name from a business standpoint,” Gary Alden, founding president of Okaloosa’s TDC, said for our 1998 story. But “we had to include everybody because our white sands go a long way.”
A later TDC honcho, Darrel Jones, said lawyers had advised him that limiting “Emerald Coast” would be impossible because “it’s too generic a term.”
It’s also too popular a term. Tourism boosters across Northwest Florida use it because it’s exotic and evocative.
Now Mr. Corcoran and the TDC want to take an ever-expanding Emerald Coast and shrink it to the size of Okaloosa’s beaches. They have their work cut out for them.
scooterbug44
SoWal Expert
I think whoever wants to use it can. I've had my fill of idiots trademarking common phrases - like "the beach".
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margarita brocolia
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Just looking at the bottom of some of this site's pages when "Emerald Coast" is mentioned in a thread title yield these thread titles:
Emerald Coast Journal
Emerald Coast Middle School
Association of Emerald Coast Condo Associations
Emerald Coast Association of Realtors
2008 Emerald Coast Bayou Bengals Kickoff Party
ZO Magazine - Women Celebrating Life on the Emerald Coast
LSU Emerald Coast Bayou Bengals Crawfish Boil
Emerald Coast Periodontics
Emerald Coast Sunset Pilsener or Emerald Coast 30-A Pale Ale
Emerald Coast Fit Camps
Emerald Coast Audio
and a thread from 2009 started by DuneLaker:
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Just looking at the bottom of some of this site's pages when "Emerald Coast" is mentioned in a thread title yield these thread titles:
Emerald Coast Journal
Emerald Coast Middle School
Association of Emerald Coast Condo Associations
Emerald Coast Association of Realtors
2008 Emerald Coast Bayou Bengals Kickoff Party
ZO Magazine - Women Celebrating Life on the Emerald Coast
LSU Emerald Coast Bayou Bengals Crawfish Boil
Emerald Coast Periodontics
Emerald Coast Sunset Pilsener or Emerald Coast 30-A Pale Ale
Emerald Coast Fit Camps
Emerald Coast Audio
and a thread from 2009 started by DuneLaker:
http://www.sowal.com/bb/showthread.php/35595-List-of-Emerald-Coast-Place-Names
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