90 years later: Floridians remember historic hurricane that devastated the Keys

A historic hurricane slammed into Florida’s southernmost point 90 years ago and many residents said it’s a storm they will never forget.

Residents like Alma Pinder Dalton and others said the Florida Keys in 1935 was gorgeous, beautiful and starting to grow.

“He had just built a new house,” said Alma Pinder Dalton, a resident who lived through the hurricane.

“We had a two story home on the beach,” said Norman, another resident who lived through the hurricane.

Back in that time, people built their wood frame houses right on the beach. There were roads and cars, but no bridges from island to island so people had to use the ferry.

To link the islands, a YouTube video shows the overseas highway under construction.

A thousand World War I vets were recruited to come down and do the highway