Mr. Miami Beach
David McCullough, Series Host: Good evening and welcome to The American Experience.
大卫·麦卡洛（David McCullough），系列主持人：晚上好，欢迎来到《美国经历》。
I'm David McCullough.
我是大卫·麦卡洛。
An entrepreneur, according to the dictionary, is a person who organizes, operates and assumes the risk for a business venture.
根据字典的解释，企业家是组织、经营并承担商业风险的人。
The key is the risk.
关键是风险。
Our film tonight, Mr. Miami Beach, is about a flamboyant American entrepreneur who had an idea on which he was willing to risk everything.
今晚我们的电影《迈阿密海滩先生》讲述了一位浮夸的美国企业家的故事，他有一个想法，并愿意为此冒一切风险。
Carl Fisher had made a career of betting on the future -- the future of the bicycle, the future of the automobile.
卡尔·费舍尔的职业生涯就是押注未来——自行车的未来、汽车的未来。
Then, a millionaire by his early thirties, he bet on the future of a sandbar offshore from Miami, which itself wasn't much then.
然后，三十岁出头的百万富翁，他把赌注押在迈阿密近海的一个沙洲的未来上，当时沙洲本身并不多。
Fisher was a super salesman, "You couldn't be with him more than half a minute without feeling that life was a pretty damn exciting proposition," a friend remembered.
费舍尔是一位超级推销员，一位朋友回忆道，“你和他在一起超过半分钟，就会感觉生活是一个非常令人兴奋的话题。”
What Fisher had discovered, said Will Rogers, was that sand could hold a real estate sign.
威尔·罗杰斯说，费舍尔发现沙子可以容纳房地产标志。
The 1920's were a big spree for many Americans.
1920 年代对于许多美国人来说是一场盛大的狂欢。
There seemed no end to the possibilities for getting rich and having fun.
致富和享乐的可能性似乎无穷无尽。
And what better fun than heading off for a Florida vacation in one of Henry Ford's new cars.
还有什么比驾驶亨利·福特的新车去佛罗里达度假更有趣的呢？
Like most resorts catering to a wealthy clientele at the time Miami Beach was restricted to whites and gentiles.
与当时为富裕客户提供服务的大多数度假村一样，迈阿密海滩仅限于白人和外邦人。
Jews were not welcome, not at first -- though Carl Fisher was happy to sell real estate to wealthy jewish friends of his like Bernard Gimbel and Julius Fleischmann.
犹太人不受欢迎，一开始也不受欢迎——尽管卡尔·费舍尔很乐意将房地产卖给他的伯纳德·金贝尔和朱利叶斯·弗莱施曼等富有的犹太朋友。
In the spirit of the advertising maxim "sell the sizzle, not the steak," Fisher sold the glamour of Florida, using every ploy of showmanship from bathing beauties to elephants to the President of the United States.
本着广告格言“卖嘶嘶声，而不是牛排”的精神，费舍尔使用各种表演技巧，从沐浴美女到大象，再到美国总统，推销佛罗里达州的魅力。
Yet, Fisher was never trying to sell something he didn't believe in.
然而，费舍尔从未试图推销他不相信的东西。
And when his luck turned against him, ...
当他的运气对他不利时，...
well, you'll see...
好吧，你会看到...
Mr. Miami Beach Narrator: It's 1925, and Miami Beach is the hottest spot in America.
迈阿密海滩先生旁白：1925年，迈阿密海滩是美国最热门的地方。
Boom time millionaires -- and thousands of others who wish they were -- have discovered a magical playground by the sea.
繁荣时期的百万富翁——以及成千上万希望自己成为百万富翁的人——发现了海边的一个神奇游乐场。
There had never been anything like it before.
以前从未有过这样的事情。
Overseeing it all from the upper deck of the Flamingo Hotel is the wizard of this tropical Oz...
这个热带奥兹国的巫师从火烈鸟酒店的上层甲板俯瞰这一切......
a fifty-one year old businessman from Indiana, named Carl Fisher.
一位来自印第安纳州的五十一岁商人，名叫卡尔·费舍尔。
He's barely known to the people down below, but without him they wouldn't be here...because Carl Fisher invented Miami Beach...
下面的人们几乎不认识他，但如果没有他，他们就不会在这里……因为卡尔·费舍尔发明了迈阿密海滩……
from its bathing beauties to the ground it was built on.
从沐浴的美女到它建造的地面。
He risked everything he owned turning a thousand acres of swampland into an American Riviera.
他冒着失去一切的风险，将一千英亩的沼泽地变成了美国的里维埃拉。
But at the moment of success, he stood to lose it all.
但在成功的那一刻，他却失去了一切。
Miami Beach was just one of many fantastic obsessions in a life lived close to the edge of disaster.
迈阿密海滩只是他濒临灾难边缘的生活中众多令人痴迷的事物之一。
Howard Kleinberg, Author: If you look at Fisher's entire life, it's a marathon.
霍华德·克莱因伯格（Howard Kleinberg），作者：如果你纵观费舍尔的一生，你会发现这是一场马拉松。
It's a race.
这是一场比赛。
It was a race to achieve the top of whatever field he was in at the time.
这是一场无论他当时在哪个领域都能达到顶峰的竞赛。
Everything he did he went into it with his heart, his soul, his money, and he would not stop until he reached the end.
他所做的一切都是他用心、用灵魂、用金钱去做的，不到达终点就不会停止。
He wanted to be there the quickest and first...
他想最快、最先到达那里……
the type of person that I don't think this generation could create or endure.
我认为这一代人无法创造或忍受这样的人。
Narrator: Years after Carl's death, his wife, Jane , recalled the remarkable first encounter with her future husband.
旁白：卡尔去世多年后，他的妻子简回忆起与她未来的丈夫的非凡的第一次相遇。
Jane Fisher: It was October 30, 1908.
简·费舍尔：那是 1908 年 10 月 30 日。
I was walking along Meridian Street in Indianapolis when I noticed all movement had stopped.
当我沿着印第安纳波利斯的子午线大街行走时，我发现所有的动静都停止了。
Horses, carriages and drays were halted.
马匹、马车和马车都停了下来。
Every person on the street was staring into the sky.
街上的每个人都盯着天空。
I looked up.
我抬起头来。
Against the clouds, thousands of feet above me, I saw Carl Fisher for the first time.
在距我数千英尺的云层中，我第一次看到了卡尔·费舍尔。
He was in a white automobile hung beneath a vermilion balloon...
他坐在一辆挂着朱红色气球的白色汽车里……
drifting over the business section of Indianapolis.
飘过印第安纳波利斯的商业区。
I heard a man say, "Another of Carl Fisher's stunts.
我听到一个人说：“卡尔·费舍尔的又一绝技。
The man is crazy!" Narrator: Carl Fisher had a knack for publicity.
这男人疯了！”旁白：卡尔·费舍尔有宣传的诀窍。
If he wasn't flying a car over the city, he was racing it against a horse or pushing it off the roof of a downtown building.
如果他不是在城市上空驾驶汽车，那么他就是在与一匹马赛跑，或者将其从市中心建筑物的屋顶上推下来。
This stunt attracted national attention to the Stoddard-Dayton automobiles he sold in his downtown showroom.
这一噱头引起了全国对他在市中心陈列室出售的斯托达德-代顿汽车的关注。
At thirty-four, he was an enterprising young businessman doing his best to overcome a rough start in life.
三十四岁的他是一位有进取心的年轻商人，尽最大努力克服人生的艰难起步。
His mother, Ida, raised Carl and his two brothers in near-poverty after her alcoholic husband abandoned the family.
在她酗酒的丈夫抛弃了家庭后，他的母亲艾达在近乎贫困的情况下抚养卡尔和他的两个兄弟。
The shame haunted Carl for years.
这种耻辱多年来一直困扰着卡尔。
As a child he was called "Crip" because he stumbled when he walked, and he was considered the stupidest boy in school.
小时候他被称为“瘸子”，因为他走路时绊倒，他被认为是学校里最愚蠢的男孩。
No-one realized that he was half blind from astigmatism...
没有人意识到他因散光而半盲......
especially since he was the biggest showoff on the playground -- running, running backwards, standing on his head...
尤其是他是操场上最大的炫耀者——奔跑、倒退、倒立……
even tightrope walking on his mother's clothesline.
甚至在他母亲的晾衣绳上走钢丝。
At the age of twelve, frustrated by the blackboard he could barely see, Carl abandoned the classroom and announced to his mother, "From now on, I'm supporting this family." He began his working life on the Indiana railways, peddling newspapers, cigars, and peanuts...
十二岁时，卡尔对几乎看不见的黑板感到沮丧，他离开了教室，向母亲宣布：“从现在开始，我要养活这个家。”他开始了在印第安纳铁路的工作生涯，兜售报纸、雪茄和花生……
and developing a flair for salesmanship.
并培养销售技巧。
Under his apron, he kept a picture of a naked lady.
他的围裙下放着一张裸体女士的照片。
A quick flash got the customer's attention.
快速的闪光引起了顾客的注意。
He won a national prize selling pamphlets by Colonel Bob Ingersoll -- an inspirational orator who preached a creed of self reliance...
他因销售鲍勃·英格索尔上校的小册子而获得了全国奖——鲍勃·英格索尔上校是一位鼓舞人心的演说家，宣扬自力更生的信条……
and whose words Carl memorized: "Happiness is the only good...
卡尔记住了他的话：“幸福是唯一的美好……
the time to be happy is now...
幸福的时刻就是现在……
the way to be happy is to make others so." Carl Fisher took those words to heart in a life where every pleasure became a business opportunity, and nothing could happen fast enough.
快乐的方法就是让别人快乐。”卡尔·费舍尔将这句话牢记在心，在生活中，每一次快乐都变成了商机，而且任何事情都不会发生得足够快。
In the 1890's he fell in love with the bicycle...formed a racing team with his friends...and barnstormed county fairs.
1890 年代，他爱上了自行车...与朋友组成了一支赛车队...并参加了县集市。
He talked a wealthy manufacturer into advancing him a thousand bicycles on credit.
他说服一家富有的制造商赊购给他一千辆自行车。
Soon, Carl was in business, making a name for himself with spectacular promotional stunts.
很快，卡尔就开始做生意，并以惊人的促销手段赢得了声誉。
He once rode a bicycle across a tightwire twelve stories above an Indianapolis street.
他曾经骑着自行车穿过印第安纳波利斯街道上十二层楼高的钢丝绳。
By the time he was twenty, he was the biggest bicycle dealer in city.
二十岁时，他已成为城里最大的自行车经销商。
At the turn of the century, Carl fell in love again...this time with the automobile.
在世纪之交，卡尔再次爱上了……这次是汽车。
Joseph Freeman, Automotive Historian: Well, it was a tremendous thrill.
汽车历史学家约瑟夫·弗里曼：嗯，这真是太令人兴奋了。
I mean the idea that you could go as fast as you wanted, pretty much, pressed an accelerator and away you went, that was a great feeling.
我的意思是，你可以随心所欲地行驶，几乎，按下油门就可以走了，那是一种很棒的感觉。
Narrator: In the early days of auto racing, only the most reckless would even attempt it.
旁白：在赛车运动的早期，只有最鲁莽的人才会尝试。
Joseph Freeman: The cars were unpredictable and dangerous.
约瑟夫·弗里曼：这些汽车是不可预测且危险的。
Ah, the road surfaces or the tracks that they raced on were exceedingly dangerous.
啊，他们比赛的路面或者跑道是非常危险的。
It attracted folks with a lot of guts and just a fierce competitive spirit.
它吸引了那些有勇气和激烈竞争精神的人。
Carl Fisher was prototypic of those kind of guys...just loved going fast, hell bent for leather.
卡尔·费舍尔（Carl Fisher）是这类人的典型……只是喜欢快速行驶，对皮革一心一意。
That was Carl Fisher.
那是卡尔·费舍尔。
Don't stop, don't look around, just go.
不要停下来，不要四处张望，就走吧。
On the other hand there is a certain element of control, which he, and all race car drivers had to exercise.
另一方面，还有一定的控制力，他和所有赛车手都必须练习这一点。
You don't want to be the guy who flies over the rail.
你不想成为那个飞越铁轨的人。
You want to be the guy who finishes first.
你想成为第一个完成比赛的人。
Narrator: In 1904, Carl held the world speed record at just under sixty miles per hour.
旁白：1904 年，卡尔保持着每小时不到 60 英里的世界速度纪录。
His poor eyesight eventually forced him off the track, but the passion remained.
他的视力不佳最终迫使他离开了赛道，但热情依然存在。
So did the urge to turn it into business.
把它变成生意的冲动也是如此。
In a glittering downtown showroom, he opened the Fisher Automobile Company, selling the finest cars of the day.
在市中心一个闪闪发光的陈列室中，他开设了费舍尔汽车公司，销售当时最好的汽车。
At the time, not everyone believed in the future of the automobile...but Carl did.
当时，并不是每个人都相信汽车的未来......但卡尔相信。
And he even imagined that people would want to drive at night.
他甚至想象人们会想在晚上开车。
So he bought the patent for a gas powered lamp, and became the first manufacturer of bright headlights for cars.
于是他购买了燃气灯的专利，成为第一家生产明亮的汽车前灯的制造商。
He called the company Prest-O-Lite, and it would soon make him a wealthy man.
他将这家公司命名为 Prest-O-Lite，这家公司很快让他成为了一名富有的人。
It was around this time that Jane Watts caught the first glimpse of her future husband.
大约在这个时候，简·沃茨第一次见到了她未来的丈夫。
A few weeks later they met at a party, and Jane was swept into the high-speed life of Carl Fisher.
几周后，他们在一次聚会上相遇，简被卷入卡尔·费舍尔的高速生活中。
Jane Fisher: "In My Merry Oldsmobile" became our courting song.
简·费舍尔：“在我的快乐奥兹莫比尔”成为我们的求爱歌曲。
We sang it in harmony riding over the dusty, rutted dirt roads around Indianapolis.
我们骑在印第安纳波利斯周围尘土飞扬、布满车辙的土路上，和谐地唱着这首歌。
Some day, Carl would say, we'll have real roads in this country -- not these goddamn mudholes!
卡尔会说，有一天，我们将在这个国家拥有真正的道路——而不是这些该死的泥坑！
He was all speed.
他速度极快。
Altogether, I found Carl so dazzling that at first I could hardly look at him.
总而言之，我发现卡尔是如此耀眼，以至于一开始我几乎无法直视他。
Narrator: Within a year, Carl shocked Indianapolis society by marrying Jane.
旁白：一年之内，卡尔与简结婚，震惊了印第安纳波利斯社会。
He was 35.
他35岁了。
She was 15.
她15岁。
He was a dynamo who chewed tobacco and smoked cigars at the same time.
他是一个一边嚼烟草一边抽雪茄的发电机。
She was in for a wild ride.
她正经历一场疯狂的旅程。
Howard Kleinberg: Carl Fisher was a hard drinker, a hard liver...a curser...He used to love to go to boxing matches...
霍华德·克莱因伯格：卡尔·费舍尔是个酗酒者，肝脏不好......一个咒骂者......他曾经喜欢去看拳击比赛......
you know things like that.
你知道类似的事情。
He was a rough house guy.
他是个粗鲁的宅男。
He liked to be on his boat.
他喜欢在他的船上。
He liked to go fishing.
他喜欢去钓鱼。
Narrator: He was also irresistibly drawn to risky business ventures.
旁白：他也无法抗拒地被冒险的商业活动所吸引。
His latest dream was a professional automobile racetrack--something no-one but race car drivers saw any need for.
他最近的梦想是建造一个专业的汽车赛道——除了赛车手之外，没有人认为有必要。
Joseph Freeman: There were a lot of people in Indianapolis who thought he was absolutely crazy.
约瑟夫·弗里曼：印第安纳波利斯有很多人认为他绝对疯了。
It was well outside of town, and a big amount of money to spend on something that was totally unproven.
它距离城镇很远，而且要花一大笔钱买一些完全未经证实的东西。
And after all Fisher had his own share of crackpot ideas.
毕竟费舍尔也有他自己的一些疯狂想法。
Throwing cars off of buildings and floating them around under hot air balloons was not necessarily main stream activity.
将汽车从建筑物上扔下来并在热气球下漂浮并不一定是主流活动。
Narrator: Even so, Carl persuaded three partners to join him.
旁白：即便如此，卡尔还是说服了三位合伙人加入他。
They would build the greatest racecourse in the world, he said, and call it the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
他说，他们将建造世界上最伟大的赛马场，并将其称为印第安纳波利斯赛车场。
Opening day, in August, 1909, was a celebration of everything Carl loved -- lighter-than-air balloons, brass bands, and the fastest cars in the world.
1909 年 8 月的开幕日，庆祝了卡尔所喜爱的一切——比空气轻的气球、铜管乐队和世界上最快的汽车。
But as the race got underway, the tar and gravel track began to crumble under the wheels of the race cars .
但随着比赛的进行，沥青和砾石赛道开始在赛车的车轮下崩塌。
Jane Fisher: The glorious day he had planned turned into a carnival of death.
简·费舍尔：他原本计划的光荣的一天变成了死亡的狂欢节。
Cars skidded off the track and burst into flame.
汽车滑出轨道并起火。
I watched Carl's face grow white from my box in the stands.
我在看台上的包厢里看到卡尔的脸色变得惨白。
Narrator: By the time he stopped the race, five people were dead.
旁白：当他停止比赛时，已有五人死亡。
The newspapers called it a disaster...
报纸称这是一场灾难......
and questioned whether such races should be allowed in the future.
并质疑未来是否应该允许此类比赛。
Carl was mortified.
卡尔感到羞愧。
He tore up the track, and spent another $100,000 searching for a better surface, eventually repaving it entirely in brick.
他拆毁了赛道，又花了 10 万美元寻找更好的路面，最终完全用砖重新铺设。
On Memorial Day, 1911, the Brickyard was ready for a new kind of auto race -- a one day, 500 mile event, with prizes amounting to $25,100.
1911 年阵亡将士纪念日，Brickyard 准备举办一种新型汽车比赛——为期 500 英里的一日赛事，奖金高达 25,100 美元。
Eighty-seven thousand people paid a dollar apiece to watch the first Indianapolis 500.
八万七千人每人支付一美元观看首届印第安纳波利斯 500 大赛。
This time the track held together, and Speedway succeeded beyond anyone's expectations...
这一次，赛道团结在一起，赛道的成功超出了所有人的预期……
except Carl's.
除了卡尔的。
Soon after, Carl sold his share of Prest-O-Lite to Union Carbide for almost $6 million dollars.
不久之后，卡尔以近 600 万美元的价格将他在 Prest-O-Lite 的股份出售给联合碳化物公司。
He was not yet 40 years old.
他还不到40岁。
Jane hoped he might slow down.
简希望他能慢下来。
"Hell," he said, " I don't have time to take time." He was racing balloons, building houses, race cars, and yachts.
“见鬼，”他说，“我没有时间花时间。”他从事气球竞赛、建造房屋、赛车和游艇。
He had a special love for speedboats, and spent his summers racing them on Lake Michigan.
他对快艇有着特殊的热爱，并在整个夏天都在密歇根湖上驾驶快艇。
But the boating season was short on the Great Lakes, and he began to dream of warmer water...a dream that would draw him into the riskiest venture of his life.
但五大湖的划船季节很短，他开始梦想着温暖的水……这个梦想将把他带入一生中最危险的冒险。
Some twenty years earlier, Americans had been introduced to the exotic outback of Florida.
大约二十年前，美国人被引入佛罗里达州充满异国情调的内陆地区。
A retired tycoon named Henry Flagler built a railroad along Florida's east coast, and lured the social elite to luxury hotels in St. Augustine and Palm Beach.
一位名叫亨利·弗拉格勒的退休大亨沿着佛罗里达州东海岸修建了一条铁路，并吸引社会精英入住圣奥古斯丁和棕榈滩的豪华酒店。
In 1896, Flagler's railroad finally reached the steamy outpost of Miami.
1896 年，弗拉格勒的铁路终于到达了潮湿的迈阿密前哨站。
By 1912, the population had jumped from 300 to 12,000, plus a small number of well-to-do winter visitors.
到 1912 年，人口已从 300 人跃升至 12,000 人，还有少量富裕的冬季游客。
Among them were Carl and Jane Fisher, who were supposed to be on vacation.
其中包括卡尔和简·费舍尔，他们本来应该去度假的。
Jane Fisher: He promised me he would stop working.
简·费舍尔：他向我保证他会停止工作。
"I'm going to take things easy," he told me.
“我会让事情变得轻松，”他告诉我。
But it was not in Carl to lounge in the sun.
但卡尔不喜欢在阳光下休息。
He was too restless.
他太焦躁了。
This was the warm water paradise Carl had been looking for -- and he imagined the same wealthy crowd that wintered up the coast in Palm Beach would flock to Miami, given the right incentive.
这就是卡尔一直在寻找的温暖的水天堂——他想象，如果有适当的激励，那些在棕榈滩海岸过冬的富裕人群也会涌向迈阿密。
A plan began to take shape when he came across a half finished wooden bridge on the bay.
当他在海湾上看到一座半成品的木桥时，一个计划开始成形。
Lester Pancoast, Great-grandson of John Collins: He saw this bridge that went roaring off from the mainland over toward the beach on the other side.
莱斯特·潘科斯特（Lester Pancoast），约翰·柯林斯（John Collins）的曾孙：他看到这座桥从大陆呼啸而过，通向另一边的海滩。
And he asked people whose it was, and they said, it was John Collins' folly.
他问人们这是谁的，他们说，这是约翰·柯林斯的愚蠢行为。
Narrator: John Collins was a 75 year-old Quaker farmer from New Jersey who owned most of "the beach"...
旁白：约翰·柯林斯 (John Collins) 是一位来自新泽西州的 75 岁贵格会农民，他拥有大部分“海滩”……
a swampy spit of land across the bay from Miami, where he was trying to start an avocado plantation...
迈阿密海湾对面的一片沼泽地，他正试图在那里建立一个鳄梨种植园......
and also sell some beach front property to help pay for it.
并出售一些海滨房产来帮助支付费用。
Lester Pancoast: The bridge was to create a possible real estate market on Miami Beach.
Lester Pancoast：这座桥的目的是在迈阿密海滩创建一个可能的房地产市场。
Because just as it happened in New Jersey towns, they felt that people would like to live where they could bathe in the ocean.
因为就像新泽西州的城镇一样，他们觉得人们喜欢住在可以在大海里沐浴的地方。
But I think they were about three quarters of the way across when the money became thin.
但我认为当钱变得稀薄时，他们已经走了大约四分之三。
Narrator: Intrigued by the old man's venture, and with six million dollars burning a hole in his pocket, Fisher offered to help.
旁白：费舍尔对这位老人的冒险很感兴趣，而且他的口袋里已经掏出了六百万美元，他主动提出提供帮助。
Howard Kleinberg: Collins needed, I believe, fifty thousand dollars to finish that bridge and so Fisher agreed to loan the money to Collins to finish the project but with a caveat, in addition to the interest on the loan.
霍华德·克莱因伯格：我相信柯林斯需要五万美元来完成这座桥，因此费舍尔同意借钱给柯林斯来完成该项目，但除了贷款利息外，还有一个警告。
And the caveat was that Collins give him some of the land.
需要注意的是，柯林斯给了他一些土地。
Narrator: Carl got two hundred acres -- a mile long strip of palmetto scrub running from the bay to the ocean.
旁白：卡尔拥有两百英亩土地——一英里长的棕榈灌木丛，从海湾一直延伸到大海。
Then he made another deal with a small real estate company at the south end of the beach, acquiring several hundred acres more, including a large tract of seemingly worthless swampland.
然后，他又与海滩南端的一家小型房地产公司达成了另一笔交易，又收购了数百英亩土地，其中包括一大片看似毫无价值的沼泽地。
One day Carl took Jane across the bay to inspect his new real estate.
有一天，卡尔带着简穿过海湾去视察他的新房产。
She was not impressed.
她没有留下深刻的印象。
The bay side was a dense mangrove swamp, miles wide in places.
海湾边是一片茂密的红树林沼泽，有的地方有数英里宽。
Jane found it unbearable.
简觉得难以忍受。
Jane Fisher: Creatures that made me shudder were lying in wait on the branches of the overhanging trees.
简·费舍尔：让我不寒而栗的生物正埋伏在悬垂的树枝上等待。
The jungle was as hot and steamy as a conservatory.
丛林像温室一样炎热潮湿。
Narrator: When they could go no farther by boat, they made their way on foot through the palmetto scrub, heading toward the ocean.
旁白：当他们无法乘船前往更远的地方时，他们就步行穿过棕榈灌木丛，向大海走去。
Jane Fisher: The mosquitoes were biting every exposed inch of me.
简·费舍尔：蚊子咬着我裸露的每一寸肌肤。
What on earth could Carl see in such a place, I wondered, as I picked my way through the morass in my white shoes.
当我穿着白鞋在沼泽中小心翼翼地走时，我想知道卡尔在这样的地方到底能看到什么。
I refused to find any charm in this deserted strip of land...
我拒绝在这片荒芜的土地上找到任何魅力……
but Carl was like a man seeing visions.
但卡尔就像一个看到异象的人。
He picked up a stick, and when we reached the clean sand he began to draw a plan.
他拿起一根棍子，当我们到达干净的沙滩时，他开始画一个计划。
I know now that he was seeing Miami Beach, in its entirety, rising from that swamp.
我现在知道他看到的是整个迈阿密海滩，从那片沼泽中升起。
Narrator: Carl thought it might take six months.
旁白：卡尔认为这可能需要六个月的时间。
In fact, he would spend the next ten years and risk everything he owned turning his swampy sandbar into a man-made paradise.
事实上，他将在接下来的十年里，冒着拥有一切的风险，将他的沼泽沙洲变成人造天堂。
Now his Florida vacation was over.
现在他的佛罗里达假期结束了。
It was time to get back to business.
是时候回到正题了。
He put a few laborers to work clearing the land with machetes and axes...and caught the next train back to Indianapolis.
他让一些工人用砍刀和斧头清理土地……然后搭乘下一班火车返回印第安纳波利斯。
The Memorial Day race at Speedway still consumed a lot of Carl's time.
赛道上的阵亡将士纪念日比赛仍然消耗了卡尔大量的时间。
So did half a dozen other ventures, from diesel engines to synthetic gasoline.
从柴油发动机到合成汽油，六家其他企业也是如此。
Simply being rich would never satisfy Carl Fisher.
仅仅富有永远无法满足卡尔·费舍尔的要求。
Jane Fisher: I don't believe he ever thought in terms of money.
简·费舍尔：我不相信他曾经考虑过金钱。
He made millions, but they were incidental.
他赚了数百万美元，但这些都是偶然的。
He often said, "I just like to see the dirt fly.
他常说：“我就是喜欢看泥土飞扬。
" Narrator: One of his greatest ambitions was to persuade the government to start building better roads.
” 旁白：他最大的抱负之一就是说服政府开始修建更好的道路。
He convinced the leaders of the automotive industry to jump-start the process by financing the first paved road across the country -- the Lincoln Highway, from New York to San Francisco.
他说服汽车行业的领导者通过资助全国第一条铺好的道路——从纽约到旧金山的林肯高速公路来启动这一进程。
It was such a success that he went on to build another road -- the Dixie Highway...
它是如此的成功，以至于他继续修建另一条路——迪克西高速公路……
leading, very conveniently, from Indianapolis to the foot of the bridge he was paying for back in Florida.
非常方便地从印第安纳波利斯到达他在佛罗里达州支付费用的桥脚。
On June 12th, 1913, the people of Miami lined up for the grand opening of the Collins Bridge.
1913 年 6 月 12 日，迈阿密人民排队等待柯林斯大桥的盛大开幕。
One official proclaimed that , "No more novel ride can be offered anywhere than this auto trip over the sea." Then, a parade of automobiles rattled across the two-and-a-half mile span -- the longest wooden bridge in the world.
一位官员宣称，“没有比这趟海上汽车旅行更新颖的乘坐方式了。”然后，一队汽车轰隆隆地驶过两英里半的跨度——世界上最长的木桥。
At the end each car had to be turned around and pointed back toward the mainland, because there was not yet a road beyond.
最后，每辆车都必须掉头，指向大陆，因为外面还没有路。
Many wondered why anyone would spend so much money on a bridge to nowhere.
许多人想知道为什么有人会花这么多钱建造一座通向无处可去的桥梁。
They were about to find out.
他们正要找出答案。
When Carl returned to Florida, he found his real estate venture in serious trouble.
当卡尔回到佛罗里达时，他发现他的房地产生意陷入了严重的麻烦。
The laborers trying to clear the swamps were getting nowhere...and the heat, the snakes and the mosquitoes made the work miserable.
试图清理沼泽的工人们毫无进展……炎热的天气、蛇和蚊子让工作变得很痛苦。
Carl immediately sent back to Indiana for custom built plows and tractors.
卡尔立即派回印第安纳州购买定制的犁和拖拉机。
Soon, the old landscape began to disappear.
很快，旧日的风景开始消失。
Now he had hundreds of acres of stumps that were under water at high tide.
现在他拥有数百英亩的树桩，涨潮时这些树桩都被淹没在水下。
What he wanted was solid land.
他想要的是坚实的土地。
So he built retaining walls to hold back the ocean...and began pumping in a soupy mix of sand and water from the bottom of the bay.
因此，他建造了挡土墙来阻挡海水……并开始从海湾底部泵入沙子和水的粘稠混合物。
Gradually, the water drained away leaving a landscape as flat as a midwestern prairie.
渐渐地，水流干了，留下了像中西部大草原一样平坦的地貌。
Of course, the locals found the whole thing incomprehensible.
当然，当地人觉得整件事难以理解。
Helen Muir, Author: They thought he was a loon.
海伦·缪尔（Helen Muir），作者：他们认为他是个傻瓜。
They thought he was absolutely loony.
他们认为他绝对是个疯子。
Here we have all this vacant land and this rich man is dredging up sand...?
我们这里有这么多空地，而这个富人正在挖沙……？
Narrator: They thought it was a mirage.
旁白：他们认为那是海市蜃楼。
Next came hundreds of tons of topsoil shipped in from the Everglades.
接下来是从大沼泽地运来的数百吨表土。
Then Carl told his gardeners to turn the whole place into a tropical paradise.
然后卡尔告诉他的园丁把整个地方变成热带天堂。
In December, 1913, the Miami Metropolis wrote: "Transformed from a wilderness to a park, almost in an instant, as though by waving a magic wand, Miami Beach today seems a fairy land, and the story of its development reads like a romance." In January, Carl put his first subdivision on the market.
1913年12月，《迈阿密大都会》写道：“从荒野变成公园，几乎在一瞬间，就像挥动魔杖一样，今天的迈阿密海滩就像一个仙境，它的发展故事读起来就像一个浪漫的故事。”一月份，卡尔将他的第一个细分项目投放市场。
It never occurred to him that people might not want what he was creating.
他从未想过人们可能不想要他所创造的东西。
He assembled an army of men and machines and put them to work building streets, sidewalks, sewers, and electric utilities...
他组建了一支由人力和机器组成的军队，让他们开始修建街道、人行道、下水道和电力设施……
golf courses, yacht clubs and tennis courts...
高尔夫球场、游艇俱乐部和网球场......
When Jane suggested that he build a church, he said, "It's a helluva good idea.
当简建议他建造一座教堂时，他说：“这是个好主意。
I'll build you the best goddamn church there is." Carl conceived of Miami Beach as a place for the wealthy to build homes and spend the winter season.
我会为你建造一座该死的最好的教堂。”卡尔将迈阿密海滩视为富人建造家园和度过冬季的地方。
They visited his $350,000 bathing pavilion and lounged on the beach.
他们参观了他价值 35 万美元的沐浴亭，并在海滩上休息。
But they weren't buying the real estate.
但他们并没有购买房地产。
To Carl's upscale visitors, Miami Beach seemed a remote, unfinished place.
对于卡尔的高档游客来说，迈阿密海滩似乎是一个偏远、未完工的地方。
He offered to give land away to anyone willing to build an expensive home...
他提出将土地赠送给任何愿意建造昂贵房屋的人......
but even then there were few takers.
但即便如此，接受者也寥寥无几。
Jane Fisher: Miami Beach and Carl himself seemed unreal to our visitors.
简·费希尔：迈阿密海滩和卡尔本人对我们的游客来说似乎不真实。
They would go away shaking their heads.
他们会摇着头走开。
"It can't last," some of them said.
“这种情况不会持续太久，”他们中的一些人说。
But Carl would risk everything he owned to prove them wrong.
但卡尔愿意冒着一切风险来证明他们是错的。
Narrator: By 1917 he'd spent nearly 2 million dollars, and seemed to be headed for disaster.
旁白：到 1917 年，他已经花费了近 200 万美元，似乎正走向灾难。
Carl had created Miami Beach for the social elite, thinking it would sell itself.
卡尔为社会精英创建了迈阿密海滩，认为它会推销自己。
But that wasn't the way he'd sold newspapers, bicycles and cars back in Indiana.
但他在印第安纳州并不是这样卖报纸、自行车和汽车的。
And now he realized that wasn't the way to sell Miami Beach, either.
现在他意识到这也不是出售迈阿密海滩的方法。
"I was on the wrong track", he said later.
“我走错了路”，他后来说。
"I'd been trying to reach the wrong crowd.
“我一直试图接触错误的人群。
I needed to go after the live wires." Howard Kleinberg: He finally reverted back to what Carl Fisher was best at.
我需要去寻找带电的电线。”霍华德·克莱因伯格：他终于回到了卡尔·费舍尔最擅长的领域。
That was hustling.
那很热闹。
Promoting.
推广。
And he had gimmicks.
而且他还有噱头。
Narrator: He got a circus elephant, and started taking pictures.
旁白：他得到了一头马戏团大象，并开始拍照。
He predicted that newspaper editors up north would find them hard to resist...
他预测北方的报纸编辑会发现它们难以抗拒......
and he was right.
他是对的。
"I'm going to get a million dollars worth of advertising out of this elephant," he said.
“我将从这头大象身上获得价值一百万美元的广告，”他说。
Cheesecake worked even better.
芝士蛋糕效果更好。
In a flash of inspiration, he created the Miami Beach bathing beauty.
灵感一闪，他创造了迈阿密海滩的沐浴美景。
"We'll get the prettiest girls and put them in the goddamndest tightest and shortest bathing suits, and no stockings or swim shoes either.
“我们会找来最漂亮的女孩，让她们穿上最紧最短的泳衣，也不穿丝袜或泳鞋。
We'll have their pictures taken and send them all over the goddamn country!" Howard Kleinberg: The national press just ate that stuff up.
我们会拍下他们的照片，然后将它们发送到该死的国家各地！”霍华德·克莱因伯格（Howard Kleinberg）：全国媒体刚刚消化了这些东西。
You couldn't pick up a paper in the United States without seeing a picture of either the elephant moving a log or some group of bathing beauties, standing by the beach, never getting wet but standing by the beach.
在美国，你在报纸上不可能不看到大象移动一根木头的照片，或者一群沐浴美女站在海滩边，从不被淋湿，而是站在海滩边的照片。
And Miami Beach all of a sudden became the place to go.
迈阿密海滩突然成为一个值得去的地方。
Narrator: Carl created a world that could not be ignored...
旁白：卡尔创造了一个不容忽视的世界……
with national sports icons like swimmer Johnny Weissmuller and golf star Bobby Jones .
与游泳运动员约翰尼·韦斯穆勒和高尔夫明星鲍比·琼斯等国家体育偶像一起。
Helen Muir: It was a world to suit himself, with more imagination than I can even think of anybody else having at the time.
海伦·缪尔：这是一个适合他自己的世界，他的想象力比当时任何人都多。
He thought so big you wonder where it sprang from.
他的想法太大了，你想知道它是从哪里来的。
Narrator: He spent more than a million dollars on polo fields, stables, grooms, and blacksmiths.
旁白：他在马球场、马厩、马夫和铁匠上花费了超过一百万美元。
And to make sure he got it right, he imported an entire polo team, with ponies, from England.
为了确保他做对了，他从英国引进了整个马球队和小马。
Helen Muir: He paid them all, as I remember, fifteen thousand dollars each to come, but that wasn't enough.
海伦·缪尔：据我记得，他给了他们每人一万五千美元，但这还不够。
He had to build a hotel where it was very horsy and English, use certain meals...
他必须建造一家非常热情和英国的酒店，使用某些膳食......
Don't you see the mind at work.
难道你没有看到头脑在工作吗？
Don't you see the mind at work.
难道你没有看到头脑在工作吗？
He was a stage producer.
他是一名舞台制作人。
Narrator: The most elaborate set in Carl Fisher's production of Miami Beach was the 2 million dollar Flamingo Hotel that opened on New Years Eve, 1920.
旁白：卡尔·费舍尔制作的《迈阿密海滩》中最精致的布景是 1920 年除夕夜开业、耗资 200 万美元的火烈鸟酒店。
There were Venetian gondolas in the bay, and Italian singers in velvet pants strolling the grounds.
海湾里有威尼斯贡多拉，穿着天鹅绒裤子的意大利歌手在场地上漫步。
Olive Delahunt, Miami Beach Resident since 1922: We'd all sit at the dock and watch the races.
Olive Delahunt，自 1922 年以来一直居住在迈阿密海滩：我们都会坐在码头上观看比赛。
And they had the tea dances there.
他们在那里举行茶舞会。
There were women coming all dressed up beautifully in their long gowns and they would dance of course.
有些女人穿着长袍，打扮得很漂亮，她们当然会跳舞。
That was fun, although we got bit up by mosquitoes but we got used to that by that time.
很有趣，虽然我们被蚊子咬了，但那时我们已经习惯了。
Narrator: No-one enjoyed playing in Miami Beach more than Carl.
旁白：没有人比卡尔更喜欢在迈阿密海滩玩耍。
The only game he did not really care for was golf.
他唯一不真正喜欢的运动是高尔夫。
"If I hit a good ball I can't see the goddamn thing," he said, "and if I hit a bad one, I sure as hell don't want to.
“如果我打了一个好球，我就看不到那该死的东西，”他说，“如果我打了一个坏球，我当然不想看到。
Miami Beach had everything...
迈阿密海滩拥有一切......
everything, Carl thought, but prestige.
一切，卡尔想，除了声望。
He wanted an official endorsement, and he had a particular official in mind -- the newly-elected President of the United States, Warren G.
他想要得到官方的支持，并且他心中有一位特定的官员——新当选的美国总统沃伦·G·布什(Warren G.
Harding.
哈丁。
Howard Kleinberg: Fisher had heard that Harding was coming to Florida...
霍华德·克莱因伯格：费舍尔听说哈丁要来佛罗里达……
as a sort of post election...
作为一种选举后......
vacation...
假期...
before being sworn in as president.
在宣誓就任总统之前。
And he said, boy, I would give anything to get this guy over to Miami Beach, I want his dateline of Miami Beach in the newspapers everywhere .
他说，孩子，我愿意不惜一切代价让这个家伙去迈阿密海滩，我希望他在迈阿密海滩的约会日期遍布各地的报纸。
Narrator: Carl would be competing with the city of Miami for Harding's attention ...
旁白：卡尔将与迈阿密市争夺哈丁的注意力......
so he took a cagey approach.
所以他采取了谨慎的态度。
When Harding's yacht arrived in the harbor, Carl and Jane were waiting on the dock.
当哈丁的游艇抵达港口时，卡尔和简正在码头等候。
Harding had let it be known that he wanted to keep a low profile during his visit, and he planned to stay on his boat...
哈丁曾表示，他想在访问期间保持低调，并计划留在船上......
but Carl had other ideas.
但卡尔有其他想法。
Howard Kleinberg: So there this yacht sails into the middle of Biscayne Bay and the Mayor of Miami comes over and reads his proclamation.
霍华德·克莱因伯格：这艘游艇驶入比斯坎湾中部，迈阿密市长过来宣读了他的公告。
Mmm...
嗯...
thank you very much and good-bye, and the Mayor of Miami goes off back to the mainland, and Fisher says, okay Warren, let's get at it.
非常感谢你，再见，迈阿密市长回到大陆，费舍尔说，好吧，沃伦，让我们开始吧。
Narrator: Before Harding realized what was happening, he was whisked off to Miami Beach in Carl Fisher's boat.
旁白：在哈丁意识到发生了什么事之前，他乘坐卡尔·费舍尔的船被迅速送往迈阿密海滩。
Jane Fisher: Carl shanghaied the President right out from under the pip-squeak Miami reception committee and took him up to the Flamingo Hotel penthouse where a poker game and a bottle of scotch were waiting.
简·费舍尔：卡尔从迈阿密接待委员会的领导下迎接了总统，并把他带到了火烈鸟酒店的顶层公寓，那里正在等待一场扑克游戏和一瓶苏格兰威士忌。
Narrator: For the rest of the week, the nation's newspapers featured the president-elect at play in Miami Beach.
旁白：本周剩下的时间里，全国报纸都报道了当选总统在迈阿密海滩的比赛。
Better still, Harding told reporters, "This beach is wonderful.
更好的是，哈丁告诉记者，“这个海滩太棒了。
It's developing like magic.
它的发展就像魔法一样。
I hope to come here again.
我希望能再次来到这里。
" From that moment on, Miami Beach began to draw the clientele Carl was looking for.
“从那一刻起，迈阿密海滩开始吸引卡尔正在寻找的客户。
Howard Kleinberg: The Midwest nouveau riche were now looking at this place that Carl Fisher was creating.
霍华德·克莱因伯格：中西部的暴发户现在正在关注卡尔·费舍尔正在创建的这个地方。
Palm Beach was for the New York-Philadelphia rich.
棕榈滩是纽约-费城富人的聚集地。
The old rich.
老富豪了
The hoity-toity rich...
胡言乱语的富有...
okay.
好的。
But this was a different group.
但这是一个不同的群体。
These were guys who were fixing flat tires on bicycles twenty-five years earlier who suddenly were millionaires and Fisher was able to say to them, fellas, wait till you see what I'm doing down here in the South.
这些人二十五年前在自行车上修理漏气的轮胎，他们突然成为百万富翁，费舍尔可以对他们说，伙计们，等等，看看我在南方做什么。
Jane Fisher: Carl made many of his best sales aboard his boats.
简·费舍尔：卡尔的许多最好的销售业绩都是在他的船上完成的。
On the deck of the Shadow K he sold Albert Champion half a million dollars worth of property at the flip of a cigar.
在“Shadow K”号的甲板上，他只用一根雪茄就把价值五十万美元的财产卖给了阿尔伯特·钱皮恩（Albert Champion）。
He drove customers over Biscayne Bay and pointed to a spot in the smooth water.
他载着顾客穿越比斯坎湾，并指着平静的水面上的一个地方。
'I'm going to build an island right there.
“我要在那里建一座岛。
Might be a good spot for you to buy.' Narrator: They built lavish homes on Carl's prime real estate ...
可能是你购买的好地方。旁白：他们在卡尔的黄金地段建造了豪华的住宅......
and brought their version of high society with them.
并带来了他们对上流社会的看法。
At their house on the beach, Carl and Jane entertained constantly.
在海滩上的房子里，卡尔和简经常招待客人。
They had a staff of twenty, and their grocery bills were a thousand dollars a month.
他们有二十名员工，每个月的杂货账单是一千美元。
But to Jane's dismay, Carl was indifferent to Miami Beach society.
但令简沮丧的是，卡尔对迈阿密海滩社会漠不关心。
Howard Kleinberg: Fisher hated...
霍华德·克莱因伯格：费舍尔讨厌……
social events.
社交活动。
His wife, Jane, loved them.
他的妻子简很喜欢它们。
She wanted to go to this party, that party, this party.
她想去参加这个聚会，那个聚会，这个聚会。
Fisher hated it.
费舍尔讨厌它。
He wanted a cigar, a deck of cards,...
他想要一支雪茄、一副扑克牌……
and a couple of stiff belts of booze.
还有几条僵硬的酒腰带。
Narrator: Carl's attitude frustrated Jane, and put a strain on their marriage...
旁白：卡尔的态度让简感到沮丧，也给他们的婚姻带来了压力……
and to make matters worse, his six million dollar fortune was almost gone.
更糟糕的是，他的六百万美元财产几乎荡然无存。
Even though sales were picking up, Carl was spending far more than he took in.
尽管销量在回升，卡尔的支出却远远超过了他的收入。
For the first time he was borrowing to stay afloat.
他第一次借钱维持生计。
Still, the Fishers might have weathered all of this if not for a devastating blow that came toward the end of 1921.
尽管如此，如果不是 1921 年底发生的毁灭性打击，费舍尔一家可能已经度过了这一切。
Howard Kleinberg: They had a great tragedy.
霍华德·克莱因伯格：他们经历了一场巨大的悲剧。
They had a baby, and the baby died in the first week of its life, I believe and...
他们生了一个孩子，但孩子在出生后第一周就死了，我相信……
this set back Carl Fisher terribly.
这让卡尔·费舍尔非常沮丧。
Jane, hoping that it would break him out of it, adopted a child.
简希望这能让他摆脱困境，于是收养了一个孩子。
It had an opposite effect.
它产生了相反的效果。
Fisher wanted no part of the child, wouldn't give the child his name.
费舍尔不想要这个孩子的任何一部分，也不肯给孩子起名字。
Just had nothing to do with the child and subsequently, had less and less to do with Jane.
只是和孩子没有任何关系，后来和简的关系越来越少。
And so things just unraveled from that point on.
所以事情从那时起就解开了。
Jane Fisher: We had entered separate worlds, Carl and I, and neither would hold for us anything we really wanted.
简·费舍尔：卡尔和我，我们进入了不同的世界，两个世界都无法为我们提供任何我们真正想要的东西。
..
..
I went in for society in a large way.
我在很大程度上融入了社会。
Carl started drinking.
卡尔开始喝酒。
Narrator: On the verge of success in Miami Beach, Carl was at the lowest point of his life ...
旁白：在迈阿密海滩，在成功的边缘，卡尔正处于人生的最低谷……
but his money problems, at least, were about to disappear.
但至少他的金钱问题即将消失。
Primed by years of Carl Fisher ballyhoo, people all over America began to empty their bank accounts...
在卡尔·费舍尔多年的大肆宣传的推动下，全美各地的人们开始清空他们的银行账户……
pack the family car...
收拾家里的车...
and join the exodus rolling down Carl Fisher's Dixie Highway to Florida.
加入卡尔·费舍尔 (Carl Fisher) 迪克西高速公路 (Dixie Highway) 前往佛罗里达州的大逃亡行列。
Six million of them came in three years...
三年内就有六百万人来到……
all determined to get their share of the Florida miracle.
所有人都决心分享佛罗里达奇迹。
When they arrived they found a real estate gold rush in progress.
当他们到达时，他们发现房地产淘金热正在进行中。
Overflow crowds slept in the parks, and pored over Sunday papers with 500 pages of real estate ads.
拥挤的人群在公园里睡觉，并仔细阅读刊登有 500 页房地产广告的周日报纸。
Caravans of buses from the upper mid-west brought thousands of prospects on tours of new developments.
来自中西部北部的大篷车巴士载着成千上万的潜在客户参观新开发项目。
Seventy-five hundred real estate licenses were issued in Miami in 1925.
1925 年，迈阿密发放了 7500 张房地产许可证。
Subdivisions sold out the day they went on the market.
细分市场在上市当天就被抢购一空。
One office sold thirty-four million dollars worth of property in a single morning.
一个办公室在一个早上就卖出了价值三千四百万美元的房产。
Prices soared, and speculators rushed in.
物价飞涨，投机者纷纷涌入。
For $100 dollars down, anyone could get in on the action, buying and selling land without ever setting foot on it.
只需支付 100 美元，任何人都可以参与其中，无需踏足土地即可买卖土地。
Olive Delahunt: They set up card tables for real estate offices and sold property and one minute you buy a piece of property.
Olive Delahunt：他们为房地产办公室设立牌桌并出售房产，一分钟后你就购买了一块房产。
Ten minutes after you sell it to somebody else.
卖给别人十分钟后。
Groucho Marx: Florida, folks, sunshine, sunshine, perpetual sunshine all the year round.
格劳乔·马克斯：佛罗里达州，朋友们，阳光，阳光，一年四季永远阳光明媚。
Let's get the auction started before we get a tornado...
让我们在龙卷风来临之前开始拍卖吧……
Narrator: Florida real estate soon became synonymous with fast-talking con-men.
旁白：佛罗里达房地产很快就成了语速很快的骗子的代名词。
Groucho Marx: ...
格劳乔·马克思：……
800 wonderful residences will be built right here.
这里将建造800套精美住宅。
Why they're as good as up -- better.
为什么他们和 up 一样好——更好。
You can have any kind of a home you want....
你可以拥有任何你想要的家......
why, you can even get stucco.
为什么，你甚至可以得到灰泥。
Oh, how you can get stucco!
哦，你怎么能得到灰泥！
And don't forget the guarantee, my personal guarantee -- if these lots don't double in value in a year, I don't know what you can do about it.
别忘了保证，我个人的保证——如果这些拍品的价值在一年内没有翻倍，我不知道你能做些什么。
Howard Kleinberg: There were a lot of sleazy guys and guys who just wanted to sell some property and then run back to wherever they came from.
霍华德·克莱因伯格：有很多卑鄙的人和只想卖掉一些财产然后跑回他们来自的地方的人。
Ah...
啊...
Fisher wasn't that way.
费舍尔不是这样的。
When you talk about a guy being a promoter...
当你谈论一个人成为促销员时......
he was a promoter.
他是一名发起人。
He wasn't a huckster.
他不是一个小贩。
He wasn't trying to sell you something he couldn't deliver.
他并不是想向你推销他无法交付的东西。
Remember he built a home in Miami Beach, and he's very proud of what he was doing.
请记住，他在迈阿密海滩建造了一座房屋，他对自己所做的事情感到非常自豪。
Narrator: Still, being honest didn't prevent Carl from cashing in on the Florida boom.
旁白：尽管如此，说实话并没有阻止卡尔从佛罗里达州的繁荣中获利。
In just three years he sold thirty-seven million dollars worth of property...
短短三年内，他就卖掉了价值三千七百万美元的财产……
and saw Miami Beach blossom.
并看到迈阿密海滩盛开。
By the end of 1925, there were 56 hotels -- five of the largest owned by Fisher -- and more than 800 private residences...
到 1925 年底，这里共有 56 家酒店（费舍尔拥有的其中最大的 5 家）以及 800 多座私人住宅……
8 bathing pavilions...
8个沐浴亭...
3 polo fields...
3个马球场...
3 golf courses...
3个高尔夫球场...
and the best goddamn church in Florida.
还有佛罗里达州最好的该死的教堂。
His friend, Will Rogers, called Carl "the man who took Florida from the alligators and gave it to the Indianians." Back home in Indianapolis he was hailed as The Hoosier Genius.
他的朋友威尔·罗杰斯称卡尔为“从鳄鱼手中夺回佛罗里达并将其交给印第安人的人”。回到印第安纳波利斯的家乡后，他被誉为“印第安纳天才”。
He was now worth more than fifty million dollars.
他现在的身价已超过五千万美元。
He was also drinking too much, sleeping with his secretary...
他还喝多了，还和秘书睡了……
and watching his marriage fall apart.
并眼睁睁地看着他的婚姻破裂。
Jane Fisher: Our home filled with a rudderless crowd come to bask in Carl's sun.
简·费舍尔：我们家挤满了一群群龙无首的人来享受卡尔的阳光。
Hard riding, hard drinking, overly rich....
艰苦的骑行，艰苦的饮酒，过度的富有......
So many people pulling us from every side in this whirlpool of success ...
在这个成功的漩涡中，有那么多人从四面八方拉着我们……
There was too much going on...
发生了太多事情...
Too much of everything ...
一切都太多了...
Narrator: Carl and Jane were divorced in 1926...
旁白：卡尔和简于 1926 年离婚……
and Carl was left with a nasty hangover.
卡尔宿醉得很厉害。
The happiness he yearned for was eluding him.
他所向往的幸福却离他而去。
He'd accomplished everything he'd set out to do...
他已经完成了他想做的一切……
and he was bored.
他很无聊。
He needed something new.
他需要一些新的东西。
He found it in a rather unlikely spot...
他在一个不太可能的地方发现了它......
on Montauk Point, at the tip of Long Island, New York.
位于纽约长岛顶端的蒙托克角。
On 10,000 acres of windswept dunes he decided to build Miami Beach all over again -- golf courses, polo fields, luxury hotels....
他决定在占地 10,000 英亩的风吹沙丘上重新建造迈阿密海滩——高尔夫球场、马球场、豪华酒店......
a summer home for his Miami Beach friends.
他的迈阿密海滩朋友的避暑别墅。
Some of them were alarmed.
他们中的一些人感到震惊。
Carl's assets were mostly on paper, and he had to borrow heavily to make Montauk happen.
卡尔的资产大部分都是纸面资产，他必须大量借贷才能实现蒙托克的目标。
But he was adamant: "What the hell do I care about money?
但他态度坚决：“我到底在乎钱什么？
Miami Beach is finished, and there's nothing left for me to do there but sit around in white pants looking pretty, like the rest of you goddamn winter loafers!" In September, 1926, Carl Fisher finally ran out of luck.
迈阿密海滩已经完蛋了，我在那里没什么可做的，只能穿着白色裤子坐在那儿，看起来很漂亮，就像你们这些该死的冬季乐福鞋一样！”1926 年 9 月，卡尔·费舍尔终于倒霉了。
One of the worst hurricanes of the century took Miami Beach completely by surprise.
本世纪最严重的飓风之一让迈阿密海滩完全措手不及。
Olive Delahunt: Most of the people were here from the North.
Olive Delahunt：大多数人都来自北方。
They never knew what a hurricane was.
他们从来不知道什么是飓风。
Nobody knew what it was, so we didn't know what to do.
没有人知道那是什么，所以我们不知道该怎么办。
Well the wind started blowing.
好吧，风开始吹了。
The rain start coming and it was frightful.
雨开始下起来，真是可怕。
You could hear glass breaking.
你可以听到玻璃破碎的声音。
You could hear the wind roaring all through the night.
整个晚上你都能听到风的呼啸声。
When it got daylight we thought well we'll go out and see if our business was still there.
天亮后，我们想好我们应该出去看看我们的生意是否还在那里。
There wasn't much left.
所剩无几了。
Narrator: Carl rushed back from Montauk.
旁白：卡尔从蒙托克赶回来。
He found his city buried under three feet of sand.
他发现他的城市被埋在三英尺深的沙子下面。
There were over a hundred dead, and hundreds more missing...
已有一百多人死亡，数百人失踪……
and the wreckage of the south Florida boom was strewn for miles in all directions.
南佛罗里达繁荣的残骸散落在各个方向数英里之外。
Carl would need a million dollars in cash for repairs.
卡尔需要一百万美元的现金来修理。
The value of his holdings had plummeted.
他所持股份的价值暴跌。
His financial house of cards began to collapse.
他的财务纸牌屋开始倒塌。
Howard Kleinberg: His marriage is broken, the boom is busted, the hurricane has caused him tremendous damage, he's got cash flow problems and as a result at the end of 1926 this man was not on good footing...
霍华德·克莱因伯格（Howard Kleinberg）：他的婚姻破裂了，繁荣被破坏了，飓风给他带来了巨大的伤害，他遇到了现金流问题，因此在 1926 年底，这个人的立足点并不好......
emotionally or financially.
情感上或经济上。
Narrator: Carl tried to repair the damage done to the image of Miami Beach by the boom and the hurricane...
旁白：卡尔试图修复因繁荣和飓风对迈阿密海滩形象造成的损害……
but things were never quite the same again.
但一切都不再和以前一样了。
Chicago gangster Al Capone moved in with casinos and speakeasies.
芝加哥黑帮阿尔·卡彭搬进了赌场和地下酒吧。
Carl was losing control ...
卡尔失去了控制……
of Miami Beach, and of Montauk, as well.
迈阿密海滩和蒙托克也是如此。
Howard Kleinberg: He raided the treasury to pay for Montauk Point.
霍华德·克莱因伯格：他袭击了国库以支付蒙托克角的费用。
Ah...
啊...
Montauk Point unfortunately did not take off like Miami Beach did...
不幸的是，蒙托克角并没有像迈阿密海滩那样起飞......
and Fisher's money was pretty much going down a sinkhole.
费舍尔的钱几乎掉进了天坑。
Narrator: When the Stock Market crashed in 1929, millions in loans were coming due at Montauk, and Carl's investors bailed out.
旁白：1929 年股市崩盘时，蒙托克的数百万笔贷款即将到期，卡尔的投资者纷纷逃离。
He was a physical and emotional wreck.
他的身体和情感都崩溃了。
He mortgaged or sold everything he owned ...
他抵押或出售了他拥有的一切......
but it was hopeless.
但这是无望的。
The race was over.
比赛结束了。
By 1933 he was wiped out, living alone on a side street of Miami Beach, suffering from cirrhosis of the liver and sixty years of hard living.
1933年，他身无分文，独自生活在迈阿密海滩的一条小街上，患上肝硬化，过着六十年的艰苦生活。
Howard Kleinberg: I don't think that Carl Fisher ever really complained about what was happening to him.
霍华德·克莱因伯格：我认为卡尔·费舍尔从未真正抱怨过发生在他身上的事情。
And he was a crapshooter from day one, and so he rolled the dice and this time they came up snake eyes and...
他从第一天起就是一个掷骰子的人，所以他掷骰子，这次他们出现了蛇眼......
that's the way it goes.
事情就是这样。
He had a wonderful fling.
他有过一段美妙的风流韵事。
Thank you very much.
非常感谢。
Good-bye.
再见。
Narrator: As for Jane, life after Carl was something of a let down.
旁白：对于简来说，卡尔去世后的生活有些令人失望。
Jane Fisher: I divorced.
简·费舍尔：我离婚了。
I married again and again.
我一次又一次地结婚。
I couldn't stay married to them because life was just too drab.
我无法与他们保持婚姻关系，因为生活太单调了。
You see, living with Carl Fisher was like living in a circus; there was something exciting going on every minute of the day.
你看，和卡尔·费舍尔一起生活就像生活在马戏团里一样；一天中的每一分钟都有令人兴奋的事情发生。
Sometimes it was very good; sometimes it was very bad.
有时非常好；有时则非常好。有时情况非常糟糕。
Still, it was living.
尽管如此，它还活着。
It was excitement that I never found again.
这是我再也找不到的兴奋。
Narrator: One day in 1939, shortly before Carl died, an old friend in the tire business invited him to take a ride over Miami Beach.
旁白：1939 年的一天，卡尔去世前不久，轮胎行业的一位老朋友邀请他去迈阿密海滩兜风。
The man who always seemed to see the future before anyone else, contemplated his creation one last time.
这个似乎总是先于其他人预见未来的人最后一次思考了他的创作。
Helen Muir: He was the man, let no one forget it, who made Miami Beach.
海伦·缪尔：不要让任何人忘记，他是创造了迈阿密海滩的人。
Without Carl Fisher, none of this magnificent nonsense would have occurred.
如果没有卡尔·费舍尔，这一切宏伟的荒唐事就不会发生。
Wealthy Americans and those who wanted to be near them flocked to Miami Beach during the 1920's and 30's.
20 世纪 20 年代和 30 年代，富有的美国人和那些想靠近他们的人涌向迈阿密海滩。
If Carl Fisher were alive today, he might find it difficult to recognize Miami Beach.
如果卡尔·费舍尔今天还活着，他可能会发现很难认出迈阿密海滩。
Nestled on the narrow strip of land between the two beaches were hundreds of significant but decaying buildings.
坐落在两个海滩之间的狭长地带上有数百座重要但正在腐烂的建筑物。
Al Capone got an icy reception when he arrived in Miami Beach in 1928.
1928 年，阿尔·卡彭 (Al Capone) 抵达迈阿密海滩时受到了冷遇。
While Collins was seen as a gentle Quaker, his children saw him as a he-man, full of energy and will and impatience.
虽然柯林斯被视为一位温和的贵格会教徒，但他的孩子们却认为他是一位充满活力、意志坚定、缺乏耐心的男子汉。
On Jane Fisher's first trip to Miami in 1910, her husband, Carl Fisher, drew a picture in the sand and told her, "'I'm going to build a city here.
1910 年，简·费舍尔 (Jane Fisher) 第一次前往迈阿密，她的丈夫卡尔·费舍尔 (Carl Fisher) 在沙子上画了一幅画，并告诉她：“‘我要在这里建造一座城市。
Future tycoon Henry Morrison Flagler's calling as a businessman came early.
未来的大亨亨利·莫里森·弗拉格勒（Henry Morrison Flagler）很早就接到了商人的召唤。
During Prohibition, Miami Beach joined many American cities in openly flouting the 18th Amendment.
禁酒令期间，迈阿密海滩与许多美国城市一起公开蔑视第十八修正案。
By 1920, the population of Miami had swelled to nearly 30,000, a 440 percent increase over the previous decade.
到 1920 年，迈阿密人口已增至近 30,000 人，比过去 10 年增加了 440%。