If you were on a game show, what would you want the prize to be? Cash, a vacation, or maybe a new car? How about your own island?

On an episode of The Price Is Right in 1961, one of the big prizes was a Florida island (or at least part of it).
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The prize was a promotion to bring attention to a new film called Mysterious Island.
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The winners (a couple from New York) were awarded their own home and land on Bear Island, near Crescent City.
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Plenty of Floridians would love to have a place like this, but it might not have been this couple's idea of an island paradise. After their initial trip, they never returned and sold the home in 1964.
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It’s a pretty great prize, if you ask us. What would you do with your own Florida island getaway?

 

Source: State Library & Archives of Florida/floridamemory.com

 

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