Page Eight
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Sunday, February 26, 1956
Page Eight iHE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, February 26, 1956
Pleasure-Loving Miami
(Continued from Page 7)
of July and the latest De Mille
epic. Not even in his wildest,
dreams could the most talented of
the Cinemascope set designers
have given birth to this monstr-
ous cancer that is a final, damn-
ing testimony to the pleasure-seek-
ing instinct of mankind.
FOR LITERALLY miles, Collins
Avenue is nothing but hotel
after motel after hotel after motel
ad infinitum. And the structures
defy description. The architecture
is a mongrel mixture that can
best be described as Moorish-
Modern - Colonial - Oriental -
Baroque. And probably no one
would be the least surprised if
somebody erected a Gothic motel.
choose yoi
The hotels are palaces, and the MIAMI in the winter is for the
motels are second-rate if they rich man or the spendthrift.
don't have more than one swim- But Miami in the summer provides
mine pool and a golf course. Each the same facilities at greatly re-
duced prices that make it within
neon sign is bigger and flashier the reach of almost anyone who
than the next and they glare with can afford to take a vacation;
dizzying persistence. and temperatures are usually lower
The interior of these tourist than those in other U.S. metro-
The nteior f tese politan areas.
rests' are every bit as fantastic as ose k h y
the exteriors. At the fabulous Those who know the city well
Fontainebleau, which out-Louis will probably argue that Miami is
Louis, the lobby resembles the not all tourist, that it has its resi-
banquet scene from "Quo Vadis," dential sections like any other city.
except that it is so crowded that And no doubt it does. But the city's
everybody has to stand up. In the wealth is based on its billion-dollar
Louis d'Or Room, encrusted with tourist trade, and the flashy,
fleurs - de - lis and other such pleasure-loving face is the one it
French effects, an obsequious presents to the publc.
waiter will get you a reasonably It is a fabulous city of tinsel,
palatable little meal for thirty or glitter and neon.
forty dollars. And it wants to be.
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DAIQUIRIS & TROPICAL FISH
By JANE HOWARD THE PROBLEM of transpor
RAVEL GUIDES on Cuba rhap- tion in and around GitmoC
sodize about H'vana's grandi- can be solved colorfully. There
ose palm-lined boulevards, twisting rickety cabs, rivalling their PE
to the threshholds of some of the sian counterparts for reck
world's gaudiest and costliest night speed. More picturesque wage
spots, drawn by ancient burros bar
Cued in by one ardent Cuban- able to walk, attract other patr
Hemingway, And there are awkward str
by-adoption, Ernest Hmnwy covered seats of the trains, chi
the books beg the visitor not to
miss historic Morro Castle, a rem- ging past salt flats and herds
nant of the Spanish colonial era. scrawny goats, carrying domes
and laborers to and from tY
They boast of the white sands work.
and deluxe resorts of Varadero For the pedestrians there
Beach, the foreign drama of Santi- tha unsolicited services of i
ago, and even of humid Camag- brown boys, who know just eno
uey's agricultural merits. English, and who are more tl
What the guides invariably fail willing to trail visitors in the h
to dramatize is the southern end of a stray coin tossed their wa
of Cuba.
ANOTHER JAUNT favored fr
THETHE native or American, the base, especially by sail
southern Cubans agree that leads across the bay to Caiman
commercialization would rob their whose version of the Junior Lea
domain of its unique appeal. If does all it can to amuse home.
they want occasional proof of bachelor Americans. By dayC
President Batista's noble inten- manera's sunbaked streets ba
tions, they can fly in a couple of wake from their long siesta,
hours to Havana, where some cam- when the mosquitos and
paign promises have been fulfilled. scorching sun retire, electri
But southern Cuba has unher- blazes.
alded attractions of its own. Some The Naval Base itself, a spra
of it is picturesque, but not so ing and orderly community ma
pretty-the naked children playing ed off by radio towers and p
in the filth of the unpaved streets, named alphabetically, offers
and an economic status making attractions. In a song he c
senoras glad to get jobs as maids "Calypso Gitmo" one naval off
for "nearly nothing" per month. has immortalized the life tI
However, the area has features no with the line "it's the only b
other section can duplicate, in the whole darn fleet-wi
From the United States Naval inspections are held to a ma.
Base at Guantanamo Bay, an oasis beat."
of stateside routine and custom,
the tourist can sidestrip his way THE VISITOR can see the sot
to any number of places the travel point. Dances, almost d
books forget. crowding the base's packed so
He can drive over thirty miles schedule, make good use of na
of rough and sometimes nonexist- bands adept at the cha-cha-
ent roads to Guantanamo or "Git- routines. This, under fabled pa
mo City," as local jargon has ab- and fantastically full mo
breviated it. makes for evenings nobody
Guantanamo can forget.
IN "GitmoCity," the tourist can, For a change of pace Guar
provide business for the customs namo people can pack up a lu
offices in dark shops where alli- and spend a day a few milesc
gator and mahogany goods tempt he purple mountains on the Ca
his pocketbook. He can eat lon- bean beach. By holding their n
gusta and other seafoods he's never and diving under they find i
heard of before, in restaurants the water's incredible royall
specializing in the exotic. is only half the sea's color sche
He can sip memorable frozen Beneath the surface are sch
daiquiris in sidewalk cafes, accept- of wierdly-colored tropical f
tng the common Cuban maxim that fearlessly brushing by swimm
rum is cheaper than water. Cer- feet.
tainly it's more popular. This doesn't annoy even
If his Spanish is limited to squeamish, because Caribb
"hasta la vista"-which is some- swimming calls for shoes as1
thing of a handicap-he can play tection against jagged and
charades with liquid-eyed shop- expected coral reefs.
keepers until they understand that That's not all .There are
he's interested in their perfumes, birds, leading inquisitive mind
liquors, cigars. ornithology books. There are
He must make clear to them, too, wild fuchsia zhrubs of boug
that he's not intrigued by the villea, starkly contrasted aga
shops' pride: racks of drab dresses the blue of sky and water.
and suits said to represent "latest there is the unmistakable atti
styles" in stateside wear. of "manana."
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