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| Havana Before Castro: When Cuba was a Tropical Playground |  | Author: Peter Moruzzi
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Category: Book
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Seller: sputniks_galaxy_of_books
Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 25,162
Media: Perfect Paperback
Edition: First
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 1423603672
Dewey Decimal Number: 972.91063
EAN: 9781423603672
ASIN: 1423603672
Publication Date: August 1, 2008
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Featuring hundreds of vintage photographs, postcards, brochures, and other materials evocative of time and place, Havana Before Castro: When Cuba Was a Tropical Playground documents how the city of Havana evolved from Prohibition haven and rich man's playground to a heady blend of glittering nightclubs, outrageous cabarets, all-night bars, and backstreet brothels. Here, captured in one amazing book, is the drama, passion, intrigue, and opulence of a legendary city during its heyday-before the Castro dictatorship re-imagined the country and Americans were banned from travel to this tropical paradise.
An architectural historian by profession, Peter Moruzzi is an acknowledged expert on mid-century Modern architecture and design. He is the founder of the Palm Springs Modern Committee, an internationally recognized historic preservation organization, and the writer/director of Desert Holiday, a documentary film chronicling the history of Palm Springs as seen through vintage postcards. He resides in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles and in Palm Springs.
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 FABULOUSLY researched and written! February 27, 2010
R. Sparks (Norman, Oklahoma United States)
The author's passion truly shines through in this book. And he doesn't cover just one or two aspects of Havana before Castro, but every facet that I think he could possibly fit in!
I simply love this book. Though I have to admit that I look through it and wonder to myself, "Where did American glamor go?" We used to be all about the little black dress and 3-piece suits, and now I can't get professionals that want to wear slacks to the office...
Oh well, FANTASTIC book! I'm donating a copy to my Lodge's cigar bar!
KUDOS to you, Mr. Moruzzi!!
Havana before Castro January 27, 2010
Norma Rowe
As someone who was born in Cuba in early 1940s and lived under Castro until 1964 I'm thoroughly enjoying this book - learning things I either had forgotten or never knew - it's bringing back very fond memories of the Cuba I grew up in.
Beautiful book January 27, 2010
Just Liz (Anaheim, CA, USA)
Thank you for a wonderful trip down memory lane. Greatly enjoyed the many, many photos, some of places I was too young to have visited as a child, before I left Cuba.
Any library strong in Cuban history and culture must have this August 10, 2009
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Color and vintage black and white photos abound in HAVANA BEFORE CASTRO: WHEN CUBA WAS A TROPICAL PLAYGROUND. It re-creates an era when the city was a popular destination for Americans between World War I and Castro's revolution, packing over 500 color and black and white images into a 'then and now' recreation contrasting past and present. Any library strong in Cuban history and culture must have this.
wonderful book February 13, 2009
A. Senalle
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful book that describes Havana in the same way that my parents have always told me they remember. I lived in Cuba until the age of thirteen and in many parts of Havana i could see remains of what once was a grandiose city. This city is now converted into a total ruin. With regards to the writer "formoso" , he believes all the comunist propaganda written by the so called revolution. I imagine he believes that today's cuba is a paradise where everybody lives better.......how come all cubans want to leave that paradise?.........
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