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Havana Before Castro: When Cuba was a Tropical Playground |  | Author: Peter Moruzzi
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Category: Book
List Price: $30.00
Buy New: $19.80
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Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 80709
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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Product Description
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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 I couldn't put it down May 10, 2010
lynxwiler (Los Angeles, CA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I read it from cover to cover, every bit of text, and I loved it. I was stunned to learn about mid-century modernism trapped in the timewarp of Cuba. So many examples jump to mind and Moruzzi illustrates them all with an incredible collection of photographs and ephemera. I highly recommend this book to those who think they know all there is to know about America's post-war influence on architecture and design. For me, the book was a surprising learning experience.
FABULOUSLY researched and written! February 27, 2010
R. Sparks (Norman, Oklahoma United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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)
4 out of 4 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.
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