My Cuba Photo/Commentary thread from GD

RagingInMiami

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Thu Jun-08-06 12:50 AM
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My Cuba Photo/Commentary thread from GD

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1378921

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JeffR

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Thu Jun-08-06 09:18 AM
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1. Thanks for the head's up

And I was going to skip GD this morning!

Wonderful account of your trip, and the photos vividly captured Cuba.

BTW, I also read your history of Miami, which made me very homesick.

The site looks terrific!

:smoke:

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RagingInMiami

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Thu Jun-08-06 02:09 PM
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2. You're from Miami?

I didn't know that. When I started writing that, I was planning on not going over 3,000 words. But then once I got into it, doing all the research, I got really immersed and ended up with 10,000 words.

The site that is up right now is the one I put together last year, but now I am redesigning the site on Dreamweaver, which is a pain in the ass to learn, which will make the site much more professional looking.

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JeffR

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Thu Jun-08-06 03:40 PM
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4. Fort Lauderdale, technically

But we moved to Miami when I was a couple of months old. My dad - long deceased - was a musician, and played regularly at the Fontainebleau. Seeing the hotel mentioned in your piece brought back a lot of fond memories.

Don't know which version of Dreamweaver you're using, but there's an excellent series of books by David Sawyer McFarland about the program. This one:
http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596000979/702-5014432-9212827
was a big help for me in getting over the learning curve.

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RagingInMiami

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Thu Jun-08-06 07:11 PM
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7. It's a small world

If your dad played regularly at the Fountainbleau, he must have been a talented musician because the fountainbleau was considered top in its class. They wouldn't just allow anyone to play there.

As you know, Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and Elvis all performed there regularly.

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JeffR

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Thu Jun-08-06 07:39 PM
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8. When I was a kid, I thought of it as just another venue!

And learned years later that it was pretty unique. We used to spend six months of the year on the road (New York, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, etc.) then head home to Miami for the winter. I remember going to the Fontainebleau one afternoon in the aftermath of a hurricane (the name & year of which I don't recall) and there was half a foot of water in the lobby. It was, at the time, the most surreal thing I'd ever seen.

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RagingInMiami

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Thu Jun-08-06 08:55 PM
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9. There has not been a hurricane experience for me

Whether it is preparing for the storm, riding out the storm, running around in the storm taking photos or photographing the aftermath, that has not been surreal.

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priller

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Thu Jun-08-06 03:02 PM
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3. Excellent photos and commentary

Especially liked your account of getting checked out in the airport on the way back. Pointing to the picture of the Shrub and saying "he says it's illegal". Ha! It's the Congress that makes the laws. Not that Bush cares. He certainly would love to get to the point where he could be the dictator and just declare laws or break laws at any time. As he said, "It would be a lot easier."

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bvar22

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Thu Jun-08-06 04:45 PM
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5. Thanks, Ragin!

Excellent piece of work.
LOVED the pics!

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ralps

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Thu Jun-08-06 05:26 PM
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6. Thanks for the Photos & the Thread RagingInMiami

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

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ConsAreLiars

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Fri Jun-09-06 12:30 AM
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10. Great photos.

Edited on Fri Jun-09-06 12:32 AM by ConsAreLiars

I liked the way you ended to 'trip' with the bagpiper-sunset-one world theme. That is the message that goes to the essence of what it is all about. Thank you.

(edit because altho t and y are very close on the keyboard, they are not interchangeable.)

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