Coral Gables Historical Archive
The Coral Gables Times
Thursday, January 18, 1962, page 9 (of 28)
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Visitors Are Coming; Which Ones Won't Be Going Home?
By ELVA CHARLTON Correspondent Coral Gables has magic in its name. It gathers visitors from the North like a magnet, sometimes never letting them go. A carnival of colors bloom outside my kitchen window in mid January while every place else in the country is solidly frozen. I have two blooming vines growing up latticed pillars in easy view. Between are red geraniums bursting with bloom. The vines throw out arms and grasp each other, and it is hard to tell which is bearing yellow flowers and which the blue. The window sills are full of African violets, white, pink and purple. The hanging wall plants have taken up the enthusiasm of living and put out long fingers in all directions. Nickie, named for St. Nicholas (our new canary), trills a beautiful song. He practices all day long with the telephone ring, friends voices, or anything with sound, in fact. A covey of quail cross Orduna drive and brazenly saunter up my front walk. The dog, lazing in the sun under the bottlebrush tree, watches overlorg before chasing them. If you drive a short distance to where the deep waterway, bay and ocean meet, you will notice blue and green heron and ospray nesting in Australian pines. The soft breeze off this body of water teases you with the unmistakable smell of the ocean, as you walk the dog in the evening along the deep waterway. The small bridge on Hardee road connects Orduna Drive and Riviera, but it also is the place small boys scamper over to reach the banks of the canal where they fish every day. Their eyes are wide as they describe the monster that got away. The fact that these same boys are expert swimmers relieve their parent's minds of all danger. The Gables is flaunting it's beauty right now for all the world to see, as visitors arrive in numbers. In my Christmas thank you letters I have written of this beauty, but I was not prepared for the number of return letters from friends and relatives who wish to share it with me. Ordinarily, I would not hear from these same people until another Christmas rolls around. Now they say their doctors have advised them to come to Florida. Since the doctors are in on this, I have just had a ghastly thought. Suppose they are all on diets for some ailment or other? Whether we like it or not, we are in for many more visitors than other years. The difference is, that many of them are seeking health and rest instead of pleasure this year, which makes it much more difficult for us Gables property owners. While the word Miami suggests a metropolis to the Northerners, the word Coral Gables has a magical lilt to its name. It suggests wealth, peace and security. We who live here do not realize this magic until we hear the Northerner brag they are coming to visit their relatives who live in Coral Gables. And we hold our breath and wonder which of them are coming for a visit and never going home.
PEOPLE
Edward Clarke, of the University of Miami's music department, will give his tenth and concluding book review, of the winter season Tuesday, at the Musicians Club. He will review "George Washington Carver" by Beckham Holt. Coffee at 10:15 a.m. precedes the program. Proceeds go to the Musicians Club. The admission is 50 cents. ★ ★ ★ Mercy Hospital Ladies Auxiliary annual luncheon and fashion show originally planned for Jan. 17 at the Eden Roc Hotel has been postponed until Feb. 7, according to Mrs. Anthony R. Abraham of South Alhambra Circle co-chairman of the affair. ★ ★ ★ Mrs. Reginald McAll, 760 Anastasia Ave., will open her home on Wednesday, 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. for the first in a course of illustrated lectures on "The Historys of Music Before Bach." Participants will be members of the local American Association of University Women, with Mrs. Mildred Labuzen, chairman. ★ ★ ★ Members of the Miami Branch, AAUW 100 strong not only attended the Jan. 13 matinee performance of "The Red Shoes" at the Pied Piper Childrens Playhouse, 208 Bird Rd., but they had a dessert luncheon in the theater prior to the 2 p.m. curtain. Mrs. Charles Palmer, 914 Matanzas Ave., president of the AAUW, presided. ★ ★ ★ TV star Danny Thomas, who will be a featured entertainer at the Feb. 7 fund-raising dinner at the Fontainebleau, will be the house guest for a few days of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Abraham, South Alhambra Circle. ★ ★ ★ Coral Gables will have two among the 71 persons at requirements for a degree Emory University, Atlanta, Ga., who have completed the uring the winter quarter. They are Patricia Anderson Phillips, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Anderson of 1522 San Rafael Ave., and Walter R. Marshall, of 740 So. Alhambra Cir. Both will graduate with Bachelor of Arts degrees. Formal presentation of the degrees will be made at commencement exercises in June.
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