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At our last mini-reunion at the Havana-Miami Restaurant, Talo and Bea handed out a document full of interesting information about La Cuba De Ayer.

Below is the soft copy of the document that Talo handed us at the restaurant, which he provided to me for publication on this Ruston Class of '62 site. If you have any questions or comments, please direct them to Otalio at his email address, talosoca@aol.com

TRUE OR FALSE STATEMENTS?

__Fidel Castro once wrote a Letter to then President Roosevelt asking him for ten ($10.00 US) dollars.

__President Fulgencio Batista legalized the Communist Party in Cuba.

__President Fulgencio Batista once held in his arms Raul Castro, then a small child.

__The assassin of Russian Leon Trotsky in Mexico was the son of a communist Cuban mother, displeased by Trotsky’s actions.

__The Blanquita Theatre in Havana had a capacity of 6,500 seats and at its debut held a show of the Follies-Bergere from Paris.

__The First Royal Palm planted in Miami was done by Exiled President Gerardo Machado.

__In 1959, Ruston Academy in Cuba was considered the best American school in Latin America.

__The Davis Cup was once played in Cuba.

__Cuba sank a U-boat during World War II.

___The Cuban exiled President Prío Socarrás gave $50,000.00 of his own money to buy the Granma, the boat that carried Fidel Castro to Cuba to start the Cuban Revolution.

___There was an authentic bronze mask of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Bacardi Museum in Santiago de Cuba. The original plaster mask of the Emperor was taken by Dr. Antomachi who died in Cuba in 1838.

__Cuban Pilots Joaquin Collar and Mariano Barberán flew from Sevilla, Spain to Camaguey, Cuba in 1933, a 9000 Kilometer flight or double the distance of Lindbergh’s historical flight in 1927.

_The Aeromarine and Motor Company flew the first hydroplane from Florida to Havana in 1919.

___In the early 30’s Pan American Airways established regular flights to Havana pursuant to an airway postal contract.

___The first organized Cuban Airline, Aerovías Q, was created in 1945.

___Cuba had 8 complete female bands in 1959. However, the first all female band was formed in 1930.

___Nicolai Yavrosky established the National School of Ballet in Cuba in 1932.

___In 1944, President Ramón Grau San Martín, upon being recently elected to his office, proposed a cost of living adjustment to the universally accepted minimum wage or so called subsistence salary existing already in Cuba.

___Amadeo Barlettta, an extremely successful businessman in Cuba and an Italian citizen, was once rescued from jail by Benito Mussolini. Barletta was jailed in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic accused of a plan to kill, then, Dictator Rafael Trujillo. Mussolini saved Barletta when he sent a navy war ship to the island. Barletta left and moved to Cuba where he became very successful.

___The tradition of “El Cañonazo de las 9” the daily firing of a salvo from a cannon at the Morro Castle in Havana at 9:00 P.M. dates to the XVIII century which would announce the closing of the doors to the walls of the city.

___Cuban born composer Mario Rizo wrote all the musical themes for the “I Love Lucy” show.

___Kid Chocolate, Cuban Boxer, won the World Championship in the Welter Weight Class, along with Kid Gavilán, Benny Kid Paret, Luis Manuel Rodriguez, Kid Gavilán, and Nino Valdes, Heavy Weight.

___In 1956, Helen Lawrenson (aka, Helen Brown Norden) wrote an article in the Esquire Magazine, Havana the Most Voluptuous City in the World. Helen was a world traveler but upon setting her feet in Cuba declared: “the city I love the most in the world”.

___Cuban engineer Joaquin de la Rosa invented the only method of converting sugar cane husk to paper.

___One of the best written books on Cuban Patriot Jose Marti, Marti, Citizen of America, was written by José Marquez Sterling.

___Julio Lobo, a Cuban millionaire businessman, with great patience and taste collected 7,143 pieces related to Napoleon Bonaparte. This is the largest collection on Napoleon’s memorabilia in the world outside of France.

___Sir Winston Churchill visited Cuba twice: once during 1895 and then again in 1946.

___Lucky Luciano was expelled from Cuba and shipped to Italy aboard a Turkish vessel.

___11,000 duck-tail designed Cadillacs, aka, “Cola de Pato”, were sold in one year in Cuba during the 1940’s.

___In 1955, Cuban baseball player Sandy Amorós caught a strong fly hit by Yogi Berra to save the game and win the World Series for Brooklyn for the first time in its history.

____The son of Alfonso XII, Prince of Asturias, Count of Covadonga, Alfonso de Borbon, was married twice and to two different Cuban women, Eldemira Sampedro Robato and later Marta Rocaport.

___In 1956, rendezvous of the elite in high class tourist travel declared Cuba’s El Floridita Bar by Esquire Magazine as the seventh most important bar in the world.

___American Senator Smathers once proposed to Congress to make Cuba another state of the USA. The Senator received horrendous insults for such a suggestion

___José Raul Capablanca, world master chess player, was married to a Russian Princess Olga de Chagoldaf.

___Cuba declares war against Germany, Italy and Japan on December 8^th, 1941.

___In 1928, The Lyceum Tennis Club was founded by women. It was a feminist organization dedicated to promoting cultural and social action. Not only the organization promoted the arts but also provided all types of services to persons with limited resources.

___Jackie Robinson played in Cuba the year before he was accepted to play in the major leagues.

___1959, The Textile Company of Ariguanabo had more than 5k employees working in its factory. The company’s textile production would cover the Cuban national demand for the purchase of work clothes; and in addition, the textile company exported a considerable part of its production overseas.

___The luxury of El Encanto Department store in Cuba with more than 2k employees was comparable to the famous Printemps of Paris. There were no comparable stores in either in Buenos Aires or Mexico City.

___El Encanto had developed a manual merchandise control system (precursor to our modern data system), along with credit cards for customers and employees, gift certificates, profit sharing, one month bonus system for employees.

___The Asturian Ramón Areces one of the principal stock holders of the Cuban fashionable department store, El Encanto, founded in 1950 in Spain El Corte Ingles which has become the largest chain store in Europe.

____El Encanto had a floor called “El Salon Frances” or the French Salon. Here, the store held the exclusivity to sell Christian Dior’s designer’s clothes.

___In 1870, during The Ten Year War, the Government in Arms issued Cuba’s first stamped provisional coin which was sculpted in Mexico.

___The Heros Art Deco building was built in 1938.

___In 1959, the city of Havana had over 100 theatres.

___From the early 50’s, the great department stores in Havana started to hire black employees ending a discriminatory practice in Cuban stores.

___Alicia Alonso received a scholarship to the School of American Ballet under the supervision of George Balanchine. In 1942, she had her debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in Giselle.

___In 1940, Cuba abolished the death penalty.

___The Cuban Philharmonic Orchestra under Erich Kleiber was considered to be among the 10 best in the World.

___In 1959, The Havana Hilton with 600 rooms was the largest hotel in Latin America.

___Truman Capote adopts the name Capote from his stepfather Cuban Jose Capote. His character Jose Ibarra (Breakfast at Tiffany) was inspired on his step father’s flamboyant life style.

___The first mailing stamp in Cuba was issued in 1855.

___The biggest natural tragedy in Cuba took place on November 9^th, 1932 wherein, 2,700 citizens died due to a hurricane and ocean swelling in the southern town of Santa Cruz del Sur, Camaguey.

___Chinese theatrical seasons in Havana may be traced as far back to 1875 wherein California productions would visit Havana. Later, local talent was used for these performances. The opera Shik Kuey lasted for 15 days in episodes of 12 hours a day. The opera Shi Kong was much shorter consisting of 12 days and four hours per day.

___Monument is erected in 1931 by the Cuban Chinese colony to its compatriots that fought for the independence of Cuba. The markings on the monument reads: “Never a Cuban Chinese traitor”. “Never a Cuban Chinese Deserter.”

___In 1728, the University of Havana is founded.

___President Prío Socarrás’ government provided the patronage to build the Cuban filmmaking Studio Q in the Biltmore area of Havana following the plans of the Churubusco Studios of Mexico.

___The Commercial Center La Rampa was built in the early 50’s.

___The prestigious Club Atenas was an exclusive and highly respected association of Cuban black intellectuals and professionals.

___In 1913, Maria Teresa Montes de Giberga founded, among other distinguished ladies, Pro Arte, the institution that contributed the most to the dissemination of the Cuban musical culture in Cuba.

___During the 50’s CMQ Radio installed a parabolic antenna at Guanabo Beach to capture the TV signals from the Baseball World Series, re transmitted from an airplane which would fly in circles between Key West and Havana.

___Cuba enjoyed supermarket chain stores such as Minimax which operated 10 stores. Danish supermarkets Ekloh.

___Cuba enjoyed the Kosher Restaurant Moshe Pipik, the only American Jewish Kosher restaurant in the island.

___In 1958, Cuba held the Havana Gran Prix a 500 Km. closed circuit race with world champion race drivers. Cuban born Alfonsito Gomez Mena placed 6th place in the race.

___By law, government agencies and private enterprises were required to pay full salary benefits to pregnant women one and half months prior to delivery and one and half months after delivery.

___The enacted law called “La Ley de Arturito” required government agencies and private enterprises to pay a full extra month remuneration to all employees.

___Vacation time consisted of a full month leave for all workers.

___Crusellas Corp. office workers, worked a 35 hours week. Salesmen were bought brand new cars to be paid back without interest.

___Topes de Collantes Hospital for Tuberculosis Patients had 1,000 beds.

___The Cuban Capital building was built in the tradition of the US Capital Building.

It was qualified as the most beautiful building in Latin America.

___Frank Sinatra

___Rita Hayworth

___Cristina Jorgensen

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ALL PRIOR STATEMENTS AND AFFIRMATIONS ABOVE ARE CORRECT. ALL THE NAMES OF PEOPLE LISTED ABOVE VISITED CUBA.

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Cuba is less than 100 miles from the southern tip of Florida. It stretches southeasterly 750 miles from the eastern Gulf of Mexico through the northern Caribbean and generally measures fifty to eighty miles wide. The highest elevations in Cuba exceed 6,000 feet in the Sierra Maestra mountain range of southeastern Oriente Province. The highest peak is El Pico Turquino. Except for three small areas, the western lowlands range below 600 feet elevation and cover 60 percent of the island.

Additional information on Cuba, on the Years before Castro’s Revolution:

95% of all Cuban land was arable.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF CUBAN AVIATION

July 1857: Matías Pérez goes up in an air balloon. In his second attempt, endangered by gusty winds, he disappears from the horizon forever, giving way to the popular expression: "He flew like Matías Pérez".

1929: Compañía Nacional Cubana de Aviación Curtiss S.A. is founded. Later it was to become Compañía Nacional Cubana de Aviación and on March 21, 1944 it was to be known as Compañía Cubana de Aviación.

1930: José Martí International Airport is officially inaugurated.

The ratified 1940 Constitution established article 48 stating that primary, secondary and vocational schools shall be guaranteed absolutely free.

Universities with out consideration to scholarships for poor or promising students fixed a modest enrollment fee for the maintenance of the institution. The fee to the higher education equal current the price of a pair of shoes

1942: First Cuban made aircraft "Estrella Errante" (Wandering Star) designed and constructed by Major Benigno Díaz, First Lt. Jorge Melo and Roberto Gude.

1943, Coronel Otalio Soca Llanes Chief of the Cuban Aviation, asked for the active participation of the Cuban pilots in the World conflict and training intensified including night flying and flying by instruments. During the month of June, one flying wing of three AT-6 airplanes made a goodwill flight to Mexico City. The crew consisted Captains Roberto Henderson Besanilla, Laureano García Berrocal y Francisco Gutiérrez along with mechanics Sergeant Barrios y Delfín Burias. In the squad leader’s plane Captain Henderson flew Coronel Otalio Soca Llanes.

1950, October 24^th, Cuban businessman Gaspar Pumarejo transmit the first TV signal in Cuba through his Channel 4 – station in Havana. In that year, Cuba was one of four countries in the world with commercial TV.

1953, countries such as Holland, France, Finland, Britain had proportionally less Doctors and Dentists than in Cuba.

1956, Cuba resumes export of coffee to the USA.

1958, Cuba occupied 3^rd place in the consumption of average calories per capita, 2,862 calories per day IN Latina America.

1958, Cuba held third place in numbers of cars per capita, to wit: 27.3 in Latin America.

1958, at world level, Cuba occupied the 4^th place in the largest percentage of remuneration to its workers and employees.

1958, Cuba was the Third Latin American Country with monetary solidity and stability with reserves in gold, dollars and convertible assets. The Cuban currency equivalent to the American dollar permitted the National Bank of Cuba, to establish a system of traveler’s checks, exchangeable in any nation of the world in which the National Bank or any of its affiliated banks had agencies or correspondents.

1958, Cuba had 55 International Bank branches operating in the country. There were several foreign banks in Cuba in 1958, namely: First National City Bank (Citicorp), The Chase Manhattan Bank (JP Morgan Chase), Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Nova Scotia, Bank of China (owned by the Taiwanese Govt.), Banco Franco-Cubano (an affiliate of Societe Generale, France), First National Bank of Boston

These banks had many branches in Cuba. RBC alone had about 36. A more interesting data is that the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta had a branch in Havana and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston had another branch. The only EVER branches of the FED outside the United States. Furthermore, the largest private bank in the western hemisphere on 12/31/58 was the Trust Company of Cuba, owned by the Batista Falla family.

1958, Havana becomes the first city in Latin America with color TV.

1958 Cuba occupies first place in consumption of fish 5.6 lbs per capita followed by USA 5.4 lbs.

1958, Cuba had 160 radio stations.

1958, Cuba is in first place with TV’s per capita = 1/18.

1958, Cuba occupied third place in Latina America with numbers of telephones per capita, 1/28.

Foreign Investment in Cuba, in order of importance:

(1) American, ($919 million in 1957) (2) Spanish, (3) British, (4) Cuban and in lesser proportion, Dutch, Chinese, Italian, Mexican and others.

Cuba’s cattle were excellent in quality and varied of breed. For the most part they were the Cebu and the Brahma. The hogs produced in Cuba were also of high quality. With a thriving livestock industry, the consumption of fresh meat was very high 0.86% and the processing of by-products wide-spread. For instance, Cuba had four plants for the processing of evaporated milk, and several others to produce powdered milk, butter and cheese.

Cuba exploits important deposits of copper, chrome, marbles, asphalt, kaolin, barite, manesite, iron pirate and others.

Cuba possesses more than 20 natural and well protected deep-water ports.

The country had an active and hard working people.

In the 50’s Cuba was already selling horizontal property “propiedad horizontal” or condos in high rise buildings.

The nation was very well advanced in comparison with other Latin American countries. Cuban workers were more unionized (proportional to the population) than U.S. workers. The average wage for an 8 hour day in Cuba in 1957 was higher than for workers in Belgium, Denmark, France and Germany. Cuban labor received 66.6 per cent of gross national income. In the U.S., the figure was 70 per cent, in Switzerland 64 per cent, 44 per cent of Cubans were covered by Social legislation, a higher percentage than in the U.S."

In 1958 Cuba had a higher per-capita income than Austria and Japan. Cuban industrial workers had the 8th highest wages in the world. In the 1950's Cuban stevedores earned more per hour than their counterparts in New Orleans and San Francisco. Cuba had established an 8 hour work-day in 1933 -- five years before FDR's New Dealers got around to it. Add to this: one month paid vacation. The much-lauded (by liberals) Social-Democracies of Western Europe didn't manage this until 30 years later.

Cuba, a country 71% white in 1957, was completely desegregated 30 years before Rosa Parks was dragged off the Birmingham bus and handcuffed. In 1958 Cuba had more female college graduates per capita than the U.S.

The Tropicana Night Club – Report from Cuba

There is no night club anywhere in the world that matches the Tropicana for beauty as well as size. Its tropical grounds with palm trees amidst its outdoor tables cover more than 300,000 square feet. Able to accommodate 1750 nightly customers, the Tropicana is a resort spa unmatched anywhere in the States. For in addition to musical extravaganzas featuring lovely Latin girls, the club also has legalized gambling that includes everything from dollar slot machines to dice and roulette.

The shows are done on a par with Hollywood musicals and the bill runs to $10,000 weekly. Three orchestras keep busy all evening providing music for dancers. For unlike so many Americans bistros, the Tropicana does have dancing. The latest Latin rhythms are featured and Cubans do not miss an opportunity to dance. The club also has another innovation–its prices. For $5 minimum on Saturday night, the customer gets a full meal. Club gives two shows nightly -- first at 11:30 and at 1:30 a.m.

Tropicana, a private club, was sold after the death of the owner. In converting the estate to a club, businessman Martin Fox did not spare any expense. He also was determined to salvage as much of the natural beauty of the tropical site as possible. Today the Tropicana is as much as tourist attraction for its natural beauty as for its productions, which cost about $75,000 to stage. Usually there is a headliner to top off the lavish shows. Carmen Miranda made her last night club appearance before her death at the club.

To pay the freight for the club, that runs to $5,000 daily, takes a lot of customers. Tropicana usually has them–some 500 every night during the summer and a full house every evening during the winter, resort season begins in December.

Havana was the mayor cigar center in the world with some of its product ever equaled by any country. Among the best: Hoyo de Monterrey, Partagas, Romeo y Julieta, Gener, Montecristo, H. Upmann, Por Larranaga, Cabanas, Cifuentes, Calixto Lopez, Cinco Vegas, Ramon Allones, Jose L. Piedra, La Corona, Fonseca.

U.S. Rubber Company had the largest tire manufacturer in the Caribbean.

In 1951 the sugar production in Cuba reached 7.5 tons.

National Airlines offered a daily round trip (morning, afternoon, evening) to Miami on their DC-6 aircraft for only $30.00. The flight took only 58 minutes.

US citizens could drive down to Key West, get on a ferry to Havana, unload their car in Havana, drive around town with their U.S valid driver’s license, pay cash for anything In Havana with U.S. dollars, and when ready to leave, take the ferry back to Key West.

Cubana de Aviacion or Cuban Airlines had one of the first turbojets airplanes in Latin America.

Cuba celebrated every year Los Carnavales de la Habana or Havana Carnivals just as in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil dores today. Las Comparsas, the street group dances date back to XVII century where the Spanish Military Governors of Cuba authorized the slaves to celebrate with mucis and chanting and colorful custums the religious festivity of the coming of the Three Kings.

In 1932, Ernest Heminghway writes For Whom the Bells Toll at the Ambos Mundos Hotel.

The Daiquiri drink originated during the Spanish American War when the American troops landed in the region of Daiquiri in the Southern Cost of Cuba.

International Airlines that Flew in Cuba:

AEROLINEAS ARGENTINAS connected New York to Havana, and to the south Trinidad, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, with DC-6 equipment.

AEROPOSTAL VENEZOLANA S.A. flew Miami-Havana-Caracas with Super Constellations.

ALA, Transportes Aéreos de Chile, in 1958 started non-scheduled services between Santiago de Chile and Havana, with stops in Perú and Panamá, with DC-4.

BRANIFF AIRWAYS, connected Havana to the north with Texas and others states and to the south with Panamá and other South American countries, such as Ecuador, Perú, Colombia, Argentina and others, with DC-6 equipment.

DELTA AIRLINES to the north Havana with New Orleans and Chicago and to the south with Montego Bay, Jamaica and Caracas. It also flew from Havana to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Ciudad Trujillo, Rep. Dom., and San Juan, Puerto Rico. It flew with Convair 440 and DC-7.

IBERIA, Líneas Aéreas from Spain, vied with Cubana in the route Habana-Madrid, with Super Constellations.

KLM, Compañía Real Holandesa, flew between Miami-Havana-Curazao, with DC-6 and DC-7 and the route Havana-Montreal-Europa with DC-7.

LACSA, Líneas Aéreas Costarricenses, connected Havana with San José de Costa Rica and other cities in Central America, such as Guatemala, mainly with Convair 340.

MAKEY AIRLINES inaugurated its passenger service between Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and Havana, with DC-4.

MEXICANA DE AVIACION flew between Havana, Mérida and México, 4 times weekly with the same equipment as PAA.

NATIONAL AIRLINES in 1958 flew daily the route Havana-New York and Havana-Miami, with DC-6, DC-7 and Convair340 & 440, respectively.

PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS en 1958 connected Havana to Miami (around 8 daily flights), with Mérida and El Salvador, with DC-4, DC-6 and DC-7. Also it had flights from Camaguey to Miami and to the south, Jamaica, Venezuela and other South American countries.

TAN, Transportes Aéreos Nacionales (Honduras) connected Havana to Central America with C-46 equipment.

Cuban words and expressions not frequently used by Cubans in the

USA:

Me partieron la vertracha

Piquera

Le dio un Patatu, una Sirimba

Le debe a la 11 mil vírgenes y un peso a cada santo

Esta chiflado, Vive en el Solar

Cheo, Jeba, Chacha, Pepillo, jeta

Fotuto, chucho de la electricidad

Bofe, Pesao, Caradura, Sangron

Le partieron la siquitrilla

Tremendo Paquete, Una sarna

Tiene Guayabito en la Zotea

Me dieron guiso

Estoy hasta el ultimo pelo

En el tiribi tabara, En la Fuacata

Te voy a dar paupau en el cucu

Ahí viene el coco, la policia

Le cayo calcoma,

Me voy a dar un chapuzon

Nos vamos de temporada

Ese de fino no tiene nada

Pantalones de bombache

Tubey, tribey, cuadrangular

Ir a la Habana (ir de compra)

Es un poco nerviosa (loca por completo)

Ese si que es un pollo

Me colgaron en el examen

Chivo para el examen

Me hicieron un numero ocho

Voy a jugar a la charita, la bola

Me hice tremendo chichon

Cayo como un saco de papa

Tiene puestos los aritos, aparaticos

Me hecho tremenda descarga

Que puneta

Me estoy comiendo un cable

Estoy cruzando el Niagara en bicicleta

Cojio tremendo berrinche, monte

Ese lo que es un tremendo churruopio

Esta mas loco que una chiva

Dale fuego a la lata, la jarra

No pierda la tabla

Le puso la tapa al pomo

Esta mas frio que un muerto

Aquí me apeo, Hasta aquí llegue

Pan con timba

Mas viejo que Matusalen

Esta mas sordo que una tapia

Tremendo postalita

Que matraca te traes

Cojio tremenda onda

Le tengo un coco formado

Picuo, Jutia, Nino Bitongo

Tren de lavado

Mensajero de botica

Quincalla, Kiosco, timbiriche

Este es una plasta

Bamboyero, cuentista, alardoso

De primera plana

Sueltalo antes de que te muerda

Le di un toque sabroso

Tiene tremendo tumbao, onda

Esta mas duro que una piedra

Esto es un gallinero

Estoy con mi elemento

Se formo un barullo

Disco volador

En boca cerrada no entra mosca

Ese es un bicharraco

Lo Pillaron, Ni pincha ni Corta

Tombola

Lo pasaron por el cepillo

Calabaza, Calabaza cada uno pa su casa

Tenia una botella del gobierno

Voy a pedir una botella

Hay un frio que chifla la mona

Le cayo la calcoma

Se le pego como un chicle

Ese es un name con corbata

Ese es una lumbrera

Vamos a la Americana

Darse un mate

Se la llevo de chiripa, en el aire

Esa se hace la loca

A tutiplén

Chirrin, Chirron esto se acabo

Colorin, Colorado ya mi cuento se ha acabado y el tuyo no ha empezado

No dijo ni pio

Cayo de paracaidista, se colo

Murio como un pollo, sin pluma y cacareando

Dame la dolorosa

Tengo un fotingo chevere

Se acabo como la fiesta del guatao

Pide la contra

Ese tiene un chino atrás

Se le subio lo de gallego

Cuban Personalities, Artists, Bands, TV and Radio Programs, Writers, Publications, Restaurants,

Schools, Places, Local Expressions, Nocturne Centers:

Copa Room

La Corte Suprema

La Marquesa

Soprano Lydia de Rivera

Soprano Isabelita Diaz

Ilusionista Profesor Gil

Chan Li Po (Anibal de Mar)

Cuarteto Compay Gallo

Maestro Erneso Lecuona

Bola de Nieve

Damaso Perez Prado

Composer Sergio de Carlo

(“Flores Negras”)

Xuiomara Fernandez y Jose A.Alonso

Minin Bujones

Chicho Pan de

Ana Maria Alvarez (La Pollito)

Normita Suarez

Orquesta Cheo Belen Puig

Rosendo Rosell

Chicho Pan de Gloria

Bigote E Gato

Orquesta Casino de La PlayaChateau Madrid

Sans Souci

Riverside Club

Grrido y Pineiro

Miguelito Valdes

El Viejio Bringuier

Agapito, Timoteo y el Maestro

Leopoldo Fernandez, Tres Patines

Adolfo Otero, el gallego.

Mimi Cal, la Nananina

Juan Bruno Tarraza

Osaldo Farres

Julio Gutierrez

Facundo Rivero

Mario Fernandez Porta

Caballero de Paris

ReneTouzet

Maria Teresa Vera

Orlando de La Rosa

De Castro Sisters

Teatro Marti

Zig Zag Revista

El Diaro de La Marina

Alberto Garrido

Federico Pineiro

Orlando Vallejo

Jose Fajardo

Belisario Lopez

Panchito Riset

Rodrigo Prats

Orquesta Aragon

Arsenio Rodriguez

Maruja Gonzalez

Abelrdito Valdes

Benny More

Cantante lirica Sarita Escarpentier

Clavelito

Desi Arnaz

Mongo Santamaria

Mario Bauza

El Club Tropicana

Casino Parisien

Sloppy Joes Bar

El Floridita

La Bodeguita del Medio

Orquesta Hermanos Castros

Hermanos La Batard

Las Hermanas Lago

La Novela del Aire

Radio Reloj

El Fakir (25 dias sin comer)

La Fonda del Chino Julian

Ricardo El Rey del Café

Circo La Rosa

Topeka

Montmartre

La Red

El Sherezada

La Roca

Los Violines

Copa Room (Havana Riviera)

Ramoncito Veloz

Rolando La Serie

Diego Gonzalez (Tendedera)

Lilia Lazo

Los Filarmonicos (tocaban botellas con distintas cantidades de agua)

Tito Hernandez

Tony Alvarez y Olga Choren

Bohemia, El Mundo, El Pais, Avance, Prensa Libre

Ismael Bernabeu

Henry Woton

Wifredo Lam

El Capri

Rene Potocarrero

RitaLonga

Condo Bermudez

Carlos Enriquez

Victor manuel

Amelia Pelaez

Todoro Ramos Blanco

Luis Martinez Pedro

FelipeOrlando

Felix Ramos

Juan Gil Garcia

Florencio Gelabert

Fidelio Ponce

Pepe Ramirez

Carlos Enriquez

Rolando Lopez Dirube

Carlos Soriano

Oscar Garcia Rivero

Jose Maria Mijares

Mario Carreno

Mariano Rodriguez

Tony Lopez

Rafael Soriano

Hector Molne

Baruj Salinas

Oreste Minoso

Rafael Garcia Barcena

Orquesta Filarmonica de La

Habana

H. Portell Vila

Levi MarreroLeopoldo Horrego

Gonzalo Quesada

Fernando Portuondo

Cuco Conde

Rene Molina

Carteles

Baby Quintero

Nelson Varela

Baby Quintero

Manuel de La Tejera

Manolo de La Reguera

Edmundo Amoros

Willie Miranda

Camilo Pascual

Emilio Cabrera

Orlando Zulueta

Nino Valdes

Manolito Sanguily

La Amenaza Roja

“La Soga Mingolo”

El Chiclano

Pupy Garcia

El Mundo

El Crisol

Dr. Emilio Nunez Portuondo

Centro Vazco

El Jardin’

El Carmelo de Calzada

Castillo de Jagua

La Zaragozana

El Templete

Caftereia Kimbo

El Tencent

Rancho Luna

La Terraza de Cojimar

Mulgoba

Vanidades

Ledesma

Café Los Aires Libres del Prado

La Guarachera de cub

Olga Guillot

E.Jorin: El Chachacha

Celia Cruz

Cachao y el mambo

Paquito D’Rivera

Arturo Sandoval

Bebo Valdes

Wakuki

Marta Perez

Mrisabel Saenz

Alvarez Mera

Armando Couto

Blanca Varela

Bobby Collazo

Pacheco

El Trio Matamoros

CabrisasFarach

NoraOsorio

La Lupe

Ninon Sevilla

El Bar Melodico

Los 3 Villalobos

Fernando Allbuerne

Lolita Berrio

Manolo /torrente

Mamacusa

Cachucha

Dick y Biondi

La Barra Arrechabala

Manolo Fernandez

Bienvenido Granada

Prematura

Roberto Ledesma

Alvarez Guedes

Rolandito Barral

Carlos Badia

Jorge Felix

Las Hermanas Marquez

Gina Roman

La Chelito

El Prgrama de Pumarejo

Tete Machado

Rolando Laserie

Ignacio Pineiro

Wifredo Fernandez

Orlando Contreras

El Chino Wong

Raquel Bardisa

Eva Flores

Salvador Levy

Daniel Santos

Maria A. Pons

El Viejito Chichi

Jorge Zamora

Francisco Vergara

Alvaro de Villa

Vitola la que se defiende Sola

Perez Roura

Rolando Ochoa

Olga Chaviano

Rosita Fornes

Virgilio Pineira

El Ali-Bar

Margarita Lecuona

India de Oriente

Otto Sirgo

Manolo Coego

Manolo Reyes

Ana Gloria y Rolando

La Meneito

El Circo de Gaby Fofo y Miliki

Adolfo Guzman

Alberto Insua

Celeste Mendoza

Celia Cruz

Nico Membiela

Jorge Bolet

Bartolo

Dinorah Ayala

Orquesta de Oriente

Jose Angel Buesa

Eva Vazquez

Joseito Fernandez

Sierra Club

Las Vegas

Las condesas Negras

Los Dandis

El Bar del Hotel Comodoro

Otto Meruelo

Jose Pardo Llada

Humberto Medrano

La Casa Oscar

El Monsenor Restaurant

El Rincon

Radio Kramer

Rosita Fornes

Asuncion del Peso

Jose Angel Buesa

El Palo Encebado

Reina Por Un Dia

La Ceniza Senador

Tu Estabas Alli

La Butifarras del Congo

Coney Island de la Playa de Marianao, CentroGallego, La Rampa

Hotel Deauville

FOCSA

El Restuarante 1830

Hotel Comodoro

Capri Hotel

El Palacio de Cristal

Hotel Inglaterra

Ciudad Deportiva

La Rue 19

El Puente Bacunayagua

Tunel de La Habana

Varadero

Le Trianon

Flogar, La Casa Quintana, Roseland

Cancha, Ropa Deportiva, La Filosofia

Rex Cinema, Cine La Rampa, El Rodi, El Payret, Miramar, El Cinecito, Alamida,

Cine Atlantic, El Acapulco, Cine Infanta, El Cine America

Manzana de Gomez

Rancho Boyeros,

Terminal de Omnibus

Carlos J. Finlay

Palacio de Bellas Artes

Casino de la Alegria

Havana Military Academy, Universidad de Villanueva, Loyola, Academia Merici

El Instituto Alfa, Los Escolapios

Margot Parraga, Lafayette School,

Cathedral, St. George School,

Los maristas, Instituto de La Habana

Jess Lozada

Eliseo Genet

Raul Maestri

El programa de los $64 pesos

Felix Chapotin

Guayo

Habana Yacht Club, El Vedado, Miramar Yacht Club, El Comodoro, El Vedado Tennis, El Casino Deportivo, La Concha, Club Nautico, Biltmore Yacht and Country Club

Retiro Odontologico

Retiro Medico, Clinica Miramar, Hospital Clinico-Quirurgico Mercedes del Puerto, Clinica Antnetti, Clinica Nacional de Dispensarios Infantiles

La Caja del Retiro Electrico,

Palacio Masonico

La Quinta Avenida

Banco Nacional, Trbunal de Cuentas, Teatro nacional, Palacio de Justicia, Palacio Municipal, Biblioteca Nacional Jose Marti

El Cristo de La Habana

La Caridad del Cobre

La Moderna Poesia

Nela Queso de Crema

El Gladiola Floreria

Farmacia Gomez Plata

Fin de Siglo

Gillete Azul

Teatro shangay

La Epoca

Alerta

Café Regil

Brillantina Palmolive

Jabon Candado

Zapatos Ingelmo

Materva y Salutary

Ironber

Cerveceria Tropical

La Tropical

Carlitos Kilowatts

Hatuey

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Benitin y Henea

Popeye El Marino

El Capitan y los Cebollitas

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El Bidet de Paulina

La Virgen del Camino

Guarapo Frio

El Hombre de la Sirena

Villar Kelley

Entrega Especial

Pestonit

Popsicles

Vendedor de Raspura

Panteon Chino

Puente de Miramar

Puente de Almendares

Puente de Alcoy

Reparto Kohly

El Cementerio Chino

El Cementerio de Colon

El Cementerio Hebreo de Guanabacoa

Jose de La lUz y Caballero

La Benificiencia

El Cacahual

La Gran Via

La Loma del Burro

El Castillo del Principe

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