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SuperCar Week Car Show On Flagler
Report and Photos by Penny Sheltz concours-styled judged event area with separate stage, music,
On Sunday, April 18, the one mile length of the West entertainment and special attractions. New this year by Pis
Palm Beach, Flagler Drive Waterfront is laid out as an is the tribute and dedicated Larry Goldman Marine Village,
auto enthusiast’s cityscape, including designated areas
for vehicle owners, car collectors, car clubs, dealers and
brands. The mile walk includes: SuperCar Street, Muscle
Beach, Memory Lane, Green Street for Electrics, Corvette
Court, Viper Blvd., Porsche Place, Mustang Manor, ArtCar
Ave., Marine Village for offshore powerboats, and the Race
Village of race teams and displays of race vehicles. A special
SuperJeep Village, National Competition and Invitational
Display area at the south end of the event from Trump Tower
to Lakeview Avenue with more than 300 Jeeps on display in a
Miss SuperCar Week
VIP Yacht Hop, Concours Palm Beach, juried classics and
various land, air and sea displays.
Laurence Gartel’s amazing car, the winner of many car events
Cartagena ‘The Heroic City’ from page 12
Cartagena continued as Columbia’s leading port,
but was handicapped by inadequate connection to the
interior. By the 1840s it had declined in population
and commerce; however all of this changed in the
first part of the 20th century. The rebirth of the city
as Colombia’s fifth largest can be attributed to the
opening of the oil field in Rio Magdalena Valley in
1917. The pipeline from Barrancabermeja, 340 miles
up the Magdalena River, to the Bahía de Cartagena,
opened in 1926, making Cartagena the country’s chief
oil port. Today, Cartagena’s wealth is centered around
the timber from the headwaters of the Atrato and San
Juan rivers, coffee from the Sierra Nevada Mountains,
and the oil products that are still being piped in from
Barrancabermeja.
Today, Cartagena is the capital of the Bolívar
department of Colombia. Its slightly over one million*
urban inhabitants use Spanish as their main language,
but English is widely spoken. Roman Catholics
make up 95 percent of the population with small
Protestant and Jewish minorities. The climate is warm
and tropical, similar to ours, and their rainy season
parallels ours, from May to November. Dress is casual,
again, similar to ours here in South Florida.
It’s interesting to note that a major portion of
the business community’s activities are cyclical,
tying into the seasons. Business is conducted from
May to November (rainy season), with the business
community generally taking holidays from September
to February. One might suspect that there are no
migrating snowbirds in South America that flock to
Colombia. For those United States citizens interested
in visiting, don’t forget that you’ll need to obtain a
visa for travel in Colombia.
*Source: https://worldpopulationreview.com/
world-cities/cartagena-population
Don Kiselewski writes from his personal
experiences, having traveled in 122 countries and
cruised the oceans, seas and rivers of the world. Palm
Beach Gardens Travel Leaders, his family owned and
operated agency, is located at Mirasol Town Square,
11360 North Jog Road, Building A, Suite 102-6, Palm
Beach Gardens. The agency has been serving the travel
needs of the South Florida area for over a quarter of
a century. Contact him at (561) 694-9696 or Aussie@
PBGTravel.com.
Photos by Don Kiselewski