Duval County Picture (San Diego, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 51, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 21, 1988 Page: 11 of 21
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More Americans celebrate
holidays away from home
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
More and more Americans
seem to be choosing to celebrate
the holiday season away from
home.
The American Automobile
Association estimates that 25
million Americans will hit the
road during this Christmas holi-
day.
For those who plan such a trip,
there is now a second edition of
Patricia Carpenter’s ’’Away for
the Holiday,” a soft-cover direc-
tory of domestic and foreign
places to stay, holiday tours and
cruises, and a section on holiday
traditions around the world.
And, if you tend to associate the
holidays with libations, there is a
list of toasts in foreign languages.
New York City always has
been a prime travel location dur-
ing the holiday shopping season.
With the new publication of
”The Landmarks of New York,”
a hefty $45 book by Baibaralee
Diamondstein, visitors are
guided through designated his-
toric landmarks from the Empire
State Building, Grand Central
Terminal, Rockefeller Center,
and Tiffany’s, to the manors and
farms of die 18th century.
All of the city’s 800 designated
landmarks and 52 historic dis-
tricts are featured.
You don’t have to go to Austria
for New Year’s Eve in Vienna.
Orlando, Fla., will do this year.
The Hyatt Regency Grand
Cypress hotel in Orlando plans to
transform summery Florida into
wintry Austria with 60 tons of
powdery snow, created with
snow machines and blocks of ice.
Guests will be' ’waltzed” to the
ball in horse-drawn carriages that
will travel down a ’’snowy”
boulevard flanked by decorated
fir trees.
Walt Disney World’s celebra-
tion of Christinas kicks off Nov.
30 with the lighting of two
Douglas fir trees at the Magic
Kingdom and Epcot Center.
Tree-lighting ceremonies con-
tinue each Tuesday and Saturday
at 5 p.m. through Christmas Eve.
Other special events at the Lake
Buena Vista, Fla., theme park
include ’’Holiday Splendor,”
with actress Carol Lawrence star-
ring in a 35-minute stage show
portraying the celebrations of
Christmas, Hanukkah and Chi-
nese New Year, and the fifth
annual “Mickey’s Very Merry
Christmas Party,” set for Dec. 9
and 10. •
The Grand Hyatt Washington
hotel's (dans for Nov. 29 until
Jan. 4 include a fantasy toyland
with toy soldiers standing at at-
tention outside and candy canes
and assorted toys suspended from
the mansard skylight roof inside.
Animated reindeer on three
snow islands will be among those
at a black-tie party at the trans-
formed indoor lagoon.
The Grand Hyatt New York
goes for the ‘ ’Nutcracker’ ’ theme
for the holidays, with the lobby
decorated with Christmas trees
and a 6-foot sugar palace sur-
rounded by the Sugarplum Fairy,
toy soldiers and King Mouse.
Instead of the usual chocolate
on die pillow, die nightly bed
turndown features (what else?) a
sugarplum.
Tickets to the New York City
Ballet’s "Nutcracker” are in-
cluded in a holiday season pack-
age.
West” celebration in Seattle,
thereisa“countup.”
At 89 seconds to midnight,
lights will follow one of the
elevators as it ascends the <
ened 605-foot Space Needle,
Seattle’s most famous landmark.
When the elevator reaches the top
at midnight, 5,000 lights will en-
velop the dome and thousands _
actually four times 1,989 _ he-
lium-filled balloons will be re-
leased and illuminated by flood-
lights.
This year, the Space Needle
officially launches 1989 as the
centennial year for the state of
Washington.
For $5,000, the Inn of the Six
Mountains, luxury resort in
Killington, Vt, will provide a
suite, limousine service, daily ski
lift tickets, a horse-drawn sleigh
ride, a personal steward, a moun-
tain guide for the weekend, a
personal massage therapist, com-
plete ski outfit, and ski equipment
for use during the four-day
Christmas weekend, Dec. 23-26.
Thanksgiving is the travel
theme from Domenico Tours of
Bayonne. N.J., which is promot-
ing three-day tours of Cape Cod,
Mass., colonial Williamsburg,
Va„ and the Pennsylvania Dutch
area.
For Christmas, there’s a five-
day Creole Christmas in New
Orleans and an eight-day Nash-
ville Country Christmas.
The fifth annual “Light Up
Your Holidays’ ’ festival is a five-
week celebration in Asheville and
Buncombe County, N.C., from
Nov. 23 through New Year’s Eve.
Festivities begin with a parade in
downtown Asheville on Nov. 23
and includes a “Celebration for
Children” Dec. 3, a holiday show
and Hanukkah torch run on Dec.
4.
In die finale, the city’s historic
district will “light up” with
100,000 white Christmas lights.
SHOPPING.
From Page 2B
At the Hyatt Regency Ravinia in
Atlanta, Scrooge replaces Santa
in the lobby.
Dickens’ “bah! humbug!”
character will sit in his night-
clothes in a fourposter bed and
grunt his holiday greetings while
grudgingly handing out chocolate
coins.
A 10-day “Charles Dickens
Christmas’ ’ tour of England, Dec.
18-27, includes visits to the
Cheshire Cheese Tavern,
Dickens’s childhood home on
Lam Street, and Saffron Hill, the
site of Fagin’s school for pick-
pockets.
There will be a special perform-
ance reading of “A Christmas
Carol” in London on Dec. 23,
according to the tour sponsors,
Classic Tours International, of
Chicago.
In New York’s Times Square
every New Year’s Eve, there is a
countdown to midnight.
In the “Times Square of the
The Joy of
Christmas
Goes
On Forever
Whit better time
to My thank* to you
for your support?
jewelry with a value of more than
$11 billion. Forty percent of those
sales were during the yearend
holiday season, according to the
American Diamond Industry As-
sociation.
A Swiss watch called Maple, by
Jean d’Eve, operates without a
battery, its energy generated by
wrist motion.
As a possible Christmas gift for
fans of the late Andy Warhol, the
National Multiple Sclerosis Soci-
ety is offering a lull-color limited
edition 1989 calendar featuring
work from one of his last projects,
his Mercedes-Benz collection.
The calendar, more than 2 feet
high, has monthly panels which
can be removed and framed. The
$35 purchase price will be do-
nated to multiple sclerosis re-
search. To order by phone, call
toll free: 1-9-WARHOL.
For those on your gift list with
exotic tastes there is a reference
book advising where to find a suit
with free bullet-proof lining,
which hotel room service offers
; and where to listen
music underwater.
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Our hope is for a world filled with
peace and joy, now and forever.
Agape Cafe
Angel, Gabriels & Alejandra
310 W. Collins • 279-2410
We will be closed Dec. 24,1988 thru Jan. 1,1989
We will reopen Jam. 2,1989
*God Bless
Us
Everyone"
-TinyTtn
^Mrn thanks
to our friends
through time and
to all our new
patrons.
Cash
Store
Mr. and Mrs.
Johnny Canales
St Daughters
Benavides, Texas
256-3461
Hava a vary happy holiday.
STANDARD
Auto Parts
806 Gravis • 279-3965
Victor Galvan, Manager
For all its charm
and warmth.
Christmas Is a
season to celebrate.
Thanks, friends.
for your very
valued business.
THE
ICECUBE
CO.
812 E. Gravis j!
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(JJtaslinas (fW
What a glorious time of year for one and all!
May you carry the hope of peace and love
in your heart now and every day.
E & R Grocery
506 N. St James
Ricardo & Esperanza Torres
Vanessa & Melissa
279-2044
Montemayor Food Market
_*r. A Mrs. fauC. Montemayor A Family
M.G. Monuments
Happiness, joy and good will
for you and yours. Many thanks.
Mr. & Mrs.
Mauro P. Garcia, Jr. and Daughters
Edith, Norma and Margo
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