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Category: travel


Jun
2013

Travelling To Havana, Cuba!

categories: travel
1940s 1950s vintage Cuba travel poster.

My husband works for an airline and so we have the fantastic ability to be able to hop on planes when we feel the urge to do some travelling, but since work has been insane for months running off to exotic places has not been an option for me. My husband on the other had went to Taipei a couple of weeks ago….lucky him 😛

However as summer quickly approaches my work load has slowed down a bit and I’m able to jet away for a few days, so we have booked a 2 day romantic getaway to Havana, Cuba. Woo hoo! I have been to Havana twice before (once on my honeymoon last year) and so I know how fantastic the city is and being a lover of the 1950’s you can’t get any better then going to Havana.

So as my countdown begins (I leave June 30th) I thought I would share some pictures from my Honeymoon and some awesome vintage photos as well. Enjoy!

Vintage Cuba Travel Poster-Land of Romance. 1930s Vintage Travel Poster

This is yours truly outside a pretty building in Havana. I’m wearing a 1940’s WWII Era Vintage Style 2 Piece Cabana Dress that I had custom made from Etsy seller “Time Machine Vintage“. My purse is a fun straw beach purse I bought in Toronto at “Cabaret Vintage”.

Photo of Vintage Blogger-The Vintage Inn Liz in a two piece vintage style tropical 1940s top and skirt with vintage wicker purse in Havana Cuba.

I LOVE the 1950’s signs all around the city. This is a good example of one we found while wondering the city.

1950s Vintage Sign as seen in Havana, Cuba. Lafayette Restaurante

This was the first 1950’s car I saw when I first visited Cuba (this pic is from my first trip about 4 years ago). The streets are filled with so many, but most of them are NOT in this good of a condition.

Vintage 1950s Car as seen in Cuba.

View from our Rooftop restaurant at our hotel in Havana

Havana Cuba- View from the Rooftop Bar.

You can see the fort in the distance in this rooftop photo.

Havana Cuba, view of the Fort from a Rooftop Patio.

Mojito time!

Enjoying a Mojito in Havana, Cuba.

The below pic is the view from the little restaurant we picked to have a drink and a slice of pizza (which was very good). It was clearly someone’s rooftop patio of their own personal home where they put up a bar and some tables for eating (which is now allowed more and more in the city). We LOVED it here.

Havana, Cuba rooftop restaurant.

The famous “Obispo” street in Havana. You could walk down this street and hear and see amazing Cuban music AND dancing everywhere you turned. We did sort of a mini “bar crawl” to check places out the first time we were in Havana.

Obispo st in havana cuba

Have you ever been to Havana? If so where were your favorite places to eat and drink?

Happy Travels! And if you want to see some of my other Cuba posts check them out at the link below:

Liz 🙂


Jan
2013

Vintage Vegas-The Neon Museum

categories: travel, vintage History, Vintage Travel To Do List

I’m so excited tomorrow I will be visiting the city of sin…Las Vegas for a long weekend with my husband (and for this German function thing which I will explain at a later date). Can’t wait, love this city! I have been so many times I have lost count and then just a couple of months later I will be back in Vegas for the VIVA Rockabilly weekend (yay!!!). Anyways….the last time I was in Vegas I got to check out one of the coolest pieces of history that Vegas has…”Neon Boneyard Park aka The Neon Museum“.

Vintage Vegas-The Neon Museum

Samples of the Vintage Neon Signs

The Neon Boneyard is home to over 150 donated and rescued signs dating from the 1930’s to present day.  Located within a two-acre outdoor museum space, the unrestored collection includes signs from businesses, motels and celebrated casino resorts originally located throughout the Las Vegas valley.

Neonboneyard main sign in Las Vegas - Top thing to do when in Las Vegas.

Some of the signs that have been “laid to rest” here, I have seen in my 14 years of visiting (Sahara, Stardust). Then some are WAY before my time like Yucca Motel (Opened in 1950), seen below.

What a cool sign and I can only imagine how cool it looked all lite up in the Vegas nighttime sky.

VISITING NOTE: Go do the tour AT NIGHT! It’s the best time to see the signs. Daytime is fun too but nightime is the best!

yucca hotel vintage sign as seen at the Neon Boneyard Park. Top things to do when in Las Vegas.

Below are some pics from the tour, which you can book by going to their website (link was posted above). I learned so much about “Vintage Vegas” and I 100% recommend that you check out the tour the next time you’re in the city.

main area of neon boneyard in Las Vegas of the vintage signs. Top things to do when in Las Vegas.

Love this One “Sassy Sally’s” what a name 🙂

Sassy Sally vintage neon sign in the Neon Boneyard Park in Las Vegas. Top things to do when in Las Vegas.

“Silver Slipper”-I love shoes, so this was a VERY appropriate sign. Wonder if it would fit in my luggage??

silver slipper vintage neon sign in Las Vegas at the Neon Boneyard. Top things to do when in Las Vegas.

Cool History Note!

Below is a picture of what the Casino use to look like. It was around from the 1950’s until the 1980’s and was home to “Barry Ashton’s-Wonderful World of Burlesque”. In April 30, 1968, the Silver Slipper was purchased by billionaire Howard Hughes for $5.4 million in his famous spending spree of buying Vegas properties, which included the Frontier next door. Legend has it that he purchased the casino because the lights from the rotating slipper bothered him. This was a time when Mr. Hughes feared for his safety, and because the toe of the slipper always stopped and faced the window of his Desert Inn penthouse before rotating again, he feared a camera could be planted in the toe either by the government or someone else. After several attempts at requesting that the slipper be turned off, Hughes purchased the casino, had the slipper filled with concrete and dismantled the rotating mechanism (Vegasliveshows.com).

Silver slipper casino vintage postcard for Las Vegas.

El Cortez vintage sign & Showboat.

more signs from neon boneyard in Las Vegas. Top things to do when in Las Vegas.

Yours truly at the Boneyard (in my Bettie Page dress-It was chilly that day so I had to cover it up).

liz at neon boneyard

Thanks for dropping by! Have you been to the Neon Museum? I have now gone during the day AND at night (night is the best!).

Further Reading:

Want to visit?

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