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LOCALWednesday 24 February
Share Your Cherished Old Photographs With Hilton Aruba Resort!
--The Hilton Aruba Carib- the rarest, most evocative the employer of choice cleaned up and restored, iterates,“ they will all be
bean Resort & Casino an- pictures, with or without within the island’s burgeon- digitalized and artistically brought back to life by the
nounces a photo competi- people, of the resort since ing hospitality industry. treated to become our resort’s graphic designers,
tion. its opening day, in July of At the eve of a major ren- cherished works of art. “ and adorn our walls for
PALM BEACH - The Hilton 1959. Aruba’s first luxury ovation, the competition The resort’s PR and Mar- many years to come.”
Aruba Caribbean Resort resort, now flagged un- announced by manage- keting Manager Nunette Prizes for the winners of
& Casino, fondly known as der the Hilton Worldwide ment calls for an extensive Maduro accepted the task the competition include
La Grande Dame of Palm brand was constructed search of private and pub- of curating the treasures, weekend stays, eforea spa
Beach will be undergoing between 1956 and 1959, lic archives, rewarding find- making sure photographs treatments and dinner invi-
renovations during the up- with 120 rooms, employing ers with a wealth of prizes. are also returned to their tations to the Sunset Grille
coming off-season and as 160 locals. It was designed “Please bring us your pho- owners, once processed. restaurant. The general
part of that undertaking, by that era’s most avant- tographs,” says General “The resort is accepting public is encouraged to re-
will be commissioning new garde American architect, Manager Olivier Maumaire, photos, negatives, slides, spond before March 15th,
artwork to complement Morris Lapidus, who also “and we’ll treat them with newspaper clippings, even in order to be included in
the elegant rooms and designed the Eden Roc utmost respect. They will be poor copies,” Maduro re- competition.q
the freshly designed pub- and the Fontainebleau ho-
lic spaces. In view of the tels in Miami. Lapidus came
resort’s rich heritage and to Aruba as a guest of the
authentic Aruban roots island’s government and
management is presently picked a prime location
searching archives and for his dream hotel, on pris-
photo albums for old his- tine Palm Beach. From that
torical images of the hotel moment on, the hotel con-
in the early days, anything tinuously played an impor-
dated before the Millen- tant social and economic
nium, to be digitalized, and role in the life of the island,
then artfully and proudly serving as the backdrop
displayed throughout the for many celebrations of a
property. Amateur pho- lifetime, from private wed-
tographer and professional dings, to public parties,
photographers are hereby entertaining royalties and
invited to participate, in most significantly through
an open competition, for the decades, remaining
