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4 unusual facts about Coral Gables


Audrey Wurdemann

Audrey Wurdemann (January 1, 1911 – May 20, 1960 Coral Gables, Florida) was an American poet.

Casa Fernando Luis Toro

The house draws from architectural designs commonly seen in Coral Gables and West Palm Beach, Florida.

John W. Holland

Holland assumed senior status on July 1, 1955, and remained on the court until his death in Coral Gables in 1969.

WMCU

WHIM (AM) 1080 kHz, a radio station in Coral Gables, Florida, United States that held the WMCU call sign from 2007 to 2010


Carlos Rodríguez Cárdenas

During the next few years, Rodríguez Cárdenas held solo exhibits at Obra Reciente, Galeria Nina Menocal, Mexico; D.F., Carlos Cardenas, Galeria Ramis F. Barquet in Monterrey, Mexico; and, in 1993, About the Blue Wall, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida; and ARCO 93 International Art Fair, Madrid, Spain; and Pinturas, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables.

Carmen González

She then trained under Chef Barry Wine at the Quilted Giraffe in New York City before finally opening her own restaurant, Carmen the Restaurant in Coral Gables, Florida.

John McEntee Bowman

Bowman was responsible for the building of the golfing country club, the Westchester Country Club in Rye, New York and counted the New York Biltmore Hotel in New York City, the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, in Los Angeles, California, the Coral Gables Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, Florida, and the Sevilla-Biltmore Hotel in Havana, Cuba as part of his extensive hotel holdings.

Nicole Brown Simpson

After her death, they lived with O.J. and both went to Gulliver Preparatory School in Coral Gables, Florida.

Nilo Cruz

Some of the theatres that have developed and performed his works include New York’s Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Pasadena Playhouse, McCarter Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, The Alliance, New Theatre, Florida Stage and the Coconut Grove Playhouse.

Pastiglia

In 2002, the Lowe Art Museum in Coral Gables, Miami held an exhibition of Pastiglia Boxes: Hidden Treasures of the Italian Renaissance from the collection of the Galleria Nazionale d'arte antica in Rome, and an 80 page exhibition catalogue was published in English and Italian.

Princess Marie-Christine of Belgium

Her first marriage, to Paul Drucker (Toronto, Ontario, 1 November 1937 – 1 April 2008) in Coral Gables, Miami-Dade County, Florida, on 23 May 1981, lasted 40 days (though they weren't formally divorced till 1985); she subsequently married Jean-Paul Gourges in Westwood, Lassen County, California, on 28 September 1989.


see also

Arminda Schutte

In time she was appointed as adjunct faculty to the University of Miami (Coral Gables), Florida International University and Miami-Dade Community College.

George Merrick

George E. Merrick (1886–1942), real estate developer in Coral Gables, Florida

Magnus Goodman

In 1938 he served as player-coach for the Coral Gables Seminoles of the Miami-based Tropical Hockey League, an early attempt to establish Hockey in the Southern United States.

Myrka Dellanos

On August 29, 2008, the Coral Gables police department released audio of the 9-1-1 call made by Dellanos.

Paul E. Beaudoin

Dr. Beaudoin received his education from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL (BM, 1983); the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, MA (MM with Academic Distinction, 1987) and a Ph.D. in Music Composition and Theory from Brandeis University in 2002.

Ralph Ortega

Two of his Coral Gables Cavaliers football teammates, defensive back Neal Colzie and fullback-linebacker Glenn Cameron, were first-round 1975 NFL Draft picks of the Oakland Raiders and Cincinnati Bengals, respectively.