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36 unusual facts about Palm Beach


1049 5th Avenue

After moving his broadcast operation to Palm Beach, Florida in the late 1990s, Limbaugh railed on his program about high state income tax rates in New York.

18-J

The film has been screened at various film festivals, including: the Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival, Palm Beach, Florida; the Washington Jewish Film Festival, Washington DC; the Haifa International Film Festival, Haifa, Israel; the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, San Francisco; the Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival, Hong Kong; the Boston Jewish Film Festival, Boston; and others.

Alex Kramer

He traveled first to Palm Beach, Florida, joining the Meyer Davis orchestra, and then to Paris and Cannes, before returning to New York City, where he became a radio bandleader.

Arnold Bernstein

Arnold Bernstein (23 January 1888 in Breslau - 1971, Palm Beach, Florida) was a German-American shipowner and pioneer of transatlantic cargo transport, which he revolutionised since he was transporting goods without the usual wooden boxes and was thus able to reduce freight rates.

Barbara Bostock

Barbara Bostock (born December 19, 1935 in Palm Beach, Florida) is a retired American actress.

Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association

Most recently, the 29th Annual BESLA Conference was held in Palm Beach, Aruba from October 21–25, 2009.

Brownie Brittle

Brownie Brittle was invented by Sheila G. Mains in Palm Beach, Florida, as a part of Sheila G Brands.

Call Field

In the winter of 1912-1913, he and Lieutenant E. L. Ellington were sent to Palm Beach, Florida, in charge of the Signal Corps Aviation Station.

Colin Scotts

Growing up in Palm Beach, Sydney, Scotts first played rugby union for The Scots College and was a member of the 1981 Australian Schoolboys Rugby team.

For Darfur

In November 2007, For Darfur, in conjunction with fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer, held a fundraising cocktail party and auction in Palm Beach, Florida, and raised over $100,000.

Granville Roland Fortescue

Afterwards, she returned to a quiet life with her husband as they moved seasonally between family homes on Long Island and in Palm Beach.

Henry A. Wiley

Admiral Wiley retired once more 2 January 1943 and died 20 May 1943 at Palm Beach, Florida.

Henry Picard

Other professional positions include CC of Harrisburg, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Canterbury Golf Club, Cleveland, Ohio; and Seminole Golf Club, Palm Beach, Florida.

Horton Hatches the Egg

The book tells the story of Horton the Elephant, who is tricked into sitting on a bird's egg while its mother, Mayzie, takes a permanent vacation to Palm Beach.

The book centers on Horton, a genial African elephant, who is convinced by Mayzie, a lazy, irresponsible bird, to sit on her egg while she takes a short "break", which turns into her permanent relocation to Palm Beach.

I'm in Miami Bitch

Many of the versions listed below have been released through the iTunes Store and Zune Marketplace as a remix album titled I'm In Your City Beach, with each version available physically only in its respective city (with the exception of "I'm in Miami Bitch".) Also many are available on Spotify, such as "I'm in Palm Beach Trick".

Jerry's Girls

On February 28, 1984, the expanded Jerry's Girls premiered at the Royal Poinciana Playhouse in Palm Beach, Florida, with Carol Channing, Andrea McArdle, and Leslie Uggams, backed by an all-female chorus, recreating scenes and songs from Herman's hits, including Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and Mack and Mabel.

Joseph Bowne Elwell

Elwell ultimately became wealthy enough to own property in Palm Beach, 20 horses, 5 cars, and a yacht.

Joseph Urban

Most of Urban's architectural work in the United States has been demolished, with the exceptions of Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida and The New School and the base of The Hearst Tower in New York City.

Kylene Barker

During her year of service as Miss America, Barker signed a lease on a shop at 309 Worth Avenue in Palm Beach, Florida, and opened a dress shop called "D. Kylene" (the "D" stood for Danice).

Leiocephalus carinatus armouri

It was originally found only on Grand Bahama Island and the Abacos, but was released intentionally in Palm Beach, Florida in the 1940s.

Mary Hartline

The Donohues were yachting enthusiasts and fixtures of the "old money" set in Palm Beach and Southampton, where Mary remained for many years.

Maurie Fowler

He then returned to the Goulburn Valley Football League, playing one season with Mooroopna and one season with Kyabram, before accepting the position as playing coach of the Palm Beach Currumbin Football Club on the Queensland Gold Coast in 1970.

Me and Juliet

The two discussed the matter at a meeting in Palm Beach, Florida, in early 1952, where Rodgers was vacationing as he worked on melodic sketches for the television program Victory at Sea.

MV John Hamilton Gray

The vessel was overhauled at a shipyard in Les Méchins, Quebec, and departed for West Palm Beach, Florida, in November, no longer a ferry but a casino cruise ship.

Nissan GTP ZX-Turbo

Unlike previous years, this success would continue as another victory was taken at the next round at the streets of Palm Beach, then Lime Rock Park, Mid-Ohio, Watkins Glen, and Road America.

Palm Beach, New South Wales

The Palm Beach Ferry runs a ferry service from a wharf in the town centre to Ettalong, Great Mackerel Beach, Currawong Beach, Coasters Retreat and The Basin.

1978- Mel Gibson stars in the movie "Tim" filmed mostly at Barrenjoey Customs House (1911)

Reuben's Restaurant

Arnold Reuben retired to Palm Beach, where he died on December 31, 1970 at the age of 87.

Richard Paul Pavlick

On December 11, 1960 in Palm Beach, Florida, Pavlick positioned himself to carry out the assassination by blowing up Kennedy and himself with dynamite, but delayed the attempt because Kennedy was with his wife and children.

Split Images

The novel begins in Detroit and tells the story of Robbie Daniels, a multimillionaire who guns down a Haitian refugee who broke into his Palm Beach mansion, calling it "practice".

SV Deportivo Nacional

Sport Vereniging Deportivo Nacional (as known SV Deportivo Nacional) is an Aruban football club based in Palm Beach, Noord, which currently play in Aruba's first division.

Thanos Papalexis

He created a 200 year landlease format which his companies acquired several properties in Palm Beach, Florida.

Traces of Red

Jack Dobson, a homicide detective from Palm Beach, is flat on his back with a bullet in his chest.

Villa Aujourd’hui

She named this villa, Today, after her home in Palm Beach, Florida.

W. E. Biederwolf

During the last ten years of his life he was the seasonal pastor of the Royal Poinciana Chapel in Palm Beach, Florida, a nondenominational congregation of 1,500 members, many of whom were very wealthy.


Brian Hallisay

On The CW's drama Privileged, Hallisay played Will Davis, a charming and wealthy Palm Beach bachelor who is delighted to learn that his next-door neighbors have hired a beautiful tutor named Megan Smith (Joanna García).

Charles Jewtraw

Charles Jewtraw (5 May 1900 in Clinton County, New York – 26 January 1996 in Palm Beach, Florida) was an American speed skater, best known for being first recipient of a gold medal at the first Winter Olympics.

Edward Tyll

In the early 1980s, Tyll hosted a conservative talk radio program on WPBR in Palm Beach, Florida.

Electoral district of Burleigh

It also includes parts of the Gold Coast suburbs of Miami, Mermaid Beach, Varsity Lakes and Palm Beach.

Fabrice Noël

After the ordeal, in late 2002, he went to live with a former coach in Palm Beach, Florida, and enrolled in Palm Beach Lakes High School.

Frank M. Smith, Jr.

After leaving CBS, Frank became the first paid president of the National Golf Foundation, located in Palm Beach, Florida in 1982.

Frédéric Fekkai

Fekkai currently operates seven salons in the United States in key markets—three in New York City, in SoHo, the Upper East Side and Fifth Avenue as well as Los Angeles, Dallas, Greenwich, and Palm Beach—and services approximately 1,500 clients per day.

Jet Aviation

Since the mid '80s, the company bought existing FBOs in Boston/Bedford, Massachusetts, Palm Beach, Florida and added a FBO in Teterboro, New Jersey, in 1988 to serve the strategically important New York City corporate marketplace.

Justin A. Nylander

Casas to Castles is a hard cover coffee table book featuring over forty historic homes in the Mediterranean revival style throughout Florida, including magnificent seaside palaces of the rich and famous, including Donald Trump's palatial Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach.

Karina Brez

She immigrated from the Ukraine in 1989, moving to Jackson Heights, New York, and later years to Palm Beach, Florida.

MV Mercedes I

She was caught in a storm while at anchor off Palm Beach, Florida on 23 November 1984, and was driven ashore where she crashed into the seawall front of the home of Palm Beach socialite, Mollie Wilmot, who served the 12 Venezzuelan sailors caviar, finger sandwiches and freshly brewed coffee in her gazebo, offered martinis to journalists and photographers, and granted the stranded Venezuelans access to her swimming pool.

MV Patrick Morris

Built for the West India Fruit and Steamship Company by Canadian Vickers Ltd. of Montreal, Quebec in 1951, the 460-foot vessel was called the SS New Grand Haven and operated as a railcar ferry between Palm Beach, Florida and Havana, Cuba until 1959 when Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba and business declined due to the United States Trade Embargo.

Patonga, New South Wales

Patonga can be accessed by road along Patonga Drive from Umina to the north, by ferry from Palm Beach and Brooklyn, or by private watercraft.

Pegeen Vail Guggenheim

Despite a short career, Pegeen Vail Guggenheim exhibited her work in New York, Philadelphia, Paris, London, Venice, Padua, Murano, Palm Beach, Vincenzo, Stockholm, Toronto, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and at the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego.

Resort wear

Areas such as Las Vegas, Marbella, Bahamas, Palm Beach, San Juan, and the San Barth and the Mustique Islands were holiday destinations, but they are now places of year-round living for more affluent customers.

St. Thomas Aquinas Preparatory Seminary

In 2002, Bishop O'Connell, by then transferred to the see of Palm Beach, admitted that he molested at least two students in his care.

The Love Doctors

Since 1994, the charity has raised over one million dollars for children and families in the listening area (Palm Beach, Martin, St. Lucie, Indian River, and Okeechobee Counties).

William T. Pheiffer

On March 20, 1954, he was married in the fashionable Everglades Club in Palm Beach, Florida, to Frances Margaret Laacke (September 30, 1892-July 8, 1993) (She was first married to and divorced from physician Samuel G. Higgins; she then married and became the widow of Milwaukee brewer/real estate dealer George E. Uihlein).