Havana '59 Exhibition and Sale at Eastern University - Opening - November 11, 2011

Presented by Eastern University, Friends of the Library, and Pennsylvania Trust to benefit the David R. Black Academic Enrichment Fund. Click here to for tickets to the November 11,2011 Grand Opening at the Bolingbroke Mansion in Radnor

Sponsers (to date)
: (click on link to view sponsors websites) Pennsylvania Trust, Corporate Dimensions, LTD., Handelok Bag Company, Edmar Abrasive Company, Franklin Mint Federal Credit Union, Newman & Saunders Galleries

Passing through Old Havana

24" x 18" Acrylic on Canvas
George H. Rothacker, 2011©

Price: $1900 (plus shipping and handling)
Prints are also available.












Please contact george@rothackeradv.com

There is no sight more Havana than the rolling stock of 1950s cars that cruise the city. Cars from the 1950s and earlier are part of Cuban life, though few are in good condition.


"We make an invention," a Cuban will tell you as he cobbles together a carburetor from East European parts. Decades after America stopped shipping parts, the cars keep running because during the 1970s and '80s, entire American cars were shipped to Moscow where the parts were copied an reproduced and shipped back to Cuba. Also, as we were told by one of our guides, "We Cubans are very good mechanics."


The export of Cuban cars is no longer permitted, so these cars of America's past are fated to cruise the streets of Havana forever.