Mount McKinley (AGC 7) - Naval Cruise Book

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THE HEATHER NAS IDEAL DURING OUR VISIT TO THE FRENCH RIVIERA, MAY 2-5. WE HAD BEEN OPERATING AT SEA FOR 5 DAYS PRIOR TO OUR ARRIVAL AT CANNES, FRANCE. BIKINIS NERE IN VIEN ON THE BOARDHALK BEACH AREA IN CANNES, NICE AND AT THE BEACH CLOSE TO GOLFE JUAN. THE PERMANENT POPULATION IN CANNES IS L9,000 ........... THIS IS OFTEN SUPPLEEENTED BY THE AMERICAN SAILOR WHO IS MOST WELCOME IN THE RESORT AREAS. THE RIVIERA HAS BEEN ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST REKNONNED RESORTS FOR OVER A CENTURY. ,-

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IN THE CITADEL ON ANOTHER OF THEIR ISLANDS, THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK WAS CONFINED FROM 1687 TO 1698, CSTE. MARGUERITED. THE OLDEST PART OF CANNES IS THE ISOLATED ROCK CALLED MONT CHEVALIER5 HERE THE MONKS ERECT- ED THE ELEVENTH CENTURY TONER NON USED AS AN OBSERVATORY. UNTIL 183A CANNES REMAINED A HUM LE FISHING VILLAGE. IN THAT YEAR A PLAGUE OF CHOLERA THREATENED NICE AND CAUSED THE MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES TO FORBID EAST-BOUND TRAVELERS TO CROSS THE RIVER VAR. ONE OF THOSE WHO TURNED BACK TONARD CANNES NAS AN ENGLISHMAN, LORD BROUGHAM, WHO FOUND THE AREA SO ATTRACTIVE THAT HE SETTLED THERE AND INDUCED MANY OF HIS FRIENDS TO DO SO. FROM THIS BEGINNING AS A RESORT, IT HAS BECOME A FAV- ORITE NITH THE NORLD'S ARISTOCRACY5 THEIR SUMPTUOUS VILLAS AND GARDENS DOT THE SHORE AND THE SURROUNDING HILLS. FASHIONABLE HOTELS, CLUBS, RESTAURANTS, AND SHOPS HAVE SPRUNG UP UNTIL THE VILLAGE OF IOO YEARS AGO IS NOW ONE OF THE MOST GLITTERING AND SOPHISTICATED PLAYGROUNDS ON ANY CONTINENT. . g,.........,

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AWAY FROM THE BEACH AREA, CANNES HAS MANY BEAUTIFUL PARKS WITH TALL SHADE TREES AND BEAUTIFUL GARDENS. FWF A THE RIVIERA IS A REFINED AND SOPHISTICATED PLAYGROUND .... BUT ITS POPULOUS MAKES EVERYONE FEEL AT HOM ON THE RIVIERA. THE FRENCH CURRENCY.....MONETARY UNIT WAS THE FRANC. THE OFFICIAL RATE OF EXCHANGE NAS APPROXIMATELY A FRANCS TO ONE U. S. DOLLAR.