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Mayor and Members of the City Commission:
I am requesting time for a personal appearance before
the City Commission on July 24, 1980, to request a
Commission resolution endorsing the All Hallows Eve
Celebration on McFarlane Road in Coconut Grove,October
31, 1980.
Sincerely,
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Gregg Gillingham
President, All Hallows Eve,Inc.
Phone 854-7561
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July 16, 1980
Mayor Maurice Ferre
and City Commissioners
City of Miami
--Dear Mayor and Commissioners:
The Twelfth Annual Coconut Grove Halloween Festival
wants to develop greater community interaction, cohesion,
and understanding through involvement of local, state
and regional participants (artists, craftsmen, performers),
in a four -week project (construction and preparation phase)
culminating in an annual festival and concert. We look
upon this festival as a performance of the arts. Actual
sub -projects will include, but are not limited to, street
theatre, theatrical displays, puppet shows, staging area
for players, art canvasses, floats, and a staging area
for a band.
Although we have been incorporated as a not for profit
corporation since October, 1979, the history of gathering
together artists and craftsmen who make up our organization
began in 1969 when the first mini -festival was held.
HIGHLIGHTS OF
EVENTS, DISPLAYS
YEAR
AND SPECIAL EFFECTS ATTENDANCE
1969
Theatre of the Absurd; Costume Contest
400
1970
Haunted House, Witch/cauldron, Monster
1,000
displays; magician
1971
Spook House; Costume Contest; Mechanical
1,500
skeletons; spiders/web
1972
Geodesic Dome; Day-Glo costuming;
2,500
Volcanoes; House of Mirrors
1973
Halloween Maze; Theatrical group presen-
3,000
tation, including screaming ghoulish
creatures, dancing electrical light team;
Father Time
cont'd
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Mayor Maurice Ferre
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July 16, 1980
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1974 Bi-level dancefloor with circular stair- 4,000
case, Pneumatic Dome; Live Music
1975 Forty foot Pumpkin; Cotton Candy; Live 4,000
Music; Pantomime Group
1976 Graveyard Scene; Gypsy Fortune-telling; 5-6,000
Trick Pumpkin Ride; Live Music, Black
Cave;
1977 Neon Pyramid; Star Wars Rocket Ship; 5-6,000
Apollo Players Puppet Show; Horror
Movies; Ghostly Murals; Live Music
1978 Pirate Ship and Whales Mouth Bandstands; 5-6,000
8-ft. Animated Talking Masks; Flying
Witches; 20-ft. Jolly Green Giant, Bob-
bing for Apples; Ghoulish backdrop
scenes; Apollo Players Puppet Show;
Live Music
1979 Held at Coconut Grove Exposition Hall, 7-8,000
Dinner Key Graveyard scene --creatures,
mechanical mummies rising out of coffins,
Frankenstein's Birth Place; Monster mural
area; Twenty-four (25' x 8') murals;
dungeon; cages, monsters; Linear distorter
(raced light graphic); Fortune tellingg;
Apollo Players Puppet Show; 20-ft. Hallo-
ween mural contributed by children of
Carver Elementary, Coconut Grove, 30-ft.
Spaceship Control Panel; Live Music
Thank you very much for your endorsement. I feel that
the resolution will further community development and have
lasting impact in the community.
Sincerely,
Greg Gillingham,
President
Coconut Grove Society for the
Celebration of All Hallow's Eve, Inc.
GG:rs (854-7561)
President
Stuart Sorg
1st Vice President
Joe Bardinella
2nd Vice President
Arthur Peacock
Recording Secretary
Martha O'Brien
Corresponding Secretary
Lorraine Prince
Treasurer_ .
Norman Kaplan
Board of Directors
Dick Danziger
Ursula Hughs
Fred Kleis
Jack Lowell
Spencer Meredith
Virginia Miller
Saul Rosenberg
Jan Smitt
Warren Wepman
Executive Secretary
Gladys Johnston
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Chamber of Commerce
3437 MAIN HIGHWAY
COCONUT GROVE, FLORIDA 33133
Telephone: 444.7270
July 14, 1980
Mr. Joseph Grassie
City Manager
3500 Pan American Drive
Coconut Grove, FL 33133
RE: The barricading of MacFarland Avenue
on October 31st for Halloween Party
Dear Mr. Grassie,
At a recent Board meeting of the Coconut Grove
Chamber of Commerce the proposed barricading of Mac-
Farland Avenue for the purpose of a Halloween cele-
bration was unanimously opposed by Board members.
This function, which has grown over the years and
had in the past been attended by certain Board mem-
bers, demonstrated sizeable usage of narcotics and
a great amount of alcoholic beverages.
Sealing off MacFarland Avenue would encourage
the participation of minors and it would bring to-
gether a large number of blacks and whites where
drugs and alcohol are in use and an explosive poten-
tial would exist.
This concept sets forth a precedent that could
also in the future be regretted by the city. Select
areas such as Kennedy Park would be far more conducive
if the city feels it should endorse this type of activ-
ity.
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�ry� truly yours,
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C7:'*5tuart Sorg, Tr.
President