Tiki Central / Other Events / I Dream of Jeannie Day - Cocoa Beach
Post #482111 by TikiHardBop on Tue, Sep 8, 2009 11:33 AM
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I was there and although I appreciated the break from yardwork, the event struck me as short and dry. If you are looking at doing it again next year, I would definitely look at punching it up. You definitely need to work on putting the whole event into the context of the period. I mean, have you ever watched an episode of "I Dream of Jeannie"? How completely wacky was that whole thing? And Cocoa Beach in June 1969? One of the primary reasons that NASA picked the area to base the program was that there was nothing there. And it went from a sleeply little town to the center off the universe in less than a decade. And talk about a party town! Las Vegas had nothing on Lee Caron and other nightclubs in the area. They had a sunken bar with mermaids just like the Shipwreck Bar in Ft. Lauderdale. And astronauts! And people pretending to be astronauts! Very very wild stuff. And now, less than a month from the launch of Apollo 11 and putting a man on the moon, they get a visit from Jeannie herself Barbara Eden. How exciting! So some suggestions for next year:
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