The Writing's On The Wall

A strong tradition in Miami of murals and commercial wall paintings: This one by the artist Lazaro Amaral was commissioned by a Cuban restaurant owned by Gloria Estefan and her husband Emilio.
This painting is gone now, has been painted over, but here's another wall painting, this one in Miami's Little Havana:


















Next is a painted storefront in Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood:














Finally, a grand and nostalgic mural in Miami's Little Havana idealizes the glamorous and long-gone highlife in Varadero, said to be Cuba's most beautiful beach. The mural is -- or was -- just off Calle Ocho (Eighth Street), Little Havana's Main Street. But this wall painting was fading badly the last time I saw it, and it's probably painted over and gone now, as gone as those aristocratic days in Varadero.