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Show Fly to Pacific Grove Yearning for the good old days? by Jerry Ilnlse Los Angeles Times Writer MIHiyt MClUMS ivsarvMtMO in 1 NKI. BEEHIVE GOES TO HAWAII EVERY ONI INtTlAl 1 GLORIOUS DAYS TROM SALT LAKE CITY AND BACK air Sait Laxe Jt and ratum MON. AND THURS. DOUBLE OCCUPANCY $699 PLUS Lahans Cnj'se to Fern Valley Grotto TOUR 1 - KAUAI OAHU All pomls o interest Compar our Raw ax tUnarary bator you buyl Visit Mexico City, Ixtapan, Taxco, Acapulco Tour Departures: November 9 to September 14 to 22 Double Occupancy T 569 mm. ffnrmt? Oct. 1 1 Nov. 12, 1978 SPEND 23 DAYS VISITING: -- Tokyo Beppu g e VISIT 4 ISLANDS HAWAII Hik Voicano Nt Park Kona Meui-ia- o TAX PACIFIC GROVE, Calif. Yearning for the good street dances and contests, church socials and bazaars, and all that old down-homfeeling? Well, spread your wings and txxik a flight to Pacific Grove, touted by the community's 11,000 locals as Butterfly Town, U.S.A. Beginning next month, millions of orange and black monarch.x will swarm into Pacific Grove, their winter habitat at the tip of California's Monterey Peninsula Just as the swallows keep coming back to Capistrano, the monarchs return regularly to this seaside sanctuary. By late March theyll take flight again In the interim. Pacific Grove will flap its own w mgs, telling the world about this annual migration. leading off will Ik the annual Butterfly Parade on Oct. 14. Streets will be roped off for the community holiday. Thousands will line the sidewalks. But the spotlight wont shine on the monarchs. Instead, it will be beamed on 1.500 grade-schoyoungsters dressed up as butterflies. old days First Class Hotels Tours and Sightseeing Let Greeting Fully Escorted Eight Meals 599 ? TOUR City Kyoto Hong Kong Taipei Singapore Penang Bangkok Join this fully escorted tour and enjoy the most exciting visits of the Far East From Salt Lake City Pe ' person do ible occupancy Space is limited so send in your $100 deposit today LIKE THE magical return of the monarchs themselves, the youngsters will swarm down Lighthouse Avenue accompanied by drum majors and majorettes and the rollicking beat of school bands. When the small fry pull in their wings, the entire town will do an about-face- , marching off to a carnival and bazaar hosted by the PTA. Its the sort of gixxlness that disappeared with elbow garters and bowlers. The gixxi ladies of the PTA will sell snow cones, homemade cookies, cakes and pies to the tune of carnival music and nearly forgotten oompah offerhigh-steppin- g ings. And woe to the interloper who would molest a monarch. Linder a city ordinance, it's a $500 pinch for netting a butterfly. As far back as anyone can remember, the monarch has wintered in Pacific Grove. Some fly hundreds of miles to this homey seaside town only five minutes from the tumult of Montereys Cannery the graceful Row, settling in the same trees cypress, the eucalyptus and the Monterey pine. NONE SEEN this season ever will return again, for the life of a monarch spans less than a year. The how the progenies mystery confounds scientists that follow next year coming from as far away as find Pacific Grove to nest in these same Alaska trees. Trees behind Milars Grove Motel are festooned with monarchs. Its a favorite napping area, with signs cautioning: Do not talk under trees. AGAIN BEEHIVE PRESENTS THEIR GREAT CARIBBEAN CRUISE PROGRAM WITH WEEKLY DEPARTURES FROM 22, 1978 through April 6, 1979, ON THE BEAUTIFUL AMERIKANIS (AMERICAN Dmlr LADY) Price from Salt Lake City From $789 o special Thanksgiving Cruiso departing November 18, 1978 aboard the fabulous MS World Plus Renaissance. Magazi Home $900 Price from Salt Lake City From Those cruises are very popular and space is limited so choose your departure date and send in a $100 per person deposit to assure your cabin choice. What a way to escape a week of winter) Prices based on double occupancy. CHARTER TOUR TO THE HOLYLAND October to 25, 1978 1 1 ISRAEL IN DEPTH SEE days TO THE THRILL HOLY AND HISTORICAL PLACES OF WAITING FOR THE AIRLINES TO ANSWER PHONEST IF SO, CALL BEEHIVE 487-173- 1 FOR YOUR TICKETS. TIRED THEIR Lake Salt WARNING: Ask us for Taking a Beehive Tour may be habit forming. BIBLE 15 SIGHT OF THE AS THEY BRING THE TO LIFE FOR YOU $1000 I f perPerson double occupancy ASK US FOR DETAILED BROCHURE HURRY1 Space limited detoned brochure of any Beehive Tour. The II eluvr ibnrs a travel 1325 So. Moin, Suite B, Salt lake City, Utah Phone 487-173- 1 84115 f .Beolim loursSalt alaketravel Utah So. Ma in. Suite B, Phone 487-173- 1 City, 841 IS Besides Milars, Pacific Grove visitors book rooms at Borgs Oceanfront Motel. And 16 nitty are each with a kitchen and fireplace cottages up for grabs at Andrils woodsy, piney encampment with its hollyhocks and daisies (rates from $28 single, $10 double). Put the real grahlxT is the Gosby House Inn on Lighthouse Avenue. Even in New England, which is famous for its splendid old homes, the Gosby would be smashing in any neighborhood. AFTER A $100,000 renovation job, young Bill Patterson opened the Gosby House Inn to wayfarers last February. With a parlor resembling an old - Rockwell painting, this magnificent 100Victorian provides a dozen dreamy rooms with rates ranging from $18 to $.12, single or double. Ruffled curtains flutter at the windows, and bathrooms are authentically antiqued with brass fixtures and porcelain. Nineteenth-centurprints cover the walls and classical recordings six it he the nerves. It is grand without being garish. And without exaggeration, its high on the list of the nations most tastefully restored Victorians. Before someone asks, here is the address: 642 Lighthouse Ave., Pacific Grove, Calif. 92050. As for the butterflies, a st; tie in their honor stands only a few blocks from Gosby House at Lover's Point. Here, David Bindel operates a most romantic restaurant known by a most unromantie name, the Old Bath House. Indeed, it is the site of a e bathhouse that served early residents of Pacific Grove. As Bindel tells it. he has tried to capture the romantic feeling of the '20s with the liberal use of rich woods and etched glass. Norman ear-ol- y one-tim- ARE served in a Victorian bar. an antique expresso machine turns out after-dinne- r cups of bubbling mud. Candlelight and flowers enhance tables next to windows facing a lovely cove, while taped melodies add to the atmosphere. classical and romantic The Old Bath House is a place for holding hands and filling the soul with scenes of the sea. Along the seashore, couples stroll arm in arm. Doves cry and a chill wind whips petals from geraniums. Pacific Grove is a funky little town with great charm and the peacefulness of another time. Salty cottages line its shores, and besides the big o over butterflies, other celebrations take place during the COCKTAILS where to-d- year, too. In summertime, crowds turn out for the Festival of Lanterns, the legendary search by a mandarin for a daughter who fled with her lover. Everybody loves a love story, so hundreds line the shore with lighted Oriental lanterns while a flotilla of boats rocks by under a shower of blazing fireworks. |