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Article: Paradise Island Lives Up To Name
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 21, 1993
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PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas In 1960, multimillionaire Huntington
Hartford, a grandson to the founder of the Great Atlantic & Pacific
Tea Co., bought a winter place in the Bahamas and promptly petitioned
the government to change its name to Paradise.
Hartford didn't need to be a genius to realize it would have
been tough to conceive of Shangri-La on a piece of real estate called
Hog Island. Imagine the Hog Island Golf Club. The Hog Island Food
Mart & Deli. A beach resort called Hog Hog.
Fortunately for developers, Paradise stuck. And today there are
10 hotels and a busy casino on this little luxurious corner of
paradise. The island's sensational Cabbage Beach, a swatch of
sugar-soft sand and ...