On Curacao, Queen Emma is a real swinger

Chicago Sun-Times | January 24, 1988| | Copyright

WILLEMSTAD, Curacao On the Caribbean isle of Curacao, Her Highness is a real swinger. Crowned Queen Emma in 1888, this centenarian never sleeps, serving her subjects by land and by sea day and night.

She's a pretty gal, under her arches of white lights spanning two waterfronts. Busy, too, swinging open to harbor traffic some 30 times a day. When she's closed, pedestrians scramble across her floating walkway to get from either side to the other of Curacao's capital, Willemstad.

Queen Emma is a pontoon bridge, a beloved attraction in Curacao. At night, she twinkles on Santa Anna Bay like ...

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