The Time Capsule series highlights important restaurants, hotels, and attractions that have barely changed in recent years. This week we will be visiting Jakes, Jamaica.
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Early 1990s, Sally Hansel has opened a restaurant called Jakes in the middle of the fishing village of Treasure Beach on Jamaica’s southwest coast. Soon there was a small thatched bar, a few huts, and a cute pool. She has always added chic, funky, and colorful spaces (she calls it “the poem of cement”). Named after Hansel’s Aum family, Jakes served locals, backpackers, and quiet artists. Born in Jamaica to British parents and married to filmmaker Perry Henzell, Hansel came up at a young age when his father built a family-friendly cottage on Treasure Beach. became part of the hotel). Hansel, the art director of Jimmy Cliff’s husband’s film The Harder They Come, gave Jakes a bohemian, multicultural feel and a spirit of the 1960s instead of the 90s. It’s always been a guarded resort antithesis. The guests could see the fishermen taking off their boats and walking down the street to buy beer in the village shops and study dominoes.
right now
Recently, Hansel’s son Jason Hansel runs the shop. In addition to luxury villas and affordable hostels (in 2014 in honor of the original backpackers), he added another restaurant, Jacksplatt, which is popular with locals and visitors alike. Everyone meets for grilled fish, jerk chicken, lobster pizza, coconut curry octopus and lots of music and conversation. Hansel’s first room is still there, with a small bar next to the pool and the original restaurant in front of it. The main activities haven’t changed much. Guests snorkel on coral reefs, cruise the Black River, fish and bird watch in mangroves, then stop at Floyd’s Pelican Bar, a mile offshore. The new service is perfect for outdoor farm-to-table dinners, local farm tours, basketball and soccer games in sports parks. The pandemic closed parks and hotels last year, but now guests and locals are back to watch cricket and defeat Red Stripes.
Creative juice
Jamaican beauty has long been an inspiration to professional and amateur artists. Some notable figures found exciting caves here.
James Bond’s novelist Ian Fleming was a guest at his Jamaica mansion, Golden Eye, in 1964.
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Ian Fleming He came to Jamaica in the 1940s while working for the Office of Naval Intelligence, built the Golden Eye, and wrote James Bond novels Resorts from 1952 to 1964. (((goldeneye.com) …
Sir Winston Churchill In 1953 he went to Jamaica for the first time, where he enjoyed painting. He preferred the white suite (((jamaicainn.com) …
At the luxurious Round Hill Resort Oscar HammersteinThe original owner of Villa 12 wrote “The Sound of Music” in 1959 (((roundhill.com/villa12) …
1976, Alex haley I settled in Sally Hansel’s family home on Treasure Beach and finished writing Roots: American Family Saga. Treasure Cot, as the name suggests, is one of the 12 cottages and villas currently offered by Jakes. (((jakeshotel.com) …
Island time
Some important dates in Jamaica’s tourism history
In 1931, Charles Lindbergh landed the first Pan-Am clipper, the Amphibious Sikorsky S-40, in Jamaica en route from Miami to Barranquilla, Colombia. A similar model, the Caribbean Clipper, was exhibited in Miami in 1937.
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1891
Jamaica, then a British colony, is hosting an international exhibition in Kingston to promote tourism.
1931
Charles Lindbergh landed the first Pan Am Clipper in Kingston Harbor (a similar model shown here in Miami in 1937).
1953
Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller’s honeymoon in Montego Bay.
1962
Jamaica gained independence from England.
1972
The film “The Harder They Come” introduced reggae to the United States.
June 2020
Jamaica will be one of the first Caribbean countries to reopen during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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