Other Cities
Fleet Week and similar traditions in other cities include:
- Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
- Seattle, Washington includes fleet week during the annual Seafair.
- San Diego, California.
- Portland, Oregon includes fleet week as a part of its annual Portland Rose Festival.
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Famous quotes containing the word cities:
“Lord, how long?”
—Bible: Hebrew Isaiah, 6:11.
Asking how long will the chastisement of the people last. God replies, “Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, and the Lord have removed man far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.”
“We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.”
—Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)