Chapter 39
The next day, he walked the city and savored the smells of incense, cumin, cinnamon, hot peppers, eucalyptus wood, and new leather. He studied the buildings of Art-Deco and Middle-Eastern Maruesque styles. Once under the auspices of the French, Casablanca still maintained a bit of French influence that had blended over the years with the dominant Islamic and Berber cultures. Signs were written in Arabic with French and English beneath. The new city had grown around the old town center which now sported a wonderful, ethnic marketplace.