Cruising The Past Cruise News

Male car hops at fabulous Delores Drive-In. Located in Westwood, California. Lasted into the 1980s. Cars, cars and more cars! They just seem to keep coming in, nonstop. The summer weather is warm, especially warm for evening. The car hops are busily skating around the parking lot delivering sizzling hot ... Read More »

USA TV viewers are stuck with PBS and supposedly can’t see this series until 2015…  To solve this problem, I connected with by cousin in London. She turned the “telly” toward Skype and I watched the British soap opera premiere… The aristocratic Crawley clan are back – and it’s all going on upstairs, ... Read More »

Greta Garbo is arguably one of Hollywood’s greatest stars. A legendary actress who combined remarkable beauty with a modern spirit and irresistible allure. Garbo remains one of the most fascinating women in history. (Above photo – Garbo arriving in New York and sailing to Sweden) Rare candid moment of Greta ... Read More »

The most famous cruise-ship all times. From the 1930s, during World War 2, and into the 1980s. The ship was considered one of the most elegant and exclusive devoted to cruising. She sailed to the Mediterranean, North Cape, Caribbean and Around The World. She had no rivals. On the World ... Read More »

Southern Pacific’s OAKLAND PIER in the 1950s… The Oakland Long Wharf, later known as the Oakland Pier or the SP Mole was a massive railroad wharf and ferry pier in Oakland, California located at the foot of Seventh Street. Ferry approaches San Francisco in 1941. The recently completed San Francisco-Oakland Bay ... Read More »

Crossing the Equator on one of the great Moore McCormack Line ships following World War 2. History of this great company… On the 9th July 1913 Messrs. McCormack and Moore (both just shy of 33 years of age) formed Moore & McCormack Company, Incorporated, to charter ships, then to own them.  ... Read More »

In “It Happened One Night,” The Reverend Father Neal Dodd is just being himself as he prepares to officiate at Claudette Colbert’s garden wedding – even though Colbert jilts her fiance at the altar to run away with Clark Gable. Dodd was play-acting in the 1934 film, as he did ... Read More »

Try to imagine the United States of America at the end of the second World War, the American People helped make the world safe from the threats of the “isms.” SS United States sails past the Statue of Liberty…  Now imagine a new, sparkling, symbol of our great Nation plying ... Read More »

The P&O (Peninsular & Occidental) Steamship Company owned this long-serving liner and operated her from SS Florida throughout her 37-year career, except for 4 years in World War II. Originally the SS Florida connected Tampa, Key West and Havana. In 1934 service was transferred to a Miami-Havana route; in 1954 ... Read More »

The shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner completed its final journey, reaching Genoa on Sunday where it will be scrapped. The ship before the negligent disaster by Costa Lines and Carnival Cruises.   The nightmare cruise. If this happened in an open sea – thousands more than the TITANIC would die. Cruise-ships ... Read More »