Cruising The Past Cruise News 
Cruise History – The Old Fall River Line – Everyone from presidents to swindlers sailed the Sound on “Mammoth Palace Steamers” in the heyday of the side wheelers and night boats. The Fall River Line was a combination steamboat and railroad connection between New York City and Boston that operated ... Read More »
1937 CRUISE – NEW YORK TO NOVA SCOTIA ABOARD EASTERN STEAMSHIP COMPANY
1937 CRUISE – NEW YORK TO NOVA SCOTIA ABOARD EASTERN STEAMSHIP COMPANY 1937 CRUISE – NEW YORK TO NOVA SCOTIA ABOARD EASTERN STEAMSHIP COMPANY From Youtube: home movies, a trip to Nova Scotia leaving from Pier 18 in NYC. (Some notes indicate it may be 1937.) We see Yarmouth and ... Read More »
RMS CARONIA – The most famous liner in cruising history… she was the “millionaires yacht”! Cunard Line History…
Famous comedian Oliver Hardy (Laurel and Hardy) is interviewed abroad Cunard Line’s RMS Caronia on a TV show in 1950. He is sailing with his wife from New York to Europe. They departed on June 10, 1950. Hardy was joining partner, Stan Laurel, to make a new film in ... Read More »
GREAT LINERS – The wonderful memories…
Cruise Ship History – The great ocean liners are now just memories on films. From Cunard Line to the French Line these great youTUBE videos from newsreel footage and home movies keep the memories alive! Read More »
HOLLAND AMERICA LINE – in the late 1930s
Experience the Holland America Liner Volendam through color home movies shot aboard a crossing in 1937. Bon Voyage! The SS VOLENDAM… For more great cruise videos check out: www.shipgeek.com. Read More »
Harry Chandler’s LASSCO… The Los Angeles Steamship Company and the Los Angeles Times connection…
A 10-piece orchestra of elementary students serenades Times Publisher Harry Chandler. The students also visited Mayor Frank Shaw and school Supt. Frank A. Bouelle. 1936. The LA Times Harry Chandler and competitor William Randolph Hearst in 1930. Cruise History: Great book published by the Steamship Historical Society of America ... Read More »
THE LAST AMERICAN FLAG first class passenger-cargo liners… The Grace Line…
The last of American flag passengers ships… A home video of a trip aboard the “SS Santa Maria” taken in 1983. This was one of four cargo-passenger ships built by the Grace Line in 1964 and operated by Delta Lines in the 1970s and early 1980s. These ships were often ... Read More »
THE GATEWAY TO THE SUNSET STRIP…
From the infamous GARDEN OF ALLAH to the mid-century iconic architectural gem LYTTON CENTER to a proposed 20-STORY APARTMENT PROJECT to be built on a major earthquake fault according to experts at CAL TECH… The Garden of Allah was once Hollywood’s most famous – or perhaps infamous – hotel during ... Read More »
LOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY – SOCIAL HISTORY – THE SUPER CHIEF – THE STARS AND PASADENA… GATEWAY TO HOLLYWOOD…
The Santa Fe Station in Pasadena is now La Grande Orange Café. This was the depot’s main waiting room. Click here to visit the La Grande Orange Café website. The depot’s waiting room just after it closed as the Santa Fe/Amtrak Station. The orignal Santa Fe Station in Pasadena. The ... Read More »
1934: SS MORRO CASTLE… Luxury LIner from New York to Havana… A cruise that ended in disaster.
“El Desastre del Morro Castle” by Leopoldo González interpreted by Trio Matamoros. When the Morro Castle departed Havana for the final time on September 5th 1934, she carried aboard her 318 passengers and a crew of 231. On September 7th, as the voyage drew near to its conclusion, the series ... Read More »