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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 »
SS CATALINA – the “Great White Steamer” – Sails Again from Los Angeles to Catalina Island…
The S.S. Catalina, also known as The Great White Steamer, was among several steamships that provided passenger service from Los Angeles to Catalina Island. Built at a cost of $1 million for William Wrigley, Jr., the 301-foot steamship carried approximately 25 million passengers to and from Catalina from 1924 through ... Read More »
S.S. PRINCESS PATRICIA and the FIRST LOVE BOAT…
S.S. Princess Patricia on her first Princess Cruise – docked in Vancouver – heading south to Los Angeles. Exploring the origin of Princess Cruises and naming the “Princess” ships. Where did the name of each of their “Love Boat” cruise ships originate? Princess Cruises and the SS Princess Patricia was the ... Read More »
CITY OF LOS ANGELES – Rock Hudson aboard the other “Train to the Stars…”
Film star Rock Hudson arrives at Chicago’s Union Station in 1959 aboard Union Pacific’s streamliner City of Los Angeles on a two night trip from California. The Santa Fe’s Super Chief was known as the Train to the Stars. But many celebrities preferred Union Pacific’s City of Los Angeles and Southern ... Read More »
Paddle Steamer Waverley, built almost 70 years ago, is the world’s last sea-going paddle steamer…
Paddle Steamer Waverley, built almost 70 years ago, is the world’s last sea-going paddle steamer. In 1975, at the end of her working life, she was famously bought for £1 by the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society. Waverley Steam Navigation Co. Ltd, a charity registered in Scotland, was set up to ... Read More »