Cruising The Past Cruise News 
In 2001, the tired-looking vessel was restored to her former glory, and now boasts a mosaic top deck pool which can be converted into a dance floor. If this yacht could talk, one can only imagine the stories it would tell about one of the most high-profile romances of the ... Read More »
Cruise and Social History: 4th of July – Beginning of the 20th Century – the Lake Michigan steamer TASHMOO…
Social History: 4th of July – Beginning of the 20th Century – Great Lakes steamers on Independence Day… the LAKE STEAMER TASHMOO… 4th of July – 1901 – Detroit, Michigan – Excursion steamers Tashmoo and Idlewild at wharves… The Tashmoo was the first ship constructed in 1900 and was launched ... Read More »
Cruise Line History – JULY 4TH – INDEPENDENCE DAY aboard ship. From “Russian Caviar” to “Kangoroo Tail Soup” on the High Seas from 1900 until 1938…
Cruise Line History – JULY 4TH – INDEPENDENCE DAY aboard ship. From “Russian Caviar” to “Kangoroo Tail Soup” on the High Seas from 1900 until 1938… Anchor Line’s SS CITY OF ROME – July 4th Menu – 1900 – Russian Caviar United States Lines SS MANHATTAN – July 4th Menu ... Read More »
MAD MEN TV Travel in the 1960s – Sailing from Los Angeles to Nassau aboard the P&O-Orient Lines liner SS ORIANA. Part One…
MAD MEN Series Travel in the 1950s and 1960s: Thanks to TravBuddy and contributor Andy99 for the following account of a voyage he made aboard the SS Oriana (P&O Orient Lines) from Los Angeles to Nassau. This voyage was one of many available during the MAD MEN TV era – ... Read More »
1950s – ON THE SUPER DOME OLYMPIAN HIAWATHA – AMERICA’S FIRST GREAT TRAIN TO BE A VICTIM OF AIR TRAVEL
A wonderful promotional film: Take a 1950’s luxury train trip from Chicago to Seattle on the “Super Dome Olympian Hiawatha”, with footage in the diner, coaches, Super Dome, sky top car, and sleepers, running along the Dells, the Mississippi, and the electrified territory in the mountains. Visits are made to many tourist ... Read More »
1940s and 1950s – The Golden Age of American Passenger Trains…
Pullman and American Passenger Trains – Social History – Photos – 1940s and 1950s – The Golden Age of American Passenger Trains… New York Central’s streamlined Mercury One of New York Central’s two class K-5a Pacifics (Nos. 4915 and 4917) that the road streamlined in 1936 for the ... Read More »
Part Two: The “Whistle Stop” Tour – LADY BIRD JOHNSON Special…
Lady Bird Johnson and hostesses aboard the Lady Bird Special. It was the fall of 1964. The November presidential election was looming as parts of the country still seethed over the Civil Rights Act President Lyndon Baines Johnson had signed into law just a few months earlier. The new legislation ... Read More »
Part One: The “Whistle Stop” Tour – President Truman’s Campaign Train…
Social History: Excellent home footage of President Truman on his campaign train “whistle-stop”… Rear of train and Sam Wah cafe during during Harry Truman’s Whistle Stop tour. Austin, Texas. – 1948 The “whistle-stop” tour has been a tradition in American politics since the mid-1800s. Politicians travelled the nation by train, ... Read More »
The Good Neighbor Fleet – Moore McCormack Lines to South America
Cruise and Liner History: Selections from the Gift of Thomas C. Ragan to the Wolfsonian Florida International University Library… ] During his March 1933 inaugural speech, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) promised Americans a New Deal, while also pledging to initiate a Good Neighbor Policy with Latin America. Departing from the ... Read More »
GHOST SHIPS – THE RMS EMPRESS OF IRELAND sank in fourteen devastating minutes, taking more lives than the Titanic and the Lusitania…
A great video on the lost liner – RMS EMPRESS OF IRELAND… Cruise and Social History: the ghost ships – RMS Titanic • RMS Lusitania • RMS Empress of Ireland Join famed “Titanic” discoverer, oceanographer and maritime geologist Robert Ballard on his last expedition to explore the ocean liners of ... Read More »