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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 Sandy Cove, Nova Scotia, some large passenger ships, some of coastal Canada ... Read More »
The RMS QUEEN OF BERMUDA – One of the great mid-century cruise liners…
The RMS Queen of Bermuda docked in Hamilton, Bermuda – 1950s. One of the most beautiful cruise ships of all times. The Furness Line vessel was designed for cruising to Bermuda in the style of a great liner and lasted until 1966. Read More »
REVIEW: AZAMARA CLUB CRUISES and THE AZAMARA JOURNEY – Carrying on a tradition from Cruising the Past when getting there was half the fun!
We are proud to give Azamara Club Cruises a strong recommendation. Azamara follows in the tradition of great yacht like ships such as the elegant Stella Polaris. Considered the most beautiful cruise-ship of her time, she is seen at night in Stockholm, Sweden – mid 1950s. Cruising The Past reviews and recommends cruise-ships ... Read More »
CRUISING THE PAST NEW VIDEOS – Sailing to Alaska in the 1950s…
Our new video of a 1954 sailing aboard the SS ALASKA on a cruise to Alaska and the Inside Passage. 1954 ALASKA CRUISE from CRUISINGTHEPAST.COM on Vimeo. 1954 ALASKA CRUISE – a retro 50s look at a style of cruising and travel now vanished. Video Includes: Views of the ship ... Read More »
The Night Boats – Eastern Steamship Lines…
Eastern Steamship Lines was one of the last American flag coastal passenger services. The steamship Calvin Austin pulls away from the Eastern Steamship Company wharf in Lubec. Pope’s Folly island appears in the immediate background. Austin was President of the Eastern Steamship Company, formed in 1901 by a merger of ... Read More »
The 20th Cenutry Limited in the 1930s and Kim Novak in the 1950s…
A promotional film made in 1935 by the New York Central Lines. Features a journey on the 20th Century Limited, once America’s premier train. The New York-Chicago market was the premier intercity passenger service for Eastern railroading and the New York Central’s 20th Century Limited competed with rival Pennsylvania Railroad ... Read More »
Looking back at PAN AM – History of Pan American World Airways…
Wonderful video – History of Pan American World Airways. Documentary telling the story of how Pan American World Airways kick-started the jet-age and shrank the globe. Real-life ‘Pan Am girls’ recall a high-life of luxury and glamor; rubbing shoulders with celebrity passengers, international romances and having to wear the now ... Read More »
NEVER TOO OLD TO FALL IN LOVE – 1930s British Newsreel of the oldest people in the world at that time…
SOCIAL HISTORY: Wonderful 1930s British Newsreel footage of the oldest people in the world at that time. They smoke, drink and don’t take endless pills or face a barrage of fitness nonsense. Read More »
FREIGHTER TRAVEL IN THE 1950s and 1960s…
Johnson Line’s Silver Gate sails out of Vancouver for Europe via the west coast and Panama Canal in the 1950s… Prior to JET air travel in the late 1950s and 1960s, travel by cargo ship was commonplace. For those seeking privacy and wanting to avoid the large ocean liners and ... Read More »
THE SS MARIPOSA’S LAST CRUISE in 1977…
Cruise and liner history: Matson Lines and the Pacific Far East Lines. The SS Mariposa on a South Pacific cruise in the 1960s. Great video aboard one of the last American flag cruise and passengers ships crossing the Equator. When class and style were king. The elegant all first class liner ... Read More »