AMERICAN SOCIAL HISTORY
DECLINE AND FALL OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES – FROM THE CHANDLER FAMILY TO SAM ZELL
Thursday, June 24th, 2010SOCIAL HISTORY: THE LOS ANGELES TIMES – FROM THE CHANDLER FAMILY TO SAM ZELL – THE DECLINE AND FALL OF A GREAT NEWSPAPER IN THE CITY OF THE ANGELS UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF A “FOREIGNER” FROM OBAMA’S CHICAGO…
NORMAN CHANDLER (THE FAMILY THAT FOUNDED THE LOS ANGELES TIMES) ON THE COVER LIFE – WHEN THE LA [...]
Cruise Line History and Social History– PANAMA PACIFIC LINES finished – New York to California via Havana and the Panama Canal – From 1938 TIME MAGAZINE
Saturday, June 19th, 2010Many American flag steamship lines — APL, Matson, Moore-McCormick, Grace, etc. — faced a similar fate as Panama Pacific Lines did when the US withdrew their mail and operating subsidies to carry military personnel in the 1960s. The same fate happened to the American railway system in the late 1960s when the US withdrew railway [...]
1954 VIDEO CRUISE TO ALASKA – During the last year of the Alaska Steamship Company’s Passenger Operation.
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010alaska steamship company, ss alaska, inside passage, retro look at cruising, ships and the sea, passenger cruises, videos, cruise history
SS United States sails to the West Indies during the 1960s.
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009Cruise Ship History and Cruising The Past. More steamship history with a video cruise aboard the SS United States. In 1964, former SS United States purser Jim Green returned to the ship as a passenger for a West Indies cruise along with his beloved wife Frieda. Here, set to the music of the [...]
When ships had passenger lists.
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009Cruise History: Looking back at passenger lists – “the bible” of travelers aboard the great liners and cruise ships.
Passenger lists were given to all those booked aboard liners and cruise ships up until the 1970s.
From Cunard to the French Line, the Lurline to the Queen Mary – these were an important source of information regarding [...]
SS UNITED STATES is up for sale and could end up as scrap metal. Will the QE 2 be next?
Monday, February 16th, 2009The great ocean liner SS United States docked next to Ikea in Philadelphia has been put up for sale. A preservation group for the mothballed ocean liner fears a buyer could end up using it as scrap metal. Steven Ujifusa, who was a volunteer production assistant for the above video, published a story on Plan [...]
President Barak Obama’s election is partly due to the thousands of Pullman Porters who organized a union 84 years ago under the leadership of A. Philip Randolph.
Monday, January 19th, 2009President Barak Obama’s election as the first African-American in the White House happened because of the struggle for unionization by A. Philip Randolph and the members of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
Randolph and the porters worked together to fight many battles and they won many victories for African-American people.
They demonstrated and personified the meaning [...]