Archive for June, 2009
Book Signing in Los Angeles – Los Angeles Steamship Company – Interview with author about a cruise line the LA Times Chandler family helped start.
Sunday, June 28th, 2009Cruise Line History – Harry Chandler built the Los Angeles Times into arguably the most powerful and successful newspaper on the West Coast. He also was instrumental in starting the Los Angeles Steamship Company in the 1920s to rival San Francisco’s Matson Lines. A wonderful new book tells the story.
Los Angeles photographer Martin Cox [...]
The Lurline “was” Hawaii!
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009Maston Line’s SS LURLINE was advertised as: “The Lurline is Hawaii!”
SS Lurline was the third Matson vessel to hold that name and the last of four fast and luxurious ocean liners that Matson built for the Hawaii and Australasia runs from the West Coast of the United States. Lurline‘s sister ships were SS Malolo, SS Mariposa and [...]
Just a long weekend away – Aboard the SS United States or SS America
Sunday, June 14th, 2009Cruising the past. Just a long weekend away – Aboard the SS United States or SS America – During the heyday of trans-Atlantic travel in the 1950s – before the Jet made “getting there” what it is today! A living nightmare.
The Legendary Super Chief, Flagship Of The Santa Fe – Train of the Stars!
Saturday, June 13th, 2009Cruising The Past welcomes you aboard the legendary Santa Fe Super Chief – the train of the stars. Extra Fare – All Pullman Streamliner.
She came on the Super Chief.
One reason that the Santa Fe became such a famous railroad was because of its flagship passenger train, the Super Chief (and, the railroad also claimed [...]
ALASKA CRUISE VIDEO – 1954 – $9.00 PER DAY
Thursday, June 11th, 20091954 ALASKA CRUISE from CRUISINGTHEPAST.COM on Vimeo.
ALASKA CRUISE – 1954 – $9.00 PER DAY. Cruising The Past presents an historical video of a 1954 sailing aboard the SS ALASKA on a cruise to Alaska and the Inside Passage. A retro 50s look at a style of cruising and travel now vanished. Views of the [...]
SS France Eastbound – SS Liberte Westbound
Thursday, June 11th, 2009Cruising The Past takes you aboard the SS France and SS Liberte. Great cruise ship history – with videos of the French Line ships. 1950s trans-Atlantic glory. When going by ship was a joy – with class and grace. Enjoy these gorgeous full color home movies shot by a lucky couple who traveled on the [...]
Website of the Month: Maritime Matters
Saturday, June 6th, 2009Website of the Month: Maritime Matters
Martin Cox presents a terrific website. Cruising The Past is pleased to feature it as a our website of the month. Martin covers maritime history along with contemporary cruising. You will read about… Cruise ships, ocean liners, cruise ship news, shipping news, live blogs from onboard cruise ships and thousands [...]
Cruise History – The Last survivor of “unsinkable” Titanic dies at 97.
Monday, June 1st, 2009Cruise History – The Last survivor of “unsinkable” RMS Titanic dies at 97.
Millvina Dean was the youngest passenger on RMS Titanic, just nine weeks old when she was wrapped in a sack and lowered from the sinking ship into a lifeboat bobbing on the frigid North Atlantic.
Dean lived to become the disaster’s last survivor. She [...]