Many will be traveling this week, which makes this an ideal time to revisit the topic of travelers in the past. Another brief gallery on the subject, with images of folks coming and going; from the swanky to the middle-class looking. All from the days before air travel became the norm.
A few of these look a bit staged, true. But if I had color-coordinated luggage or a child who loved the idea of going places, I would have made sure to capture those moments.
Luggage without wheels. How did we ever cope.
Healthy people with strong biceps.
White luggage sitting on a dirt driveway!
The couple with that gorgeous black LINCOLN look that they know how to leave and Arive in STYLE. Perhaps they’re waiting for the chauffeur to load the luggage!
Those TWA carry on bags tell me they are traveling by air.
The couple reminded me of this Fred Herzog picture.
I’ll surmise they drove to Vancouver…they lost the Lincoln, and the trip didn’t end well. 🙂
Looks sorta like Mick Jagger in the 7th photo (green pants). Could just about be the lead singer of any 70’s band.
Oddball ’60 Dodge wagon in the 8th photo.
Lake Tahoe in the 8th photo ?
I like the Ronald Reagan bumper sticker – any idea what it says above his name?
“Ronald Reagan! The actor? Then who’s vice-president, Jerry Lewis? I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady!” – Doc Brown
I think the bumper sticker says:
For GOVERNOR ’66
RONALD REAGAN
I can almost make it out:
(Something) Governor (something)
RONALD REAGAN
The somethings look the same and may be artwork instead of words. Tried a quick Google image search but no luck finding a similar sticker.
That hard sided Samsonite luggage brings back good and bad memories. The good-many road trips in parents large Pontiacs and Oldsmobiles. Don’t forget the Skotch coolers.
The bad-using one of those same suitcases in my first job as a corporate auditor and traveling all over the US.
Anybody remember the Samsonite commercial where they threw a suitcase in with a gorilla and he tried to beat the crap out of it?
I do… that commercial was pretty funny. IIRC, it was out about the same time as the Hertz Rent-a-Car commercial featuring O.J. running through the airport. To relate that to today’s earlier “el Bronco” post, had the TSA existed then, they would have been chasing him. 🤣
But I think that the suitcase commercial with the gorilla was for American Tourister.
Yes! “Savage baggage masters” – LOL
I can relate to the picture with the ’68 Chrysler Newport; for our family it was an all night ride after dad got home from work … he wanted to be “on the road” by at least 6; Lake Charles, LA to south Alabama on Thanksgiving, then another trip to West Tennessee sometime around Christmas in a ’65 Newport, which incidently, has remained in our family since it was purchased nearly new in ’66. My wife and I plan to fix it up and use it to pull our classic ’63 Airstream Bambi.
Back then it was dad driving, mom falling asleep on the right, me behind dad on the left reading my road map with a penlight flashlight, sister asleep on the right with our dog in the middle. For me, the trips were more enjoyable than the visits in either location.
Now, it will be my wife and me in the front sharing the driving, with our dog and our two birds in the back, with the Airstream following closely behind to places yet to be determined … and not on a holiday … there’s way too many people on the road today.