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Those were the days...

MCD

(Time for something on the light side!) My first international trip was to Canada, but my first trip abroad was a summer study tour to the USSR in 1969. We began our trip in London and took a Soviet ship, the TS Estonia, to Leningrad, stopping in Copenhagen and Helsinki along the way. Many of our group has stayed in touch over the years. One of my fellow travelers just posted a link to a video about the development of the Soviet tourist industry that included clips of the Estonia. The video panned a page of ads for tourism in the New York Times in the 1930s, and I paused it when I saw the attached ad:

Comments

British

wow, awesome! Thank you

AlanS

They probably have it in their archives, but just in case I would send to Tauck HQ!!

Check out those prices!!

kfnknfzk

What a treasure! Thanks for sharing.

SandyFeet

Love the history in that newspaper!. My first international trip was to Italy with my art history prof and a group of fellow students. I had worked all summer as a waitress to pay the freight for a month away which included round trip air and all room and board. My hand was shaking when I wrote the check because I had never written a check that large. The year was 1970. The check was for $650.00.

BKMD

Was there a guy beating a drum to synchronize the rowers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46LVYr3Q784

Kathy M

Another light-hearted comment. After we got married in 1975, we bought a new car and wrote a check for over $3,000. For a number of years my husband always kidded me about the purchase. He contended that I thought that bank accounts only went one way. You deposited the money and never took anything out. He was wrong but when you think of it, this was as much as a year of college including room and board cost back then!

MCD

I often dragged my young children on my errands, including trips to the bank to withdraw funds from the ATM. At some point, my husband was taking the children while he did errands, including depositing his pay check into our bank account. My son, completely confused, asked him, "You mean you can put money INTO the bank, too??"

OurTravels34

Entirely on another note… in the mid 1990’s I was showing my daughter a record to play on an old phonograph and her reply was “that’s the biggest CD I’ve ever seen”.