The cover of this 1938 brochure illustrates Zion, Bryce, and the Grand Canyon in colors that in one sense are unrealistic yet in another sense are perfectly accurate for such a varied country. As page two of the brochure says, … Continue reading
In addition to several Union Pacific timetables, Streamliner Memories reader Tim Zukas scanned this seven-panel brochure listing summer fares for 1928. The fares are about (and some exactly) 5 percent greater than they were in 1925. Click image to download … Continue reading
After World War II, Canadian Pacific resumed its West Indies and Mediterranean cruises from New York but not its world or South America-Africa cruises. The earliest cruises documents in the Chung collection are from 1953, but it seems likely that … Continue reading
As noted yesterday, Canadian Pacific doesn’t seem to have held a Mediterranean from New York in 1939, probably due to European troubles. Instead, the company offered a summer cruise of major North American destinations, including Cuba, Panama, Mexico, Hawaii, and … Continue reading
Unlike the booklets advertising the world cruises, the 1930s West Indies cruise booklets we’ve seen didn’t have lavish paintings on their covers. However, the Mediterranean cruise booklets are more impressive. This may be because the West Indies cruises were short, … Continue reading
As I have mentioned previously, the addition of the second Empress of Britain to Canadian Pacific’s ocean liner fleet in 1931 was a momentous enough occasion that I am using that year to divide the 1920s from the 1930s. The … Continue reading
In early 1938, Canadian Pacific thought that it could do a standard world cruise in 1939. But in July, increasing hostilities between Japan and the Soviet Union, as well as continuing troubles in China, led CP to revise the itinerary. … Continue reading
Canadian Pacific’s 1938 world cruise was also its last true round-the-world cruise. It was 128 days long, three days longer than in 1937. Hilo and Havana were still off the itinerary, as in 1937, but the stay in Los Angeles … Continue reading
For 1937, Canadian Pacific cut the length of the cruise from 130 to 125 days. It deleted stops in Hilo, Hawaii, and Havana, Cuba, and reduced the length of the stay in Los Angeles from one-and-a-half days to just one … Continue reading
Canadian Pacific’s 1936 world cruise was little changed from the previous couple of years. Leaving January 9 aboard the Empress of Britain, the cruise visited 31 ports in 130 days. Click image to view and download a 64.0-MB PDF of … Continue reading
