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Travel Thursday!

Here’s something really vintage for you: “Coast to Coast in 48 Hours”, featuring travel by train and Ford TriMotor from New York to LA at a blistering pace.

Bonus video #1: One of my bucket list items is to visit the highest point in each state. Or at least as many as I can: I have my doubts I will be climbing Denali at my age.

Anyway, “What is the Highest Point in Each State of the USA?” a visual tour.

Bonus video #2: I’m not quite sure I agree with the title of this video, but it has 747s and music by Windham Hill, so why not? “The World’s Best Pan Am 747 Video”.

Travel Thursday!

You know, when you travel, you have to stay somewhere. I guess you could sleep outdoors, but that’s a good way to get robbed or rousted by the po-lice.

So you need to sleep somewhere. Like a hotel or motel.

(I thought the movie was a little twee, but I do like that scene.)

From 1962, “The Great Tradition”, a promo film for the American Hotel Association.

Bonus: Another one I’m pretty sure I haven’t used (and I think I’d remember: it doesn’t turn up in a search): “Wings to Viking Land”. Really, “Viking Land”.

…a Pan Am travelogue about Scandinavia and specifically Norway, Denmark and Sweden. The flight is made aboard a Pan Am Clipper — a four engine Boeing Stratocruiser equipped with Sleeperette seats. The flight takes less than 24 hours and meals served aboard are from Maxim’s of Paris.

I kind of feel like the original Vikings were not served meals from Maxim’s of Paris, coming or going. But hey, what do I know?

Travel Thursday!

I’m 99 44/100ths percent sure I haven’t used this one before, and I feel like I’m reaching the end of the string of Pan Am videos. So…

“Wings To Europe: Grand Tour” from 1959.

… a tour of Europe in the grand style of the 20th century world. A day in each of the Grand Tour cities: Lisbon, Madrid, Rome, Florence, the French Riviera and Paris.

Bonus: ’tis the season. Let’s go skiing!

“Winter Olympic Playground 1960” is a vintage promo film for Squaw Valley, California, and the facilities there. Squaw Valley was the site of the 1960 Winter Olympics, and is about 40 miles from Reno. (The film was done by the Harrah’s Club casino in Reno: it looks like it was still there when I was there (with a slight name change), but it closed permanently in March of 2020.)

Happy New Year! And happy Travel Thursday on Friday!

I thought we’d go someplace exotic today. Namely, “The Land Called New Jersey”, a 1960s promo film from Humble Oil.

Bonus: I may be fudging the definition of “travel” a little bit, but this popped up and I couldn’t resist for two reasons. “Come Fly With Me”, a documentary (about one hour long) about the history of Pan Am. Reason #1 being: Pan Am.

Reason #2: this is narrated by the late Honor “Pussy Galore” Blackman.

(Speaking of Ms. Blackman, we actually did watch “Cockneys Vs. Zombies” (affiliate link). And…it’s not bad. I don’t think it is one of the great zombie films, but for $8 it gives you about 90 minutes of solid fun entertainment. And both Ms. Blackman and Alan “Brick Top” Ford are quite good.)

Travel Thursday!

How would you like to go to Sweden this week? I feel like I’ve done Sweden in the past, but not with…the US Army?

From 1958, “Modern Land of the Vikings”.

Bonus: As far as I can tell, I haven’t done this one before. Certainly, it doesn’t show up in a search. So let’s fix that: “Wings to Scandinavia”. The YouTube notes date this to 1962, and it covers Norway and Finland as well as Sweden. (I have done “Wings to Suomi”, which is Finland specific, before, but I think this is different enough to qualify.)