History of Cruising (2)
by peremukThat was the state of things for eight decades, as the steamship era entered its golden age, weathered two world wars, and plugged along as a vital link between the continents — the only way to get from here to there and back again. It was a time when images of glamorous ship travel made their way into the popular imagination, and everyone wanted to be out at sea with the big movie stars, taking in the sea air and the giddy, tuxedo-clad nightlife.
Between the mid-1930s and the late 1950s, many steamship (and later cruise ship) traditions were born and became entrenched: shuffleboard, bridge, Ping-Pong, onboard movies, pool games, bingo, art classes, dance lessons, singles’ parties, midnight buffets, and cocktails, cocktails, cocktails. Things were swingin’, and everyone thought it would go on forever. They were wrong. Entering the modern cruise era
In 1958, a sea change occurred when Pan Am flew the first nonstop jet flight from New York to Paris. In the blink of an eye, passenger liners went from being the only game in town to being a slowpoke anachronism.
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