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North America » United States » New York » New York » Queens July 29th 1968

1968 LAGEOS Africa Tour Group

The 1968 Los Angeles Geographical Society trip to Africa began with a TWA transcontinental flight from Los Angeles to New York. This was the heyday of TWA's "Foreign Accent" service wherein flight attendants wore all sorts of exotic getup with a supposed foreign theme. Our were outfitted in gold lame minidresses, a French accent. It was also the heyday of JFK Airport as the dominant gateway for overseas airline traffic to and from the USA. Many airlines had built monumental terminals at JFK. We arrived at the TWA Flight Center (Terminal 5) and transferred to the Pan American Worldport (Terminal 3). Pan Am flight 150 left New York at 5:00 p.m. for West Africa destinations. Our first stop was to be Abidjan. The DC-8 made intermediate stops at Dakar and Monrovia. I recall at Senegal an ... read more

Hudson Valley

North America » United States » New York » Hyde Park July 24th 1965

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AndrewHL

Monday was a day for a Gray Line motor coach tour north from New York City along the Hudson River valley. We stopped at West Point to see the United States Military Academy and at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park. A lunch stop was made in Poughkeepsie, NY.... read more

Manhattan

North America » United States » New York » New York » Manhattan July 23rd 1965

Liberty Island

AndrewHL

The day after our visit to the World’s Fair, my mother and I took a morning Gray Line motor coach sightseeing tour of Manhattan. This was my first visit to New York City. The tour bus took us around Manhattan, stopping by the United Nations Building and Lincoln Center, passing through Times Square, and then driving along Central Park to Harlem. Later, we went up the Empire State Building for a view from the observation deck and made a trip out to Liberty Island to see the Statue of Liberty up close. Our hotel was the Park-Sheraton Hotel, near Times Square, an imposing brick edifice from the 1920s that looked like my conception of a big city hotel. We had tickets one evening for the musical Funny Girl at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway. Barbara ... read more

The New York World's Fair

North America » United States » New York » New York » Queens July 22nd 1965

Unisphere

AndrewHL

The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair was a major travel attraction in the mid-1960s. The fair's optimistic theme was "Peace Through Understanding" with a further dedication to Man's Achievements on a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe." There were many international pavilions to visit, though the majority of exhibitors were US industrial corporations. The industrial exhibits all showed what consumer wonders were just around the corner. Accordingly, Westinghouse sponsored a Time Capsule II in parallel with its Time Capsule from 1939-1940. We took the New York Subway out to the Flushing Meadows fairgrounds in Queens. The subway ride was every bit as exciting as the fair! My mother had been to the previous New York World's Fair in 1940. The symbolic Unisphere, built by US Steel, stood in the same fountain as the prior fair's Trilon ... read more

Around the World - Take Three

North America » United States » New York » Nyack June 6th 1964

Judy at Byblos

Home and Away

Following the spring semester at Dalat it was time to go back to the States for a year furlough. This would be our third time around the world, but by commercial jet (Boeing 707’s or DC-8s) this time. We flew from Bangkok to Beirut, Lebanon, which was before their civil war. The city was similar to any wealthy touristy city along the French Riviera. We took a day trip to Byblos, a Phoenician city founded in 5000 BC, the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. We enjoyed touring the archeological sites. From Beirut we flew to Jerusalem, the eastern half of which was part of Jordan at the time. We toured all the holy sites and then crossed through the Mandelbaum Gate, which was the only crossing between Jordan and Israel. The crossing could only ... read more

Around the World by boat in 1958/59

North America » United States » New York » Nyack April 26th 1958

Bob, Judy, Mom and Sue catching the train to Singapore

Home and Away

Our journey to America We took the train from Khon Kaen to Bangkok, and then down the Malay Peninsula to Singapore, where we would embark on the Lloyd Triestino Line’s Asia, one of the last great ocean liners of the “Golden Age.” But before that we toured Singapore. My favorite spot was the Botanical Gardens, which was overrun with monkeys. You could buy bags of peanuts to feed them, but they preferred going through whatever personal belongings that you brought along. They got into Dad’s camera bag and stole some flash bulbs. I can imagine their surprise when they attempted to bit into one. Then it was time to board. The ship was beautiful; fully air-conditioned and our cabin had its own private facilities. We were in tourist class. There was also a first class. The ... read more

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