50 vintage photos that show what to travel to look like
Explore the Glamor Age of Adventure
Bossa Nova Bands playing in Rio in the 1960s. The lovers of nature looking at the Geysers blow at Yellowstone National Park in 1912. Families cruise in a Cadillac on a countrytrip In the 1940s. There was something outright magic to travel to Eras past. Not only was it more glamorous - people who are dressed in costumes, heels and gloves to go to the airport instead of tracksuit pants and today's sneakers, but the time has also moved More slowly, focusing on the trip instead of the destination. Of course, it has never been so easy to explore the world that today, but that does not mean that we can not aspire to a nostalgic little victory in the past. Browse the album below for vintage travel photos from around the world and decades.
1 Sleepover cruise ship
A group of women poses in their bunk beds in a sleeping cabin aboard the British India cruise ship, circa 1950.
2 So long, goodbye
Friends and family wave at the review of a train for Italy during the Wirtschaftwunder or a wave of mass grave, following the Second World War in Germany, 1958.
3 A scene from Model Airport
Air travel out of New York was much more mod and minimalist in 1965. Today, this terminal from John F. Kennedy airport has been restored to its former glory and reopened like glamorousTWA Hotel. Here you can sip Shirley temples in aAirplane converted 1958 Or dive into an overflow pool on the roof overlooking the track.
4 Camper Vans
A woman smiles with her suitcases at the back of a Camper Van, around 1960.
5 Jazz Days
Sea travelers are making a way through the Panama Canal in the 1920s.
6 Tours
Tourists in a bus tour in Washington, D.C. in February 1974.
7 Cruisin '
A crowd welcomes the M / S Stockholm passenger ship because it arrives in the port of New York on March 1, 1948 of Gothenburg, Sweden.
8 Get used to
A passenger frame as a customs officer in Tempelhof Airfield in Berlin, Germany examines its luggage in the 1930s.
9 Easy runners
Two men raise motorcycles through the mountains in May 1972.
10 The dining room car
The train passengers enjoy cakes and coffee in the dining room on the railway is German, on a Leipzig road in Munich.
11 Animal encounter
The tourists of this wooden gas station wagon have met some fur spaces during their trip to Yellowstone National Park.
12 Collection of analog information
Before Internet, a visit to the information desk was indispensable for any trip. Here, tourists receive maps and other information from a Ranger park in Grand Canyon in 1948.
13 Capitol bus visits
Tourists take to Capitol Hill and others Washington, D.C. Bus sites in 1974.
14 Tram transport
Tourists and locals were through New York City at Pay-As-You-enter Streetcars. This shot was taken in 1916. To go to one of these vintage films yourself, consult theNew York Transit Museum In the center of Brooklyn.
15 The original Airbnb
Two women relax in an inn in Truro, Massachusetts in August 1940.
16 Minimalist campsite
Backpackers on a one-week hike through the labyrinth, a remote and rugged region of UtahCanyonland National Park In May 1972. Their minimalist configuration is nowhere close to the current Glamping accommodation, such asUnder the canvas.
17 Snapshots Souvenirs
A couple takes a picture to commemorate their trip on the road through theGreat Smoky Mountains National Park In Gatlinburg, Tennessee, around 1950.
18 A favorable adventure to children
Families unpack and prepare for a beach vacation in Tallahassee, Florida in May 1957.
19 Outfit
Four women dress in hats, heels and dresses to board an airplane from the airport in the 1940s.
20 Close and staff
A well dressed man domestic animals a bearub in a national park. (Date Unknown)
21 Drag
A couple plays with the propeller on an airplane for a photo in the early 1900s.
22 National parking
A parking packaged in the Grand Smoky Mountains National Park in Gatlinburg, Tennessee in 1952.
23 Fantasy sled
Two women dragged a steep and snowy slope inYosemite National Park in 1904.
24 Brotherly Love
Two young boys standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon in 1960 for family holidays.
25 Light packing
The luggage has changed considerably since the 1940s and 50, when people travel with trunks instead of smart suitcases.
26 Family picnic
A picnic in St. Petersburg, Russia (formerly Leningrad) during a trip on the family road in 1983.
27 Scout
The simple tent that these scouts were in the 1950s, it is far from the multi-summary homes of today.
28 Couple of Sidecar
Why travel at the back of a motorcycle, when you can go hunting rifle in a Sidecar like the woman in this vintage photo?
29 Presidential trip
Eleanor Roosevelt is a suitcase at Laguardia Airport in New York in 1960.
30 Bus stop
A Greyhound bus leads to Arizona in 1959.
31 OPP Photo
A tourist installs his camera for a photo of Rhyolit, a ghost town of Nevada, March 1940.
32 Cargo
A mini traveler board a sea ferry in the Scottish Highlands in 1968.
33 Sweeping views
Tourists take a picture during a trip to the medieval town of Wiesensteig, Germany in October 1950.
34 Ice climb
A group goes up the Fox glacier in New ZealandWestland Tai Pouini National Park in 1966.
35 Deserted
A woman and two guides take in the vast extent of a desert in Jordan in the 1950s.
36 Family photo
A family of four smiles for the camera on vacation, around 1970.
37 To travel by train
The Master of the Brighton Beautiful Pullman Train Horriage records with a passenger and his dog on a platform of the Victoria train station in London in the 1950s. You can experience Glamor train today by reserving a trip to the luxuriousBritish Belmond Pullman.
38 Adventures in Mexico
Tourists pose with local residents in Tijuana, Mexico in the early 1900s.
39 Carriage walks
Tourist visits Washington, D.C. by horse and trolley, around 1942.
40 Views of the track
Passengers waiting for flights in a Washington terminal, D.C. Airport in April 1940.
41 Hiker
A backpacker puts on the lawn before a hostel in 1966.
42 Snow rabbit
A young woman wearing a ski outfit pose with her skis for a photo, around 1940s or 1950.
43 Boat
Tourists at the boat skagit tour at Lake Ross in Washington State, around 1970s.
44 Bums bums
A group absorbs the sun on the beach of Mar del Plata in Argentina in 1930.
45 Big geysere
The Great Geyser bursts 200 feet from high to Yellowstone National Park in 1912.
46 Information cabin
Visitors ask questions at the information booth during a trip to Washington, D.c. in April 1969.
47 Pont views
A traveler poses in Uganda, Africa, in the 1950s with a plate explaining that the bridge was a re-erect emergency steel bridge, which was originally built on the Thames of the Second World War.
48 Hollywood Boulevard
A young woman waiting on the sidewalk with a suitcase in Hollywood, California, in 1942.
49 Trekkers
Hikers explore the Grand Canyon in 1972.
50 In the plane view
Men hold near the Tarmac of a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Airport in April 1940.