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San Francisco, 1940

Posted onOctober 15, 2023October 16, 202320 Comments

After their visit to Yosemite National Park, my relatives apparently found the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco to be something of a let-down. My father only took eight photos (that I know of) in San Francisco, and these were all from a boat ride that they took around Read More …

CategoriesUSATagsFamily history

Yosemite National Park, 1940

Posted onOctober 8, 2023October 9, 202327 Comments

Since none of these people are still alive, I can’t ask them anything about their train journey from Chicago to San Francisco (and back) in May and June of 1940. So I just have to rely on the photos and captions in my father’s photograph album. The five people in Read More …

CategoriesUSATagsFamily history, Train travel

Stopover in Salt Lake City, 1940

Posted onSeptember 19, 2023October 20, 20237 Comments

In May 1940, my relatives had a few hours in Salt Lake City between trains. They had come from Denver via the Royal Gorge on the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (often shortened to ‘the Rio Grande’) and would leave the same day on the Western Pacific, on an Read More …

CategoriesUSATagsFamily history, Train travel

The life of rail

Posted onSeptember 14, 202318 Comments

The bookshop La vie du rail has moved. For many years, it was in a tiny shop in an obscure corner of a major Paris railway station, Gare Saint-Lazare, as shown here in my photos from ten years ago. But since my last visit, the bookshop seems to have moved Read More …

Categories_8th arrondissement, _9th arrondissementTagsBookshops, Family history, Train travel

Royal Gorge, Colorado, 1940

Posted onSeptember 7, 2023October 20, 202323 Comments

No, I did not travel to the Royal Gorge in 1940. But my parents did, along with my maternal grandparents and most of my American aunts and uncles. This was no doubt my grandfather’s idea, to have a train trip to the Royal Gorge, Yosemite and San Francisco (for the Read More …

CategoriesUSATagsFamily history, Train travel

It’s a beautiful day in Chicago

Posted onApril 8, 2023April 10, 202314 Comments

Everett Mitchell (1898-1990) was the host of a nationally broadcast NBC radio program called (deep breath here): THE NATIONAL FARM AND HOME HOUR. It came on every Saturday at 12 noon and was broadcast live from WMAQ’s legendary Studio A on the twentieth floor of the Merchandise Mart in Chicago, Read More …

CategoriesChicago, Illinois, USATagsFamily history

Paris to Cherbourg by train

Posted onSeptember 19, 2021November 17, 20218 Comments

In this photo from around 1910, a train has just arrived from Paris and is waiting on the quay in Cherbourg. The photo, much enlarged, is now on display at the spot where it was originally taken over a century ago. The railway line from Paris to Cherbourg was inaugurated Read More …

CategoriesCherbourgTagsFamily history, Train travel

The Titanic in Cherbourg

Posted onSeptember 16, 2021September 15, 202113 Comments

This welcome poster at the entrance to the parking lot of the Cité de la Mer (City of the Sea) in Cherbourg was probably just intended as a collage showing various elements of the Cité in no particular relationship to each other, but I still find it irritating because it Read More …

CategoriesCherbourgTagsFamily history

Emigration through Cherbourg, 1928

Posted onSeptember 13, 2021September 29, 202210 Comments

This large baggage room in the former maritime railway station doesn’t really have much to do with emigration, since it wasn’t completed until 1933, when the flow of emigrants was already greatly reduced. But it is now used as part of the Cité de la Mer to explain the history Read More …

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Travel by way of Cherbourg in 1931

Posted onSeptember 11, 2021February 26, 202223 Comments

My recent visit to Cherbourg, France, has reminded me of a minor mystery in my family’s past, namely my father’s eleven-week trip to Europe in 1931. He was 26 at the time, single, living in Chicago and working for a wholesale costume jewelry company called Morris, Mann & Reilly Inc. Read More …

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