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New Travel Website Features Cruise Ship, Travel History and the Private Rail Car President-elect Barack Obama Used for His Campaign
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- "Cruising the Past" is a website
examining the history of cruise lines, steamships and travel. Current stories
include a feature on the private railway car President-elect Barack Obama used
for his campaign, along with historical looks at the retiring QE 2 and the
famous linerUnited States.
Michael L. Grace, one of the creators of the musical "Snoopy" based on
Charles M. Shultz's "Peanuts" and a seasoned historian of cruise ship travel,
is the editor of the website cruisingthepast.com. Grace has traveled on over
50 cruise ships, has circled the globe three times and has one of the major
private collections of steamship memorabilia.
The new website presents a wide selection of travel material concerned
with steamship travel, train travel and cruising from the 1920s through the
1960s. "Cruising the Past" takes a close look at a "retro," elegant travel
past, when there were no security checks, 24-hour buffets or baseball caps
worn by passengers.
Grace is currently finishing a book focused on how the TV series "Love
Boat" affected the cruise industry and the popularity of contemporary
cruising. He started his TV career as a staff writer on the popular series
"Love Boat" and feels: "The 'Cruising the Past' website examines the glamor of
steamship travel prior to the introduction of 747s and the mass cruise market
created by the hit TV series 'Love Boat.'"
According to Grace, the site has been up for over six months, has received
many hits and is securing a strong advertising base. The website studies an
age when "getting there was half the fun," in an era when travel was an event
and not a nightmare.
Grace added: "We realize many aspects of modern-day cruising are much more
comfortable than these earlier ships. Cabins are larger and there is a much
wider choice of accommodations and activities. But certain aspects of social
interaction are absent. There is no longer a feeling of gentility on most
cruise ships. Most of the time you think you're stuck in some strip hotel in
Vegas that's been dropped down in the sea."
The website can be found at http://www.cruisingthepast.com.
Contact:
Michael L. Grace
310-666-6154
email: mlpgrace@mac.com
http://www.cruisingthepast.com
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SOURCE Grace Productions Inc.
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