S.S. United States rehab put on hold

"CupCaked" <karensSPPUDZ@cupcaked.com> wrote in message
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> Odysseus <x@x.x> wrote:
>
> >>Karen, with a feel for history
>
> >Be realistic.
>
> Oh, I am. But I can still dream, yes?
>
> If I had a time machine, I'd like to go back and sail on the QUEEN
> MARY, the NORMANDIE and the SS UNITED STATES. Someone who sailed on
> the UNITED STATES as a child told me of having the wind sweep his face
> as he stood on deck, going 35 knots across the North Atlantic. It's
> somthing none of us will ever experience today.
>
> Karen, dreamer
>

My Mom and grand parents came to the US from Europe on the Ille de France.

--Tom

"CupCaked" <karensSPPUDZ@cupcaked.com> wrote in message
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> "Tom & Linda" <tkanitra@> wrote:
>
> >"CupCaked" <karensSPPUDZ@cupcaked.com> wrote
>
> >> If I had a time machine, I'd like to go back and sail on the QUEEN
> >> MARY, the NORMANDIE and the SS UNITED STATES. Someone who sailed on
> >> the UNITED STATES as a child told me of having the wind sweep his face
> >> as he stood on deck, going 35 knots across the North Atlantic. It's
> >> somthing none of us will ever experience today.
>
> >My Mom and grand parents came to the US from Europe on the Ille de
France.
>
> French line! Did they ever talk about their trip across? Do they
> have any souveniers of their journey?
>

Yeah... their Citizenship papers.

They look at it more like winning the lottery. If they hadn't... they'd
have lived in communist Czechoslovakia all these decades.

US Citizenship is their souvenir of the journey.

--Tom

In article <4096dbe2.48072174@news.optonline.com>, karensSPPUDZ@cupcaked.com says...
>
>
>Odysseus <x@x.x> wrote:
>
>>>Karen, with a feel for history
>
>>Be realistic.
>
>Oh, I am. But I can still dream, yes?
>
>If I had a time machine, I'd like to go back and sail on the QUEEN
>MARY, the NORMANDIE and the SS UNITED STATES. Someone who sailed on
>the UNITED STATES as a child told me of having the wind sweep his face
>as he stood on deck, going 35 knots across the North Atlantic. It's
>somthing none of us will ever experience today.
>
>Karen, dreamer

I agree with you. I would loved to have crossed the Atlantic sailing
first class on one of the grand ladies of the sea.

I was fortunate enough to have crossed the Pacific on the S.S. Lurline.
I was only a child but it instilled a lifelong love for ships. My parents
realized that days of ocean liners and using ships as transpiration would
soon be over so they took their children on trip across the sea.

"Odysseus" <x@x.x> wrote in message
news:gWmfc.143368$K91.359475@attbi_s02...
> In article <4096dbe2.48072174@news.optonline.com>,
karensSPPUDZ@cupcaked.com says...
> >
> >
> >Odysseus <x@x.x> wrote:
> >
> >>>Karen, with a feel for history
> >
> >>Be realistic.
> >
> >Oh, I am. But I can still dream, yes?
> >
> >If I had a time machine, I'd like to go back and sail on the QUEEN
> >MARY, the NORMANDIE and the SS UNITED STATES. Someone who sailed on
> >the UNITED STATES as a child told me of having the wind sweep his face
> >as he stood on deck, going 35 knots across the North Atlantic. It's
> >somthing none of us will ever experience today.
> >
> >Karen, dreamer
>
> I agree with you. I would loved to have crossed the Atlantic sailing
> first class on one of the grand ladies of the sea.



Back in those days... most "crossed" in Steerage. Or in Second Class.

Very few were rich enough to afford First Class.

My grandparents came here to escape the hard times in Czechoslovakia... not
to experience a grand lady of the seas.

Different era. Different world.

--Tom

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 01:13:04 GMT, karensSPPUDZ@cupcaked.com (CupCaked)
wrote:

>Mea culpa. Fastest PASSENGER ship. I think the "CAT" (or some such
>vessel) took the Hales Trophy away from the SS UNITED STATES, even
>though it is not a passenger vessel.

Gentry Turbo Eagle.

Some purists don't accept its accomplishment, as it
was refueled en-route.

--
- Lee

>>
>> I agree with you. I would loved to have crossed the Atlantic sailing
>> first class on one of the grand ladies of the sea.
>
>
>
>Back in those days... most "crossed" in Steerage. Or in Second Class.

>
>Very few were rich enough to afford First Class.
>

If I am going to dream, I will dream big. It takes no more effort
to dream of being in first class than to dream of being in steerage.

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 00:51:53 GMT, karensSPPUDZ@cupcaked.com (CupCaked)
wrote:

>Odysseus <x@x.x> wrote:
>
>>>Karen, with a feel for history
>
>>Be realistic.
>
>Oh, I am. But I can still dream, yes?
>
>If I had a time machine, I'd like to go back and sail on the QUEEN
>MARY, the NORMANDIE and the SS UNITED STATES. Someone who sailed on
>the UNITED STATES as a child told me of having the wind sweep his face
>as he stood on deck, going 35 knots across the North Atlantic. It's
>somthing none of us will ever experience today.

Not quite Karen. It depends who buys those fast ships from Greece.

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