CRUISE FARES /1935

In 1935 I was 14 and on a cruise with my aunt on the GRACE LINE . NYC to
carrib and so america. The fare for 3 1/2 weekes was $85 for me and $176
for my aunt. ==What memories like this do you have ?

In 1957 I was 17 and went from NY to Southhampton on the Q. Elizabeth for
$200. I think that was steerage passage!!! That's when people traveled in
classes. My cousin who was 6 years older and I were going to Europe for
vacation. Can you imagine letting your kids do that now? We had a
wonderful time.


"0 O" wrote in message
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In 1935 I was 14 and on a cruise with my aunt on the GRACE LINE . NYC to
carrib and so america. The fare for 3 1/2 weekes was $85 for me and $176
for my aunt. ==What memories like this do you have ?

Wow. What bargain prices!

What ever happend to the Grace line's ships?
Happy Cruisin'
Mark
Home Port:
Monmouth County,NJ.

Ebb
I was on the QE in 1963, third class travelling with my son who was 10
years old at the time NY to Southampton.
It was so bad.that I made the return crossing on the QM.

SUNNY........waiting to hear reports on the QM2 from pax doing the
Caribbean

S'nd I

$176 must have been a fortune then, or was it. My father graduated from GA
Tech in about 1932 as a Mechanical Engineer and both he and his brother (GA
Tech EE) were employed at the grand wage of $11 per week. Even in about
1948 when he was employed as an engineer, his salary was $300 per month, or
$10 per day.
So, if we take the cost of the cruise and compare that on a per day basis we
would see its about $7 per day, or about a day's take home pay ( 3-1/2
weeks, so lets say 24 days = ~$7 per day.) What would that compare to
today? Assuming an average take home pay of say $15 per hour today or $120
per day, which is about the cost of typical cabin per person on a Carnival
or RCL cruise.

Hmmmm .... maybe things haven't changed so much after all.

Robert


"0 O" wrote in message
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In 1935 I was 14 and on a cruise with my aunt on the GRACE LINE . NYC to
carrib and so america. The fare for 3 1/2 weekes was $85 for me and $176
for my aunt. ==What memories like this do you have ?

CRUISE FARES /1935

Graduated 1952 = Mech ENGINEER/ $3600.00 - 2003 graduate /same company/
$60/6500.00

That's funny, because my return was on the QM in 1957. They split my older
cousin and I up and put me in a room with a South African girl who was not
too nice to me. We were in bunk beds. I was very young, so that was not a
good experience. But hey, I am not going to the shrink, I got over it.
Joyce



"villa deauville" wrote in message
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Ebb
I was on the QE in 1963, third class travelling with my son who was 10
years old at the time NY to Southampton.
It was so bad.that I made the return crossing on the QM.

SUNNY........waiting to hear reports on the QM2 from pax doing the
Caribbean

S'nd I

Seems you left out a O. $65,000.00. VBG

Arlene

0 O wrote:

CRUISE FARES /1935

Graduated 1952 = Mech ENGINEER/ $3600.00 - 2003 graduate /same company/
$60/6500.00

MY mistake== A 2003 graduate/ Mech.Engineer starts at $60/65000. Slip
of the slide rule !! And -- $176.00 adult was when my aunt made
$1500.00 A YEAR as a school principle in MA

If you want to compare prices, in 1951 I matriculated at the University of
Pennsylvania and the two semesters I spent there cost $400 each.

In March of 1955 the United States sent me and about a thousand of my
friends from Newark to Bremerhaven, Germany, 12 days in the Atlantic in
lousy weather.

It was free and included food, and it taught me that I do not suffer from
mal-de-mer.

In 1969 my in-laws convinced my wife that cruising was great. They had met
the agent for The Italian Line here in Philadelphia and he booked us on a 10
day cruise out of New York on Leonardo da Vinci to San Juan and St. Thomas
in a mid-ship room directly across the hall from the dining room a cost of
around $750 which included a chartered bus from Philadelphia to the pier and
back.
--
DG in Cherry Hill, NJ

ABB

"Robert Strauss" wrote in message
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$176 must have been a fortune then, or was it. My father graduated from
GA
Tech in about 1932 as a Mechanical Engineer and both he and his brother
(GA
Tech EE) were employed at the grand wage of $11 per week. Even in about
1948 when he was employed as an engineer, his salary was $300 per month,
or
$10 per day.
So, if we take the cost of the cruise and compare that on a per day basis
we
would see its about $7 per day, or about a day's take home pay ( 3-1/2
weeks, so lets say 24 days = ~$7 per day.) What would that compare to
today? Assuming an average take home pay of say $15 per hour today or
$120
per day, which is about the cost of typical cabin per person on a Carnival
or RCL cruise.

Hmmmm .... maybe things haven't changed so much after all.

Robert


"0 O" wrote in message
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In 1935 I was 14 and on a cruise with my aunt on the GRACE LINE . NYC to
carrib and so america. The fare for 3 1/2 weekes was $85 for me and $176
for my aunt. ==What memories like this do you have ?