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Showing Original Post only (View all)In Sept. of 1967, my family crossed the Atlantic on the SS United States. I saved the menus. [View all]
My father worked for the government, and back then employees at his level traveled first class. We were very fortunate to be able to cross the Atlantic from Bremerhaven, Germany to New York on one of the greatest Ocean Liners ever built, the SS United States.
A 6 day crossing which included a stop in Southampton, England during a week covering Saturday and Sunday, September 16th and 17th.
Here is a photo of the cover of the menu for the Gala Dinner, the final night at sea;
And this is the menu;
A breakfast menu, from the next morning, Tuesday, September 19, 1967, the day we arrived in New York.
I thought you folks, out of all the readers on DU, would be the most interested in these. If you'll pardon me just a little while I wax nostalgic, they do harken back to a different era, one which is long past. Transatlantic Jet service had started only a few years before, and the days of the great ocean liners and the elegant meals served on-board was nearing an end.
It was 6 days I remember very clearly, though I was a mere 8 years old.