Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Navigation Systems of 1954

Road & Track unearthed this 1954 Chevrolet "how-to" for vacationing by car.



It wasn't quite this bad on my first vacation car trips: to the Seattle World's Fair in 1962; to Yosemite sometime in the mid-1960s; to New Mexico in 1964?

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for that, Clayton!

    Really brought back some memories. My Dad, an educator, got sent from CA to Oswego, NY for some training. Originally he was to have flown there & back (this was in 1963) but decided that the whole family would drive there & back, zig-zagging across the USA.

    So we set out in our new 1963 VW Bus, and had a great trip. I had just got my driver's license, so had plenty of opportunity to practice! We stopped at every major (and lots of minor) attraction & point of interest along the way, and came back a different route. We headed more Northerly on the trip there, and Southerly on the way back.

    The AAA was great: they supplied us with Trip Maps, which were assembled into booklets where the maps folded out as you went along the route previously planned. We had a compass mounted on the dash too, and used it a lot!

    I miss those days. Travelling was a lot more fun back then. Wish I could've done something like that for my kids.

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  2. My 2000 Chevrolet Impala was bought with a cross-country family vacation in mind. Time issues turned it into a cross-country flight and travels by rental car up the Eastern Seaboard instead.

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