Sarah Frances (Espy) Sidney
Aunt Frances
The Dothan Eagle (1954)
The Wiregrass Farmer (1954)
Should be RMS Queen Elizabeth
The Dothan Eagle
It would take one week to cross the Atlantic!
a photo from 1954 - source
1950s promotional film
4:54 -5:46 the Queen Mary, then the Queen Elizabeth
6:56 arriving in New York City for departure
rest of film shows life aboard "the floating city"
At 16:24, see the bartender whipping up a drink in the Observation Lounge and Cocktail Bar. This entire British film of the RMS Queen Elizabeth is excellent.
Click here for a dinner served on Nov. 6, 1954.
Click here for more interior shots of the RMS Queen Elizabeth.
postcard (1954)
program of events from 1955 - source
RMS Queen Elizabeth docking at Manhattan's Luxury Liner Row
The Wiregrass Farmer (1954)
Charlie Chaplin was a passenger on the RMS Queen Elizabeth in 1952. Other famous passengers: Queen Elizabeth (of course!) and her daughters, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, Alfred Hitchcock, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ian Fleming, Eleanor Roosevelt, Gregory Peck, Russia's foreign ministers Molotov and Vishinsky et al. Click here to see how Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond 007, felt inspired by the RMS Queen Elizabeth.
Alfred Hitchcock and Eleanor Roosevelt on the RMS Queen Elizabeth
RMS Queen Elizabeth in movie "The Mouse That Roared"
By 1958 the first non-stop passenger jets were flying across the Atlantic and the days of the great passenger liners were numbered. - source
last departure from New York Harbor (1968)
In the James Bond movie "The Man with the Golden Gun" (1974), the RMS Queen Elizabeth makes an appearance. This same Bond movie was also filmed in Thailand. Click here to learn more.
Here's to Aunt Frances and the RMS Queen Elizabeth!
Empress 1908 Gin Sidecar
Maybe the bartender fixed Aunt Frances something like this.
1 comment:
Aunt Frances and Uncle Roby did come to visit us several times when we lived on Cherry Tree Lane - before and after Amy was born. Aunt Frances loved to come to Atlanta to dine out and to shop.
Aunt Frances also came to Atlanta several times on her own - in between Uncle Sid and Uncle Roby. She would come here to attend various live performances. I met her once when she was staying at the Henry Grady Hotel. We ate at the Ding Ho Chinese Restaurant, near Davison-Paxon on Peachtree St., and went to a movie. I think we saw "Strangers on a Train" (1951). I guess I rode the trackless trolley to and from Atlanta and home on West Benson St.
By the way, if you haven't seen "Strangers on a Train," you might want to check it out. Very good Alfred Hitchcock. Bud and I saw it again fairly recently.
Beverly
2014
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