hey everybody how you doin it's Bruce here with traveling with Bruce are you
ready for some trivia we're going back in time baby you got to tell me the name
of some of these crew sports we're gonna be taking a look at by the way thank you
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to me I really appreciate it let's get going let's go back in time
when getting there was half the fun as canard used to say this is the days
before jet travel of course and you know you weren't anybody unless you were seen
with people like this if you were on a cruise ship or an ocean liner you want
it to be seen with those who should be seen look at the opulence of the dining
room wow what a time this was of course before the Jets this is how you cross
the Atlantic and you use cruise liners ocean liners to get from point A to
point B but here's a place that I wonder if you know where this is do you know
what this place is called right here these are pictures from the 30s what is
the name of this cruise port I'll give you a hint it's a very busy place today
and it looks a lot different than that now it looks a lot more like this
but even this is an old picture another hint it is the world's busiest cruise
port now and if you guessed Miami you were right and I tell you with Miami you
got to take the picture of the port every year because the changes are just
astounding there is no standing still now here's another cruise port where the
Queen Elizabeth came in in 1970 can you tell me the name of this place here's a
picture from the 20s of this cruise port it looks a little like that but a lot
different than that today a very busy place here's a shot from
probably the 40s or 50s and well here are a couple of pictures that are a
little more let's say recent this one here might be a bit of a misleading
photo but if you've been here you'll know what this port is from the look of
that the trees and the buildings all around
here is the modern day shot we're talking
Fort Lauderdale or Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale third busiest in the
world now here this one's tough to hide I mean this is a crew sport where if you
were interested in ocean liners and you wanted to see the the most expensive and
largest ships in the world you had to come to this place and you would not be
disappointed if you could hang around here for a couple of weeks you would see
the world's most luxurious and glamorous cruise ships I'm talking of course of
New York City today cruise ships use this port but nowhere
like the transatlantic ocean liners used to those days are gone now where are we
now what cruise port is this there's kind of like a Golden Gate Bridge over
there kind of and what kind of a cruise port in today's world would use a sprung
structure like that as part of its cruise facility yeah there's only one
place they do have a terminal building covered in solar panels which is nice to
see there's that golden gate looking bridge but this is not San Francisco if
you guessed Los Angeles you would be correct this is the Port of Los Angeles
and you can see as it zooms in there's the important facility right in the
middle kinda hard to detect this now where is this there's a golden gate
looking bridge but this is not San Francisco either this is a picture from
about the 50s here are some modern-day photos of this incredibly beautiful
place a lot of Tours take place from here in the summertime not very many in
a winter if in fact none in the winter this is a summer port only it is
Vancouver British Columbia if you're gonna go to Alaska there are two ports
you start from basically it's either Seattle or it's Vancouver I'd have to
say Vancouver is a little more spectacular looking than Seattle but
nothing wrong with Seattle nice town but Vancouver is pretty cool now here is the
Pacific princess the Love Boat remember the Love Boat where is the Love Boat in
this picture here's another photo of another ship there's that bridge over
there that should give it away back in the 50s and 60s
that was the one of the things that you came and took a picture of was this
bridge right here but as time goes on went on we came into into the 70s and
80s you start taking pictures of another item not just that bridge on the left
but over on the right that funny-looking building over there that's right the
Sydney Opera House this is Sydney Harbour in Australia down under one of
my bucket list places to go to what beautiful beautiful shots now this place
coming up right here where is this this these are shots from about the 50s and
60s Camel cigarette ad up there on top of the building here's another angle of
this port and this terminal building with these old ships around it where are
we maybe this will help you a little bit this shot right here this is kind of a
modern-day shot of the place the terminal now is at the end of this long
piece of land and let me give you a little help with this long piece of line
see that that used to be a runway this is the runway the old runway for the
Hong Kong Airport and when they shut down this Airport they built a brand new
one they put this cruise terminal on the end of it and they're converting the
entire spit of land into light industrial and other areas are in the
heart of Hong Kong someday I'd love to get here when things settle down over
there beautiful beautiful place already uh one more this is our last one what
port is this right here it's world-famous
it's been used for gosh over a hundred years these ships right here felt right
at home coming back after their their Atlantic
crossings they would come in here and feel right at home the Queen Mary this
is her home port and look at that car you can get an idea how bold this
picture is about this shot right here here's another shot of the Queen Mary
from the other end you can just make it out it's South Hampton in the United
Kingdom South Hamptons port it's gone under a lot of changes it's
constantly being modernized which is nice to see modern-day cruise ships of
course are using Southampton all the time
how did you do there were seven of them how many did you get look at the
advertising here as the Jets were taking over the cruise lines we're trying to
get the executives to take a week off your schedule and come across the
Atlantic on a ship and relax don't just fly over in six hours and be harried for
your business meeting come on over and take five days and same thing on the way
back bring the wife things have changed but what can I say
these crew sports are still alive today and they're still being utilized some
more than before some less than before certainly Miami port a Fort Lauderdale
which is port everglades those two have really stepped up their business but new
york not as much southampton not as much as before but still iconic ports from
which to travel from thank you for for joining me today i hope you enjoyed
these this trivia i'm gonna try and do some more for you will do other types of
trivia questions and put them on the channel see how sharp you are and how
many you can guess at one time there's another picture of that Hong Kong port
it's pretty stylistic innit kind of cool a lot of money pumped in here the Hong
Kong government really is going after the cruise business in a big way and
they're putting in the ultra-modern facilities hmm kinda neat a couple more
pictures before we go on the left is South Hampton on the right is the Queen
Mary in drydock in Southampton because these ocean liners had to occasionally
get serviced and the South Hampton is where it used to get done not anymore
but in the old days that's the way it was thanks for joining me today
everybody have a good one bye for now