Tour Group Boarding Coach, 1950s

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Tour Group Boarding Coach, 1950s — Archive & Atlas

Unattributed 1950–1959

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A man with a pipe and a camera slung over his shoulder poses beside a large motor coach in the cheerful, slightly self-conscious way that people posed in the 1950s whenever they wanted someone to know they were traveling somewhere on purpose. The woman next to him, in a printed dress and sensible hat, appears to be mid-sentence, which suggests she has views on the itinerary. Postwar coach tourism was the decade's great democratizing force — the package tour having recently discovered that ordinary people, given a vehicle and a schedule, would willingly go abroad and stand in front of things. The man's camera is the real clue: carrying it like that, conspicuously, was how a tourist announced that he was the kind of man who documented experiences rather than merely having them. The whole group has the temporary cohesion of people who met forty-eight hours ago and have already developed opinions about each other.

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