Jak Nazryth
Mongoose
I tend to agree with phavoc's statement. I understood not to take his example with uber specifics. Before modern jets, liners were the overwhelming choice of "hopping the pond".
I also think one of the best examples of this era in film, the "look and feel" of what IMU (In my understanding) of what Mark Mill was trying to get at, was Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong. Life aboard "The Venture" on it's trans-ocean journey to far off ports of call kind of sums up on snap shot at the kind of adventures a crew can have aboard a small tramp freighter. Granted, the time depicted in the film (mid to late 20's?) was near the end of the golden age of liners, might have been a oil boiler instead of a coal fire boiler, but the "rustic romance and adventure" of the age of steam was still embedded in the film.
Just as an aside. I'm 45 and one of the ONLY person of my "80's generation" who used out house a great deal of the time growing up. My grandparents, way up in "the back woods" of the Ozark mountains used their outhouse up until the early 70’s. I was very young, but I remember when they finally installed an “indoor” toilet. Before that we always used their outhouse. The small one-room church they (and we every other Sunday) attended had his and her outhouses. And they were gang outhouses! I think there were two or three “holes” in each.
So the 1800’s plumbing technology was part of my experience growing up. Lol.
I also think one of the best examples of this era in film, the "look and feel" of what IMU (In my understanding) of what Mark Mill was trying to get at, was Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong. Life aboard "The Venture" on it's trans-ocean journey to far off ports of call kind of sums up on snap shot at the kind of adventures a crew can have aboard a small tramp freighter. Granted, the time depicted in the film (mid to late 20's?) was near the end of the golden age of liners, might have been a oil boiler instead of a coal fire boiler, but the "rustic romance and adventure" of the age of steam was still embedded in the film.
Just as an aside. I'm 45 and one of the ONLY person of my "80's generation" who used out house a great deal of the time growing up. My grandparents, way up in "the back woods" of the Ozark mountains used their outhouse up until the early 70’s. I was very young, but I remember when they finally installed an “indoor” toilet. Before that we always used their outhouse. The small one-room church they (and we every other Sunday) attended had his and her outhouses. And they were gang outhouses! I think there were two or three “holes” in each.
So the 1800’s plumbing technology was part of my experience growing up. Lol.
