Arriving in Souda Bay, Crete, Greece in 1961
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Anthony Sooklaris was a trend setter in his day, and in 1961. He shot this 8mm movie as the boat was arriving in Souda Bay.
This is our family's first trip to Crete. We climbed aboard the Queen Frederica and went all the way to Crete for the beginnings of our 4 month vacation. This was part of the PanCretan Association of America excursion to Crete.
All of these people are waiting for us to arrive. They are family and friends. This happens much in the same way as it does today. Only back then, much fewer people travelled these great distances much less often, and they travelled from America to Europe by boat.
Pay careful attention, not only to the foreground, but the background. Crete will never look the same again. A very poor rural area at the time, people largely either walked or took a mule, or a bus for transportation.
This boat arrives in Crete around 5:30 AM, so when you see hoards of people, you must understand that they got themselves to Souda Bay to see and greet their relatives at a very early hour indeed.
And notice how people were dressed. They were wearing their best Sunday clothes to meet their loved ones. It's a very happy moment in which not only family members came, but friends of family as well.
Enjoy!
amazing john. thank you!
I was on that boat. I was 11. It was May and school was still in session. My brother Tony and I attended school with our cousin Voula. I witnessed a boy get his knuckles rapped with a ruler as a punishment for classroom antics. That was shocking to see. I'd only heard of such things. Corporal punishment was not happening so much in the U.S. at that time.
Read the "About this Video". I answered your question.
Are that paratroopers @ 0:30?!
Psaxnontas gia video poy aforoun tin poliagapimeni mas KPHTH, vrika auta ta politima dika soy video apo to 1961, kai mporo na po oti ekseplagika euxarista.
Gegonos einai oti apoteloun mia katapliktiki parakata8iki gia ton topo mas.
Anaferontas de stoys goneis mou gi auta , 8imi8ikan kai moy eipan oti, o pateras moy nearos tote itan mesa sto pli8os poy perimene sto limani tis Soudas, eno i mitera mou evlepe to ploio apo to xorio tis ta Tsikalaria.
Euxaristo para poli ek merous olon mas.