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The Roads to Romance Collection is filled with wonderful road trips
around this great country of ours. From New York to California and states
in between you will be entertained, and get to see sites you might have
missed. So sit back, relax and enjoy the views, without leaving home.
This was the era of family summer vacations, where we experienced
things first hand, as that was the only way to do so. Dad got two weeks off
from work and the kids didn’t have to go back to school until after Labor
Day. August was vacation month and families packed up the car and got to
see this great country of ours, not the man-made resorts of today. We are
so happy that we got to come across country 23 years ago. To this day, we
still talk about the trip and the phenomenal places we got to see. Of
course, all captured in pictures!
So after watching, I am sure you will want to pack up the family and go
on a “road trip” to your heart’s desire. I know I do!
Roads to Romance 1949 give us four road trips. We get to see Oak Creek
Canyon with it’s spectacular red cliffs, which we see from Arizona’s first
official scenic highway, Highway 89. Also included are Indian ruins and
old West towns. In our trip we head to California’s famous coast highway,
State Route 1, featuring the following: the mission at San Luis Obispo ( I
can attest from personal experience, a site to behold), San Simeon (Hearst
Castle) and of course, the big Morro rock, also known as the Gibraltar of
the Pacific, at Morro Bay where Dad finally stops the car and the kids get
to release some of that energy by running and climbing. Our next romance
trip is along the Cabrillo Freeway ( an engineering marvel). It was
completed in 1948 and it winds through Balboa Park and was the first
parkway in San Diego county. When we arrived in California 23 years ago,
we stayed in San Diego and got to see lots of the great sites offered.
Plus then they also had a driving tour through the city of San Diego that
was absolutely fantastic. It is something we will never forgot.
We get to follow a couple of newlyweds as they visit the Hotel del
Coronado, San Jacinto valley, and the ruins at Capistrano, which of
course, they do in a Chevrolet convertible.
Our last road trip is the Queen of the Great Lakes in Western Michigan.
Here we visit a tulip festival, get to see a Dutch parade and we finish by
following the highways along coastal beaches, sand dunes, and forests.
You get to see some amazing sites that will stay with you for a long
time to come.
Continuing our travelogue we have an amazing collection of Road to
Romance spots. We have four road trips in our second film. It starts at
Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay where we see lobster boats, a war
memorial, Viking ruins, and exquisite seaside towns. The scenery is
beautiful and the family enjoys the Atlantic ocean. Sure to illicit great
summer memories for those of us who grew up on the east coast and spent
time on the beaches.
Next we move on to Kentucky, where we visit the homes of Henry Clay,
Stephen Foster, and Daniel Boone, a log cabin and visit a horse farm. Lots
of great history. We move on to Minneapolis/St Paul where Mississippi
River paddle steamers can still be seen from the highway. We spend time on
the Minnehaha Parkway, which is designated a Scenic Byway by the National
Park Service, and part of the longest urban parkway system in the entire
country. We finish our trip on the open road and the Pennsylvania
Turnpike. Opened in 1940, the Turnpike is historically and politically
significant and radically altered the federal highway program. A road we
traveled more times than we can count.
Our next travelogue also takes us on four road trips. Our family gets
to enjoy the outdoors at Cayuga, which is the longest of New York's finger
lakes. We even have a jaunt on the water in a lovely wooden Chris Craft.
We proceed with a short drive through rolling mountains which lead to
lookouts with views of towering cliffs and tumbling waterfalls. We are all
reminded of seeing sites as a kid from our cars. We then get to visit
Olympic National Park, almost a million acres of mountains of America's
North West. We also get to view Cedar Breaks National Monument. The
dangerous cliffs drop 2000 ft, with our Utah plateau two miles above sea
level. For tree lovers, the Columbia River Highway has Giant Douglas firs,
spruce, hemlock, cedar, and pine. I am a lover of waterfalls, so I really
enjoyed the view.
The Columbia River Highway has a very interesting history, as it is
actually the oldest scenic highway in America. It was set in motion in
1913, and was a technical and civic achievement of its time.
Unfortunately, by the 1950s it was largely broken and abandoned due to a
dam shifting the water table. Heavy trucking made much of the remaining
route too dangerous to stop for tourists. Today there is renewed interest
in the original route and parts of the original highway are biking trails.
In the next short 1950 film, Roads to Romance: Coral Gables we get to
see vibrant colorful parrots, the fantastic modern architecture of the
University of Miami, in addition to visiting the beach. A bit of history
here, Coral Gables is one of the first planned communities. It was built
in a Mediterranean theme around three golf courses and a marina. The
Venetian Pool shown in the film was made from a rock quarry. It was
originally a casino, and both Esther Williams and Johnny Weissmuller came
to swim there.
We finish our trip with our next short 1950 film, Roads to Romance: The
Santa Cruz Trail and Land of the Giant Cactus; which focuses on Arizona
and reveals for the camera buffs, great use of light and shadow, and color
and contrast. Another plus is the music and the announcer, along with the
missions, old Tucson and a sample of a Mexican Christmas festival. We get
some great shots of the desert, cowboys, horse, cactus and more. Enjoy!
For a small taste of this great DVD, watch the
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