The Coral Gables Times

Thursday, May 4, 1961, page 47 (of 56)

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FREE 1961 VACATION GUIDE to NEW YORK STATE

• 196 pages packed with vital vacation information • Over 100 photos, 86 in dramatic full color • Guide to more than 500 resort communities • Tells how to get to each by car, train, plane and bus • Pinpoints beaches, recreation and sport facilities, historical shrines, natural wonders • Special sections on fishing, boating, camping, motoring • Cover by Grandma Moses, beloved American artist You'll find a world of fun in NEW YORK STATE --MAIL THIS COUPON TODAY!-- New York State Department of Commerce, Room 671, P.O. Box 1350, Albany 1, N.Y. Please send me the free 1961 "New York State Vacationlands" guide. I am interested in the following areas: [ ] Adirondacks [ ] New York City [ ] Catskills [ ] 1000 Islands-St. Lawrence [ ] Niagara Frontier [ ] Finger Lakes [ ] Saratoga-Lake George [ ] Long Island [ ] Mohawk Valley [ ] Central New York [ ] Hudson-Taconic [ ] Genesee Region [ ] Chautauqua-Allegany [ ] Capital District [ ] Southern Tier [ ] Sullivan County Name_ Address_ City_ Zone_ State_

All up and down the Mississippi . . . STEAMBOAT'S STILL COMING!

The boat often stops to let passengers enjoy a swim or take a tour of a lovely ante-bellum plantation or spend an afternoon shopping in modern Memphis. All up and down the Mississippi . . . STEAMBOAT'S STILL COMING! IN THIS MONTH OF MAY, 1961, when a jet could conceivably carry you from breakfast over New York to a late lunch in London to dinner in Athens; when your chrome-plated convertible whisks you from that little country estate to the city, 50 miles away, in less than an hour, and when all you need to go to the moon, basically, are the right connections—it's good to know that the Delta Queen, last of old Mississippi stern-wheelers, is still there, making her way up and down the river, carrying passengers and freight at the reassuring average speed of twelve miles an hour. ❦ People who take their vacations aboard this nostalgically outfitted river boat (mint for juleps is grown in beds near the rear wheel and is watered by the turn of the wheel) recapture some of the adventure of "The Steamboat Era," which lasted, roughly, from about 1830 till about 1890. They are the people who've read Mark Twain or who remember the historic race between the 26 Suburbia Today, May 1961