Travel accessories of bygone era - Holdall and wooden suitcase with thick cloth cover (Shirish)

Date: 2009-09-12
Owner: Shirish Paranjape
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Holdall and suitcase
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Make SONY Model DSC-P73
Aperture Value f/2.8 Color Space sRGB
Exposure Program Program Flash Compulsory Flash, Return light detected
ISO 100 Metering Mode Multi-Segment
Shutter Speed Value 1/40 sec Date/Time 2009 Sep 12 08:14:56 +0100
Comments
It's amazing that you and your family have preserved this and other travel accessories till date. These are museum pieces worth preserving.
Posted by Jay Balakrishna on 2010 Feb 19 21:26:13 +0000
Thanks for capturing it.
Posted by Arzan Kotval on 2010 Feb 19 13:25:34 +0000
Thanks a lot. Brings back old memories!! Of the golden era of travel!! Some older holdalls had provision for keeping water bottles on the outside.
Posted by Jimmy Jose on 2010 Feb 19 09:55:44 +0000
Brings back so many memories! Am I correct in assuming that the hold-all was used only for train travel?
Posted by Mani Vijay on 2010 Feb 19 03:00:07 +0000
Yes, Hold-alls, plastic water bottles, huge leather suitcases, reservation-charts on type-written sheets of papers - all memories of a bygone era that I will cherish for sure.
Posted by PVS Praveen Kumar on 2010 Feb 18 21:57:18 +0000
Thanks a lot Shirish! This along with Poori Aloo bhaji is perhaps an inseparable part of childhood memories associated with Railways.
Posted by Anant K Singh on 2010 Feb 18 11:02:56 +0000
Hey - This looks exactly like the holdall and suitcase that I used in my college days from 1967 to 1972 !! Except that I did not have my name stenciled on the holdall !!
Posted by S. Srinivas on 2010 Feb 18 07:24:38 +0000
Amazing that you still have the holdall. I think we threw out ours long ago.
Posted by Dr.Jitendra Mulky on 2010 Feb 18 04:47:18 +0000
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Many thanks, I remember when we were kids, mom used to stuff blankets, bedsheets, pillows and what not for the five member trip. At that time the berths used to be wooden that too gaps between the adjacent wooden planks. some people use to just open the...
Posted by Milind on 2010 Feb 18 04:05:42 +0000
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