Vintage St. John travel video

liamsaunt · Post by **liamsaunt** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 10:52 am

I don't know if his blog is read by a lot of the folks on this forum, so I thought I would point out that today on his News of St. John blog: http://barnako.typepad.com/

Frank Barnako provided a link to an old (1960s) travel video about St. John produced to encourage tourism. It is a very interesting video and has footage of Caneel Bay, the rental cars of the time, some restaurants, boating, fishing etc.

See it here for a trip in the "way back machine":

http://travelfilmarchive.com/item.php?i ... startrow=0

JJShaw · Post by **JJShaw** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 11:35 am

How neat...thanks for sharing it...

Marcia (Mrs. Pete) · Post by **Marcia (Mrs. Pete)** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 11:57 am

Too cool!!

Rhonda · Post by **Rhonda** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 12:02 pm

Enjoyed this! Thanks.

shoemak38 · Post by **shoemak38** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 12:16 pm

What a great video
love the people on the fishing trip

Snagit Capture by SHOEMAK38, on Flickr

indianaizzy · Post by **indianaizzy** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 12:22 pm

Loved the music - reminded me of going to the movies as a child. I wonder how those big rental cars did on the roads back then - I bet that was an adventure!

lprof · Post by **lprof** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 1:49 pm

I think this video is the same as the one shared a short while ago by bchbum82... I am linking it here as there are some comments in that thread also.
http://virgin-islands-on-line.com/virgi ... =1&t=23968

hugo · Post by **hugo** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 2:19 pm

Need to point out again, that more than half of this film is St Croix, there's also some st thomas, and the date is late 50's--no rental cars on St John.

shoemak38 · Post by **shoemak38** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 2:51 pm

hugo wrote:Need to point out again, that more than half of this film is St Croix, there's also some st thomas, and the date is late 50's--no rental cars on St John.

did Caneel have a golf course. Which would make sense the other Rock resorts did

liamsaunt · Post by **liamsaunt** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 3:45 pm

I somehow missed the original thread on this topic, sorry for reposting!

shoemak38 · Post by **shoemak38** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 5:02 pm

liamsaunt wrote:I somehow missed the original thread on this topic, sorry for reposting!

never say sorry your giving it a second airing

lprof · Post by **lprof** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 5:33 pm

shoemak38 wrote:
liamsaunt wrote:I somehow missed the original thread on this topic, sorry for reposting!
never say sorry your giving it a second airing

May I repeat... "never say sorry your giving it a second airing"!

hugo · Post by **hugo** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 7:37 pm

Never a golf course at Caneel--or at Little Dix; there's not enough water available to irrigate greens most places in the VI.
This film is difficult to sort out because the footage goes back and forth between Caneel and the Buccaneer on St Croix. The Buccaneer looked similar to Caneel in that era, and they had a golf course--still do, I think. St Croix is geologically different from the northern VI and has accessible groundwater.

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