In A Vintage Travel Poster We Travel To An Era Gone By


by Carmel Baird - Date: 2007-02-18 - Word Count: 543 Share This!

A reflection of another era can be seen in a vintage travel poster.

When we see the ads for Vintage Travel Posters of cruise liners and those wonderful luxury trains, we see an era of travel before the airplane became so popular and convenient. A vintage travel poster is not just about the travel of the past but it shows a certain time in our history, styles, fashions and how the artist saw the world and wanted to portray that view to the world.

How Travel Advertising Hasn't Changed

The Posters of vintage times advertising the beautiful tropical destinations often show beautiful, exotic women in sarongs. Today the travel posters still entice the holidaymaker to the exotic and far away places, which is the same as in the days of the vintage, travel posters.

There is another side to the vintage travel poster. They may be seemingly innocent but maybe not. A vintage travel poster showing people, often showed other things, like the ideals of certain sections of the community of the time.

When we look at the vintage travel posters we can see how they were romanticized to entice the traveler to the exotic places in the world and this is no different today with the modern travel posters.

How Did They Travel?

Looking through a poster shop online or an online gallery, it is amazing to see how different transportation was in the 1930s to the 1950s. Airplanes were not as available, and it's also interesting to see just how they were advertised, because commercial travel was still relatively new.

Vintage travel posters were the advertising medium for enticing people to wonderful places and with wonderful modes of transport to get there.. The destinations depicted in the travel posters of vintage times, was so inviting, just like the current travel posters.

Vintage posters remind us of days gone by and show us how far we have come since those early days. Modern day transport is much speedier and for vacations, it has allowed us to go much further and faster so we can travel to exotic places during our few weeks vacation time.

When we see vintage travel posters, we can get a feeling of awe and wonder for the transportation of days gone by. It showed a much slower pace and lifestyle many of us will only ever dream of. Mind you there were many in those times who would only ever dream of traveling, never be able to afford to do so.

If you have a genuine vintage travel poster, then you are fortunate as they are very expensive to purchase, that is, if you can find one for sale. Many of these were created by artists and in the original form of poster production. There are many reproductions of the vintage travel posters available and if you want ot start collecting them or just use them as art for your walls then the best place to start looking in online at the poster stores. They normally have a large range and can have your poster framed for you for protection/

Vintage travel posters are also very decorative and can add a great feature to special areas of our homes. There is such a wonderful range available and the colors and artwork are really beautiful and all have that exotic feel.


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