{"id":73824,"date":"2020-07-10T19:51:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T23:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/?p=73824"},"modified":"2023-03-29T10:50:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T14:50:00","slug":"on-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2020\/07\/on-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"On Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><em>Holiday magazine reached its zenith during the Golden Age of travel and publishing. But like everything born out of nostalgia, the &#8220;golden age&#8221; wasn&#8217;t quite as golden as it seemed.<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t heard of <em>Holiday<\/em>, you\u2019re hardly alone. But in the world of travel magazines, this is the historic gold standard. A high-falutin, irresistibly designed classic, it ran from 1946 to 1977. By its peak in 1962, <em>Holiday<\/em> sold nearly a million copies a year. It claimed work by mononyms like Kerouac, Capote, and Hemingway; Faulkner, Bowles, and Steinbeck. An article in <em>Holiday<\/em> about New York, by E.B. White, is now sold as its own <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/189705\/here-is-new-york-by-e-b-white\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hardcover<\/a>. Those gargantuan bylines are not anomalies.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of its launch, air travel was only beginning to take off. In the modern sense, so was travel itself. In an era when you needed an agency to so much as hear about a new destination, a thing like <em>Holiday<\/em> was the only way to have travel at your fingertips. By all indications, it was worthy of the responsibility. \u201cThere was nothing similar before in magazine form,\u201d <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/introspective-magazine\/holiday-magazine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">says<\/a> Pamela Fiori, who started her career there as a fact checker. Fast forward to 2020, and you\u2019re even harder pressed to find a comparison. <em>Holiday<\/em> came up in the \u201cgolden age\u201d of travel, in the \u201cgolden age\u201d of magazine publishing. Today, there\u2019s no chance a travel magazine could have the same \u201csize, breadth or depth. And I should know,\u201d Fiori adds. In later years, she was editor-in-chief of <em>Travel and Leisure<\/em> and <em>Town &#038; Country<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Having secured the March 1955 issue through an online auction, I cracked it open on a day I was supposed to board a flight to Big Sur. Restricted from traveling in my own time because of COVID-19, I instead followed my enthusiastic and verbose guides around the world:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To Spring Training in Florida, where America\u2019s National Pastime is still very much that, and \u201850s he-men chuckle over sayings like this: \u201cThere\u2019s nothing keeping momma and the kids from the beach or the fishing pier while I check on Cholly Grimm and the boys.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>To British Parliament, where an aging Winston Churchill \u201csits with his earphone\u2026 held to his ear like an aural lorgnette\u201d in the chamber. Meanwhile, my jaded, American travel guide tells me that \u201cthe term \u2018politician\u2019 has not yet acquired a naturally derogatory meaning in Britain.\u201d <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>To the offices of <em>Holiday<\/em> itself in Philadelphia, where the desk-bound publishers stare \u201cout our dirt-smudged editorial windows&#8230; struck by the invidious and even jealous thought of what some of our contributors are doing at this very minute.\u201d To prove the point, a photographer just then arrives \u201cback from Brazil with his fungus-stricken Leica.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>To nearly every city on the Eastern seaboard, where a series of aristocrats lament the rapidly approaching death of High Society, by which  they mean that \u201clife has lost all of its serenity.&#8221; &#8220;Everybody\u2019s in such a hurry,&#8221; Mrs. G.  Alexander McKinlock turns to us and cries. &#8220;Look at the <em>Saturday Evening Post<\/em>. It comes on <em>Tuesdays<\/em>.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>To the Manhattan apartment of Dave Garroway, the original host of <em>The Today Show<\/em>, which, as I\u2019m informed, is now \u201cone of the success stories of TV.\u201d Not of television in 1955, mind you, or of television morning shows, but of TV \u2014 as a yet unproven appliance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I wish the newfangled contraption many more successes, and turn the page.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn1.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20200704\/cover-1.jpg\" alt=\"cover\" width=\"970\" height=\"773\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Holiday<\/em>, 1955: The cover and contents, featuring Arthur Miller.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As delightful as it was to learn bout \u201cJolly Cholly\u201d Grimm, I didn\u2019t purchase this issue for its story on baseball. I sent out specifically for <em>Holiday<\/em>, March 1955, for its piece by Arthur Miller: &#8220;<a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/holidaymag.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/19\/a-boy-grew-in-brooklyn-by-arthur-miller-march-1955\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Boy Grew in Brooklyn<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was just seven pages, a remembrance of the already long-gone Brooklyn neighborhood in which Miller grew up. Having already traveled to 1955, I now accompanied Miller through a wormhole to his childhood in Brooklyn before and during the Great Depression. I live in Brooklyn. And I\u2019ll tell you, you enter a new dimension entirely when you read the nostalgia of a man for your city-that-once-was, when he himself is writing 70 years in the past. <\/p>\n<p>An excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cIt was a village, and the people died like the elms did, and I do not know those who live in their houses now. I go back there now and then, but whether it is I that am no longer young or the people who have changed, I know only that things are alien to me there and I am as strange to the place as if I had never known it. <\/p>\n<p>The cars, for one thing, jam bumper to bumper along the curbs on streets where there was so much clear space we could have bumping matches with our first jalopies, and ride backwards and forwards and up on the sidewalks and never find an obstruction anywhere. And people seem to move in and out more often than they did, and there are many who have lived there five or six years now and the people next door still don\u2019t know what they do for a living, or anything more than their names. <\/p>\n<p>The drugstore has a chromium front now and fluorescent lighting, and young Mr. Dozik is a gray-haired man. A lot of picture windows are being put in to get a better view of the wall of the next house a driveway\u2019s width away. And when anyone looks out the picture window all the people next door are there watching television anyway.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I tried my best to work out a moral as I read. Something about memory, and the memory of travels, and how the memories are the only thing you get when you get away, anyway, and how we still have those no matter how long we\u2019re stuck at home. But then I flipped the page and an advertisement screamed at me to rent a Volkswagen \u201cfor a more pleasurable trip in Europe.\u201d And I lost the thought.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn1.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20200704\/cocktail-1.jpg\" alt=\"cocktail\" width=\"970\" height=\"773\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Today Show host  alongside a brightly colored article on fashion.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Speaking to <em>Vanity Fair<\/em>, another admirer of the old <em>Holiday<\/em> summed up the production this way: the magazine \u201cwasn\u2019t just travel \u2014 it was culture.\u201d It\u2019s true. The Garroway profile has nothing to do with Manhattan, the Parliament piece has little to do with travel to Britain, and the same can certainly be said of the features on the Du Pont family, cocktail dresses, and the screed lamenting the (already) \u201cobsolescent art\u201d of \u201ccivilized, noncontroversial\u201d conversation by one <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clifton_Fadiman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clifton Fadiman<\/a>. At its best, <em>Holiday<\/em> was a more expansive way to think about travel and travel writing \u2014 as a prism for looking around the world and becoming a citizen of it \u2014 more than merely a how-to guide for its attractions.<\/p>\n<p>But if <em>Holiday<\/em> is culture, then a word of caution to today\u2019s traveler looking to acquire the magazine and read it cover to cover: it\u2019s not all dazzling writing and faultless debonair. Just like nostalgia over the so-called golden age of travel often skips over the fact that the golden age of travel was overwhelmingly <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3022215\/what-it-was-really-like-to-fly-during-the-golden-age-of-travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">racist<\/a>, so too does nostalgia obscure some of the messier realities of the golden age of <em>Holiday.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Everything I had read about the magazine lauded the publication as one of America\u2019s greatest, best-written periodicals: not just a travel magazine, but literature. I don\u2019t dispute it. But if it\u2019s literature, it\u2019s the white male literary canon, and it undoubtedly suffers from its lack of diversity. In many places, I was surprised by how well the pieces aged. But for every gem by an Arthur Miller, you\u2019ll also find a section, like I did in the feature piece on Central America, with whole paragraphs of generalizations about the race of people that provide you a stern slap in the face for reflecting fondly on the thinking du jour of the \u201850s. The same goes for the piece I read on Charleston, where my guide \u2014 Pulitzer-winner <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/popculture\/shirley-ann-grau-doesnt-care-about-book-critics-wbna3784014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shirley Ann Grau<\/a>, not known in her career for whitewashing racial realities \u2014 still made all too much of the lost \u201cgrandeur of this coast.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn1.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20200704\/transport1.jpg\" alt=\"travel ads\" width=\"970\" height=\"773\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn1.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20200704\/transport2.jpg\" alt=\"transport\" width=\"970\" height=\"773\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#8217;s the journey, not the destination. A selection of dated ads for air travel. Trans-Canada: &#8220;powered by Rolls-Royce.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Another anachronism for the modern traveler, albeit a much brighter one: everything between the articles. If the magazine doesn\u2019t confine itself specifically to travel, no one told the advertisements. Take, for instance, ad after ad for specific airlines, advertising not just the quality of the experience but the hardware that makes it possible. Sabena, Trans-canada, Swiss Air, all flaunting things like their \u201cRolls-Royce propeller-turbine engines\u201d or \u2014 even more dated \u2014 \u201crelaxation and comfort.\u201d When\u2019s the last time you asked who made the engine? Or picked an airline based on flight speed? How often are you able to prioritize <em>comfort<\/em> above all else?<\/p>\n<p>Then again, what else were they going to advertise? By one <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3022215\/what-it-was-really-like-to-fly-during-the-golden-age-of-travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">account<\/a>, air travel was five times as expensive in the &#8220;golden age&#8221; \u2014 and five times more fatal. And if you did survive the neck-snapping turbulence, you could only hope the glass divider that separated first class from economy did, too. And that&#8217;s all before you consider how drunk everyone was in the absence of anything electronic to occupy their time. The plane <em>was<\/em> less full, though.<\/p>\n<p>This was the dawn of tourism as we know it today. Air travel only began to become <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2019\/07\/march-of-progress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">widespread<\/a> for Americans after World War II. Look at all the magazine ads for specific places in the collages below. Whereas you and I might consider jetting off somewhere new as adventure, a chance to leave our world and experience something new, it makes sense that \u2014 in 1955 \u2014 the pubescent travel business (and tourism boards from Washington State to Ontario) coaxed cautious readers with promises of nothing but leisure and fun. It wasn\u2019t an adventure, it was a vacation. It wasn\u2019t intrepid and enlightening, it was safe and relatable.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn1.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20200704\/travel1.jpg\" alt=\"travel ads\" width=\"970\" height=\"773\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn1.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20200704\/travel2.jpg\" alt=\"travel ads\" width=\"970\" height=\"773\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A collage of place-specific ads. Note the focus on fun and play, with the newly-formed and adventurous exception of Israel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We\u2019ve come a long way. And when we\u2019re out of the quarantine days for good, we\u2019ll want some of the long-lost legroom back \u2014 but without the danger and discrimination. We\u2019ll want a chance to see travel again as a means of deep reflection \u2014 not just a comfortable escape we can take for granted. We\u2019ll want to see travel in the way Fiori saw <em>Holiday<\/em>: as a way to \u201cto tell a comprehensive story about a place or a country\u2026\u201d Of a borough. Of a childhood. We\u2019ll want to take the gold from the golden age of travel \u2014 and leave the rest behind.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, when I closed the magazine and went back to quarantine, I thought that was a worthy trip to 1955. (I\u2019d still rather be in Big Sur.) <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em>If you\u2019re interested in reading Holiday, you can find old editions or selected articles online. Additionally, a new version of <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.holiday-paris.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Holiday<\/a> relaunched in 2014: a bi-annual publication based in Paris that publishes in English.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>Holiday<\/em> magazine reached its zenith during the Golden Age of travel and publishing. But like everything born out of nostalgia, the &#8220;golden age&#8221; wasn&#8217;t quite as golden as it seemed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":74225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3594],"tags":[3595,3654],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-73824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-history","tag-travel-history","tag-travel-in-place"],"acf":{"new_subtitle":"Subtitle","property_id":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Golden Age of Travel That Never Was \u2014 The Agenda by Tablet Hotels<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2020\/07\/on-holiday\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Golden Age of Travel That Never Was\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Holiday magazine reached its zenith during the Golden Age of travel and publishing. But like everything born out of nostalgia, the &quot;golden age&quot; wasn&#039;t quite as golden as it seemed.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2020\/07\/on-holiday\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tablet Hotels | The Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tablethotels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-07-10T23:51:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-03-29T14:50:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/editorial-graphic-en-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1320\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1320\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mitchell Friedman\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The Golden Age of Travel That Never Was\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@tablethotels\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@tablethotels\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mitchell Friedman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"9 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2020\/07\/on-holiday\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2020\/07\/on-holiday\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Mitchell Friedman\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/abb5312ebc20aa7c118d94648b02d8ac\"},\"headline\":\"On Holiday\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-07-10T23:51:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-03-29T14:50:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2020\/07\/on-holiday\/\"},\"wordCount\":1886,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2020\/07\/on-holiday\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/editorial-graphic-en-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Travel History\",\"Travel In Place\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Travel History\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2020\/07\/on-holiday\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2020\/07\/on-holiday\/\",\"name\":\"The Golden Age of Travel That Never Was \u2014 The Agenda by Tablet Hotels\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2020\/07\/on-holiday\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2020\/07\/on-holiday\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/editorial-graphic-en-1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-07-10T23:51:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-03-29T14:50:00+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2020\/07\/on-holiday\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2020\/07\/on-holiday\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2020\/07\/on-holiday\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/editorial-graphic-en-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/editorial-graphic-en-1.jpg\",\"width\":1320,\"height\":1320},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2020\/07\/on-holiday\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"On Holiday\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/\",\"name\":\"Tablet Hotels | The Magazine\",\"description\":\"Bold opinions. Breathtaking photography. Unbelievable hotels.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Tablet Hotels\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Tablet-Agenda-en.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Tablet-Agenda-en.png\",\"width\":404,\"height\":87,\"caption\":\"Tablet Hotels\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tablethotels\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/tablethotels\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tablethotels\",\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/tablethotels\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/abb5312ebc20aa7c118d94648b02d8ac\",\"name\":\"Mitchell Friedman\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/author\/mitchellf\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Golden Age of Travel That Never Was \u2014 The Agenda by Tablet Hotels","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2020\/07\/on-holiday\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The Golden Age of Travel That Never Was","og_description":"Holiday magazine reached its zenith during the Golden Age of travel and publishing. But like everything born out of nostalgia, the \"golden age\" wasn't quite as golden as it seemed.","og_url":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2020\/07\/on-holiday\/","og_site_name":"Tablet Hotels | The Magazine","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tablethotels","article_published_time":"2020-07-10T23:51:03+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-03-29T14:50:00+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1320,"height":1320,"url":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/editorial-graphic-en-1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Mitchell Friedman","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"The Golden Age of Travel That Never Was","twitter_creator":"@tablethotels","twitter_site":"@tablethotels","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Mitchell Friedman","Est. reading time":"9 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2020\/07\/on-holiday\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2020\/07\/on-holiday\/"},"author":{"name":"Mitchell Friedman","@id":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/abb5312ebc20aa7c118d94648b02d8ac"},"headline":"On Holiday","datePublished":"2020-07-10T23:51:03+00:00","dateModified":"2023-03-29T14:50:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2020\/07\/on-holiday\/"},"wordCount":1886,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2020\/07\/on-holiday\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/editorial-graphic-en-1.jpg","keywords":["Travel History","Travel In Place"],"articleSection":["Travel History"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2020\/07\/on-holiday\/","url":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2020\/07\/on-holiday\/","name":"The Golden Age of Travel That Never Was \u2014 The Agenda by Tablet Hotels","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2020\/07\/on-holiday\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2020\/07\/on-holiday\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/editorial-graphic-en-1.jpg","datePublished":"2020-07-10T23:51:03+00:00","dateModified":"2023-03-29T14:50:00+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2020\/07\/on-holiday\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2020\/07\/on-holiday\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2020\/07\/on-holiday\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/editorial-graphic-en-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/editorial-graphic-en-1.jpg","width":1320,"height":1320},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2020\/07\/on-holiday\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"On Holiday"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/","name":"Tablet Hotels | The Magazine","description":"Bold opinions. Breathtaking photography. Unbelievable hotels.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/#organization","name":"Tablet Hotels","url":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Tablet-Agenda-en.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Tablet-Agenda-en.png","width":404,"height":87,"caption":"Tablet Hotels"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tablethotels","https:\/\/x.com\/tablethotels","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tablethotels","https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/tablethotels"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/abb5312ebc20aa7c118d94648b02d8ac","name":"Mitchell Friedman","url":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/author\/mitchellf\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/editorial-graphic-en-1.jpg","custom_fields":null,"fimg_url":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/editorial-graphic-en-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73824"}],"version-history":[{"count":82,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74233,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73824\/revisions\/74233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73824"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=73824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}