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Queen Mary 1960s (MP3)

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Unique ID:19413
Description:Female talks about working on the Queen Mary when people travelled by ship before the `infernal flying machines`. She fell into Kirk Douglas` arms.
Creator:Unknown
Date:Unknown
Copyright:Southampton City Council
Partner:SCC Oral History Unit
Partner ID:M0100

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Up until about 1960, we were carrying everybody because there was no other way to cross the Atlantic, 1960, then the infernal flying machines took over, and we lost quite a few of our more glamorous passengers because when I joined, the film stars were ... every voyage, it was wonderful, we were swooning every day, and I have never been the same since I fell into the arms of Kirk Douglas one afternoon when the ship was rolling. Now the Queen Mary could roll, and then later on they stabilised her, and I think a lot of fun went out of sea going life then.

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