Chris-Craft Thrill Ride, 1930s
The Mariners' Museum Chris-Craft Collection
PI 3248
Many Americans' first experience with a speed boat was a thrill ride aboard a Chris-Craft
runabout. For fifty cents, one could experience the fastest water ride of the times.
One Subject On Which the Whole Family Agrees, 1930
From New Adventures in Family Happiness
Photoreproduction
The Mariners' Museum Chris-Craft Collection
Group Fishing in a Runabout, 1935
The Mariners' Museum Chris-Craft Collection
PI 4157
|
|
Make up your mind that your family will get full benefit of the health and character-building properties of clean, active outdoor life. Buy them a Chris-Craft this year.
Always in tune with the fears and hopes of Americans, Chris-Craft understood the appeal of wholesome recreation, particularly after the comparatively wild and freewheeling 1920s. With a Chris-Craft, parents could keep their youngsters occupied with "clean and healthful and thrilling" activities such as swimming, fishing, picnicking, and taking "their happy groups on moonlight rides." Chris-Craft also suggested that the relaxing, "health-building" hobby of boating might lengthen the life of the tired businessman.
|
