Princess Cruises

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Princess Cruises
logo 1965

Name: "Princess Cruises"

Category: Transportation

Subcategory: Shipping

Founded: Nov. 14, 1965 - Seattle, Washington, USA

Founder / First president: Stanley B. McDonald

Operations start: December 3, 1965

Features: Founded in 1965, Princess Cruises began operations on December 3, 1965, carrying 400 passengers aboard the "Princess Patricia" Turbo-Electric Vessel from Los Angeles to Mexico, calling at La Paz, Puerto Vallarta, Acapulco and Mazatlan. In 1967 they chartered a more specific cruise ship, "Princess Italia", and in 1968 the third "Princess Carla" ship, thus continuing the series of Mexican Riviera cruises. In June 1969 Princess Cruises inaugurated the first series of summer cruises to Alaska.

Interesting facts: In 1962 entrepreneur Stanley B. McDonald bought a ship, the cruise vessel "Yarmouth", to operate as a hotel at the World's Fair in Seattle, where his company Air Mac provided all the ground transportation equipment; the ship sailed from San Francisco to Victoria B.C., then down to the fair for a 10-day cruise. For four days of the cruise the ship was used as a hotel while people onboard visited the fair. This experience inspired McDonald to try a new businness, so in 1965 he decided to found Princess Cruises.
The popular American television series "The Love Boat", aired on the ABC Television Network from 1977 to 1986, was set aboard many of Princess' ships in destinations around the globe; the two ships featured heavily were "Pacific Princess" and "Island Princess". To celebrate their 50th Anniversary, on December 3, 2015 Princess Cruises reunited The Love Boat cast aboard Pacific Princess in the Port of Los Angeles.

Quote (Stanley B. McDonald): «The call of the "Mexican Riviera" was coined by our people as I remember. Now everyone refers to it as the Mexican Riviera».

Property: Princess Cruise Lines, Ltd.

Official website: http://www.princess.com

Princess Cruises before Princess Cruises (summer 1965). This brochure offered 7-days summer cruises in Alaska - from May to August, from Vancouver to Skagway and return - aboard Canadian Pacific's "Princess Patricia", the first ship chartered by Stanley McDonald in the fall of the same year to start his businness. The Princess Patricia was a very popular, reliable ship: despite its tiny size, it had eight sumptuous wood-paneled suites with large living rooms, a large selection of outside upper/lower berth cabins, and outdoor activities included shuffleboard played atop decks.

Princess Patricia, the first ship operated by Princess Cruises, docked in Vancouver during the first Princess Cruises management. On December 3, 1965, Princess Patricia's first cruise took 400 passengers from Los Angeles to Mexico, calling at La Paz, Puerto Vallarta, Acapulco and Mazatlan, thus inaugurating the first series of 14-day cruises to Mexico, until april 1966. This Turbo-Electric Vessel, 6,082-ton, 356-by-56 foot, built in Scotland 1949 and converted to cruise liner in Canada 1963, returned under the Princess banner for a second Mexican Riviera cruise in winter 1966/67, before being left to the exclusive management of its owner Canadian Pacific. Demolished in Taiwan 1995.

Princess Cruises Dinner Menu (December 4, 1965)

Princess Cruises brochures (1965/66)

Princess Italia, the second ship operated by Princess Cruises, in Acapulco (1967, under charter to Princess but still with Oltremare's triangle funnel logo). Princess Italia made her maiden departure from Los Angeles on December 15, 1967. This cruise ship, 12,083-ton, 489-by-68 feet, 452 passenger plus 240 crew, was built in Italy 1967 as "Italia" for Crociere d’Oltremare, then chartered by Costa Lines and subchartered to Princess Cruises, who marketed her as "Princess Italia", but never officially renamed her. On June 3, 1969 Princess Italia was also used for the first Alaskan cruise from San Francisco. Demolished in Gujarat, India 2012.

Princess Cruises introduce their iconic "Seawitch" logo (1968)

Princess Carla, the third ship operated by Princess Cruises (1968). Princess Carla made her maiden departure from Los Angeles on December 19, 1968; it was the first vessel to carry the iconic "Seawitch" funnel logo. This cruise ship, 20,469-ton, 600-by-80 feet, 452 passenger, was built in France 1951 as "Flandre" for French Line, then sold in 1967 to the Italian firm Costa Cruises, who renamed her "Carla C". In 1968 the ship was chartered to Princess Cruises, who marketed her as "Princess Carla", but never officially renamed her. Demolished in Turkey 1994.

Princess Cruises advertisement (1968, Princess Italia and Princess Carla cruises)

Princess Cruises brochures (1970/71/72)

Stanley B. McDonald (Alberta, October 13, 1920 – Seattle, November 20, 2014), entrepreneur, founder of Princess Cruises

Princess Cruises 50th Anniversary (1965-2015). On December 3, 2015, Princess Cruises celebrated their 50 years recreating the exact route of the cruise line's original Princess Patricia's maiden voyage (December 3, 1965) - from Los Angeles to Mexico - on board the 30,277-ton Pacific Princess (above).

Pink Floyd

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Pink Floyd logo

Band:
--- "Sigma 6" (1963)
--- "Meggadeaths" (1963)
--- "Screaming Abdabs" (1963)
--- "Abdabs" (1963)
--- "Leonard's Lodgers" (1963)
--- "Spectrum Five" (1963)
--- "The Tea Set" (1963)
--- "The Pink Floyd Sound" (1965)
--- "The Pink Floyd" (1966)
--- "Pink Floyd" (1970)

First song: "Lucy Leave"
(also known as "Lucy Lea in Blue Tights")

Genre: Blues Rock

Roger Keith Barrett
known as Syd Barrett
Cambridge, Jan. 6, 1946
– Jul. 7, 2006,
the founder member
of the band Pink Floyd

Musicians:
--- Syd Barrett - vocals, guitar
--- Bob Klose - guitar
--- Roger Waters - bass
--- Richard Wright - guitar
--- Nick Mason - drums

Writer: Syd Barrett

ORIGINAL VERSION
--- Recorded: 1965

--- Place of production: London

--- Format: Acetate, 7", 45 rpm, A-side. On B-side: the cover song "I'm a King Bee" by Slim Harpo
--- Lenght: 2:53

RELEASE VERSION

--- Released: 1996
--- Label: Sonic

--- Format: Second track of two track mini-CD that came bundled with the Italian 120-page book "A Fish Out of Water", dedicated to Syd Barrett, with illustrated biography and lyrics. Written in both Italian and English by Luca Ferrari and Annie Marie Roulin, edited by Stampa Alternativa, Rome, Italy. The first track is a cover of the song "I'm a King Bee" by Slim Harpo.

--- Lenght: 3:07

Overview: "Lucy Leave" (also known as "Lucy Lea in Blue Tights") is one of five songs recorded by the band in early 1965. In the same series: "I'm a King Bee", "Butterfly", "Remember Me", "Double O Bo".
The members of the group to become known as Pink Floyd came together in London, but the band’s roots were in Cambridge, in the East of England, in the early 1960s. In 1963 Roger Waters met drummer Nick Mason while they were both studying architecture at the London Polytechnic at Regent Street. They first played music together in a group formed by Keith Noble and Clive Metcalfe with Noble's sister Sheilagh. Keyboardist Richard Wright, a fellow architecture student, joined later that year, and the group became a sextet named Sigma 6, the first band to include Waters, who was at this time playing lead guitar; Wright, who at first played rhythm guitar since there was rarely an available keyboard; and Mason on drums. Sigma 6 went through a number of other transitory names, including the Meggadeaths, the Abdabs, Leonard's Lodgers, and the Spectrum Five before settling on the Tea Set. Noble and Metcalfe left the Tea Set in late 1963, and Klose introduced the band to singer Chris Dennis, a technician with the Royal Air Force. In December 1964, they managed to secure their first recording time, at a studio in West Hampstead, through one of Wright's friends, who let them use some down time for free. In early 1965, Barrett became the band's frontman; Klose quit the band in mid-1965 and Barrett took over on lead guitar. The group first referred to themselves as the Pink Floyd Sound in late 1965. Barrett created the name on the spur of the moment when he discovered that another band, also called the Tea Set, were to perform at one of their gigs. The name is derived from the given names of two blues musicians whose Piedmont blues records Barrett had in his collection, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.

Quote (Syd Barrett): «I'm full of dust and guitars...»

Property: Pink Floyd Music Ltd.

Official website: http://www.pinkfloyd.com

"Lucy Leave" (1965) original audio

LUCY LEAVE

Leave
When I ask you to leave, Lucy
Please, far away from me, Lucy
Oh, go little girl

Seen, is (oh so) broken up about you, Lucy
Mean, treat me and done me harm, Lucy
Been, in love with you and your charms, Lucy
Oh, go little girl

I'm in love with you, Lucy
You got my heart
You got my heart, oh no!
You tear me apart
You just won't let me go
You hold on so tight, so tight I just can't breath
Now lucy leave, Lucy

Leave,
When I ask you to leave, little girl
Please, far away from me, little girl
Yeah! Go little girl

Seen, is (oh so) broken up about you, Lucy
Yeah!
Go.

"Lucy Leave" (1965) lyrics

"Syd Barrett - A Fish Out of Water" (1996) - The Italian book dedicated to Syd Barrett, containing the release version of the song "Lucy Leave" and the cover song "I'm a King Bee" on a mini-CD. According to the authors of the book, the songs can be attributed to the band when it was called "Architectural Abdabs".

The Abdabs (1965): article by Barbara Walters from the Regent Street Poly Magazine

Pink Floyd in 1965. Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, Bob Klose, Richard Wright.

Pink Floyd in 1968. This is the only known photo-shoot of all five significant members. In mid-1965 Bob Klose quit the band and Syd Barrett took over on lead guitar. In December 1967, the group added guitarist David Gilmour as the fifth member. Clockwise from bottom: David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Richard Wright.