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Luggage History
Category: Sports and Recreation > Travel Asked by: allli-ga List Price: $2.00 |
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19 Jun 2006 07:52 PDT
Expires: 19 Jul 2006 07:52 PDT Question ID: 739331 |
When did wheeled luggage first appear on the consumer market in the US? |
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Re: Luggage History
From: myoarin-ga on 19 Jun 2006 08:54 PDT |
Let's see: in Moby Dick, Queequeg strapped his seachest on a wheelbarrow, posssibly the first record of wheeled luggage in America. But then he shouldered barrow and chest, and it was over a hundred years before the idea caught on, sometime in the 1970s, I believe. |
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Re: Luggage History
From: probonopublico-ga on 19 Jun 2006 09:38 PDT |
Maybe it was when porters stopped being so readily available? |
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Re: Luggage History
From: kemlo-ga on 19 Jun 2006 14:50 PDT |
I have an english shopping catalogue for 1907 That has steamer trunks with tweels on it. |
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Re: Luggage History
From: kemlo-ga on 19 Jun 2006 14:51 PDT |
TYPO with two wheels on it. Sorry, foot trouble |
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Re: Luggage History
From: probonopublico-ga on 19 Jun 2006 22:23 PDT |
Congratulations, klemo, 'tweels' is your best ever! How do you do it? |
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