TIME OUT IN TRINIDAD - 1950s - Pt. 1 - Piarco Airport & Drive South

All film contributed by Sooty1312. This video is not to be copied without express written consent of the operator of this channel. In this nostalgic sequence, a British family arrives in Trinidad in 1955, via New York on a Pan American DC6B. The camera lingers on the beautiful airliner as it lands and taxis to Piarco's quaint wooden terminal building of the 1950s. Note the ground crew unloading baggage and a later shot of the flight crew returning to their cars, the stewardess in her semi military PAA uniform. After loading the car the family begins their drive south to their new home in Penal. Note the practically empty roads! A far cry from today.

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Entertainment

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• Pan American World Airways
• Piarco Airport
• Flight Attendant
• Douglas DC6
• Penal
• Princess Margaret Highway
• Railway Bridge
• Cane Field
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Historic 8mm film
• Pointe
• Pierre
• Railway
• Bridge
• Trinidad
• Government
• Crossing

[vk1126]

AWESOME!!!

[oldtimecalypso]

Oh there's LOTS more to come sire! Drilling at Apex Oilfields, Princess Margaret's arrival at Piarco, Carnival 1957, Radio Trinidad and Radio Guardian, Forest Reserve, Pointe a Pierre refinery, Yacht Club, PoS harbour...etc. etc. etc.

[JourneyCaribbeanPast]

I have embedded this gem to my blog called Journey Into Our Caribbean Past! Wonderful!!

[mrzelenak]

love your videos and i love Trinidad! thanks for uploading these historical videos!

[theleftbank]

YES YES YES that snippet from 2:01 to 2:02 is actually Chaguanas!!!! There was once a roundabout there ( I was told by a grey-haired taxi-driver). That's why the car appears to be going around it to continue due south. Wow. I knew that 50's deco building all my life. Thanks for posting this Sooty1312!!!!

[ihos501]

now i feel like british

[nicolewism]

a thousand thank yous for these films. i wasn't born yet so it's really exciting to see what our country looked like then. I have always wondered.

[joyparris]

Wonderful!! Thanks so much for posting these videos

[BrianR04]

Brilliant, my Wife was born there, anyone remember the Laird family ?

[wwe4evrucntcme]

PENAL WOI WOI WOI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!