Description
Full color 9 1/2″ x 13 1/2″ ad for the American Export Lines. This ad begins with a picture of a man working the ice cream parlor onboard a ship. There are a bunch of children there and he is serving them all, and the ad headline says that “This man is a Sailor”. “His name is Tom Hunt. But he’s affectionately called “Grade A” by young voyagers such as these because Tom is a maestro of the milk shakes at the soda bar of the S.S. Constitution. Nowhere ashore is there so beloved a soda jerk, for “Grade A” dispenses with unbelievable largess. If personal taste calls for triple or quadruple dips, “Grade A” has only admiration for youthful capacity. His juvenile fan mail is enormous. Evenings, he presides over the Boat ‘n Bottle Bar and you should travel sans spouse. Tom provides affidavits of behavior that are guaranteed to save you from the doghouse. Grateful folks from coast to coast will verify this. It is such men and such spirit that give the sister Sunliners Constitution and Independence the warm personalities that distinguish them. In the parlance of seamen the Constitution and Independence receive the highest accolade a ship can get…they’re called “happy ships”“.
Source: September 1954 Holiday.
