The Kleiber Family Timeline

Tag: Vacation

  • Hawaii Trip 1978

    Eight years after their trip to the Bahamas, Aunt Peg and Grandma (from James persepective) once again ventured out on a major trip, this time to Hawaii.

    Now they stayed pretty busy with trips in these intervening years, including two trips to Disney World with James Dad in tow, but the Bahama trip and Hawaii trip were special as they were a mother daughter thing.

    The photograph to the left was taken at Jack Cione’s lavish South Sea stage revue … with the music of Jack Demello … as part of the exciting Follies Polynesia, a unique show in Hawaii with beautiful girls, lavish costumes, and memorable music.

    The photo was taken by Kahala Kai Photo Service.

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  • New Orleans 1971

    Loretta and Peg decided to take a little vacation and head to Louisiana to visit the city of New Orleans. The enjoyed the wonderful food that the city has to offer including a visit to Antoines, a very popular restaurant recognized nationally for their cuisine as they visited many points in the city including the Legendary French Quarter. If you would like to see what the Antoine menu looked like in 1971 in pdf format click the link below.

    Restaurant Antoine Menu 1971

    They also managed to find time to visit the above ground city of the dead. Early settlers in the area struggled with different methods to bury the dead. Burial plots are shallow in New Orleans because the water table is very high. Dig a few feet down, and the grave becomes soggy, filling with water. The casket will literally float. You just can’t keep a good person down! The early settlers tried placing stones in and on top of coffins to weigh them down and keep them underground. Unfortunately, after a rainstorm, the rising water table would literally pop the airtight coffins out of the ground. To this day, unpredictable flooding still lifts the occasional coffin out of the ground in areas above the water table, generally considered safe from flooding.

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  • Bahama Trip 1970

    James Aunt Peg and Grandma embarked on a short vacation during the heart of winter to the tropical paradise of the Bahamas. The entire event was set up by St Alberts and a good size group of parishioners took advantage of the group rate. The mother and daughter team had an incredible time and recommended the trip to everyone.

    James Dad remembers going to the St Albert meeting room that winter where the parishioners met and were given instructions for the trip such as required documentation and such.

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