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Identity Trail from a Leather Suitcase

This old leather suitcase travelled around the world with its previous owner but ended up in our stores as decoration. I had seen it in 3 different stores in different occasions already, I don't know why but I feel sad seeing it being used that way.

Suitcase from the 50s

From what I gathered, this suitcase belonged to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Henninger who came from Santa Rosa California and went on board with the ocean liner Gripsholm on 17th Sep 1957 in Gothenburg, a few months after the ship's maiden voyage from Copenhagen to U.S.A.

Gripsholm_1957

Mr. and Mrs. Henninger stayed in room 89 on main deck, it took them 8 days to travel from Gothenburg non-stop to New York arriving on 25th Sep 1975. They had probably been to Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore and Manila as evident from the hotel stickers.

SAL 1957 Sailing List

I literally went to Mr. and Mrs. Henninger's house, well through Google Map you know. You gotta be amazed how you can fly over to a particular spot on earth in no time. I spent the rest of tonight flying over my favorite places in Winnipeg, it is where I got my degree and spent a few wonderful years in libraries and parks.

Petaluma hill road

Well, one leather suitcase got me into learning about ocean liners and Mr. and Mrs. Henninger's lives. I also had a great time flying earth reminiscing life in Canada. At the same time, posting on this blog leaves my identity trail on the net perhaps someday somebody will find out a lot more about me than what I could find out about Mr. and Mrs. Henninger. They left their trail on objects, we leave our trail on the net.

sailing list 1957 from the collection of Björn Larsson

on the suitcase: Midori's Traveler's Notebook made up sample for iSQUARE LOG-ON store.