Holiday travel in 1941 was just as miserable as today, with no iPhones in sight

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Holiday travel

Boredom, anxiety, frustration and not an iPhone in sight

Alex Q. Arbuckle

December 24, 1941

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The conventional wisdom that the days around Thanksgiving and Christmas mark the busiest travel time of the year is not strictly accurate — summer weekends actually claim the top spots in terms of air and road traffic.Nevertheless, the hordes of people crowding onto planes, trains and buses during the holidays has long given the impression that seemingly everyone is traveling at once. On Christmas Eve 1941, before air travel became an affordable option, Office of War Information photographer John Collier captured the teeming crowds of anxious travelers moving through the Greyhound Bus Terminal in Washington, D.C.

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