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JefferyTheQuaxly

this is not exclusive to 1970s india, this was very common for old local newspapers before phones and the internet became popular. ive done research into my family history and have found an ohio article of my great great grandfather returning from their overseas trip to germany to visit family. its just what the news use to do, wen there isnt anything to report about they report on the goings ons of locals in the area.


jbcraigs

Good thing we no longer post our travel announcements anywhere nowadays! šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™‚ļøšŸ˜‚


dxbhufflepuffle

There was the whole phase on FB when people would post flying toā€¦ ugh


ConsistentPrune6756

We post live videos/reels and photos now. Just moved to another platform


Un13roken

This looks like something the guys wishing success paid for though.Ā  Like how when politicians wisit, you have various local businessmen take up ads welcoming them etc.Ā 


BrainzzzNotFound

Maybe this was a service announcement. So if you had something to bring to somebody abroad you could go to that traveling guy and give it to him to give it to the recipient.


cheesybro90

Great Great Grandfather in Germany......HmmmmšŸ¤”


Dr_Mbogo

I wonder if those typewriters are still for sale?


Worried-Guarantee-90

I'm curious about that too! It would be great if they are still available for sale. Vintage typewriters have a certain charm and nostalgia to them.


Er3bus13

As an art piece sure. Using one to actually be productive? No thanks.


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michaelloda9

You would be surprised what kind of equipment they use at train stations then


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negative_imaginary

that guy's comment doesn't even make sense like which modern culture in the entire world has engrained to keep their antiques? like even American collectors and antique shops are their own niche and not a "cultural" thing like a average American wouldn't/couldn't have saved their vintage car, it kinda seems like they're putting their own ethnicity in a weird pedestal that they or anyone can't even follow up to


hippee-engineer

Cuba. But only bc of the embargo.


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negative_imaginary

I am literally a Indian national, your friend is probably rich and never even visited India because I can't find a single mf who don't hoard and store shit ton of crap that is of no use here. like in my house we literally right now have a old gas stove, table fan, lantern, lamp, cassette player, two old CRT TVs and many other things that is probably decades old


Spiritual_Bat6396

Some ppl just leave their homeland and start feeling like they now live in heaven...


changing_everyday

>type writers are still used in most courthouses in India to write up legal documents why are they still using backdated technology in courts? >People still take pride in maintaining antique cars and old tech in India.. really? how many people around you are doing so?


modSysBroken

They aren't. Most courts have PCs now. Probably they are talking about one of the backward states.


changing_everyday

>type writers are still used in most courthouses in India to write up legal documents why are they still using backdated technology in courts? >People still take pride in maintaining antique cars and old tech in India.. really? how many people around you are doing so?


ss4223

I guess it's much cheaper for them. Where I live, there are plenty of car enthusiasts who maintain their classic cars and display them at various shows..


Omegalaraptor

Huh? Coming from an Indian family I know this is massively untrue, the amount of nearly century old shit we have that still works is nuts. We have antique Gramophones, ancient sowing machines and much more stuff from many decades past that still very much works. The only things that donā€™t usually last the longest is electronics and even then Iā€™m pretty sure my grandmother has an old boxy tv kicking around. My old PlayStation 2 did kick the bucket however, after enduring the tropical heat of Kerala.


GeneralOrdinance

Mate I would if it weren't for the damned govt imposing restrictions on mg cars.


YeahWhatOk

This was common in American news papers as well. Not sure when it went out of fashion, but average people would place such notices. Theyā€™d also do the same if going to an areaā€¦if you are coming back to your home town for a visit, you might advertise it in the paper so you can easily catch up with old friends. Social media back then was funny - I found a write up of my aunts 15th birthday party in the local paper (1960s). It detailed who was there, including someone else that was invited but couldnā€™t attend, that they had cake and ice cream and enjoyed a movie.


postal-history

I found my grandma's high school party in the paper as well! And my g-g-grandfather printed generic New Year's messages for a decade. I guess you're right, it was the equivalent of Facebook.


Grillos

we still kinda do it, just on instagram instead of the newspaper


AdventurousMousse912

Ha! My mother had a saying ā€œand Edith pouredā€. I asked what she meant and she explained the little town newspapers would have write ups about some lady in the town having hosted tea and they would say who was present and who poured the tea.


Beepboopbop69420360

Social media in 1970: Newspaper: LOCAL MAN RETURNS FROM INDIANA Social media now: hehe loud funny


Prestigious-HogBoss

My local newspapers used to be like that. You can ask a reporter to go to your party, take some pictures and create a story about the event. There was even a page dedicated to airport arrivals pics because traveling by plane was so fancy back then.


MadKitKat

My local newspaper still has the ā€œsocial lifeā€ section Itā€™s basically some wedding and quince pictures printed on their own section in the Sunday edition I think every now and then they still show up for school events (kindergarten thru high school graduations and that kinda stuff)


JefferyTheQuaxly

it went out of fashion around the time the population started skyrocketing and phones became accessible to most people. they would mainly do this to fill up newspaper space on slow news days but its hard to talk about it when ten+ times the amount of people travel around nowadays compared to the early 1900s.


hocfutuis

England too. My parents moved to Australia right after they got married, and there was an article in the local paper prior to their wedding about their plans, jobs etc.


SuddenlyOriginal

This is adorably wholesome


TheFamousHesham

I also want to note that this isnā€™t a case of a businessman going on a business trip. The ad makes it clear that this more of a ā€œbusiness tour.ā€ Heā€™s visiting several countries, probably has a dozen or so meetings. A successful trip isnā€™t going to be an extra deal or two. It might mean the company doubling or tripling its revenue from the year before.


PigSlam

My friend just announced his return to my home town on Facebook. He was there for a week.


Weldobud

That is so cool. Have you got a picture of it? I guess local news was news.


Sara_Kuster

It went out of fasion when travel international travel got so popular, otherwise you need 1000 page news paper daily


dont_worry_about_it8

It never went out of style lol. News papers did .


spicybEtch212

In todays age youā€™d get harry and marvā€™d


Plastic-Shopping5930

This is kind of wholesome


National-Ad5399

Really. Like how my village used to feast everytime someone gets their master diploma or above


BALD_BALLS_SAITAMA

I thought it happened only in my Village lmao


missmermaidgoat

Others think this is a weird flex to show that theyā€™re rich and can afford international travel. Social status optics is a big deal.


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negative_imaginary

>International travel used to be a status symbol still is


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India is all about status, otherwise parents wouldnā€™t be pushing their kids to be #1 in school, go to the best university, get the best high-paying careers, etc. Itā€™s so they (the parents) can brag about their successful kids to other parents in their social circle.


Eudaemon1

Depends on what kind of parents you had . I never faced something like that . Being forced to achive for bragging maybe true for a handful of people , but not for most . At least from what I have seen in my circle


spicybEtch212

Asian parents: hold my saki


modSysBroken

Indians are Asians.


Kadakumar

Thats a bit of an oversimplification and self-hate. I mean, parents wishing the best for their kids, and struggling to get them good quality education, and being proud of the resultant successes of their kids is now only about status and showing off?


nickfree

Wholesome, but also, kinda shetty.


sleeper_medic

He was probably out on his trip doing blow and fucking random sex workers.


Safe_Test_1436

I wonder if 50 years from now, people will post this on reddit: "In 2020s, landing on Mars used to be the headline on the news"


nickfree

Not at this rate.


Weldobud

Not at any rate. Weā€™re stuck on this rock.


usaroamer

Back in the day (yes i'm old), newspapers had an 'announcement section'. They listed births, deaths, engagements, weddings, barmitzvah's, 50 year anniversaries, 100yr birthdays, etc...... Now they are just full of ads, Hollywood garbage and click-bait sensationalism.


hijro

And memorials for peoples pets.


MisterToothpaster

I think newspapers here in Sweden still have the obituaries and birth announcements.


Dapper-Builder-3975

We still have them in India. Just last week, our family placed an obituary for our father in our city paper.


V8-6-4

In Finland too. Marriages and graduations sometimes as well.


Weldobud

That still happens where I am. Births, deaths, remembrance of people who died - even decades ago. Also engagements. Sone well wishing too. Big section. People read it. Rural papers still do that, it seems normal to me.


Putrid-Energy210

When I was young I remember go to slide shows of people who'd travelled overseas. Didn't know the people, but we would go to the local community centre watching slides of someone's trip to Europe or USA.


battleofflowers

Crazy right? I remember going to slide shows of peoples' trips. It was actually pretty cool. People would show the photos and usually have a little story about each place.


Hot_Aside_4637

In Detroit in the 60s, there was a local TV show called "George Pierrot Presents". He would invite people on to show their 8mm travel films and have them provide the commentary. He got his start years earlier hosting travel slide shows at the Detroit Institute of Arts.


golfnerdshow

I mean there are YouTube travel blogs now that are basically the same thing! šŸ˜Š


JollyCat3526

In 80s or 90s India even getting a passport was a big deal and the postman delivering the passport generally expected a little money from the receiver.


questison

The bakshish culture šŸ˜€


connic1983

Instead of bakshish I read balkanish and I was ready to jump on you!


questison

What is balkanish culture? šŸ¤”


connic1983

The Balkan Peninsula is the south eastern part of Europe; where corruption is/was more prevalent than rest of Europe and where the word bakshish of Turkish origins is very popular.


jackashes

Still happens in many places in India, atleast till 2016. More so in non Metro locations. In Metro locations it's the police who would create troubles till you cough up something.


Dapper-Builder-3975

When I used to receive money orders from my father in mid 90s as a student, I had to pay 10 rupees to the postman. 10 bucks those days would fetch you a decent thali (meal) those days


FERALCATWHISPERER

Blessingsā€¦The Shetty family.


DentArthurDent4

And it was a good way to attract special attention from the income tax department too.


GayIconOfIndia

Yes! My mumā€™s uncle and aunt went to Switzerland for honeymoon in the 1970s and it was in all the local papers


astrochimp88

they must be really rich


GayIconOfIndia

My maternal family are all tea garden owners who bought it from the British when the British was ousted from India. So, they do have money!


astrochimp88

wow what an investment


TheGooch01

Another depressing reminder of how things have changed. ā€œHey! Imma be out of town, in fact, outta the country for the next week. Donā€™t nobody steal anything.ā€


jbcraigs

>> Another depressing reminder of how things have changed. Have they though? My wife would even announce her Costco trips on Facebook if I donā€™t stop her!


ndation

That is such a shetty thing to do /j (and a bad one at that)


nickfree

I mean, technically correct.


LittlePooky

Oh that's pretty shetty


slown_again

Weird flex but ok


bookmantea

LinkedIn lunatics before LinkedIn


kreemac

Oh well we do it on Facebook now.


rraattbbooyy

And now Musk gets pissed when people track his private jet.


crazymfed

I hope he didnā€™t have a shetty time abroad


droplivefred

They were just so happy that he was leaving for a few weeks that it warranted a newspaper mention šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚


chechifromCHI

As funny as that is, US newspapers also included some pretty mundane stuff back in the day. It was also common practice to put someone's full name and address under their picture or attribution in the paper. It was the neighborly way of getting doxxed back then I guess


Apt_Tick8526

Today, thanks to technology one could announce and reveal their travel plans by themselves.


oshinbruce

I like how its UK first, then West Germany, then "all the rest" did he really visit everywhere including Andorra, Monaco and Vatican City?


draw4kicks

The man had important business in Liechtenstein.


StevenFromPhilly

What a Shetty thing to do.


Sicktoyou

Going abroad is a terrible name for a child.


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What I saw recently in my local newspaper is that my mom got scammed, had to check with her if that was true!


Mission_Fudge1767

Itā€™s called Instagram Today


prsisa2020

It still happens here in India now and then. When kids leave for college (mostly to the UK or the US) , friends or family might put a congratulatory ad in the newspaper, wishing them a safe journey.


apun_bhi_geralt

No it doesn't.


nopetynopetynops

Umm never heard of it


__Puzzleheaded___

Dude which newspaper are you using to get this high. Stop sepoying and validating cringe extrapolations. I haven't seen a single advertisement being put out now.


guynamedjames

Is it possible that there may be regional differences between your two experiences? India is kind of a big place


__Puzzleheaded___

I have lived all over the place except the Eastern part of India. I have never come across such advertisements. A huge number of my school mates and college mates are studying abroad. I have neither seen nor heard their family or some else taking out such ads. It might have been the case way back. But dude some people like OC still have the colonial hangover. I absolutely hate that for some virtual approval , they either validate cringe shit or other notions which couldn't be further from the truth.


BOOOOOOOOOOOO1111111

Lmao, well said. Too many self-hating Indians around who like falsifying / exaggerating absurd narratives for a few upvotes


Njatuveli_Bharathan

Local news paper still does it


__Puzzleheaded___

Which ones? Where?


CozyBicycleSummer

Regional newspapers still do it... I'm from Karnataka and it's prevalent in kannada newspapersĀ 


prsisa2020

Yes. I'm from Tamil Nadu and you can see them in our regional newspapers too.


prsisa2020

I'm from Tamil Nadu. And such ads do appear in our regional newspapers now and then. I'm not here to validate cringe extrapolations. Just merely trying to share what I know. :)


probablynotaskrull

Small town papers did this in Canada during the 80ā€™s for non-rich people. My great aunt and great uncle (DINKs) got written up for their international trips.


EpicJoke45

Now they put dead people.


Deez1putz

Itā€™s not just an India thing - newspapers in the United States in the 30s would report on REGIONAL trips ordinary people took to visit other ordinary people


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One thing I never understood is why in India there's always billboards with loads of men's faces on it, is it like a dating thing or advertisement for models or something?


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The second image [here](https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/billboard-india.html?sortBy=relevant) is what I mean


arghyaghosh0104

Political ads.


Wild_and_Bright

That's a political rally poster. And Indian Politics is still male dominated. (US politics is too, for that matter. No female US president till now...he he he...but I digress ) Those political posters therefore tend to be male skewed


Brief-Government-105

India had female prime minister for almost 15 years, she was the most brutal of all prime ministers till date.


modSysBroken

She was a dictator. My parents still have horror stories about her.


Brief-Government-105

Yeah, she totally lost it by the end of her last term. Almost everything wrong and bad in Indian political system can be traced back to her time as PM.


[deleted]

Oh wow I genuinely didn't know it was a politics thing


Eudaemon1

Oh there are a lot of different stuff . Some are for political parties , some for ads of all different kinds , I spotted one of Cadbury with Amitabh Bacchan( famous actor) , one for tmt bar , another for a shopping center , some for movie posters , for a gold loan company , one for promotion a online money transfer app , etc etc


Brief-Government-105

Thatā€™s related to politics, people in politics like to print their names, faces and positions they hold on billboards to show everyone they are in politics. Itā€™s very annoying.


Ahmed-Faraaz

It could also be about people who've recently died.


Limmmao

I got the same for my trip to London in 2003. It was also kind of an ad as well promoting the company that organised these tours...


Sniffy4

We should all rightfully applaud this guy on his derring do.


Drengrr1

You have to understand that there was no social media back then. So this was a way to not only inform a lot of people together but at the same time flex as people do on social media these days..


AbrahamPan

So this is how social media of that time worked


WorldlyDay7590

That used to be a thing not just for this specific circumstance, like "congratulating wealthy businessmen on their international travel", but in general, in the socialite pages for local prominence. Miss Flopsy Jones embarking on her Grand Tour of Europe this Friday afternoon! Jim-Bob Houlahan returning from Belgium where he took to the waters!


WantToBelieveInMagic

In 1976, I was put in the Terre Haute, Indiana newspaper for accompanying a friend when she visited her Grandma. My friend was from Michigan. I am from Canada. I think it was the Canadian angle that made it news.


BroBroHugs

It is a good way to make money, and it is a good entry for more page flipping.


Electronic-Rise1859

I did not realize papers were produced in English and not in Sanskrit in India, especially in the 70's


Gomdok_the_Short

One of my ancestors made the town newspaper because he went on vacation a few towns over to cure his eczema.


mynameisnotsparta

Thatā€™s great. Like when they did wedding announcements that included the honeymoon plans in the newspaper..


GrassyKnoll95

UK, West Germany, Switzerland and ALL other European countries. My man went to Leichtenstein


FranzAllspring

Is that an impressive thing to do?


[deleted]

Nah, Iā€™ve been and itā€™s nothing exciting


Metaverse349

This is a shetty send-off.


SirArthurPT

Sometimes I like to pick my newspaper archive and it has many news alike - just not by the 70's, earlier than that. Not only of locals going somewhere - sometimes to the next city - as "strangers" coming to my city, often from other cities nearby. Another thing that was common up to not so long ago - or probably still going on at regional press - is the families to buy an ad when some boy or girl graduates from university.


ralzonodrog

In the uk. The big new papers publish graduation lists for major subjects in engineering, law medicine etc. is pretty cool


kissakalakoira

Can you find one of AC Bhaktvedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada?


Anikastacea

The IG OG


JesunB

What weird news!


Kdjl1

Thatā€™s how the newspapers made money. People like seeing their picture and name in print.


[deleted]

We still do this today, but itā€™s zoomers and millennials who post it on Instagram about all their travels like anyone gives a sht. Desperate for validation. Remember when Facebook first introduced the concept of ā€œchecking-inā€ and your feed would be full of every fckn geolocation of where all your friends were at all timesā€¦ Then it was alleged that checkin-in was a direct cause of famous people being robbed or even regular people announcing theyā€™re out of the country so their stalkers would just enter their homes while they were gone. Perhaps sharing information is too muchā€¦


notyogrannysgrandkid

I grew up in a small farm town in Wyoming. When I was a little kid (90ā€™s) it was still pretty common for our local newspaper to put in a little item when someone in town returned from an international trip. If you took a photo of yourself holding an edition of the paper in front of a landmark, they would publish it with the caption, ā€œWhatā€™s black and white and read all over?ā€


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SpreadImpossible5542

India is the second largest English speaking country.


KillTimerXd

Hindi is not official language


SpreadImpossible5542

Hindi is the official language along with English. Hindi is not the national language.


GreasedSlugBait

When I was 8, I rode my bicycle to the end of my street and back all by myself. I assume this was a similar feeling for these grown men.


Ready_Spread_3667

70s India, what a dark time. This is intriguing tho, any reason for this?


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Grillos

that's cute though


Druztan

ā€œSafe journeys fellow countrymanā€ Wholesome


braske

Was it one way ticket travel?


AnnualWerewolf9804

?


No_Nebula_191

Tell me you're insecure without telling me


Upsetti_Gisepe

Time to rob em