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Travel brochures made miserable trips look glamorous
HERE’S THE INTERESTING PART
Before modern comforts, riding trains across a country was loud, dirty, and miserable. Promoters invented the glossy, heavily exaggerated pamphlet strictly to convince people that suffering in a wooden train car was actually a glamorous, soul-enriching adventure. The tradition of overpromising vacations continues to this day.
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