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Vacation Trends
1830s-1930s
From Cindy S. Aron's Working at Play:
A History of Vacations in the United States.

1830s-1840s. Wealthy Americans emulate upper-class Europeans, visiting resorts where they can breathe clean air and take the waters. Samuel Dawson writes of strolling, bowling, boating and dancing in Saratoga, N.Y., "It is almost impossible to give you any idea of the high enjoyment a person may have there for two or three days."

1850s. Magazines and newspapers use the word "vacation" to promote traveling for health and happiness, though The New Englander, a religious publication, distinguishes sharply between recreation that "recruits, restores and prepares the man for better service" and "pleasure for pleasure's sake."

1870s. A week's paid vacation becomes standard for white-collar "brain workers." Century Magazine declares that summer hotels "form an almost continuous line along the coast of New England and the Middle States. One mountain region after another has succumbed to their invasion."

1880s. Self-improvement vacations, rooted in the Bible camp meetings of the early 19th century, branch into secular educational retreats around the nation.

Turn of the century. Tourism and trips to expositions and world's fairs become the rage. About 100 million people visit the 12 international expositions held in the USA between 1876 and 1916.

1910s and 1920s. Paid vacations extend to the working class. Social reformers tout fresh-air respites for working women and poor children. Capitalists, perhaps hoping to forestall unionism, begin offering paid time off to male workers.

1930s. Despite a brief slowdown during the Depression, the demand for vacations continues to grow. In 1935, Americans spend $2.3 billion on vacations. In a Fortune magazine survey in 1936, 55.4% say that they expect to take a vacation that year and that "they want to get as far away as they have time to go, preferably to another part of the country."