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American children headed to camp generally did so by bus. The United States had an excellent rail system. Perhaps not as well developed as the major European systems, but still an excellent rail system. But my personal experience and much of the photographic record shows children heading off the camp by bus. This as best we can tell is not the case for France. We notice French children being transported by rail. We are not entirely sure why this was. It could be because France had a much better rail system. But the location of French summer camps was also probably a factor. We note many French summer camos located at populalar beach resorts. The were locations with excellent rail service because so many vacationers came there. American summer camps were primarily located in more isolated inland rural areas in the mountains are on lakes where the raul service was more likmited. We notice some coastal camps, often in estuary locations rather than at beach resorts. These are all areas that busses were needed to gets the kids to camp. Here we see a group of French girls arricing at a Channel beach resort in 1920 (figure 1).
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