Munro Jay Kreinik

Star-News - Pasadena, California - Oct 28 1957 —Staff Piiolo.

. .'•.' f Kreinik displays scooter on which he toured West Europe.

2-Wheeled Tourist

Pasadenan Scoots Way Through Western Europe

By LEONAED KREIDT

Munro Jay. Kreinik, 26, of 60 N. Catalina Ave., Pasadena, believes the best way to lour Europe is to scoot — on a scooter, of course — the way many Europeans do It.

His conviction is .based on 4'/^months of scooting around Western Kurope on a Danish 'Vespa" scooter which- he bought in Copenhagen, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Belgium and England' in;his wanderings on the • scooter.

His 'trip started in a typically American way — hitchhiking to Norfolk, Va., where he talked the captain of a Norwegian coal freighter • under German registry into taking him aboard for the voyage to Hamburg, Germany, for a )8 fare..

The Pasadena electronics en-gineer, who is employed by Invar .Electronics, 323 W.

In Copenhagen he stayed with a Danish family and heard Victor Borge, who is known here for his slapstick comedy, conduct the Philharmonic Orchestra in some very serious music.

• Scooting down into Germany he was traveling from

SCOOTER: See Page 28 Hamburg to Bremen when three men tried to rob him of his cameras, tape record-er, luggage and money. Krei-nik said he held them off with a German bayonet and managed to get away on his scooter, Ms belongings intact

After visits to Rotterdam, Ghent, and Ostend, he ferried over to Dover, England, for a tour of the island.

In Waterford he met for the first time a "pen-pal" with whom he had correspondec for 13 years, the editor of an international modelers' magazine.

Here Kreinik was able to indulge his model airplane hobby to the utmost, attending international model meets, taking motion pictures, and discussing model designs. He said he purchased a newly-designed model'engine there \yhlch "wilL clean up the air meets here.'

Known as the ETA .29 cubic inch .engine,' it, wlll not be imported, generally here until late next year, he calculated. Kreinik intended to leave for the United.States from Liverpool, England, but found the fares too high. So ho turned around 'and ferried back to Bremen where he caught the same coaler back to Norfolk this time for ?112.

He estimates-the entire trip cost about; $1,2,00,,including the prlce of the scooter, a transistor tape recorder, some electronic gadgets, and model Items.

He estimated lodging, food, oil Mitt gasoline ran round $400. ,v

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Jay. Kreinik of Pasadena will be among the exhibitors of rare and unusual guns at the California Annual Antique Gun Show, at •Ihc , Disneyland Hotel, June 20 through 28. There will be more than 200 exhibitors, displaying guns worth in excess of SI 000 -000.

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