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  1. Oct 8, 1998 · But when 22-year-old Mr. Kassner and Gilbert Haroche, his New York University classmate, opened their first Liberty Travel store in Times Square in 1951, theirs was a one-desk, two-man...

  2. Apr 25, 2015 · In 1951, fresh out of New York University, where he studied engineering and business, Mr. Haroche teamed up with a classmate, Fred Kassner, to open a two-desk, two-telephone agency in Times...

  3. Apr 24, 2015 · Gilbert Haroche, who co-founded Liberty Travel with the late Fred Kassner, died on April 23 at the age of 87 in New York. Haroche had cancer, and died at Columbia University Medical...

  4. Liberty Travel was co-founded in 1951 by Fred Kassner and Gilbert Haroche, New York University classmates who started as a two-man operation in New York City. Initially, they focused on travel to the Catskills and Miami. They offered vacation packages intended to be affordable to the general public.

  5. Oct 8, 1998 · Kassner founded the agency Liberty Travel in 1951 with fellow New York University classmate Gilbert Haroche, and the two later launched the wholesale company Gogo Worldwide Vacations, a...

  6. May 4, 2015 · Liberty co-founder Gilbert Haroche remembered as 'a true gentleman'. [Editor's note: Gilbert Haroche, who co-founded Liberty Travel with Fred Kassner in 1951, died on April 23 at the age...

  7. Liberty Travel started in a small, one-desk office on 42nd Street in Times Square when founders Fred Kassner and Gilbert Haroche introduced to the travel market the idea of a complete vacation package, including transportation, hotel, and hotel transfers.