I do remember a few of these things from my first adventures on commercial airliners in the late sixties and early seventies.
Definitely a far cry from the flying cattle cars we have these days.
11 Things We No Longer See on Airplanes
I flew Western Airlines once from Great Falls to Idaho Falls and back on Easter Vacation of 1970 to see a friend.........................the Stewardesses were in really short hot pants........................I was 15!
The jet was an old 737 like this.
In re: #7 at the link, which said, in part: "Pan Am continued to provide vased flowers during dinner service in First Class until the late 1970s."
ReplyDeleteI got bumped to First Class on my return trip from Turkey in 1972... Istanbul to NYC... and can vouch for the flowers. AND the food, which was excellent. AND the free drinks... they poured me off the plane when we got to New Yawk.
Flying used to be a wonderful experience but no more, as you said. I'll never fly again unless I absolutely HAVE to.
When I went to Hill AFB for F-16 Advanced Crew Chief School, I went Delta up and back............Sardine can on a 757 up and an A320 back. I am going to take the next trip to Kansas on the Amtrak Southwest Chief.
ReplyDeleteThat being said, those Western Stews on my trip in 1970 in those hot pants............................
The pic reminded me of my first plane ride ever.
ReplyDeleteA Western Airlines flight on a DC6 from SFO to LAX (circa 1958).
I remember those commercials on TV where the buzzard (or seagull) sat wight his back against the vertical stabilizer, drinking champagne, and said, "...the only way to fly."
The only other time I flew Western was in the early seventies to Hawaii.
They were still pouring champagne and the "stews" on that flight wore mini muu-muus that, if they were any shorter they'd have had "two more cheeks to powder and another place to shave."