Posted on 08/21/2014 7:19:24 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Late 1960s: Economy Class Seating on a Pan-Am 747
The 1960's were barely done when Pan Am again set a standard the rest of the world was forced to follow. Pan American's Boeing B-747 Jumbo Jets brought down the cost of long distance air travel once again.
Source: Pan Am Historical Foundation
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I saw a zombie-texter walk into a closed door today. I chuckled.
In 1998, I flew first class aboard a DC-3 airliner. That was a great experience.
Really? I’m actually very surprised since so many people are these days
You are right - they used to be beautiful young women..... that is not the case any longer
All the way!
I have 70+ decks of playing cards from riding NetJets.
And a hangover or two....
San Francisco to San Diego on PSA Prop-jets was $18.95 in 1962. I dated one of their “stews” years later.
But there was a lack of diveeeersity those days.
In my corporate life we had company planes for business travel; a jet and two turbo props. Once in 2001 I had to make a rush trip to our Chicago and Atlanta offices from California. I flew commercial.
I've not been in a commercial plane since and don't plan to ever again.
“Coffee, Tea, or, Me?”
Overweight people are the people who don't go to reunions.
People were thinner back then, and they wore more elegant clothing.
Would you like TWA coffee, TWA tea?
Yeah, that’s Ali MacGraw in the front row.
Carter stunk, but inflation took off when Nixon closed the gold window. However, Nixon had no choice. France was threatening to exchange all their dollars for gold which was set at an artificial rate that the United States could not honor in any large quantity.
The whole inflation time bomb was set up by the Fed printing money in the several years after WWII and keeping interest rates artificially low, the Bretton Woods agreement, and all the big government spending of the 1960's. Nixon was in the wrong place at the wrong time, as was Carter. They were both vulnerable to OPEC. However they both could have deregulated the oil industry as Reagan did, and avoided stupidity like price controls.
sure-nuff looks like her...
I remember flying into Bosnia in that configuration. I thought the pilots were trying to screw that plane into the runway. Then taking off with the extraction flights. The two passengers on the extraction ate their inflight meals before takeoff, were almost overhead and I thought they were going to puke on me.
Funny. Hope you don’t mind but I’m going to borrow your “zombie-texter”. Fits a couple of people I know to a tee.
My dad caught one of the first Pan Am 707 flights, Tokyo to San Francisco in the late 50s.”
Great memory for him. Must have been very impressive flight. 707’s were great commercial aircraft. Flying used to be a great way to travel.
I have used that term for a while especially after seeing repeated patterns of the zombie-texters who step off curbs without looking at oncoming traffic, walk into doors, and one even lost her balance in the last couple of steps of an escalator (Handrail? Nope.). What amused me is recently I read where a New York newspaper has used the term “zombies” to describe those who achieve such monumental efforts as described above. :-)
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