Fun on the Tarmac
As you know, I love VINTAGE AIRPORTS, and I have two for you today. Location unknown. When I was a kid it was very exciting to walk on the ground toward our plane, and head up the stairs, hopefully receiving some "Junior Pilot" wings from a friendly stewardess ("Flight Attendant" was not a term used yet).
This first pic is from August, 1967, and it shows a group of people posing with an Aeroflot jet behind them. Perhaps it's a Tupolev Tu-114? I'm sure you smarties will let me know! These folks appear to have flown on SAS (Scandinavian Airlines), or else somebody borrowed their stairs. I'm digging their cool Pan-Am totes. Were those given out to all passengers? I wish I knew more about this picture!
Next is this photo dated "September, 1957". All the passengers have de-planed, and the flight crew are the last off. The plane bears Pan American Grace Airways livery, and might be a DC-8 (?). Pan American-Grace Airways was a cooperative arrangement between Pan American World Airways and W.R. Grace and Company, which dominated transportation to the west coast of South America. Commonly known as "Panagra", it was advertised as the "World's Friendliest Airline". They set the standard for air transportation between the U.S. East Coast and the West Coast of South America throughout its 39 year history.
3 comments:
Major-
Isn't that pair of ladies with their toothy grins related... as in Mother-Daughter-? Could be.
Thanks, Major.
How cute. A winged hammer and sickle. It warms the cockles of one's heart. :-\
Hmm, rather than having flown on SAS, I would guess that these people have flown on Aeroflot and have arrived (somewhere) in Scandinavia?
And these folks have apparently just arrived on the west coast of South America, having departed from the east coast of the U.S.
I wonder what made Panagra the "World's Friendliest Airline"?
Nanook, actually, they all look like they could be related. They have similar noses and mouths.
GDB gives you wiiiings! Thanks, Major.
@ JB-
Indeed they do. I was also thinking the 'Mother' reminds me of actress Anne Seymour.
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