http://www.ultraswank.net Retro Living and Design from the 50s, 60s and 70s Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:56:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.ultraswank.net/design/pan-am-boeing-747-cabin-recreated-in-garage/ http://www.ultraswank.net/design/pan-am-boeing-747-cabin-recreated-in-garage/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:55:22 +0000 Chris http://www.ultraswank.net/?p=3578 Anthony Toth’s home in California holds a hidden treasure unknown to most of the world. From the outside, his garage looks like any garage – but step inside and you are transported back in time to a first class Pan Am Boeing 747 cabin, circa 1979. Anthony, who works as a global sales director for [...]]]> http://www.ultraswank.net/design/pan-am-boeing-747-cabin-recreated-in-garage/feed/ 3 http://www.ultraswank.net/television/pan-am-promo-trailer/ http://www.ultraswank.net/television/pan-am-promo-trailer/#comments Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:18:42 +0000 Chris http://www.ultraswank.net/?p=3304 A few weeks ago we took the skies with news about a new ABC series centered around the iconic airline Pan American World Airways during the 1960s. Recently a promo was released, giving us a taste of what we’ll see this fall. At a first glance it looks a bit like Mad Men in the [...]]]> http://www.ultraswank.net/television/pan-am-promo-trailer/feed/ 6 http://www.ultraswank.net/television/pan-am-flies-again/ http://www.ultraswank.net/television/pan-am-flies-again/#comments Thu, 05 May 2011 05:11:35 +0000 Chris http://www.ultraswank.net/?p=3274 Here are some news that will surely bring a smile to any fan of aviation and travelling in style. The iconic airline Pan American is going to take to the skies again soon in the upcoming ABC tv-series “Pan Am“. A pilot (no pun intended) has been ordered and the plot is said to center [...]]]> http://www.ultraswank.net/television/pan-am-flies-again/feed/ 4 http://www.ultraswank.net/interior/welcome-aboard-on-the-worlds-first-jumbo-jet-hostel/ http://www.ultraswank.net/interior/welcome-aboard-on-the-worlds-first-jumbo-jet-hostel/#comments Thu, 20 May 2010 05:51:42 +0000 Chris http://www.ultraswank.net/?p=2462 Have you always wanted to jet around the world in a Boeing 747 jumbo jet but don’t want to waste hours at check-in, security and to top of it off, lose all your bags? Now you don’t have to! Entrepreneur Oscar Diös solved the problem by taking a old jumbo jet, stripping it out and [...]]]> http://www.ultraswank.net/interior/welcome-aboard-on-the-worlds-first-jumbo-jet-hostel/feed/ 1 http://www.ultraswank.net/travel/around-the-world-with-pan-am/ http://www.ultraswank.net/travel/around-the-world-with-pan-am/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:47:51 +0000 Chris http://www.ultraswank.net/?p=2057 A somewhat kitschy promotion video from Pan American airways, made in the early 1970s that takes us around the world and back again in less than 25 minutes. The video was most likely produced to showcase how easy it was to travel around the world with Pan Am, take in the sights and then be [...]]]> http://www.ultraswank.net/travel/around-the-world-with-pan-am/feed/ 2 http://www.ultraswank.net/travel/on-board-a-747-with-pan-american-airlines/ http://www.ultraswank.net/travel/on-board-a-747-with-pan-american-airlines/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:00:15 +0000 Chris http://www.ultraswank.net/?p=1948 Boeing 747, also known as the jumbo jet was first introduced in 1970. With Pan American airlines as one of its major investors they had the possibility to influence the design and development of the aircraft. It was deemed that the world needed a jet plane of massive size that could transport hundreds of passengers [...]]]> http://www.ultraswank.net/travel/on-board-a-747-with-pan-american-airlines/feed/ 2 http://www.ultraswank.net/travel/retro-airline-commercials/ http://www.ultraswank.net/travel/retro-airline-commercials/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:20:20 +0000 Chris http://www.ultraswank.net/?p=1581 I am the mood to travel to some place warm and exciting so I thought, why not experience some vintage airline commercials from the the past for some inspiration? Here are a bunch of TWA, Pan Am and Braniff commercials produced in the late 1960s and the 1970s — the golden age of air travel [...]]]> http://www.ultraswank.net/travel/retro-airline-commercials/feed/ 0 http://www.ultraswank.net/interior/pan-am-lounge-in-berlin/ http://www.ultraswank.net/interior/pan-am-lounge-in-berlin/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:11:06 +0000 Chris http://www.ultraswank.net/?p=1233 In the depths of Europe a hidden gem just became exposed. Anyone familiar with the golden age of aviation is most likely also very familiar with the airline Pan Am, who set the standard of modern aviation and swank traveling since the 1930s and onwards. The airline had hubs around the world and the airplane [...]]]> http://www.ultraswank.net/interior/pan-am-lounge-in-berlin/feed/ 1 http://www.ultraswank.net/travel/retro-airline-and-hostess-flight-bags/ http://www.ultraswank.net/travel/retro-airline-and-hostess-flight-bags/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:28:28 +0000 Chris http://www.ultraswank.net/?p=1133 From online shop Inretro comes these lovely retro airline and hostess flight bags straight out from a relaxing intercontinental flight in the 1960s. Although reproductions, they look like the real deal and they won’t set you back like the Marc Jacobs designer Pan Am bags that arrived not too long ago. Inretro features both airline [...]]]> http://www.ultraswank.net/travel/retro-airline-and-hostess-flight-bags/feed/ 20 http://www.ultraswank.net/travel/new-york-to-london-in-6%c2%bd-magic-hours/ http://www.ultraswank.net/travel/new-york-to-london-in-6%c2%bd-magic-hours/#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:49:02 +0000 Chris http://www.ultraswank.net/?p=905 Seeing it’s Friday – why not embark on a delicious weekend trip to Europe. Our friends at Pan Am will take us on a 6½ hours long transatlantic flight from New York to London on their new Boeing 707 – the biggest jet plane of the late 1950s – holding up to 150 passengers. With [...]]]> http://www.ultraswank.net/travel/new-york-to-london-in-6%c2%bd-magic-hours/feed/ 1 http://www.ultraswank.net/interview/come-fly-with-us/ http://www.ultraswank.net/interview/come-fly-with-us/#comments Wed, 28 May 2008 21:56:00 +0000 Chris http://www.ultraswank.net/uncategorized/come-fly-with-us/ FIFTY YEARS AGO, 1958 — the jet age officially makes its mark in history with the launch of the Boeing 707. Jet planes could fly to their destinations non stop, cheaper and faster than before. Air travel was now longer not restricted only to people of wealth. “Fly me friendly”, “coffee, tea or me?” We [...]]]> http://www.ultraswank.net/interview/come-fly-with-us/feed/ 36 http://www.ultraswank.net/travel/touchdown-in-london/ http://www.ultraswank.net/travel/touchdown-in-london/#comments Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:15:00 +0000 Chris http://www.ultraswank.net/uncategorized/touchdown-in-london/ Remember what it was like? When jet travel was luxurious and exciting. When you dressed up in your best suit or dress before boarding the plane. When working as a stewardess was almost the same as being a astronaut. For you who doesn’t, let’s go back in time to 1970. When the first trans Atlantic [...]]]> http://www.ultraswank.net/travel/touchdown-in-london/feed/ 4