Travel: Jet Age photos

So far we have stayed on the ground, exploring the past. Now it's time to take to the skies and go back 40 years or so when air travel was considered a privilege and the first travel choice for any international jet set person. My personal airline favorites are Pan Am and Braniff, seeing I really like the Pan Am logo and the cool airplane paint schemes Braniff used. In fact I really love the whole Braniff concept with their colors, design, clothes, air strip and what not. On with the photos, look how neat and cozy everything was back in the late 1960s, early 1970s. That was back in the days, when you could get free layovers if you scored with one of the stewardesses. Oh, well... Sadly, both airlines had problems during the strikes and high oil prices in the late 1970s which ultimately lead to their decline and downfall. (Via) (Via)

Retro Airline Commercials

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 [...]

Swinging London Comes Alive

London, England late 1960s. The height of the flower-power-free-love-lifestyle. Groovy colors, fashion, cars and women. For those of us who were born a few decades too early or anyone who wants to take a stroll down memory lane here’s a sample of very neat color photographs of Swinging London from that period. Depicted are among [...]

Retro Photos From the Golden Years of Flying

You love stewardesses don’t you? So do I. Flying today is not the way it was used to be, so to remind you all of how elegant, exciting and swank traveling by airplane used to be here are a bunch of photos taken from the golden years of flying circa 1950s to the 1970s. For [...]

Steven Altis

Is that Dennis Franz?
Chris

I have no idea, nemo434. Anyone else who knows?
Kangoon

And everybod got nicely dressed to travel. Not like these days when it is just slob-a-rama all the time everywhere.
I dig the interior of the plane.
Thanks!
Kev
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Wow fantastic photos. Awesome poses. Colors are striking yet beautiful
Zanyartist4u

I'm a Braniff brat. Dad and his co-workers got paid double time to paint planes after working their regular jobs. Braniff had a big unveiling of it's "end of the plane plane" advertising scheme, with a big family dinner and tours. I had hoped to work for Braniff too, but they went under in 1981. The reasons: they expanded too quickly, the top brass had huge benefits (until just a few years ago, what remained of the company was still paying for resort condos for the brass), and dear old American airlines had the Sabre system which was placed with travel agents and rigged to have American as the first choice for ticketing.
It was an amazing airline, with quality everything. We still have a few Braniff stuff from flights. As employees, we often flew first class (not many people would pay for it even then) since we flew "space available." I didn't fly again for years and my first flight was on Southwest airlines...It felt like I was flying on a bus in a third world country...expected to have chickens and such running around.
Still have some of Dad's wings, they are treasured.
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Wow, great inside information. Thanks for sharing this! :)
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ohhh What kind of pose is it ? Looks like funny.........

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Ultra Swank takes you back in time into the kitsch, chic and swank living of the 50s, 60s and the 70s. We mainly focus on the design, architecture and the lifestyle of the happy-go-lucky and space-age-living mentality of that era – but also on the music and movies that takes you back to happier times. Ultra Swank is run by Chris, a Swede born in the wrong decade that currently resides in Barcelona. Read more

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