The Friendly Skies
From today's Chicago Tribune, "United's treasured past could be victim of cuts." Good news: the temperature-controlled vaults in UAL's basement, and the 10-year tenure of the archivist. Bad news, as a non-revenue generating division, it's been shuttered. Good news: it's still being maintained by volunteers.
The article (reg. req.) is full of jet-age tidbits including one I'd heard of before:
"The collection also contains menus from United's male-only executive flights that started in 1953. The flights departed Chicago about 5 p.m. and featured cigars, slippers, martinis, Wall Street Journals and New York strip-steak dinners on the trip to the Big Apple. The male-only flights were terminated in the 1970s under fire from the women's liberation movement."
Nothing about their glorious commercials of days gone by. I may give them a call.
The article (reg. req.) is full of jet-age tidbits including one I'd heard of before:
"The collection also contains menus from United's male-only executive flights that started in 1953. The flights departed Chicago about 5 p.m. and featured cigars, slippers, martinis, Wall Street Journals and New York strip-steak dinners on the trip to the Big Apple. The male-only flights were terminated in the 1970s under fire from the women's liberation movement."
Nothing about their glorious commercials of days gone by. I may give them a call.
posted by Jeff at 7:43 PM
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