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Airline Postcard Collecting: America Airlines​ Douglas DC3 Flagship Skysleeper including cabin, Pullman-style...

Airline Postcard Collecting: America Airlines​ Douglas DC3 Flagship Skysleeper including cabin, Pullman-style passenger and stewardess sleeper interiors, and pilot and stewardess uniforms (1940).

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  1. Margaret Siemers (Siemers Rafter Room)June 5, 2015 at 10:45 AM

    Love the old photo cards like this. Lots of fun to see these. Thanks!

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  2. John W PoyntonJune 5, 2015 at 11:00 AM

    Margaret Siemers What a way to fly!

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  3. Mike PerryJune 5, 2015 at 12:05 PM

    A touch of style, quite a contrast to average flights today.

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  4. Mike MartinJune 5, 2015 at 1:13 PM

    Golden age of aviation. Great aircraft were being developed which led to some great engineers ready for war plane designing shortly after this 1940 ad. 
    Re the flight attendants, I've read the first ones were had height & weight limits and were also required to be registered nurses.

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  5. Margaret Siemers (Siemers Rafter Room)June 5, 2015 at 4:38 PM

    Mike Martin Yes I read that too at some point, about the nurses.

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  6. John W PoyntonJune 6, 2015 at 9:34 AM

    Margaret Siemers Mike Martin That's true. My aunt Delphine was one of them. They also had to be single, and pilots and stewardesses could not sleep in the same town during overnight layovers. I'll dig up and article in LIFE on this and tag you guys.

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  7. Margaret Siemers (Siemers Rafter Room)June 6, 2015 at 12:26 PM

    John W Poynton Wait, you mean not just the same hotel, but they had to go to an entirely different town?! Wow.

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  8. John W PoyntonJune 8, 2015 at 9:04 AM

    Margaret Siemers Yes. Different hotel in a different town.

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  9. John W PoyntonJune 8, 2015 at 9:15 AM

    Margaret Siemers Mike Martin  Here's a link to an interesting article on the 22 Aug, 1938 issue of LIFE. It wasn't the one I was looking for, but it's still a good one https://books.google.co.cr/books?id=dU8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA53&dq=stewardesses&pg=PA53#v=onepage&q&f=false

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  10. Margaret Siemers (Siemers Rafter Room)June 8, 2015 at 10:43 AM

    John W Poynton I really like the fact that they are saying those women are pretty. Makes me wonder when magazines decided that over-made  plastic looking smiles and faces were pretty. 
    I think these women, everyday people, are much more attractive than the look at my big lips kind we have today.

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  11. Margaret Siemers (Siemers Rafter Room)June 8, 2015 at 10:51 AM

    The phone advertisement was interesting also as it shows us where we first got the notion we HAD TO KNOW something right then and there.
    Sure they were things we did need to know, and the start of improved communication, however advertising likes to push the envelope and today is where we ended up.

    A better product? I let that up to you to decide.

    If we can't keep the phones of today till it needs replacing (cause we are told we have to every year when the new model comes out) how much better is that? And where does it end?

    Just an observation.

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