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TV series 'Pan Am' is a flight back to a better time
BND.com ^ | Monday, Oct. 17, 2011 | Gary A. Warner: travel@ocregister.com

Posted on 10/22/2011 6:47:51 AM PDT by jmcenanly

One of the more intriguing shows of this fall's tepid television season is "Pan Am," which focuses on a gaggle of young stewardesses - as they were called then - flying for the unofficial American flagship airline during its early 1960s heyday.

The series has been derided as "Mad Men in the Sky" for its obvious slipstreaming of the popular show set in a New York advertising agency during the early 1960s. From the two weeks of "Pan Am" I've watched so far, there's a lot of thematic overlap. Strong women beginning to push back at a male-dominated culture, New York as the center of the universe, and really sharp clothes.

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To: katana
"It requires a bump up to business class or better on Singapore Airlines, but a similar experience can be had.

Try Cathay Pacific or indeed, any airline that can avoid the PC crap that is being forced down the throats of US based airlnes. An interesting side comment, those early stus were pretty young women and h......... men. Got good attentive service from all of them!

21 posted on 10/22/2011 8:15:02 AM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: jmcenanly

The glamor of flying is long gone and now flying is little different than taking a bus trip in some third world country except perhaps for the absence of live chickens.


22 posted on 10/22/2011 8:42:45 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that pretty soon you run out of other people's money" M. Thatcher)
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To: jmcenanly

I like it, but really, it’s just a weaker version of Mad Men.


23 posted on 10/22/2011 9:07:28 AM PDT by Clock King (Ellisworth Toohey was right: My head's gonna explode.)
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To: jmcenanly

Or I should say it’s a weaker spin-off of Mad Men. MM is a very different story.


24 posted on 10/22/2011 9:08:33 AM PDT by Clock King (Ellisworth Toohey was right: My head's gonna explode.)
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To: jmcenanly

Beautiful women and beautiful planes. Great show. Great CGI. Much better cgi compared to the movie Pearl Harbor. The 707’s and the dc-6 or 7 (Bay of Pigs episode) looked so real.


25 posted on 10/22/2011 9:12:08 AM PDT by willk
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To: jmcenanly
Today, we are treated like we have been arrested, without the Miranda warning.

Yup. It used to be that sending a note up to the Captain reading 'Fast. Neat. Average.' would get you a trip to visit the cockpit.

Now it gets you yanked off the plane followed by a multi-hour interrogation by TSA and the FBI.
26 posted on 10/22/2011 9:37:20 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: T-Bird45
...or Vaseline.

Are you talking about the greasy TSA or what you need to squeeze into those "standard fare" seats - or both?

27 posted on 10/22/2011 9:53:03 AM PDT by SES1066 (Vote in 2012 for OUR CIVIL RIGHTS not the Left's!)
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To: I am Richard Brandon
Nearly any of the Pacific Rim based airlines (consciously excluding Qantas - used to be 90% flamingly gay and overtly rude males on their trans-pacific routes - and ANZ - good but no comparison with the Asians) provide a level of service which American and European lines can only dream of. But I still have to rate SQ as top of the top.

There are some European carriers that seem to realize most of their travelers are men and select their flight attendants accordingly. I recently was on a series of flights into, around, and back from Greece on Aegean Airlines. The flight attendants all looked like 19 year old aspiring models (e.g. quasi-anorexic) but very pretty and polite. Not much good in a flight emergency, but in such an event you're about 99.9% unlikely to get any flotation use out of your seat cushion anyway.

I know what some of you are going to say ... yes, I'm a sexist swine.

28 posted on 10/22/2011 11:11:51 AM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: jmcenanly

Passengers weren’t trying to blow up their planes back then either.


29 posted on 10/22/2011 11:36:43 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Kenton

What, you don’t like the gay male stewards today?!?!


30 posted on 10/22/2011 11:37:15 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Snickering Hound

Oh come on, they look like flying hookers. That ain’t a classy look. Nothing fashion in the 70s looked good except daisy dukes and unless you’re serving drinks you can’t wear them at work.


31 posted on 10/22/2011 11:40:09 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Kenton
Ah yes.. I long for the days when the stewardesses were pretty and friendly, and flying was an enjoyable experience.

Back when the federal government had authoritarian control over the airline industry.

32 posted on 10/22/2011 11:41:42 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: ozark hilljilly

Back then travellers could dress to travel.

Now you have to dress in order to be stripped searched. Dressing up is just more layers to have to take off and put back on.


33 posted on 10/22/2011 11:42:16 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: katana

Vast majority of male stewards on any US carrier are gay. Have a relative who’s worked with em for over 40 years. Knows what she is talking about.


34 posted on 10/22/2011 11:44:55 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: SES1066

Uhhhh...yeah, what you said.


35 posted on 10/22/2011 12:27:28 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: ozark hilljilly

It was a real metal wing pin, not the plastic, tear of the tape and slap it on pin! Also, don’t forget, you got a Junior Stewardess certificate with those wings! Still have mine!


36 posted on 10/22/2011 8:48:40 PM PDT by jackieh
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