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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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!
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.
I like it, but really, it’s just a weaker version of Mad Men.
Or I should say it’s a weaker spin-off of Mad Men. MM is a very different story.
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.
Are you talking about the greasy TSA or what you need to squeeze into those "standard fare" seats - or both?
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.
Passengers weren’t trying to blow up their planes back then either.
What, you don’t like the gay male stewards today?!?!
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.
Back when the federal government had authoritarian control over the airline industry.
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.
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.
Uhhhh...yeah, what you said.
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!
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