[xjcsa]

Another leftist nostalgic for the day when only the elite could travel more than a day’s voyage on horseback from their lifelong home.

[fanfan]

Air Travel: In the 1930s, passenger service was enhanced with the first flight attendants, registered nurses who were hired by United Airlines/Boeing Air Transport. Other airlines soon followed, hiring nurses to serve as "stewardesses" on most of their flights. The requirement to be a registered nurse was relaxed at the start of World War II, as many nurses enlisted into the armed forces.

Disagree.

My mother was one of these registered nurses who became a fight attendant.

She saved and scrimped, and worked had to go through nurses training, to achieve this goal.

She came from a very poor family of 10, from a one store town in northern Saskatchewan.

It wasn't only for rich people, it was for achievers too.

[fanfan]

Now that I stop to think about it, the most facinating thing about your point is how people lived without what we consider to be basic transportation.

(note to fanfan: Stop, and think more often.)