Flying Coach in a 747, circa 1970

[n2doc]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/x-ray_delta_one/7162970096/sizes/c/in/photostream/

[Gravitycollapse]

1. These are staged photos. They almost certainly do not represent what coach was like in 1970.

[Agschmid]

13. Yup marketing images...

What they don't show is all the smoke!

[we can do it]

2. You're making my head hurt!

[HipChick]

3. If you ever fly Virgin Atlantic in the Upper Deck

They have a bar up there....that's where I would be hanging out...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. I flew coach in a 747 in 1970 - MSP to LAX.

It wasn't like that at all (except for orange upholstery and ugly flight attendant uniforms).

[Suich]

5. Which one is the flight attendant?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. In the photo? I don't think any of them are.

But I do remember how hideous their uniforms were.

[BlueStreak]

7. The one holding the basket.

Her dress sort of matches the wall hangings.

[Suich]

8. LOL!

I thought maybe it was because she had a flower in her hair!

[BlueStreak]

9. Even in 1970, I don't think you wear that dress in public. :)

[LeftofObama]

10. You have to admit those white boots might be fun to wear

for a month or two.

[BlueStreak]

11. Nancy Sinatra

[Fla Dem]

12. I think I had a pant suit like that. Very stylish at the time. LOL nt

[Agschmid]

14. I always find it funny that orange and yellow...

Were the comfort colors of the day. Now it's blues and grays I can't wait to see what it is in twenty years!

Orange is just such an ugly color... Yuck!

[jakeXT]

15. I liked orange in combination with blue

[PasadenaTrudy]

16. Orange and blue

my fave color combo, opposites on the color wheel

[jakeXT]

20. I once played with the idea of painting my room in yellow and purple

Finally, I settled for orange and blue.

[Paladin]

17. Even allowing for the usual advertising hype.....

....this recalls an era which some of you never even experienced: a time when air travel was actually pleasurable, something to be anticipated and enjoyed. Seems like a million years ago.....

[In_The_Wind]

18. I started flying when I was a child.

I remember short enjoyable flights between Atlanta and Chattanooga. I even had a little set of wings.

[Paladin]

19. A whole different world. Glad I got to experience it. (nt)