{"id":2402,"date":"2022-09-25T19:04:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T19:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historydefined.net\/?p=2402"},"modified":"2022-09-26T06:28:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T06:28:55","slug":"amazing-photos-from-the-golden-age-of-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historydefined.net\/amazing-photos-from-the-golden-age-of-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Amazing Photos from the Golden Age of Air Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A girl and her father play a game of checkers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Flying First Class in the 1960s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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A snack on a Scandinavian Airlines flight, 1969<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Inside a Boeing 747<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Iberia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Iberia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Iberia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Inside an Alaska Airlines Convair 880 M-6 in the 1960s. U.S. National Archives.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Travelers sit on large couches without seatbelts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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BA Speedbird [Heritage] Centre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Child passenger takes his pick of chocolate, 1960s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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A bar in the sky.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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KLM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Flight attendants for the now defunct Pacific Southwest Airlines.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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A young Richard Nixon and friends enjoy a game of cards.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Dean Conger \/ Getty Images<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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KLM
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BA Speedbird [Heritage] Centre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Passengers recline, 1950s.\u00a0Douglas Miller \/ Stringer \/ Getty Images
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A waiter serving a couple in the air.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Stunning inflight snacks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Sacha Distel performs mid-flight, 1959.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Southwest Airlines flight attendants in the 1970s. San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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The stunning interior of an early commercial airline.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Swissair archives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Kids enjoy a full-course meal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Swissair archives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Bunkbeds for travelers to sleep in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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A woman enjoys caviar, salad nicoise, and a charcuterie platter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Swissair archives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Swissair archives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Photo by SAS Museum CC BY 2.0
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Photo by SAS Museum CC BY 2.0
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