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50 Amazing Photos from the Golden Age of Air Travel

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A girl and her father play a game of checkers.
Flying First Class in the 1960s.

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A snack on a Scandinavian Airlines flight, 1969
KLM
KLM
Inside a Boeing 747
Iberia
Iberia
Iberia
Inside an Alaska Airlines Convair 880 M-6 in the 1960s. U.S. National Archives.
Travelers sit on large couches without seatbelts.
BA Speedbird [Heritage] Centre
Child passenger takes his pick of chocolate, 1960s
A bar in the sky.
KLM
Flight attendants for the now defunct Pacific Southwest Airlines.
A young Richard Nixon and friends enjoy a game of cards.
Dean Conger / Getty Images

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BA Speedbird [Heritage] Centre
Passengers recline, 1950s. Douglas Miller / Stringer / Getty Images
A waiter serving a couple in the air.
Stunning inflight snacks
Sacha Distel performs mid-flight, 1959.
Southwest Airlines flight attendants in the 1970s. San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive.
The stunning interior of an early commercial airline.
Swissair archives

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Kids enjoy a full-course meal.
Swissair archives
Bunkbeds for travelers to sleep in.
A woman enjoys caviar, salad nicoise, and a charcuterie platter.
Swissair archives
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  1. Dale HubbardThank you for these amazing snapshots of aviation history! Thoroughly fascinating.Reply

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