And so, today, we have mail carriers rather than mail men and flight attendants rather than stewardesses, etc.
Airports used to be less crowded, the food was better, the service was more attentive, and the stewardesses were more attractive.
The airlines tried to make sure their stewardesses didn't stay around long enough to become dissatisfied with their benefits or acquainted with their union.
ABC's newly launched Pan Am, about stewardesses working for Pan American Airways during the era, has also been compared to the AMC network's ratings hit.
The problem as he describes it lies with a branch of Unite called the British Airlines Stewards and Stewardesses Association (BASSA), which looks exclusively after BA cabin crew.
This is something the no-nonsense stewardesses, amply blessed by nature and the effects of consuming cans of those same soft drinks and spare Spam sandwiches, know full well.
When I look around, all the stewardesses do not seem to think the plane is going down, only some, and coincidentally they are the ones selling trip insurance.
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Kathleen Barry's history of how gracious stewardesses turned into sexy air hostesses and then into tough, grumpy flight attendants tries hard to be dull, but thankfully does not quite succeed.
"It was like stepping into a time machine, everything was like out of the 1950s, including the music you heard and the hair styles of the stewardesses on the plane, " he said.
By contrast, a standard social smile, which is sometimes called a Pan Am smile after the polite expression the former airline's stewardesses used to greet passengers, activates only the muscles around the mouth.
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