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United Airlines in 1962: Society Soars to 30,000 Feet

May 4, 2012 at 12:20 PM | by | Comments (0)

Look what we found! Why, it's a June 1962 edition of United's old in-flight magazine, Mainliner. This week, we'll be flipping through the pages and learning a thing or two about the United of the dawn of the jet age.

Yesteday we introduced you to a Mr. Rotunno, professional photographer with a single beat: Chicago's airports. Rotunno captured the arrivals of famous actors, actresses, political figures, musicians and more with his lens. He was the modern-day LAX paparazzo, just more distinguished and at ORD/MDW.

Today we see a few of the famous faces Mike photographed, featured here on the last page of Mainliner.

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United Airlines in 1962: Flashbulbs for Celebrity Arrivals

May 3, 2012 at 9:41 AM | by | Comments (0)

Look what we found! Why, it's a June 1962 edition of United's old in-flight magazine, Mainliner. This week, we'll be flipping through the pages and learning a thing or two about the United of the dawn of the jet age.

Thanks to recent events, flyers have learned that airlines actually take seriously the privacy of their customers' itineraries. This means that airlines aren't (or *shouldn't*) be leaking celebrity travel information to the press, or even dropping names without express consent or endorsement.

In the 1960s, however, things were very different. Celebrities wanted to be greeted at the airport by adoring fans, most of the time, and airlines wanted to talk about it. There were official photographers whose job it was to simply get the A-listers to smile for the birdie, conveniently in front of the airline's logo or fin. They were men like Mike Rotunno, profiled here in the back of United's Mainliner.

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United Airlines in 1962: From Pistons to Jet Power

May 2, 2012 at 11:39 AM | by | Comments (0)

Look what we found! Why, it's a June 1962 edition of United's old in-flight magazine, Mainliner. This week, we'll be flipping through the pages and learning a thing or two about the United of the dawn of the jet age.

Oh, the Jet Age. When this magazine was published, the aviation industry was in the midst of replacing piston-powered planes with sleek new jets, like Caravelles and Boeing 727s. Still, the swap wasn't happening like the flick of a switch, so United obviously felt the need to reassure their flyers that being placed on a piston jet was perfectly fine.

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United Airlines in 1962: Frequent Flyers in the Space Race

May 1, 2012 at 11:29 AM | by | Comments (0)

Look what we found! Why, it's a June 1962 edition of United's old in-flight magazine, Mainliner. This week, we'll be flipping through the pages and learning a thing or two about the United of the dawn of the jet age.

Just as in any modern in-flight magazine, ads make up a good percentage of the content in this 1962 edition. This one, from National Car Rental is the most compelling, as it both features the early airline business traveler and looks as though it could've been made by Mad Men's Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce.

The happy customer featured is Paul Stancik, Purchasing Agent for Motorola's Military Electronics Division. The caption notes that he flies an average of 100,000 miles every year—a number today's frequent flyers would laugh at, but meant serious commitment to jet travel way back then.

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United Airlines in 1962: Opening Pancake Shops at O'Hare

April 30, 2012 at 2:03 PM | by | Comments (0)

Look what we found! Why, it's a June 1962 edition of United's old in-flight magazine, Mainliner. This week, we'll be flipping through the pages and learning a thing or two about the United of the dawn of the jet age.

What better place to start than with United's headquarters in Chicago? In this issue of Mainliner, United profiles their hometown airports: O'Hare and Midway, though O'Hare's modern architecture is obviously the focus of the pride. They've just opened some Mies van der Rohe-designed terminals, after all, and Chicago is only beginning to make its mark as the "Crossroads of the Nation" in terms of jet travel.

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