Come Fly With Us! (2013). Tenth Anniversary Edition. A Global History of the Airline Hostess.
Johanna Omelia; Michael Waldock
Language: English
Published by Ailemo Books, 2013
- Softcover
- New
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- Title
- Come Fly With Us! (2013). Tenth Anniversary Edition. A Global History of the Airline Hostess.
- Author
- Johanna Omelia; Michael Waldock
- Publisher
- Ailemo Books
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0981922422
- ISBN 13
- 9780981922423
In the 1930s, the first stewardesses were registered nurses whose duties included fixing loose chairs, discussing meteorology and sights, swatting flies, and carrying a railroad timetable for stranded passengers. By the 1940s, stewardesses were released to the war effort, and by the 1950s, they were viewed as wives-in-training, as adept at mixing a baby's bottle as mixing a Martini. The Swinging Sixties and early Seventies saw female flight attendants used as marketing tools to lure male business passengers aloft. Some were dressed in micro-minis, go-go boots and buttons that read "Pure, Sober, Available"; others did an airborne striptease.
"Come Fly With Us! traces the evolution of the profession from in-flight caregiver to airborne bombshell to highly trained lifesavers."
--New York Daily News
"Come Fly With Us! chronicles the alluring history of the stewardess...recalling a long-gone glamorous era when women travelled in pumps..."
--Newsweek
"Come Fly With Us! is a loving romp through decades of flight attendant history... The wonderfully illustrated book...underscores the dramatic changes in the industry."
--Associated Press
"...Come Fly With Us! exhumes a long-forgotten era of glorious airplane travel and pays tribute to an underappreciated part of our heritage."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review
"...press shots of chirpy flight attendants are fascinating, not only for the fashions in which they were uniformed, but also as evidence of what could be gotten away with. For all its glamour, Come Fly With Us! remembers to touch on the serious..."
Air & Space Smithsonian magazine
"A perfect history lesson!"
Elle magazine (Holland)
"It is a story that comes with a strong dash of romance."
--The Independent (England
"The book documents an era when...the airlines were competing to lure male business travelers.."
-NPR
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