September 26, 2020

Go, Dino, Go!

If you're a Rascals fan, you will dig this performance from 1968.

September 19, 2020

Walk, Don't Run

Hi Barbara Ann. Put on your little outfit, come over to my house and twirl your baton while I work on my wheels. Sure, Johnny.

September 12, 2020

regrets, I've had a few

When my mom finished nursing school in 1948, flight attendants were required to be RNs (registered nurses). She was 21 and living with her parents outside Boston, so why not travel and see the world even though many cities were still in ruins from the war? Jet travel was an extreme luxury then and it would be part of her job. She applied, was hired, but eventually turned it down. She told me it was her only major regret in her life. Here's the schmaltz. Now go do something, damn it.

1940s stewardess training film
Ozzie and Harriet, 1958
A 1960s British Air Hostess
Austrian stewardess training film, 1964
American Airlines Stewardess College, 1968
American Airlines commercial, 1968
white go-go boots
The Naughty Stewardesses, 1973

September 5, 2020

wish you didn't have to go



I get so bummed when summer ends. It's too short in New England.