Pan American World Airways was the principal and largest international air carrier of the United States from 1927 until its collapse on Dec.

'Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am' by Julia Cooke. So grab 'Come Fly the World' and buckle in. Then there’s the trip back to the years 1965 to 1975: the crazy music, the wild clothes, and the lawsuits brought to give women the right to get a credit card, hold a job while married and work while pregnant.īe aware that there’s no coffee, tea or me? in this book instead, it’s “Mad Men” meets a glass ceiling and destroys it. In addition to those anecdotes, most of Cooke’s subjects seized adventure and cheap off-duty travel, which also gives this book a hint of travelogue but with less romance and more practicality. On one hand, Cooke tells the tales of Lynne, Karen, Clare, Tori and Hazel, why they decided to become stewardesses (a word that fits the time frame) and what their experiences were on the job.

Known as 'The 747 Look,' the uniforms were offered in 'Superjet Blue' and 'Galaxy Gold.' In the process, Cooke shows how the sexualized coffee-tea-or-me stereotype was at odds with the importance of what they did, and with the freedom, power and sisterhood they achieved.Evan-Picone designed a line of attire to commemorate Pan Am’s newest aircraft. Cooke's storytelling weaves together the true stories of women like Lynne Totten, a science major who decided life in a lab was not for her, to Hazel Bowie, one of the relatively few African American stewardesses of the era, as they embraced the liberation of a jet-set life. Come Fly the World tells the story of the stewardesses who served on the iconic Pan American Airways between 19 - and of the unseen diplomatic role they played on the world stage.Īlongside the glamour was real danger, as they flew soldiers to and from Vietnam and staffed Operation Babylift - the dramatic evacuation of 2,000 children during the fall of Saigon. Glamour, danger, liberation: in the Jet Age, Pan Am offered young women the world. Travel writer Julia Cooke's exhilarating portrait of Pan Am stewardesses in the Mad Men era. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo ** Chosen as a May 2021 pick for The Fearless Book Club by Nobel Peace Prize-Winner, Malala Yousafzai **

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