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Travel Thursday!

This is maybe a little marginal on the travel side, but I feel like it is close enough to count: “Operation Jetliner”, a 1959 United “Breaks Guitars” Airlines promo film for their DC-8.

United’s first-ever jet service took place on September 18th, 1959 when the DC-8 performed a transcontinental flight between San Francisco International Airport and New York’s Idlewild.

Bonus: This is definitely travel, and should push a few buttons for at least one person in my audience. Another vintage Pan Am promo video…

…”USSR”. No kidding, this is a promo film for travel to the USSR in the late 1960s.

The film opens with footage of Moscow’s Red Square as the narrator recaps the famous rulers, writers, and musicians from the Russia’s past.

“Come see the cemetery where famous writers, artists, and musicians are buried every day except Thursday.”

There does not appear to be any footage of the gulags in that video.